Ady Stokes
Freelance Consultant
He / Him
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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Achievements
Certificates
Awarded for:
Passing the exam with a score of 100%
Awarded for:
Passing the exam with a score of 100%
Activity
earned:
Member joined MoT Leeds chapter
earned:
Member joined MoT Leeds chapter
earned:
6.7.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
earned:
Member joined MoT Leeds chapter
earned:
Cool new artwork for the Leeds Chapter
Contributions
Grateful for the wonderful artwork for the Leeds Chapter of MoTÂ
In this week's episode of This Week in Quality, we talked about grief. Grief may be a strange topic to talk about in technology, but I think it's an important one. Much of the industry is shifting....
A thoughtful, vulnerable episode about grief, identity, AI, writing, and the emotional cost of trying to influence quality in organisations that don’t always listen.
This is the first time we've had six people with cameras on on the TWiQ stage. Woop! Woop! 🎉Good humans being open and honest about things. Thank you, Judy, for leading the way. 🤩
I remember something Ady said is that you can always learn something new from training courses at any level. I've got 2 ISTQB foundations certs and after achieving those 15 years ago, I've not real...
Today, it's mostly a bad idea.
Why it no longer works well
Modern ATS systems don't just count keywords. They:
 Parse the structure of the CV.Â
 Look for keywords in context. ...
