Simon Tomes | Activities
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Me and Bug off to the 2025 BCS SIGiST Conference
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Me and Bug off to the 2025 BCS SIGiST Conference
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“Bug! Bug! Bug!” shouted my seven year old son as I said goodbye to him for the day. He loves this Bug t-shirt.
So the two of us (Bug, not my son) stand ready at the train station. We’re all se...
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“Bug! Bug! Bug!” shouted my seven year old son as I said goodbye to him for the day. He loves this Bug t-shirt.
So the two of us (Bug, not my son) stand ready at the train station. We’re all se...
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There were so many great comments in the chat during The Awesome Power of Shifting Left.I captured a few of them. Thanks everyone for you commentary contributions.
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Software Testing Live Ep 4 — Community Commentary
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There were so many great comments in the chat during The Awesome Power of Shifting Left.I captured a few of them. Thanks everyone for you commentary contributions.
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Thank you for demonstrating many helpful things during Episode 4 of Software Testing Live. Team MoT and the community are grateful. 🤩
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Thank you for demonstrating many helpful things during Episode 4 of Software Testing Live. Team MoT and the community are grateful. 🤩
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What a great session, so many good insights and snippets, too many to log them all, but I very much enjoyed taking note of some of the words being used when talking about shifting left.- What not h...
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Selling Testing into a Project
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An Introduction to Chaos Engineering for Testers
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A Tech Leader’s Reflections on People, Scale, and Innovation
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Feature Chat Sheet: Conversation Starters
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Rituals for successful public speaking
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Explore the challenges and insights from a tester's journey into conducting fair and effective interviews
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A picture of a young man biting his finger, while sat on a leather chair an annoyed look on his face, with text reading "My face when the PO asks if testing will delay the release."
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Thanks for helping someone with their question related to MoT FCTA task 2.4.2.
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Antonella, Maite and Ben
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Great to make it to the end of TestBash and chill at the social.
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Shoutout to these brave testers who stepped up for our very first 99-Second Talks at MoT Berlin.
No slides. No scripts. Just real voices, sharp insights, and the courage to share them.
You made...
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At Leeds Atelier Jit Gosai spoke on Pyschological Safety.
And here's a slide where he talks about VUCA (Volatile, Uncertainty, Complex, Ambigious)
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A lovely moment from Leeds Testing Atelier; folks excited to meet, in their words, "the Rosie Sherry!"
Rosie is pictured here with Layla Abbott and another attendee, both newer to testing and pa...
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A great memory from Leeds Testing Atelier on 13 May 2025—thanks to sitting next to Lauren Borodajko , I ended up front and center in the picture during Emily O'Connor's insightful talk on "Testing ...
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Emily presenting from Muggle to Magician at MoT Barcelona Meetup
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Over the last couple of days we've achieved another major milestone for Quality and the culture we are building at Capital One in the UK.
We have been running events in both our London and Nott...
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Say Cheese! Photo Booth time from the last Test Exchange!
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Thanks for persevering with the video file size limitation for a MoT Memory. We appreciate you recording again so that you could make it work within the constraints.
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Thanks for accepting the challenge of sharing a leadership story as a Memory. It's brilliant! Leadership Talks: The Art of Letting Go.
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I have always enjoyed the "doing" aspect of my job. For long, I considered this to be the pathway to excellence and leadership.
However, in my recent endeavours with leadership, I have come to ...
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Thank you for continuing to amplify MoT. We appreciated your "MoT is what I call 'Home' for QAs" post. 🤩
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Sunk cost fallacy
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Definitions of Sunk cost fallacy
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Discover how to navigate the challenges of integrating into a team unfamiliar with dedicated testers
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Use your MoT profile to showcase for your work and contributions and have a living portfolio that grows with you
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Luis kick starts our MOT Barcelona Reloaded edition at the MyTheresa (LuxExperience) office with his talk on how migrating from CucumberJS to Playwright Runner ended up in lots of gains for his team!
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Mauro gives the second talk of the night, this time giving an epic demo on how he implemented all types of tests for a microservice, and why it matters!
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I tuned into a conversation on testing debt for STEC with Veerle Verhagen and Lewis Prescott
What a wonderful conversation covering so many aspects of testing debt:
- What factors influence how...
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Thanks for spotting the incorrectly labelled help text on the This Week in Testings page search field.
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You're setting yourself up for failure if QA owns quality
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JItesh shared this powerful line about ownership during a The Testing Planet Cosmic Discussion: The limitations of shift-left and existing practices.
Some questions to ask yourself about your cu...
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Thanks for sharing your ideas about improving the MoT membership page for someone with a professional membership. Plus, feedback about the new salaries feature. It's much appreciated.
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Does your phone have that feature where it highlights your photo memories? Here's one of mine!
In June 2024 at Ministry of Testing York, Sophie Weston presented her talk - Going Beyond DORA.
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This badge is awarded to members who choose to visibly support Pride on their Ministry of Testing profile.
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QR Podcast – Alessandra Moreira
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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