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Emily O'Connor
Principal Quality Engineer
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Technical leader with a sixth sense for bugs. Avid learner, passionate about translating "dev-speak" to enable teams adopt automation and AI-accelerated quality engineering. I believe great software starts with user-focused problem solving, and automation should surface the bugs that PMs actually care about fixing.
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Our printed version of The Testing Planet has a center spread of 'spot the difference' and this year it was inspired, supported and created with the wonderful Emily O'Connor
Here she is at MoTaC...
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Cognitive Dissonance
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Confirmation Bias
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Cognitive Bias
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Error
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TORCH Technique
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Page Object Model (POM)
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MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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This badge is awarded to a member who has given a 99 second talk.
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99 Second Talks – Day 2 – TestBash Brighton/MoTaCon 2025
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Celebrate the creativity and courage of testers and quality engineers as they share stories, lessons, and ideas in just 99 seconds.
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The fabulous Emily on stage
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The fabulous Emily on stage - 99 seconds talk
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This badge is awarded to members who complete the Cognitive biases in software testing course.
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They just kept turning up!
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02/10/25.
It's Thursday. The time is 16:03. It's Day 2 of MoTaCon. And I've never seen the 99-Second Talks queue grow so quickly. And even after this photo more people turned up.
Such is the...
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Thanks for going above and beyond in September 2025. Your community contributions create sparks and support many good things. 🤩
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THANK YOU
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Big thanks to everyone who supported us through this wild year of building Epic Test Quest from early interviews to testing our prototypes and giving us honest feedback.
It was amazing to meet so ...
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It’s a good job Rutherford P Dog can’t read.
He is not normally a massive fan of post(persons)
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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 als...
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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”.
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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.
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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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