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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.

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Bored with mundane tasks? Grab yourself some MoT time at the same time. image
Bored with mundane tasks? Grab yourself some MoT time at the same time.
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Bored with mundane tasks? Grab yourself some MoT time at the same time. image
Maithilee explains how listening to MoT content can transform chores into enjoyable experiences!
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Bored with mundane tasks? Grab yourself some MoT time at the same time. image
Maithilee explains how listening to MoT content can transform chores into enjoyable experiences!
The curse of the live demo… and other testing superstitions - Ep 123 image
The curse of the live demo… and other testing superstitions - Ep 123
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
The curse of the live demo… and other testing superstitions - Ep 123 image
Swap your team’s favourite quality superstitions, laugh at cursed demos and disappearing bugs, and turn “don’t deploy on Fridays” from folklore into smarter release habits.
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
thanked contributors on:
Write to solve your own problems (and help everyone else) image
Hanisha shares an essential reason to write and keep writing.
Write to solve your own problems (and help everyone else) image
Write to solve your own problems (and help everyone else)
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Hanisha Arora for:
Write to solve your own problems (and help everyone else) image
Write to solve your own problems (and help everyone else)
Write to solve your own problems (and help everyone else) image
Write to solve your own problems (and help everyone else)
Write to solve your own problems (and help everyone else) image
Write to solve your own problems (and help everyone else)
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Write to solve your own problems (and help everyone else) image
Hanisha shares an essential reason to write and keep writing.
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Write to solve your own problems (and help everyone else) image
Hanisha shares an essential reason to write and keep writing.
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Hanisha Arora for:
Can testing cope with the speed of development? image
Can testing cope with the speed of development?
Can testing cope with the speed of development? image
Can testing cope with the speed of development?
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
thanked contributors on:
Can testing cope with the speed of development? image
AI's impact on quality generalists vs quality specialists
Can testing cope with the speed of development? image
Can testing cope with the speed of development?
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Hanisha Arora for:
Can testing cope with the speed of development? image
Can testing cope with the speed of development?
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Louise Woodhams for:
Advocacy beyond developers image
Advocacy beyond developers
Advocacy beyond developers image
Advocacy beyond developers
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
thanked contributors on:
Advocacy beyond developers image
How do we convince product and project people about the importance of testing?
Advocacy beyond developers image
Advocacy beyond developers
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Louise Woodhams for:
Advocacy beyond developers image
Advocacy beyond developers
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
thanked contributors on:
I'm an Ambassador now image
One more step toward 2026 goals
I'm an Ambassador now image
I'm an Ambassador now
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Ministry of Testing for:
I'm an Ambassador now image
I'm an Ambassador now
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Ujjwal Kumar Singh for:
I'm an Ambassador now image
I'm an Ambassador now
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Ujjwal Kumar Singh for:
Thanks for joining the stage and sharing with the TWiQ audience. image
Thanks for joining the stage and sharing with the TWiQ audience.
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Demi Van Malcot for:
Thanks for joining the stage and sharing with the TWiQ audience. image
Thanks for joining the stage and sharing with the TWiQ audience.
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Ady Stokes for:
Thanks for joining the stage and sharing with the TWiQ audience. image
Thanks for joining the stage and sharing with the TWiQ audience.
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Gary Hawkes for:
Thanks for joining the stage and sharing with the TWiQ audience. image
Thanks for joining the stage and sharing with the TWiQ audience.
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Oleksandr Romanov for:
Thank you for co-hosting TWiQ. I appreciate you encouraging good conversations, reflections and insights. image
Thank you for co-hosting TWiQ. I appreciate you encouraging good conversations, reflections and insights.
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Melissa Fisher for:
I featured your Production 404 story on the MoT homepage. image
I featured your Production 404 story on the MoT homepage.
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
commented on:
🙈 Oof, I can only imagine how awkward that was.

Yet I'm hopeful your lesson also leads to folks considering how stag... image
"🙈 Oof, I can only imagine how awkward that was. Yet I'm hopeful your lesson also leads to folks considering how staging and production environments are set up. As you say, at the very least, for us to find out how they might be connected."
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
thanked contributors on:
Production 404 - Taking down Production by Accident image
Once I was doing what I do best and exploring a product and I decided to see what happens when I have a lot of concurrent users running on the system. So I started performing this test in a stagin...
Production 404 - Taking down Production by Accident image
Production 404 - Taking down Production by Accident
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Melissa Fisher for:
Production 404 - Taking down Production by Accident image
Production 404 - Taking down Production by Accident
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Clare Norman for:
Woohay! Congrats on co-hosting This Week in Quality. You were ace! 🏆 image
Woohay! Congrats on co-hosting This Week in Quality. You were ace! 🏆
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Gary Hawkes for:
Thanks for sharing feedback about the "thank" and "mark as read/watch" features. image
Thanks for sharing feedback about the "thank" and "mark as read/watch" features.
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
thanked contributors on:
Quality in the RAF and what it taught me about testing - Discipline, risk and assurance across domains image
Explore the parallels between the lessons Stephen learnt in the RAF and his current work.
Quality in the RAF and what it taught me about testing - Discipline, risk and assurance across domains image
Quality in the RAF and what it taught me about testing - Discipline, risk and assurance across domains
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Mr Stephen P Platten for:
Quality in the RAF and what it taught me about testing - Discipline, risk and assurance across domains image
Quality in the RAF and what it taught me about testing - Discipline, risk and assurance across domains
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
thanked contributors on:
When RCA for Prod bug is asked on Friday Evening it has its own vibe 😀 image
RCA for the Prod bug on Friday Evening has its vibe
When RCA for Prod bug is asked on Friday Evening it has its own vibe 😀 image
When RCA for Prod bug is asked on Friday Evening it has its own vibe 😀
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Ujjwal Kumar Singh for:
When RCA for Prod bug is asked on Friday Evening it has its own vibe 😀 image
When RCA for Prod bug is asked on Friday Evening it has its own vibe 😀
This Week in Quality image
This Week in Quality
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me image
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Advocacy beyond developers image
How do we convince product and project people about the importance of testing?
Advocacy beyond developers image
Advocacy beyond developers
11.9.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate image
11.9.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
More than ever, we need human to human connection image
More than ever, we need human to human connection
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