Ady Stokes
Freelance Consultant
He / Him
I am Open to Write, Teach, Speak, Podcasting, Meet at MoTaCon 2026, Review Conference Proposals
STEC Certified. MoT Ambassador, writer, speaker, accessibility advocate. Consulting, Leeds Chapter Lead. MoT Certs curator. Testing wisdom, friendly, songs and poems. Great minds think differently
Achievements
Certificates
Awarded for:
Passing the exam with a score of 100%
Awarded for:
Achieving 5 or more Community Star badges
Activity
earned:
Thanks for joining us this week! Hope you are feeling better today and less numb from being at the dentist.
earned:
Member joined MoT Leeds chapter
earned:
How do you handle company and stakeholder needs that might impact product quality? - AMA about Project Management
contributed:
Ady asks:How do you handle company and stakeholder needs that might impact product quality, for example, wanting to release before all risks are mitigated or having a lack of interest in usability ...
earned:
1.6.0 of A tester’s role in continuous quality
Contributions
Ady asks:How do you handle company and stakeholder needs that might impact product quality, for example, wanting to release before all risks are mitigated or having a lack of interest in usability ...
Simon and Judy celebrate “joy scrolling” in the MoTaverse, swap stories on time-zone chaos and quality moments, and spotlight how community content, chapters, and AMAs turn learning into momentum.
I left the dentist after having a root canal at 12.30pm, and joined This week in Quality just after 1pm. As a joke, when I joined stage, I put my tongue in my cheek so it sounded like I was all swo...
In module 9 of the Software Quality Engineering Certificate, Barry Ehigiator writes about potential pitfalls in QE. Amongst others, he mentions:
Poor implementation that leads to a lack of c...
How is AI powered tools changing mobile testing?For the most part, it seems as though the AI impact is the same for mobile web as it is for desktop web. Luckily, I came across an article fro...
This question comes from AMA about how non-technical teams can contribute to quality: I'm a Marketing PM at an AI test automation company & was asked by Ady Stokes.
What do you think is the mos...
For my AMA on Accessibility Testing, Gary Hawkes asked. "There are a number of tools like Axe as the tool we use to assess accessibility. Where do the tools fall short?" This is a great question, a...
After putting out a call for AMA about Working as a Lone Tester, Ady Stokes asked, "How do you balance testing and influencing the team to make quality a priority?" This is a big question. Let's di...
Inspired by this week's TWiQ (This week in quality) session and the "Making testing jobs safer for neurodiversity: Manual of Me" article by Maddy Kilsby-McMurray. I decided to make my own README.&n...
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