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Emily O'Connor
Principal Quality Engineer
She/Her
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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Two ways to use the “5 whys” method: Root cause of bugs and identifying continuous improvements
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Apply the "5 Whys" technique to both technical debugging and organisational workflows to uncover deep-seated root causes and implement sustainable continuous improvements.
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Write an agents.md file that improves AI-created test output and can be used for review before PR
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How to write automation that represents issues PMs would care about fixing
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New article on The Quality Forge: "The Witness Stand" - about mapping classical testing principles onto agentic systems to build trust in agent outputs
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Thanks for the Moments feature suggestion Emily!
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Write an agents.md file that improves AI-created test output and can be used for review before PR
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The Cognitive Pitfalls of Code: Developer Biases We Must Confront
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AI and Testing: Scaling Tests
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AI and Testing: Evaluation and DeepEval
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*Generative AI is experimental*
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Member visited Book: Unmasking AI
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Test Lead
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Derby, UK
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Senior Software Engineer in Quality Engineering
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London / Remote, UK
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Principal QA Engineer
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Manchester, UK
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Senior QA Manager
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London, UK
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8.3.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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13.4.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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Live from the MoTaverse, it's Software Testing Live!
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8.3.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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This Week in Quality
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I first met Emily when we sat next to each other at PeersCon25. I was nervous as I was about to give one of my first conference talks on a work topic. She made me feel at ease and has every time we have met since. Emily has made a me feel a home in several spaces when I may not have done. Thank you for being yourself! I'm glad that we met.
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Live from the MoTaverse, it's Software Testing Live!
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How to write automation that represents issues PMs would care about fixing
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Thank you for all your great and insightful contributions to the MoTaverse <3
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Live from the MoTaverse, it's Software Testing Live!
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Thanks for having me on Software Testing Live!
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Write an agents.md file that improves AI-created test output and can be used for review before PR
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How to write automation that represents issues PMs would care about fixing
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5.2.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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Live from the MoTaverse, it's Software Testing Live!
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Kudos for co-hosting your first Software Testing Live. Your skills using agentic tools to write playwright test, and your critical thinking we could use to review the output, was simply awesome. Well done.
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2.3.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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How to write automation that represents issues PMs would care about fixing
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Thanks for having me on Software Testing Live!
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How to write automation that represents issues PMs would care about fixing
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Live from the MoTaverse, it's Software Testing Live!
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Live from the MoTaverse, it's Software Testing Live!
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How to make AI test for the risks that actually matter?
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Time to restore service
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Don't automate everything; review everything
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Don't let AI automate away your thinking, ensure you use the tool to create tests that represent features PMs care about fixing
awarded Cristina Lanca Carrageis for:
Stop delegating your thinking: Using 5 whys to check AI documentation
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Stop delegating your thinking: Using 5 whys to check AI documentation
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Monitoring
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