Simon Tomes | Activities
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Great memories from TestBash 2024 with sketchnoting taken by Emna for Bastian Knerr's talk.
Data is everywhere and it's testable!
Know your context!
Agile is active!
Learn the new domai...
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Good times were had.
Here with Gwen Diagram, Kat Obring, Emily O'Connor and Ady Stokes.
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Happy faces with Veerle and Richard at TestBash 2024.
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What's not to love about Brighton Pier on a sunny day?
Photo from TestBash 2024.
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A feel-good memory from TestBash 2024. Simon Tomes, Sergio Freire and Gwen Diagram pose for a happy selfie.
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On Thursday 19th June, the British Computing Society (BCS) held their annual conference in London for the "Special Interest Group in Software Testing" (SIGiST).
This year I spoke at the conferen...
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Simon, Sergio and Gwen
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A feel-good memory from TestBash 2024. Simon Tomes, Sergio Freire and Gwen Diagram pose for a happy selfie.
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Mind the Gap (in your thinking) - My day at the British Computing Society in London
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On Thursday 19th June, the British Computing Society (BCS) held their annual conference in London for the "Special Interest Group in Software Testing" (SIGiST).
This year I spoke at the conferen...
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Leadership do not come with the title. It's an art, style and capability to do it. Anyone can extend their hand, raise voice to lead who has a strong feeling and willingness to take the ownership a...
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How to Design and Execute Effective Social Engineering Attacks by Phone
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Stop thinking in steps. Start thinking in systems.
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Why Employees Are Done with Traditional Leadership (What to Do About It)
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LLM-as-a-Judge: A Practical Guide
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Beyond the Static: How Image-to-Image Generative AI can Revolutionise Product Content Personalisation
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Mitigating risk in large-scale financial data migration
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Feedback Is Not an Attack
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Letting Playwright MCP Explore your site and Write your Tests
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Hello, my name is Stu Day
About Me:
I’m coming from: Bourne, Lincolnshire, UK
My role is: Head of Quality & Quality Talks Founder/Podcast Host
I’d love to meet others who are into: To...
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We're Using AI Wrong and It's Making Us Stupid
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What's going to happen to junior engineers?
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Great to see you appreciate help from the community in support of your talk at LDX3 London, via this post on The Club: What do you want engineers and management to know about Quality?
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A nice quality of a leader is to have a bravery to admit that you don't know something. Because it's not possible to know every other aspect of the processes, products and tools.
— Oleksandr Rom...
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Thanks for bigging up Ben and Callum on your The Club post: How do you apply the Shift-Left Approach?
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Thanks for being conversational, welcoming and encouraging on your The Club post: What have you done to get the most out of your MoT profile?
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Thank you for co-hosting This Week in Testing, Episode 95. Team MoT and the community are glad you brought folks together to discuss many topics related to leadership.
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Thank you for co-hosting This Week in Testing, Episode 95. Team MoT and the community are glad you brought folks together to discuss many topics related to leadership.
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I’m wrong. This is good.
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In the MoTaverse we're doing some research into job titles and you can help by updating your MoT Profile with your current or most recent job title.
It will only take a moment to do via
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50% of women leave the tech sector before their 35th birthday to never return
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What is An Automation Test Suite? How To Build Them?
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Refining input guardrails for safer LLM applications with Capital One
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Katalon and RMIT expand strategic partnership to build an AI-ready workforce
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MCP Gives LLMs Full Access: Postman Fixes It [Between 2 Devs]
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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