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Neil Taylor
Lead Quality Engineer
I've been testing for 20+ years with experience in Exploratory Testing and tools such as CI/CD, Bruno and Postman. I'm a self-taught pianist and enjoy writing and recording my own music.
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Friction has a complex relationship with quality
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Friction has a complex relationship with quality
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Friction has a complex relationship with quality
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"Thank you both for sharing your conversation. The whole topic of the friction that can restrict and holds us back within a development team is definately worth exploring more. For me the biggest challenges I find are around the cognitive impact of to..."
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Also, what happens when you ask quality people for feedback?
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Playing to your strengths to navigate a quality engineering job market
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Playing to your strengths to navigate a quality engineering job market
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Playing to your strengths to navigate a quality engineering job market
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Playing to your strengths to navigate a quality engineering job market
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Friday, 20 February 2026 TWIQ Nadja was quite rightly complementing Ady on his singing skills. Let it be known that Nadja can kick out a tune too at an impromptu MoTacon Karaoke! Alas I don't have ...
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MoTacon Singers
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MoTacon Singers
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MoTacon Singers
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Recognise the common signs of burnout, and explore practical strategies for seeking support and rebuilding well-being
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Burnout: A personal experience report
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Burnout: A personal experience report
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Burnout: A personal experience report
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Burnout: A personal experience report
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Sigh + AI = sAIghIt's that feeling and action when you let out a big sigh about AI.The sigh often happens when AI:- is overly positive- not listening- clearly wrong- wasting your time- AI is halluc...
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sAIgh
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This Week in Quality
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"Thank you for sharing this Adam.
Some while ago I moved to recording testing sessions using VS Code and Markdown format (I like it as it works quite easily for screenshots and console output) and I've never quite settled on the categories to include i..."
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Simon recently sent out a challenge to spend ten minutes exploring the MoT My Reports page. It seemed like a good excuse to try out my new exploratory testing template, so I decided to give it a go...
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Exploring My Reports
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Exploring My Reports
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Exploring My Reports
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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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Thanks for sharing your thoughts, feedback and observations about the My Reports feature. It's much appreciated.
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Thanks for taking the My Reports charter challenge. We're glad you continue to enjoy the pop up challenges. 😃
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Yesterday was a good day. I participated in my first talk with the Automation Guild 2026. On the same day, the MoT Ambassadors were announced. I'm one of those people on that list. During my talk, ...
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Yesterday was a good day.
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Yesterday was a good day.
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Loved recording the 404 talk for the SQEC Certification module on Monitorability, Observability, Testability. It was great to think about how these often forgotten areas of quality can be so impact...
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Monitorability, Observability, Testability
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Monitorability, Observability, Testability
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On a usual Sunday morning, you wake up, maybe with a cup of tea, and open a news portal just to see what is happening in the world. Within minutes, you find yourself reading article after article s...
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Sunday Morning With AI
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Sunday Morning With AI
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10 ideas on putting care at the heart of quality engineering practices
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Quality is Care
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Quality is Care
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Once I was doing what I do best and exploring a product and I decided to see what happens when I have a lot of concurrent users running on the system. So I started performing this test in a stagin...
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Production 404 - Taking down Production by Accident
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Production 404 - Taking down Production by Accident
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This is Quality | BBC
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Joined MoT Brighton chapter
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"Thank you for writing this article, as Gary mentioned many of us are no doubt facing similar challenges in our roles so its great you have explored this topic in detail. I certainly can identify with the challenge of too much context switching, it is e..."
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