Deborah Reid | Activities
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Are your AI efforts good enough?
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Are your AI efforts good enough?
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Are your AI efforts good enough?
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How do you draw a stick person and how does that relate to QE?
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How do you draw a stick person and how does that relate to QE?
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Lesson 2 of Introduction To Accessibility Testing
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Lesson 1 of Introduction To Accessibility Testing
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When AI Gives Everyone the Same Answer
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Memes communicate. This meme, made by AJ Wilson, made me laugh and helped me to understand how others might view my work. It was a pleasant surprise to see this in the MoTaverse Slack channel. And,...
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Seeing yourself through someone else's eyes
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Seeing yourself through someone else's eyes
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Seeing yourself through someone else's eyes
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On the train home after speaking at Birmingham DevOps last night, Iāve been thinking about why Iāve started to love getting back into public speaking. It is not really the technology itself anymore...
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When a technical demo becomes something more
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When a technical demo becomes something more
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What does responsible AI adoption actually look like? We're bringing people together in London to find out
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Join us for our first Leading with AI event
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Test data driven development
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Discover how to implement a data-first development methodology that ensures quality in analytics and reporting features without the need for dedicated testers
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āAsk donāt assumeā
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Test accessibility without being an expert YoyTube
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Last week I was feeling positive and excited for AI.And then last night I was feeling meh about it.I recognised this is a pattern for me. That goes round and round. A constant mood change. Exciteme...
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Yay AI. Meh AI.
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Yay AI. Meh AI.
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Stunned to see I have reached 2,500 community stars from the MoTaverse. Thank you, everyone, for thanking me, completing my lessons, reading my articles and encouraging me every day to do more.Ā
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Wow! 2,500 Community Stars
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Wow! 2,500 Community Stars
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Grey box testing sounds rather innocuous, but it has a special place. It's the 100th term I've added to the glossary. Help create the largest testing terminology repository in the world for the MoT...
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100 terms added to the Glossary
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100 terms added to the Glossary
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AI Guardrails in one sentence, thanks to James Pearce.
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What are AI guardrails?
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What are AI guardrails?
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What are AI guardrails?
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"I remember this!"
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Yesterday I bought a new journal to write down my daily reflections.Ā One of my questions I am going to answer is what I learned today.Ā In the past I have found this very useful to insti...
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Today I learned..
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Influence, from the other side of the table
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What I learned about influence by becoming a stakeholder
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How does Wimbledon relate to success in QE?
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How does Wimbledon relate to success in QE?
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AI Chapter
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From ad-hoc prompting to Agentic Engineering: Latest trends in AI
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How does Wimbledon relate to success in 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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