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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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Thanks for participating in the chat during TWiQ.
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Thank you Neil for joining This Week in Quality, sharing your quality week, wins and being active member of community.
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25 years ago, I started my career in IT, learning coding the old-fashioned way — through teachers, libraries, and physical books, practicing on a computer.
15 years ago, learning shifted online. I...
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Thanks for joining the stage at This Week in Quality. Bug congrats! Good to hear from you.
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Thanks for being a great host today.
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It was great to hear what you had to say on 'This week in quality', thank you for getting up onto the stage. Without people like you we would all be sat there in silence.
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And her cheeky-ness is contagious.
We had so much fun with Veerle as a host of MoTaCon25
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Stuart Thomas did what was, we believe, his first real on stage talk.
Bug congrats, and here's a memory of it to last you a life time.
You can now learn from Stuart: "How we introduced quali...
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Veerle and Gwen hosting at MoTaCon, they are a great duo!
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Got this businesscard from Mark Benson at TestBash, truly living up to his Creative Technologist label. Complete with five test cases to figure out and a hidden easter egg that can only found after...
is Open to Meet at MoTaCon 2026
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Previously known as TestBash, MoTaCon is the new name for our annual conference. It's where quality people gather.
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It's been a pleasure to have Preeti involved and growing in the MoTaverse over the past year.
Here she is doing a 99 second talk on the big MoTaCon stage.
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02/10/25, Brighton.
I loved chatting with Bonnie Poole at MoTaCon. We caught up early on day 2 before it all got busy. Here's us in The Brighton Dome Corn Exchange.
We had a good old chit-c...
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"The biggest effect is that when you see is when other team members start taking quality into account during the process. The first time that a developer went to the sprint planning and was like, h...
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Celebrate the creativity and courage of testers and quality engineers as they share stories, lessons, and ideas in just 99 seconds.
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This badge is awarded to a member who has given a 99 second talk.
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99 Second Talks – Day 2 – TestBash Brighton/MoTaCon 2025
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Celebrate the creativity and courage of testers and quality engineers as they share stories, lessons, and ideas in just 99 seconds.
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MoTaCon 2025 – Community
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17/10/25, across the globe, a live episode of This Week in Quality.
We must take all opportunities to boundary test. 😃
Thanks to everyone who showed up today to help us continue our producti...
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I spent a week in beautiful Wales with the family.
But I couldn't keep Bug off my mind.
It's been an intense year and this was a much needed de-compression. I was holding it together, and now...
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Met demi for the first time in person.
It was nice to meet her and know about her experience at this conference. Also, heard good feedback about her talk from others.
It was her first time sp...
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"It was great to meet and chat to you in person at MoTaCon Rahul. "
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It's always a pleasure to meet people who you have known through social media and online world in person.
It was nice meeting you, Neil and talking to you about Ai and other things.
Thanks f...
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Meeting Neil Taylor IRL
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It's always a pleasure to meet people who you have known through social media and online world in person.
It was nice meeting you, Neil and talking to you about Ai and other things.
Thanks f...
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Must click to capture Brighton Dome where people come from all over world to attend MoT conference. Great opportunity to meet and know each other with testing passion and mindset
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02/10/25.
It's Thursday. The time is 16:03. It's Day 2 of MoTaCon. And I've never seen the 99-Second Talks queue grow so quickly. And even after this photo more people turned up.
Such is the...
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"Thanks Simon. The first post should be there now:
https://musicandtesting.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/motacon-2025-the-conference"
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MoTaCon 2025 - The Conference
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Very much enjoyed our in-person chats at MoTaCon, Neil. 🙌🏻I look forward to finding more ways to collaborate.
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You meet friends you’ve only known online, bump into awesome strangers you’d never meet otherwise, and finally take that legendary Epic Test Quest team photo together!
Big smiles, good chats, an...
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Big thanks to everyone who supported us through this wild year of building Epic Test Quest from early interviews to testing our prototypes and giving us honest feedback.
It was amazing to meet so ...
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"It was a pleasure to meet and chat with you Aaron. "
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Was great to catch up and chat in person. Thank you for your support over the last year and at MoTaCon! 😀
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Gwen & Veerle preparing the day-two-intro, practicing System of a Down on a Glockenspiel
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The power of number 99 in Motaverse. I Did my 99-secs talks at London MoT meet-up and MoTaCon(former Test Bash) but the real reward has been the awesome people I have met along the way while achiev...
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Relecting on MoTaCon 2025
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Relecting on MoTaCon 2025
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My first cup of coffee in my new MoTaverse mug!
The perfect way to reflect on two awesome days at this years MoTaCon whilst starting to write a blog about my experience. There is so much to ref...
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My first cup of coffee in my new MoTaverse mug!
The perfect way to reflect on two awesome days at this years MoTaCon whilst starting to write a blog about my experience. There is so much to ref...
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I've listened to Demi hosting TWiQ a number of times and she has always had very interesting things to say. So I wasn't go to miss her talk on Starting Continuous Quality. It was brilliant, loads o...
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My first MotaCon/TestBash and my first 99-second talk. So proud to have put something together and found the courage to get up on stage.
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The duo was superb - the way they took the stage, engaged the audience, announced the end of 99 secs after each 99 secs talk and many more.... loved their vibes.
Captured their instrument as well ...
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You gave an excellent talk this afternoon Ben!
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