Deborah Reid | Activities
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Happy days at the recent MoT London sponsored by Scale Factory.The MoTographer papped me and Diana posing for a selfie. Hopefully Diana can dig up the actual selfie and post a link in the comments.
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The photo of the selfie, say cheese!
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The photo of the selfie, say cheese!
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The photo of the selfie, say cheese!
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The photo of the selfie, say cheese!
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The photo of the selfie, say cheese!
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The Work Nobody Can See Doesnât Count Toward Your Career
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Hacking is becoming cheaper and easier
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10 Tips for Writing Playwright Tests with Cursor
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I Reviewed 100 Playwright Test Suites. 90% Were Lying to you.
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Future of Testing | Debbie OâBrien on Playwright, MCP, and AI-Driven Testing
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How To Debug Playwright Tests in CI: The Complete Guide
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Building Scalable Tests with Playwright Fixtures and Page Object Model
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Using agent skills to write Playwright tests
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Why QA Misses Bugs: Leveraging Playwright for Early Detection
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Prompt Engineering a Playwright Test Results Dashboard
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The Power of Playwright's Locator Handler
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playwright-skill
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Some thoughts on locators in Playwright
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Take Screenshots with Playwright MCP - Effortless Documentation Creation
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Playwright Agents
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Episode 83: Playwright - with Debbie O'Brien
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Testing Made Easy: Debbie O'Brien Explains Playwright and its Game-Changing MCP Server
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Turn Your Playwright Traces Into Living Test Documentation
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A Beginner's Guide to Playwright Testing with JavaScript: 4- A Deep Dive into Playwright Assertions
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Playwright Parallelism: Why the Playwright sharding approach speeds up test execution over workers?
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Hands on Automated Testing with Playwright is the start of a wonderful conversation with the Playwright community!
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Investigating AI: Playwright-Test-Planner and Playwright-Test-Generator
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Running a root cause analysis only addresses half of the problem. Instead of asking, why did we miss this? Ask, why didnât we think of this?  Fixing a process or writing a missing automat...
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Thinking in testing: Are we missing the questions we should be asking
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Thinking in testing: Are we missing the questions we should be asking
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The Ministry of Testingâs Test.Bash() event on the 28th of October 2021 was a brilliant event, as was to be expected. Despite not being originally scheduled, after a little nudge from yours truly, ...
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I'll test in live: Testing song
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I'll test in live: Testing song
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Published in September 2022, this was written as a 99-second talk. Posting it makes me think I should do another for MoTaCon. We will see.Â
The Meaning of TestBash
T is for us testers, who tra...
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The meaning of TestBash
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The meaning of TestBash
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AI Chapter
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Everyday AI Coding: Skills & Plugins in a Tester's Workflow
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I didn't realise how many of these I did in 2019! A bit rushed but less shaky. This poem was performed at Test.Bash() Manchester at their 99-second talks. Go to 9:20 to hear me perform it. Th...
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Disabled by their environment - Test.Bash() Manchester 2019
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Disabled by their environment - Test.Bash() Manchester 2019
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OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack
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Handling async timing issues in tests using Playwright
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Testing earlier pays off when it means questioning earlier too.
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Doing shift-left right: Start thinking and learning early in the development cycle
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Doing shift-left right: Start thinking and learning early in the development cycle
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Doing shift-left right: Start thinking and learning early in the development cycle
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Doing shift-left right: Start thinking and learning early in the development cycle
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How do you draw a stick person and how does that relate to QE?
Deborah Reid
Lead Test Engineer
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As a Lead Test Engineer, with 15 years experience, Deborah specialises in quality engineering, risk management, and scaling test strategies.
Over the years, she has spearheaded quality operations for major international expansions, including multi-region deployments and scaled QE to support expanding product domains. Most recently, she's focused on driving shift-left quality practices and automation.
She is deeply passionate about fostering a quality-first culture that balances speed with stability. Her approach centres on pragmatic automation - leveraging tools like Cypress where they add maximum ROI, paired with targeted exploratory testing to safeguard complex user journeys.
She also has a passion for accessibility testing and has written a course on the topic https://www.ministryoftesting.com/courses/introduction-to-accessibility-testing?s_id=19046932
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