Simon Tomes | Activities
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Got feedback on the Continous Quality Course with the Ministry of Testing. I was one of the co-author for it.
Always a great feeling when your work translates to actual value for people who inte...
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Thank you for sharing a job opportunity on the MoT Slack.
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Hello, my name is Stuart Thomas
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I’m coming from: Shropshire, UK
My role is: Head of Quality
I’d love to meet others who are into: Continuous improvement, both of teams and themselve...
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Experiment with AI development tools to understand their impact on delivery speed and the quality challenges they create for engineering teams
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AI doesn’t belong in test runtime
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Empathy in FinTech Testing: The Human Element Behind Every Transaction
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TWiT rules are to be broken
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It was such a delight to see Dan Billing in the audience at a recent This Week in Testing. It was a real treat that he was up for speaking on stage.
TWiT is a voice-only event, yet Dan kept his...
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I’m coming from: Mansfield, England, UK
My role is: Lead Quality Engineer
I’d love to meet others who are into: Collaborative ways of working, quality leadership and anything technology
I'...
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Thanks for sharing a job advert in the MoT Slack jobs channel.
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Thank for your for sharing another job advert in the MoT Slack jobs channel.
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I'm coming from the Netherlands
I'm a quality engineer for Dutch Railways
I'm coming to TestBash as a host!
I'm super interested in and would love to talk to others about human-centred technolog...
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You've heard the cliché, it's not what you know, it's who you know. When people see you as a leader and look to you for answers, you can't know everything. Invest time in building relationships not...
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Apple just tested the smartest "reasoning" AI Models out there: Claude 3.7 Sonnet, DeepSeek-R1, OpenAI’s o1/o3.
The verdict?
They didn’t just underperform.
They 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗽𝘀𝗲𝗱 when things got to co...
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About me:
I'm coming from: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK
My role is: QA Lead
I'd love to meet others who are into: Leadership and anyone into improving software quality, however they do it
I'm c...
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Where's Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull? – No. 31
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Can you find Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull?
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About Me:
I’m coming from: Cambridge, UK
My role is: Quality and Test Engineer
I’d love to meet others who are into: Testing AI systems | Neurodiversity in Quality and Testing | All things quali...
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A few things I’m proud of:
🧪 I break things for a living (so they don’t break in the wild).
📍 Based in Jaipur, India’s Pink City, where the testing passion runs deep.
💼 Software Testing Specia...
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I’m coming from: Surrey/London, England
My role is: Lead Quality Engineer
I’d love to meet others who are into: quality engineering, leading quality teams, building quality cultu...
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What impact can following people in the MoTaverse have on your career and those around you? Read a roundup of news, events and actionable ideas in this week's MoT Weekly.
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Test shirt please ignore
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You can imagine my delight when I spotted this bloke in my local Waterstones bookstore.
"I'm a tester, can I get a photo of your t-shirt? It is so cool!"
"Sure, I'm a developer. My kids got me ...
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A reminder that one size does not fit all and that time moves on
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Thanks for introducing yourself on the Q2 2025 Introductions thread. Welcome to the MoTaverse. 👋
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Thanks for sharing feedback about the community stars feature and deleted items.
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Hackers discover Nintendo Switch 2 exploit one day after launch — minor hack allows running custom code on top of OS
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About Me:
I’m coming from: near Leeds in West Yorkshire, UK
My role is: freelance IT and accessibility consultant
I’d love to meet others who are into: accessibility, quality engineering, teach...
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About Me:
I’m coming from: Bristol, UK
My role is: QA Professional
I’d love to meet others who are into: Passionate about Software testing, Quality coaches, AI in testing
I'm coming to TestBa...
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I am a big believer that confidence is built on actively doing things. Particularly, doing things you never done before, there is no much evidence it will work or people who would confirm your theo...
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I’m coming from: Brighton, UK
My role is: QA Lead in a small web agency
I'm coming to TestBash 2025 as a: Ambassador and Attendee of course
I’ve been to TestBash: Once before (last ...
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Thank you for sharing kind words about TestBash via the TestBash glossary entry.
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Testing inside the boxes and beyond Ep 93
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Testing meetups, community memories, and finding your voice — the This Week in Testing crew shares insights, inspiration, and reflections from around the globe.
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A discussion on TWIT had me wondering what 'Grey Box Testing' was.
Luckily, some lovely people were on hand to answer my question!
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Thank you for co-hosting This Week in Testing Episode 93. 🙌
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Thanks for accepting the challenge of creating a glossary item during a This Week in Testing episode. 🤩😅 It's Grey Box Testing.
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The Agentic Identity Journey
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Testing a LottieAnimation in Compose
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Selenium Community Live - Episode 6
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Celebrate the code you didn’t write
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Interesting bugs: Artifact building failure caused by GitHub API rate limits
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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