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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.
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Maithilee explains how listening to MoT content can transform chores into enjoyable experiences!
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Maithilee explains how listening to MoT content can transform chores into enjoyable experiences!
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The curse of the live demo… and other testing superstitions - Ep 123
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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.
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Hanisha shares an essential reason to write and keep writing.
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Write to solve your own problems (and help everyone else)
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Write to solve your own problems (and help everyone else)
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Write to solve your own problems (and help everyone else)
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Write to solve your own problems (and help everyone else)
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Hanisha shares an essential reason to write and keep writing.
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Hanisha shares an essential reason to write and keep writing.
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Can testing cope with the speed of development?
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Can testing cope with the speed of development?
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AI's impact on quality generalists vs quality specialists
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Can testing cope with the speed of development?
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Can testing cope with the speed of development?
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Advocacy beyond developers
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Advocacy beyond developers
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How do we convince product and project people about the importance of testing?
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Advocacy beyond developers
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Advocacy beyond developers
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One more step toward 2026 goals
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I'm an Ambassador now
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I'm an Ambassador now
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I'm an Ambassador now
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Thanks for joining the stage and sharing with the TWiQ audience.
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Thanks for joining the stage and sharing with the TWiQ audience.
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Thanks for joining the stage and sharing with the TWiQ audience.
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Thanks for joining the stage and sharing with the TWiQ audience.
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Thank you for co-hosting TWiQ. I appreciate you encouraging good conversations, reflections and insights.
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I featured your Production 404 story on the MoT homepage.
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"🙈 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."
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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...
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Production 404 - Taking down Production by Accident
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Production 404 - Taking down Production by Accident
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Woohay! Congrats on co-hosting This Week in Quality. You were ace! 🏆
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Thanks for sharing feedback about the "thank" and "mark as read/watch" features.
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Explore the parallels between the lessons Stephen learnt in the RAF and his current work.
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Quality in the RAF and what it taught me about testing - Discipline, risk and assurance across domains
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Quality in the RAF and what it taught me about testing - Discipline, risk and assurance across domains
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RCA for the Prod bug on Friday Evening has its vibe
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When RCA for Prod bug is asked on Friday Evening it has its own vibe 😀
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When RCA for Prod bug is asked on Friday Evening it has its own vibe 😀
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This Week in Quality
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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
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How do we convince product and project people about the importance of testing?
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Advocacy beyond developers
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11.9.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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More than ever, we need human to human connection
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