Simon Tomes | Activities
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Introducing TestRail 9.5: AI That Truly Understands Testing
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Gregor Hohpe On How Software Architects Transform Large Enterprises | The Engineering Room Ep. 15
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QE Babble Test Automation in Focus Tools or Fundamentals
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QE Babble - Delivering with Speed and Quality
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Quality Advocates: Why Don’t we Talk More About Exploratory Testing?
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Thank you for donating to the TestBash Pay It Forward Fund. Very kind!
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Quality is everything — MoT drives it, STEC proves it 🚀
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Welcome to the MoTaverse, Harry. Thanks for introducing yourself on The Club. 🎉Excited to see how your career grows. Enjoy the adventure and know the MoTaverse community is here to support you.
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Turn conversations into visible testing through shared runbooks that raise quality
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"Nice one Mark. See you there. 👋
(Side note - I grew up in Bournemouth and would often head into Christchurch, so it'll be nice to meet a fellow southerner)
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I’m coming from Christchuch, England
My role is: QA and Release Manager
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"See you there, Rodolphe! 👋"
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I’m coming from: Amsterdam, Netherlands
My role is: QA Tester
I’d love to meet others who are into: challenging, improving and sharing
I'm coming to TestBash 2025 as a: Attendee
I’ve been to T...
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Thank you for upgrading to an unlimited membership. It's great to see folks commit to their learning and development like this. 🤩 We hope you get the most out of the MoTaverse. Team MoT and the community are here to help.
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Nice one for setting up a RoboCon 2025 collection. Very cool!
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Cool to see your post featured on the MoT homepage. We hope you receive a large number of responses for your MSc research.
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Hello MoTaverse!
I am currently working on my research project and dissertation for my MSc in Technology Management, my chosen topic? Testing of course!
More specifically, I'm looking at compe...
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Another day and another piece of awesomeness from Rahul Parwal. Bug congrats on your latest course: Advanced prompting for testers. 🎉Thanks for co-creating it with Team MoT. I gotta good feeling this one will be super popular!
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Bug congrats on shipping Rahul Parwal's latest course: Advanced prompting for testers. 🎉I gotta good feeling this one will be super popular!
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Advanced prompting skills to turn AI into your trusted testing companion
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STEC is more than a testing certificate. It's community-in-action.
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Spotted this on our activity feed. It instantly brought a smile to my face.
Lynda Hughes awards Beth Marshall a community star for her contributions to the Software Testing Essentials Certifica...
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Great to see you share your appreciation for Beth Marshall's contribution to STEC via a community star. 🤩
awarded Joep Schuurkes for:
Thanks for sharing ideas to improve the TestBash event page.
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Quality Pros Vibium AI
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The image is a two-panel meme.
The first panel shows a smiling, bald person labeled "QUALITY PROS" eagerly reaching for a large yellow orb labeled "VIBIUM".
The second panel shows a large pin...
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When AI meets brain... creativity takes a hit
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A computer, and through it's screen we see a bug on a sofa, comfy with a drink in it's hand.
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I asked the bug what it was doing there.
It said "I live here now".
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"Always Bug!
No wait … defo Space Duck.
Hang on … what about Space Seagull? "
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"STEC, STEC, STEC!"
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"I AM STEC QUALIFIED. "
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The Evolution of Web Design: From Pixel Art to AI-Generated Experiences
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TBM 375: Minimally Viable Consistency
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Networking in Hybrid Times: Building Genuine Connections Beyond Zoom Fatigue
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The whole point of OpenAI's Responses API is to help them hide reasoning traces
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From Automation to Assurance: Elevating Quality with UiPath and Planit
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CISO Perspective: Q2 2025 Threat Insights Report
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How to deploy language models with Red Hat OpenShift AI
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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