Simon Tomes
Community Lead at Ministry of Testing
he/him
I am Open to Write, Teach, Speak, Mentor, Meet at TestBash 2025
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.
Achievements
Interests
advocacy
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
process-improvement
product-development
product-management
public-speaking
quality-strategy
space-duck
space-seagull
systems-thinking
team-enablement
testbash
testbash-brighton
testing
writing
Contributions
I love podcasts. I've had the privilege of being on a few of them. Today was my first day co-hosting one! I was nervous, for sure, but once I settled in, made sure I had coffee in hand, and remembe...
Catch up on This Week in Testing to hear how testers make progress while figuring things out, plus much more from across the MoTaverse.
I finally got my Community Certificate and Simon gave me a special certificate number. ðŸ¤
Can you decode it?