Ady Stokes
Freelance Consultant
He / Him
I am Open to Write, Teach, Speak, Meet at MoTaCon 2026, Podcasting, Review Conference Proposals
STEC Certified. MoT Ambassador, writer, speaker, accessibility advocate. Consulting, training, Leeds Chapter host. MoT Certs curator and contributor. Testing wisdom, friendly, parody songs and poems

Achievements

Career Champion
Club Explorer
Bio Builder
Avid Reader
TestBash Trailblazer
Article Maven
Testing Scholar
MoT Community Certificate
MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
Scholarship Hero
Insights Spotter Bronze
TestBash Speaker
99 Second Speaker
The Testing Planet Contributor
Chapter Organiser
MoT Streak
Unlimited Member
In the Loop
MoT Ambassador
MoT Inked
404 Talk (Not) Found
Bug Finder
Collection Curator
Glossary Contributor
Meme Maker
Photo Historian
TestBash Brighton 2025 Attendee
TestBash Brighton 2024 Attendee
TestBash Teacher
Cert Shaper
Course creator
Author Debut
A tester's role in continuous quality
Prompting for testers
Cognitive biases in software testing
Introduction to software development and testing
Introduction to modern testing
Introduction to accessibility testing
Bug reporting 101
Coding for non-coders
Introduction to JavaScript
Advanced prompting for testers
99 and Counting
Chapter Contributor
Pride Supporter
Meme Machine
Inclusive Companion
Social Connector
Open to Opportunities
Found at 404
Picture Perfect
Story Sharer
Everyday security testing: A practical guide to getting started
Quality coaching essentials
Kind Click
Supportive Clicker
Encouragement Giver
Goal Setter
Insights Taster

Certificates

MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate image
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Awarded for: Passing the exam with a score of 100%
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Awarded for: Achieving 5 or more Community Star badges

Activity

Ady Stokes
Ady Stokes
earned:
New personal star record  image
New personal star record
Ady Stokes
Ady Stokes
earned:
Inclusive development teams: Why representation matters image
Inclusive development teams: Why representation matters
Ady Stokes
Ady Stokes
earned:
2.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate image
2.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
Ady Stokes
Ady Stokes
earned:
8.7.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate image
8.7.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
Ady Stokes
Ady Stokes
earned:
8.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate image
8.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate

Contributions

New personal star record  image
The Starvalance continues as lots of people are completing STEC and SQEC lessons. I earned over 300 stars in November, 400 in December and started 2026 with a big bang of over 500 stars!!! Amazing.
Inclusive development teams: Why representation matters image
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Discover how diverse perspectives in testing help reveal hidden bugs and build software that works for more users.
Goodbye Morocco  image
It’s travel day at the end of a lovely holiday. Mostly switched off but couldn’t resist an odd peak at the MoTaverse.
Make your best Ambassador face image
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We wrapped up our first year of Ambassadoring, reflected on it, explored some ideas on how we can improve it. As time came to the end, I was saying thank you and wasn't sure how to say goodbye,...
MoT in the wild - Morocco  image
Bit of a chilly breeze but I have the merch to cope
2026 Goal setting and sharing  - TWiQ Episode-119 image
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We have always been sharing goals in our organisation at the start of the year. It is a great initiative by MoT team to share and talk about individual goals here. This gives us opportunity and spa...
Goals that inspire a quality community - Ep 119 image
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Discover how testers are using public goals, badges and community support to grow their skills, gain confidence and make progress in 2026
Tester to Quality Engineer gap analysis image
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A worksheet to help you evaluate your Quality Engineering skills
99, 999 are great. 1099 is good too!  image
Celebrating reaching 1099 community stars
Celebrating going from 999 to 1,000 community stars image
The simple act of posting this memory to celebrate 999 community stars will take me to 1,000 stars. #Starmageddon continues...
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