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Emily O'Connor
Principal Quality Engineer
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Automation-savvy QE with a sixth sense for bugs. Avid learner and reader interested in decoding dev-speak to enable engineering teams. I believe good software starts with user-focused problem solving.
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Contract Testing workshop is packed!
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During this talk at Test Bash 2025, Joep mention a zero bug policy. Simply put, if we can live with it forever, forget about it, if you can't, fix it right away.
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Thank you Stuart!! Have learned a lot from our chat and I feel more confident in taking the next steps in introducing quality engineering at work!! ✨
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"👏 Great talk, much more useful than “yeah… we already have a bug for that …in the backlog”"
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Yesterday I gave my first 99-second talk at my first MoTaCon on disaster management! When things have gone completely wrong, remember:
- We know: Share the facts, without speculation but also wi...
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Before: Works on my machine
After: How can we improve consistency of our environments, and portability of our code
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Glad to be in this learning opportunity around Contract Testing with Marie Cruz and Lewis Prescott.
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TestBash coffee break…
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Glad to be in this learning opportunity around Contract Testing with Marie Cruz and Lewis Prescott.
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Thank you for talking about the feelings of mourning a role. Redundancy is a beast.
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Thank you for acknowledging wiggley careers and the feelings of finding yourself in “leadership”.
awarded Heleen Van Grootven for:
Awesome 99 second talk! Actionable, relatable, awesome 😎
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Loving the treasure hunt today at TestBash!
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Had the pleasure of pairing and working with Ben Dowen
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Nice talk Ben! Hopefully you consider me one of your critical friends.I love the way you use your own emojis and showcase how far through your presentation the audience is, but the “feedback” wave was asked for with too little notice!
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Amazing workshop underway at MotaCon25 with Stu Day and David Noorshargh. Really looking forward this one.
awarded Jitesh Gosai for:
I appreciate the way you describe the role of a Principal Quality Engineer - it helps me to explain the role of testing outside that of specific user stories.Great talk as always 👏
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Making registration easy: Understanding the complexities of online forms
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Reveal the surprising number of bugs hidden in online forms that cause many companies to get the basics wrong
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Spear Vishing
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Definitions of Spear Phishing
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Vishing
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Definitions of Vishing
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Social Engineering
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Definitions of Social Engineering
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Phishing
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Definitions of Phishing
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Excellent talk at Test Up North on making CVs more personal through impact statements.
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Senior Test Analyst - Automation - AQA
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Milton Keynes
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QA Automation Engineer - payset
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Remote (Europe)
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Zero-Day Vulnerability
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Definitions of Zero-Day Vulnerability
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QA Analyst - Booker (Tesco)
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Wellingborough, Northamptonshire
awarded Sunitha Kadirvel for:
It can be a challenge to start learning automation! Congrats for earning your a certificate in test automation!
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Lead QA Engineer - 12 Month FTC - Genomics England
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Cambridge, Leeds, London, UK
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Automation Engineer On The Beach
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Manchester, UK
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Senior QA Engineer - Animal Friends Pet Insurance
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Software Test Engineer - TympaHealth (Fixed Term Contract?)
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London, Greater London
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Doing this certification was cool, haha!! I'm Software Testing Essentials Certified (STEC) !!
Thanks guys, for creating an opportunity to contribute to this certificate. Got to know a lot of "ho...
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Bug congrats on becoming MoT-STEC qualified! 🎉
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About Me:
I’m coming from Germany.
My role is: Junior Test Automation Engineer
I'm super interested in and would love to talk to: Basics in automation, all things in testing, ADHD.
I'm coming t...
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Awarded for successfully passing the MoT Software Testing Essentials Certification
awarded Maaike Brinkhof for:
I’ve just watched your course on Cognitive Biases in Software Testing and found it really informative ✨
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