Deborah Reid | Activities
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Leading with AI at PwC
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How does yoga relate to goal setting?
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How does sitting in traffic relate to QE and exploratory testing?
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How does driving relate to digital accessibility?
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How do exploratory testing and intuitive debugging and link to Father's Day?
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How does making lunch connect with note taking in QE?
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How do shoelaces link to risk?
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How did leaving my phone at home inspire my first LinkedIn post on QE?
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Celebrating my 8 year work anniversary with another link to QE!
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How do gardening and dishwashers link to QE?
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How do gardening and dishwashers link to QE?
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Celebrating my 8 year work anniversary with another link to QE!
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Name Generator
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Dark Patterns
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4 Quick Ways to Build Your Alt Text Writing Skills
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Quality Engineer — Career Framework — Dropbox
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Making meetings work
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Alt Text: Not Always Needed
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Nobody cares
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Accessibility of emojis for list bullets – potential issues
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9 Key Accessibility Laws for Mobile Apps: What You Need to Know
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Mitigating Risk In Complexity
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AI will replace all coding
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Some testing related limericks
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Testing Limericks
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Testing Limericks
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Testing Limericks
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4 Lessons We Learned from Bringing AI to Our Company
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What Is API Mocking & How Does It Work?
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Beyond the test case: 5 Insights from Elisabeth Hendrickson’s ‘Explore It!’
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What Is Shift-Left Testing? And Why Most Teams Do It Wrong
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I asked 47 strangers to hold up their phones. A single camera found 44 of them in four minutes and the misses taught me more than the hits
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Hidden in plain sight: Hacking permissions through the URL
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Orchestrating AI-Native Testing with Playwright - C2 (Cost involved)
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Agentic AI
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Yes you can run exploratory testing with ai
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AI Prompts for Playwright: Getting the Most Out of Your AI Assistants
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Letting Playwright MCP Explore your site and Write your Tests
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Playwright v1.54.0 release notes
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Axe Accessibility Testing with Playwright + HTML Reports: The Complete Guide
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When not to use AI
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Here's a little note you can add when accepting an opportunity to speak at a conference:
"Thank you for the opportunity. I'm very happy to present, and I am happy to accept the invite. Th...
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A template note you can use when accepting to speak at a conference
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A template note you can use when accepting to speak at a conference
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A template note you can use when accepting to speak at a conference
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Loved recording the 404 talk for the SQEC Certification module on Monitorability, Observability, Testability. It was great to think about how these often forgotten areas of quality can be so impact...
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Monitorability, Observability, Testability
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Monitorability, Observability, Testability
Deborah Reid
Lead Test Engineer
she/her
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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