Simon Tomes | Activities
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Letting Playwright MCP Explore your site and Write your Tests
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Hello, my name is Stu Day
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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]
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A Practical Guide to Generating Squish Test Scripts with AI Assistants
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UI Testing: Essentials & Best Practices
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Thank you for sharing kind words about TestBash. Team MoT is so glad to hear how much the MoT community changed your life.
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This meme captures the reality many testers face when flashy automation dashboards show near-perfect pass rates, but bugs still slip into production. Often, it’s the quiet power of exploratory test...
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Explore how leading with quality at an organisational level means balancing strategic change with day-to-day coaching and care.
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Really enjoyed seeing all the pictures of the back of my head on so many LinkedIn posts from BCS SIGiST 2025 😂
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Be Inclusive. Be Human.
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I recently had a good chat with Callum Akehurst-Ryan about representation. He's a queer man in tech and continues to do wonderful things to amplify the importance of inclusivity and representation ...
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Callum Akehurst-Ryan's collection of blogs and talks dedicated to Pride Month and being an LGBTQIA+ engineer.
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We've been doubling down on the idea of MoTaverse, we are a platform. We are a place to gather.
Whilst, this has been the case for many years, it's not since the past 12 months that we've put ou...
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Good people, good chats, good learning
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Good people, good chats, good learning
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19/07/25 London.
Thanks to the SIGiST team for organising and running a lovely conference. Some solid talks about AI.
At the end of the day myself, Eamon, Ayesha, Andy, Jit and Bug had a de...
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19/07/25 London.
Thanks to the SIGiST team for organising and running a lovely conference. Some solid talks about AI.
At the end of the day myself, Eamon, Ayesha, Andy, Jit and Bug had a de...
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The Tester - Issue 80
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Why is psychological safety important to software engineering teams?
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Quality Radar: A new way to visualise Quality
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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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