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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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The results are in! Test Atelier AI industry analysis.
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The results are in! Test Atelier AI industry analysis.
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The results are in! Test Atelier AI industry analysis.
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The results are in! Test Atelier AI industry analysis.
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Yesterday, at Leeds Testing Atelier, I presented some slides around the use of AI (as a tool) to enable automation. After defining automation vs test automation and AI (technology that enables comp...
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2.3.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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Emily kicks off track one
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Test automation isn’t that hard: Leeds Atelier
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Test automation isn’t that hard: Leeds Atelier
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Test automation isn’t that hard: Leeds Atelier
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Emily kicks off track one
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Teaching Claude why
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The reality of QA today is complicated. AI accelerates code generation and simultaneously dismantles the QA strategies most teams rely on. The risk isn't that AI replaces the engineer. It's that AI...
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QA was built for human speed. AI broke it.
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QA was built for human speed. AI broke it.
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QA was built for human speed. AI broke it.
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Thanks for having me on Software Testing Live!
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5.2.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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A tester’s guide to AI guardrails
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Identify, test and improve AI guardrails through a structured, scenario-based framework that addresses common implementation failures and attack patterns.
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Team Lead, QA
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Remote, UK and US
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Software Developer in Test
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London, England, United Kingdom
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Not Your Average User
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You cannot claim a system is or uses "Responsible AI" just because there is a human button-pusher. If the system is designed to move faster than that human can think, how do you prevent your busine...
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Human in the Loop (HITL) wanted...
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Human in the Loop (HITL) wanted...
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This Week in Quality
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This Week in Quality
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Share your week’s highlights, challenges, and lessons in quality
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Joined Software Testing Live chapter
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Senior QA Engineer
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Remote, UK
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5.2.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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QA Lead
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Reigate, England, United Kingdom, RH2
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2.3.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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2.3.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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5.2.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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2.3.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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My Story Chart
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Finding test cases in acceptance criteria
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Finding test cases in acceptance criteria
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Software Testing Live: Episode 07 - Testing transparently
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Software Testing Live: Episode 06 - Don't automate everything, review everything
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Software Testing Live: Episode 06 - Don't automate everything, review everything
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Software Testing Live: Episode 06 - Don't automate everything, review everything
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2.3.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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