Deborah Reid | Activities
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The quirky little bug that taught me a valuable testing lesson
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AI can't care
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Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland app users hit by outage
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How does driving relate to digital accessibility?
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How does sitting in traffic relate to QE and exploratory testing?
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How does yoga relate to goal setting?
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Vibe coding, agentic engineering or coding, conversational programming, and others are terms for using AI (Artificial Intelligence, not actual intelligence) to create code, products and systems. Th...
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Prediction: AI will make accessibility worse
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Prediction: AI will make accessibility worse
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We are very excited to announce René as a speaker at MoTaCon!Imagine a bug in your test suite quietly correcting its own behaviour before you even touch the code. For René, this wasn't a glitch in ...
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🖖 The curious case of the self correcting bug
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🖖 The curious case of the self correcting bug
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🖖 The curious case of the self correcting bug
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I believe this was TestBash Brighton 2016.If I recall correctly Deborah Reid did a 99 second poem, I could be wrong.In the back I recognise Emma Keaveny, Neil Taylor and Maaret Pyhäjärvi.Long live ...
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Throwback Wednesday: Deborah Reid 99 Seconds at TestBash Brighton
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Throwback Wednesday: Deborah Reid 99 Seconds at TestBash Brighton
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Throwback Wednesday: Deborah Reid 99 Seconds at TestBash Brighton
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Throwback Wednesday: Deborah Reid 99 Seconds at TestBash Brighton
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Throwback Wednesday: Deborah Reid 99 Seconds at TestBash Brighton
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"Omg what a blast from the past. I think I wrote something around you wouldn't exclude people for being ginger or being bald, so why exclude women or something."
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Coming all the way from New York to Brighton, we're very happy to announce that Susanne Abdelrahman will be joining us at MoTaCon to answer this head-on in her talk: Can we actually co-own quality?...
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🖖 Can we actually co-own quality?
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🖖 Can we actually co-own quality?
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🖖 Can we actually co-own quality?
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As almost half of 2026 has passed, I'm stepping into a new chapter of my journey: mentoring.
Mentorship has always been on my mind, but I never really had the opportunity to take it up before. This...
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Still learning. Now mentoring too.
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Still learning. Now mentoring too.
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Throwback Wednesday: Deborah Reid 99 Seconds at TestBash Brighton
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Throwback Wednesday: Deborah Reid 99 Seconds at TestBash Brighton
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Throwback Wednesday: Deborah Reid 99 Seconds at TestBash Brighton
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Throwback Wednesday: Deborah Reid 99 Seconds at TestBash Brighton
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I believe this was TestBash Brighton 2016.If I recall correctly Deborah Reid did a 99 second poem, I could be wrong.In the back I recognise Emma Keaveny, Neil Taylor and Maaret Pyhäjärvi.Long live ...
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Explore how quality engineering extends beyond traditional testing
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How is Quality Engineering different from testing?
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How is Quality Engineering different from testing?
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A look at what the people are saying about quality engineering
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Is quality engineering just software engineering?
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Is quality engineering just software engineering?
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Claude Code Security plugin is reported to cut security-related comments on pull requests by 30 to 40%
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Security is shifting left into the coding session itself
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Security is shifting left into the coding session itself
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Looking at my 1year of GitHub graph, I see periods of consistency, periods of silence, and a lot of starting again.
Which is probably the most honest representation of my learning journey so ...
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The only thing I'm consistent with is inconsistency.
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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