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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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Talk Nerdy to Me
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Upcoming event? Here's my tips to encourage top tier networking that goes beyond the usual "who are you and what do you do?"
Before you head out the door, wear something you'll WANT to be photog...
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Thanks for sharing lots of helpful advice, notes and reflections in the live chat during Episode 96 of TWiT. Great to see you mention so many good folks from the community.
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Thanks for sharing a job advert in the MoT Slack.
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We've been investing and expanding our MoT Meetups over the past year.
And it's really starting to show.
Just today, about 600 people are gathering in real life, across the MoTaverse in 4 dif...
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Simon, thank you for taking time out of the talks at SIGiST to support me and help me get to know you a little better. 💚
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For being eagle-eyed and being the first community member ever (outside of MoT staff) to award a community star to someone else.
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Once upon a time, I attended a Ministry of Testing event in Leeds, having no idea how large MoT were/are or the community I could unlock. Thank you for being my introduction to MoT and keeping the Leeds meetup running all these years.
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Pair programming
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Definitions of Pair programming
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This badge is awarded to members who confirm their tickets to TestBash Brighton 2025
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Post TestBash Meetup at Ohso Social
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Good times were had.
Here with Gwen Diagram, Kat Obring, Emily O'Connor and Ady Stokes.
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Mind the Gap (in your thinking) - My day at the British Computing Society in London
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Mind the Gap (in your thinking) - My day at the British Computing Society in London
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On Thursday 19th June, the British Computing Society (BCS) held their annual conference in London for the "Special Interest Group in Software Testing" (SIGiST).
This year I spoke at the conferen...
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On Thursday 19th June, the British Computing Society (BCS) held their annual conference in London for the "Special Interest Group in Software Testing" (SIGiST).
This year I spoke at the conferen...
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19/07/25 London.
Thanks to the SIGiST team for organising and running a lovely conference. Some solid talks about AI.
At the end of the day myself, Eamon, Ayesha, Andy, Jit and Bug had a de...
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Here's my TestBash 2025 intro:
I’m coming from: Begijnendijk, Belgium
My role is: Test engineer
I’d love to meet others who: love exploring everything testing and quality
I'm coming to ...
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There were so many great comments in the chat during The Awesome Power of Shifting Left.
I captured a few of them. Thanks everyone for you commentary contributions.
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What a great session, so many good insights and snippets, too many to log them all, but I very much enjoyed taking note of some of the words being used when talking about shifting left.
- What n...
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Thanks for sharing your ideas about improving the MoT membership page for someone with a professional membership. Plus, feedback about the new salaries feature. It's much appreciated.
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A year ago in York
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Does your phone have that feature where it highlights your photo memories? Here's one of mine!
In June 2024 at Ministry of Testing York, Sophie Weston presented her talk - Going Beyond DORA.
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This badge is awarded to members who choose to visibly support Pride on their Ministry of Testing profile.
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I'm listening to TWiT live and it's reminded me to post a memory about my week in testing (MWiT)
1️⃣ I'll start with something Judy said on TWiT about how community is a great place to practice....
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First Time Being a Co-Host for Ministry of Testing!
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I love podcasts. I've had the privilege of being on a few of them. Today was my first day co-hosting one! I was nervous, for sure, but once I settled in, made sure I had coffee in hand, and remembe...
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Don't worry! I'm a Tester Ep 94
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Catch up on This Week in Testing to hear how testers make progress while figuring things out, plus much more from across the MoTaverse.
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Nice one for amplifying Aj Wilson by sharing the story of how she helped one of your ex-colleagues.
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Thanks for sharing a job advert in the MoT Slack jobs channel.
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You can imagine my delight when I spotted this bloke in my local Waterstones bookstore.
"I'm a tester, can I get a photo of your t-shirt? It is so cool!"
"Sure, I'm a developer. My kids got me ...
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How can we effectively use asking questions to improve ourselves as testers?
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Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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At Peerscon this year, we had another RiskStorming Session to explore risks around an AI Coach.
The first two phases are know to be the most valuable:
1. What are high prio Quality Aspects?
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Using AI in Test Automation to Achieve Continuous Testing
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On the slide, Titus shows the audience the trends that he has identified in the testing industry. This photo was taken when he asked the audience; “how many people here have a role where their prim...
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That moment when RiskStorming explodes
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At Peerscon this year, we had another RiskStorming Session to explore risks around an AI Coach.
The first two phases are know to be the most valuable:
1. What are high prio Quality Aspects?
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I for one embrace this spelling mistake. It does the job (for now). It still delivers. Funny how we can get caught up in these quality loops and pick holes in things that aren't as important as we ...
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How it feels to find your first bug when you've just joined a company. There is nothing like being a pair of fresh eyes to see what everyone else is missing.
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A computer, and through it's screen we see a bug on a sofa, comfy with a drink in it's hand.
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I asked the bug what it was doing there.
It said "I live here now".
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Was a professional member in 2025
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Domestic abuse victim data stolen in Legal Aid hack
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What should the ratio of automated to exploratory testing be?
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Why are testers so good at delivering bad news? Ep 92
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Debrief the week in testing
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Thanks for sharing your idea for an addition to the "Open To ..." feature: Open To Give CV Feedback.
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Where's Bug and Cosmo? – No. 29
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