Simon Tomes | Activities
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See you at TestBash. 😃
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"Lovely stuff.
Small but mighty for the win! 💪🏻"
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Finally made it to my first MoT Meetup! Tony was a great host, and I really appreciated the talk on Load Testing led by Gui Padua. Nice to meet Shiva as well. It was a small but mighty group. Can't...
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I had the amazing opportunity to speak at the inaugural Test Up North conference in Leeds yesterday which was followed up by the MoT Leeds meetup.
Of course, I had to represent MoT London and Op...
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Testers: Stop Competing with AI. Start Pairing with It
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Unifying API and UI Testing with ReadyAPI and TestComplete to Maximize Product Quality
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Test Data Management Best Practices: 6 Tips for QA Teams
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September 2025 Product Update: Redesigned Variables, AI Requests in Collections, and Workflow Improvements
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Running Cypress Tests Across Regions Using GitHub Actions + WonderProxy
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Relative Locators in Selenium: Types and Examples
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I’m coming from: Edinburgh, UK
My role is: former Quality Coach and now free range tester (i.e. unemployed >_<)
I’d love to meet others who are into: Exploratory testing & quality coach...
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A practical, step-by-step guide to building an evaluation pipeline for a real-world AI application
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"Awesome! See you there, Zoltan. "
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👋 About Me:
I’m coming from: Denver, Colorado USA
My role is: QA Manager
I’d love to meet others who are into: all aspects of software testing, continious improvement, and/or movies 🎥
I'm comin...
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Hello, fellow testers!
I'm joining you from Sheffield, UK. (originally from Hungary, Budapest)
I work as a Quality Engineer (QE) at Capgemini.
I'm absolutely thrilled to be at TestBash! It's b...
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"Will be great to meet in person. See you there! 😃"
is Open to Podcasting
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Here's Why AI Can’t Replace You
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awarded Judy Mosley for:
Great to see your STEC blog post featured on the MoT homepage. 😃
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Thank you for sharing such helpful information about STEC on your excellent blog post. No doubt folks will be inspired by your words and honesty.
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"We're so glad you're part of the community, Neil!
See you soon. 😃"
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Thanks for choosing TestBash. See you there! 😃
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Bug congrats on your ten Polish Quality Retreats. Great to see those numbers shared on your recent memory. Sounds like a wonderful community.
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"Wow! Bug congrats on those numbers. Impressive! "
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This weekend (19-21.09) marked the 10th Polish Quality Retreat 🎉
It's been over 6 years since our first Retreat on 22.03.2019
- 10 official Retreats
- 20 active members
- 30 days of inspir...
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Bug congrats on guessing the MoT name of the official photographer. 📸
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"Love it. These things happen for a reason, my friend. Bug congrats! "
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A short story...
Three weeks ago, I uploaded a contribution abstract to the MoT website.
Two weeks ago, industrial action by underground staff caused a delay in the London Meetup 5.0.
A few da...
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An AI Testing Agent walks into a bar…
…and gets tricked into rewriting the menu. (Prompt Injection)
…and leaks the secret cocktail recipe. (Sensitive Data)
…and installs a shady bar plugin. (Sup...
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Great work putting out a glossary search so quickly.
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The test "Why is the fact only 10%
OF the AI code I'm using
TO write tests, even Actually
Tested itself, such a big deal guys.
everything is fine."
Is above an image of Mariah Carey with...
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"Ha. 😆 The "All I Want For Christmas" heuristic. Brilliant! "
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I used to know disaster recovery planning was coming for Black Friday when we first heard all I want for Xmas on the radio....
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AI can walk through all the doors at once
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Where's Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull? – No. 44
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Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull have taken over the MoT meetup takeover. Can you find them?
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Great to see Princess featured on the MoT homepage! 🤩
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When you begin your STEC journey, but notice that one of the MOT creatures looks like your dog, Princess.
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Hi! I'm coming from Bournemouth, United Kingdom.
I'm a Senior QA
I'd love to meet others who are into user experience, risk, team dynamics
I'm coming to TestBash 2025 as an attendee
I'...
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What quality conversations happen in-person? Get a sense of what's going on in the MoTaverse with this week's MoTaverse Weekly
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If your developer can “get it” at a glance, you did it right. Screenshots, short steps, clear punchline. No one laughs at a confusing meme — same with a confusing bug ticket.
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. 🎓 MoT-STEC qualified. I get real joy working with and supporting our wonderful MoTaverse community.
“Thanks for making me feel so confident about myself.” | “I'm so grateful for all you do in the MoTaverse community, I learn so much as a result!” | “A simple chat with Simon in person absolutely changed everything.” | “Simon is one of the best people that I've ever met to have conversations with. He's so grounded in his way of thinking and articulates his thoughts so well and his feelings and his knowledge about community and everything.”
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