Simon Tomes | Activities
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Cool demo
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Cool demo
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Thanks for sharing your positive feedback about MoTaCon. We're so glad you'll return. đ
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Great to meet and chat with you during the MoTaCon Brighton tour walk. Thanks for being part of it. đ€©
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Hooray for Paul and WonderProxy
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The essence of a âmanual testerâ is a finger and a robot đ« đ
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First fave funny quote of the day, courtesy of Jason Huggins
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First fave funny quote of the day, courtesy of Jason Huggins
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First fave funny quote of the day, courtesy of Jason Huggins
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Great day learning, sharing ideas and attending inspiring talks and workshops together.MotaCon is always better with an Amazing team â€ïž
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Better Together at MOTACON
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Better Together at MOTACON
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Better Together at MOTACON
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Better Together at MOTACON
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Better Together at MOTACON
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Better Together at MOTACON
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Better Together at MOTACON
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Better Together at MOTACON
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"Good point Simon.
Defo! And this applies to showing up in the MoTaverse. It's all there ready to go. Folks can give themselves permission to go for it."
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Simple but powerful advice - and I think. sometimes we need to give ourselves permission too  đ đ
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âYou donât need permission to startâ
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âYou donât need permission to startâ
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âYou donât need permission to startâ
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Leading With Quality and MoTaCon Moments that matter
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The following are links to Moments pages for each speaker and workshop facilitator of MoTaCon and Leading With Quality 2026. It's a quick way to see what people â including you and them â shared ab...
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A month in quality: Demos, MoTaCon and human connection
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Barry sharing some hard and helpful truths."It should all be clear, we're all contributing to quality! So why isn't it clear?"
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The reality of Quality Engineering
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The reality of Quality Engineering
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During Leading With Quality, Barry asked participants to explore the following question:
What has been your experience with Quality Engineering?
Some reflections:
We started by exploring the diffe...
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What has been your experience with Quality Engineering?
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What has been your experience with Quality Engineering?
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What has been your experience with Quality Engineering?
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What has been your experience with Quality Engineering?
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What has been your experience with Quality Engineering?
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What has been your experience with Quality Engineering?
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What has been your experience with Quality Engineering?
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What has been your experience with Quality Engineering?
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What has been your experience with Quality Engineering?
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QE transformation does not equal role transformation, love this perspective from Barry Ehigiator.It becomes moving from quality function towards a quality system.
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Quality Engineering is a system transformation, yes!
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Quality Engineering is a system transformation, yes!
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Quality Engineering is a system transformation, yes!
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Perhaps one thing that I feel isn't spoken enough about, briefly mentioned in Barry's session at Leading With Quality, are the silos that test automation can bring.It can happen for many reasons, b...
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The Lived Reality: The Automation Silos
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The Lived Reality: The Automation Silos
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The Lived Reality: The Automation Silos
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Barry's "When Quality Engineering Creates chaos" gave me an uncomfortable realisation. We were beginning to start our Quality Engineering journey and make the mistakes. Yes I renamed the QA team đŹ....
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LWQ 2026 - Resetting the Quality Engineering conversation
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LWQ 2026 - Resetting the Quality Engineering conversation
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. đ MoT-STEC qualified. I get real joy working with and supporting our wonderful MoTaverse community.
âThanks for making me feel so confident about myself.â | âI'm so grateful for all you do in the MoTaverse community, I learn so much as a result!â | âA simple chat with Simon in person absolutely changed everything.â | âSimon 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.â
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