Simon Tomes | Activities
awarded Emily O'Connor for:
Nice one for amplifying Aj Wilson by sharing the story of how she helped one of your ex-colleagues.
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Emily O'Connor shared how helpful you'd been to one of her ex-colleagues who is looking for a job. Nice one!
awarded Nataliia Burmei for:
Thanks for highlighting that The Club doesn't support a two-character search, such as "AI". Glad we've now fixed that.
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Thanks for inspiring this cool-looking t-shirt!
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I'm so famous they made a tshirt of me!
Get yours on the MoT Store
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AI is making Google Engineers 10% more productive
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Discover how running small, courageous experiments can help any tester or quality-minded technologist truly lead with quality
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Apple WWDC25 Keynote
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Discover exciting events and courses, new articles, glossary updates, testing trends, fun memes and memories, hot topics and new collections.
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As someone who started out with zero qualifications I've found that everything that I've learned has been through community.
The stories.
The resilience.
Better practices.
The new possibiliti...
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It was great talk about testing boxes - Black Box, White box and Grey box.
Each technique have their own significance and can be used for software testing ensuring to deliver quality product.
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TWiT - Knowing about testing box
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It was great talk about testing boxes - Black Box, White box and Grey box.
Each technique have their own significance and can be used for software testing ensuring to deliver quality product.
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awarded Susanne Abdelrahman for:
Thanks for keeping the convo going and for being grateful for the replies on your Club post: How are y’all measuring product quality?
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The reality of change
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Anne-Marie reminds us of the reality of what we can and can't change when in a leadership position. And the binary nature can be profound when it comes to burnout.
This reminds me of Steven Cov...
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Thanks for the name inspiration Elisse!
I am now MoTher of the MoTaverse, I cannot unsee it!
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Thanks for sharing feedback and ideas on how to better connect the MoT profile page with The Club profile page.
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Thanks for sharing your appreciation for the MoT Continuous Quality course and the folks who contributed to it.
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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
About Me:
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'...
awarded Emily O'Connor for:
Thanks for sharing a job advert in the MoT Slack jobs channel.
awarded Mariem SAFI for:
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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About Me:
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
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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