Hello, my name is Emily O'Connor

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I am a white woman with long straight light brown hair. Sat in my home office with a blurred background, wearing a green dress, I speak directly to the camera and showcase a variety of books which are listed in the description.

Hello, my name is Emily!

I’m travelling to TestBash from Leeds (UK) and I’d love to meet and form stronger relationships with others who are senior individual contributors.
I'd love to get to know you: how does your role interact with your organisations engineering teams, what is your career progression story and how you keep upto date with testing trends?

In this video, I introduce the fact that I enjoy reading, and show these books:
- Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka
- Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines by Joy Buolamwini
- Why I Write by George Orwell (because I couldn't find Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens)
- The Guardian Book of English Language by William Safire
- Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy by Tim Harford
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Erin Meyer and Reed Hastings
- The Captain Class: The Hidden Force Behind the World’s Greatest Teams by Sam Walker
- The Software Tester’s Journey: Exploring Career Opportunities and Adventures by Nicola Lindgren and Vernon Richards
- Dear Evil Tester by Alan Richardson

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I have a sixth sense for bugs, probably due to my experience as a dev (introducing them)! I love to learn and read. Playwright fan-girl.
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