Simon Tomes
Community Lead at Ministry of Testing
he/him
I am Open to Meet at MoTaCon 2026, Write, Teach, Speak, Mentor, Podcasting, CV Reviews, Review Conference Proposals
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.
Achievements
Certificates
Awarded for:
Passing the exam with a score of 100%
Activity
earned:
🎉 3 Years in Software Testing – A Grateful Reflection! 🎉
earned:
Earned My MoT Community Certificate 🎓
earned:
800+ Stars in MoT
earned:
800+ Stars in MoT
contributed:
Grateful moment !!
Happy to share 800+ Stars on Ministry of Testing ⭐
Special thanks to Ministry of Testing, Rosie Sherry and Simon Tomes ,
Sarah Deery for the constant inspiration and support 🙌
Interests
advocacy
all-things-community
asking-questions
bug
bugs
bugs-in-the-wild
charters
coaching
coaching-testers
community
conferences
conference-speaking
continuous-learning
design
diversity
drumming
events
experimentation
exploratory-testing
heuristics
leadership
memes
mentoring
mot-stec
music
oracles
podcasting
process-improvement
product-development
product-management
public-speaking
quality-strategy
space-duck
space-seagull
systems-thinking
team-enablement
testbash
testbash-brighton
testing
writing
Contributions
Grateful moment !!
Happy to share 800+ Stars on Ministry of Testing ⭐
Special thanks to Ministry of Testing, Rosie Sherry and Simon Tomes ,
Sarah Deery for the constant inspiration and support 🙌
So cool to hear Kaarina talk about how the MoTaverse has helped her build a vocabulary and ask questions to learn more broadly. 🤩
AI guardrails: Non-negotiable safety or overly cautious "slowdowns"?
Lurking sounds a bit creepy. But in the MoTaverse we embrace it.
Lurkers are observation workers.
Lurkers want to see what a community is about.
Lurking is a form of community participati...
Hanisha Arora shares a real-life example of an AI workflow. It sounds cool!
It got me thinking that we need more examples of AI workflows. Do share when you find them.
There are many things in common between community, quality and learning in general.
Simon Tomes pointed out this quote from Elizabeth Zagroba:
"As a lead, I need to be an information spreader...
