Ady Stokes
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STEC and SQEC Certified. MoT Ambassador, writer, speaker, accessibility advocate. Consulting, Leeds Chapter Lead. MoT Certs curator. Testing wisdom, friendly, songs and poems. Great minds think differently

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Testing Scholar
MoT Community Certificate
MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
Scholarship Hero
Insights Spotter Bronze
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99 Second Speaker
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MoT Ambassador 2025
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404 Talk (Not) Found
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TestBash Brighton 2025 Attendee
TestBash Brighton 2024 Attendee
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Author Debut
A tester's role in continuous quality
Prompting for testers
Improving your testing through operability
Cognitive biases in software testing
A software tester's guide to Chrome DevTools
Introduction to software development and testing
Introduction to modern testing
Introduction to accessibility testing
Bug reporting 101
Coding for non-coders
The building blocks of the internet
Introduction to JavaScript
Advanced prompting for testers
99 and Counting
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Found at 404
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Neurodiversity Matters
Everyday security testing: A practical guide to getting started
Quality coaching essentials
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MoT Ambassador 2026
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MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate

Certificates

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Awarded for: Passing the exam with a score of 100%
MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate image
Awarded for: Passing the exam with a score of 100%

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... a new member joins, steps up on the This Week in Quality (TWiQ) stage and says hi.Welcome, Ibekwe. Thanks for introducing yourself. 😃 Lovely to also see all the welcome messages coming in ...
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... a new member joins, steps up on the This Week in Quality (TWiQ) stage and says hi.Welcome, Ibekwe. Thanks for introducing yourself. 😃 Lovely to also see all the welcome messages coming in ...
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I've just recorded a session on Riverside for BrowserStack's conference Breakpoint. Had a wonderful host in Jenna Charlton and shared my Accessibility Quadrants visual heuristic. The quality m...
You're absolutely right! I have a love hate relationship with AI - Ep 132 image
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A hot-takes episode where the crew debates AI skepticism, manual testing’s staying power, whether AI agents really speed delivery, and why quality ultimately lives (or dies) with leadership decisions.
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Thanks to a recent Love Hate AI memory posts I passed 99 memories and gained the maven badge :) 
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Do you love / hate AI too? 
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Quality Professionals and testers are continuous learners, but knowledge is only as good as its application. The quality of software is only as good as the quality of thinking that goes into i...
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