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Simon Tomes
Community Lead at MoTaverse
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Hello, I'm Simon. Since 2003 I've had various roles in testing, tech leadership and coaching. I believe in the power of collaboration, creativity and community. π MoT-STEC qualified.
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We're building towards becoming more of a platform, a quality destination.
As part of this, we're evolving our "like" buttons, which now give MoTifications (notifications) when content is liked....
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It's happening! MoT MoTifications for "Likes" are here
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We're building towards becoming more of a platform, a quality destination.
As part of this, we're evolving our "like" buttons, which now give MoTifications (notifications) when content is liked....
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I recently had my very first face-to-face meetup with a group of testers, over coffee, smiles, and great conversations. It was such a joyful and exciting experience!
Many of the people I met wer...
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Learn about some of the reasons we get stuck and some top tips for getting unstuck
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Why Test Data Is the Unsung Hero of High-Quality Software β Especially in Finance
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Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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On the slide, Titus shows the audience the trends that he has identified in the testing industry. This photo was taken when he asked the audience; βhow many people here have a role where their prim...
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What a Beautiful evening it was !!
Had a great time with Rosie, Sam and Dan yesterday in Bristol. Lot of talks about Software testing, work life balance specially with kids and many more chit c...
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Thanks for sharing feedback about the use of the MoT logo and links on The Club.
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Thanks for spotting and sharing issues with the lesson status label on on-demand courses.
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Thanks for suggesting we add API mocking made easy to The Community's Guide to Mocking collection.Β
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Thank you for introducing yourself on the Q2 2025 Introductions thread on The Club. Welcome to the MoTaverse. π
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Sun down beach chats after TestBash Brighton
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13/09/24. Brighton Beach. The end of a jam-packed day two of TestBash 2024 in Brighton. We head to OhSo Social for lots of chit-chat.
Managed to spot Veerle chatting away with Serena and her co...
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Great Re-Testbash session online with the MoT community and I wrote the following virtual post it note.
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And all I could think of was Eamon's and his 99 second talk on the quality of trains.
Did I have a quality train experience today? No.
Was th...
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Explore SQEC and snag the early bird discount
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Leading with quality is guiding teams to build resilient, reliable, and ethically sound systems
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Alessandra makes a powerful point. And it makes me wonder what bugs the quality engineers of the next five years will be faced with. We've already seen folks pulling apart fundamental flaws in AI-g...
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Five Boring Things That Have A Bigger Impact Than βA.I.β Coding Assistants On Dev Team Productivity
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Where's Bug and Cosmo? β No. 30
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Can you find Bug, Cosmo the Space Duck and Space Seagull?
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What's the one thing you'd like your head of engineering to know about quality? Find out what's been happening in the testing, dev and quality engineering MoTaverse. Read this week's MoT Weekly.
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A number of TestBash volunteers around a table at lunch.
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