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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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Can you find Bug, Cosmo the Space Duck and Space Seagull?
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Exploratory testing
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Not Your Average User
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How to go from being a gatekeeper to being a quality coach
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At the Leeds Testing Atelier I spoke about how we, as testers, can go from being gatekeepers to being quality coaches. One of the practical suggestions was to facilitate a test planning workshop wi...
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Is vibe testing going to kill off test management? Ep 90
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Testers like to talk Ep 89
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Using an Agile definition of done to promote a quality culture
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What do people mean when they say "automation is a tool"?
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Where have all the junior quality roles gone? - Ep 83
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When the tester's away… the team can test anyway!
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This Week in Testing - Episode 50 - 5 July, 2024
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Thank you for being awesome and accepting my challenge to post a memory in the style of a micro-blog.
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Not Your Average User
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This week at Leeds Testing Atelier, I presented a talk designed to challenge assumptions made about the "average user" and highlight methods and questions to communicate these to development teams....
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This week at Leeds Testing Atelier, I presented a talk designed to challenge assumptions made about the "average user" and highlight methods and questions to communicate these to development teams....
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Thanks for sharing an idea to add an optional public location field on MoT profiles.
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Listen in as testers around the world share insights on AI, test management, and leading with quality in this packed episode of This Week in Testing.
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Leeds Testing Atelier memories
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The room was packed for Emily
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STEC in the sunshine!
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Testing your assumptions
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Where's Bug and Cosmo? – No. 26
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TestBash 2024 Photo Booth
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The wonderful TestBash 2024 ambassadors
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A great memory from Leeds Testing Atelier on 13 May 2025—thanks to sitting next to Lauren Borodajko , I ended up front and center in the picture during Emily O'Connor's insightful talk on "Testing ...
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Great to see Emily up on stage in a jam packed and overflowing room at Leeds Atelier.
Her talk was called: Testing your assumptions - you are not your customer.
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This snap from a sunny break at Leeds Testing Atelier captures just a few of the many brilliant contributors to the MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate (STEC).
In the pic are Gwen Diagra...
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Emily O’Connor’s talk at Leeds Testing Atelier was a great reminder that we’re not our customers and we shouldn't design or build as if we are.
She explored how small assumptions can quietly sha...
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Defintion of Done
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A candid, community-powered conversation for software testers and quality professionals on job hunting, writing impactful CVs, and growing careers through visibility and support.
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Coding Challenges Workshop - TestBash 2024
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Progressing in your testing career panel discussion
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"Can you even say a user story is 80% tested with automated tests and 20% with exploratory? 20% of what?" This is a great article by Gregory Paciga, full of brilliant reflections.
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Leeds, January 2025 meetup
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Leeds, January 2025 meetup
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The relationship between Exploratory Testing and Automated Tests
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Via the MoT Slack: QA Leaders this one’s for you.
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Discover how an Agile Definition of Done can promote shared ownership and incremental quality at every stage of the SDLC.
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Can you find Bug, Cosmo the Space Duck and Space Seagull?
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Emily O'Connor shares an idea for the CCC feature: As an MoT contributorI would like to be able to update my contribution submissionSo that the MoT team know I have recorded my 404 talk / drafted my articleAnd the call for contributions is kept upto date.
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