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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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Definitions of Monitoring
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Definitions of Time to restore service
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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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AGENTS.mdTitles must describe the expected user behaviour, written from the user's perspective:
test('As a user, I can create a new project', ...)
test('As a user, I can delete an existing client',...
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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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Write an agents.md file that improves AI-created test output and can be used for review before PR
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Writing an agents.md that outlines Playwright standards isn’t just documentation for its own sake—it directly improves how reliably and efficiently your automated agents (or test authors) behave.
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Thanks for having me on Software Testing Live!
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A printscreen taken from my VScode at the end of this evenings session, which provided an introduction to using Playwright Agents and Claude code to create a "happy path" guest checkout test.Someth...
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Member visited Book: Unmasking AI
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Book: Unmasking AI
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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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Live from the MoTaverse, it's Software Testing Live!
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Member visited Book: Unmasking AI
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Book: Unmasking AI
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Live from the MoTaverse, it's Software Testing Live!
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I featured your live STL Moment on the MoTaverse homepage, live, as it was happening! 😃
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Live from the MoTaverse, it's Software Testing Live!
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This badge is awarded to members who co-host a Software Testing Live session
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Amazing STL session!
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Thanks so much for running a Software Testing Live. Lots of super helpful insights for the audience. 🏆
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I am greatly enjoying watch you test! It's like, yes, this IS my job, I am doing it right
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Don’t automate everything, review everything
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"I'm In This Photo and I Don't Like It"
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Don’t automate everything, review everything
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Software Testing Live: Episode 06
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Power pairing our people process: How we moved to a collaborative QA Engineer and QA Analyst model
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Power pairing our people process: How we moved to a collaborative QA Engineer and QA Analyst model
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Making registration easy: Understanding the complexities of online forms
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Welcome, speak to you at Software Testing Live tomorrow!
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13.4.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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Quality Engineers do their best work when a team is forming
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Quality Engineers do their best work when a team is forming
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Quality Engineers do their best work when a team is forming
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Joined AI Chapter chapter
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The AI Chapter of the MoTaverse is a space to connect, explore and learn together on the topic of AI.
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AMA Leadership Answer - Do you have any book recommendations?
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AMA Leadership Answer - Do you have any book recommendations?
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AMA Leadership Answer - Do you have any book recommendations?
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Thanks for the question Emily!I remember being on a management course based on the book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey many years ago. The course was great and I absorbed all ...
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Mapping out Dark Code
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The price of mandatory code reviews
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