Conference Speakers

Known for his efforts to promote continuous testing, Wayne Ariola has contributed to the design of many innovative technologies and received several patents for his inventions. A recognized leader on topics such as service virtualization, SOA and API quality, software quality governance, and application security, Wayne is a frequent contributor...Read more

Richard Bender has more than forty-five years experience in software with a primary focus on quality assurance and testing. He has consulted internationally to large and small corporations, government agencies, and the military. Richard’s work has included a wide variety of application classes and technology bases from embedded systems to...Read more

Michael Bolton is a consulting software tester and testing teacher who helps people solve testing problems that they didn’t realize they could solve. He is the co-author (with senior author James Bach) of Rapid Software Testing, a methodology and mindset for testing software expertly and credibly in uncertain conditions and...Read more

Marc has over 25 years of technology leadership experience and extensive knowledge of software development and testing technologies. His expertise and experience covers a broad spectrum of areas, including software development, architecture, product management, and customer engagement. He has led product management, portfolio operations, and product, solutions, and corporate marketing...Read more

Originally focused on becoming an accountant, Marcia Buzzella shifted gears and twenty years ago applied her passion for quality and details to the art of software testing. She is now the testing practice leader at CSAA Insurance Group, where she manages the creation and maintenance of testing standards, builds trusted...Read more

Melissa Chawla manages a software development team at Guidewire. For the previous five years, she managed the test infrastructure and performance engineering teams at Shutterfly. Prior to that, Melissa held software development positions at startups in the high performance computing storage and development tools software industries. She worked in the...Read more

With more than forty years of experience as an information systems professional at commercial and nonprofit organizations, Lee Copeland has held technical and managerial positions in applications development, software testing, and software process improvement. At TechWell, Lee has developed and taught numerous training courses on software development and testing issues,...Read more

Mike Duskis got his test automation start in 1997 using Rational Robot on a multimedia interleaving product. Through the years, he rotated through testing, development, and test management roles for industries ranging from higher education to medical devices but rarely drifted far from the source code. He currently plays test...Read more

Jon Fetrow has fifteen years of experience in healthcare-related software focused on testing, process, and quality. He has led and mentored team members in test automation, test strategy, and agile processes by applying best practices and methodologies to continually improve testing. In his five years with Olympus Corporation of the...Read more

Cher Fox (@TheDatanista) brings thirty years of experience as a solution architect, developer, tester, and analyst for business intelligence, data warehouse, and software development industries. Her experience includes more than twenty-five years of training corporate users on IT applications and business processes. A board member for the Colorado...Read more

At American Family Insurance Byron Glick is part of the I/S quality engineering team, delivering software quality assurance, people advantages, and practice transformation. His passion is helping technologists deliver greater value to their organizations and constituents. Byron led the first campus-wide ISP for the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the first...Read more

In software testing for more than forty years, Dorothy Graham is coauthor of four books—Software Inspection, Software Test Automation, Foundations of Software Testing, and Experiences of Test Automation—and is currently working with Seretta Gamba on a test automation patterns wiki. A popular and entertaining speaker at conferences and seminars worldwide,...Read more

Dawn Haynes is CEO, testing coach, and consultant for PerfTestPlus, Inc. A highly regarded trainer of software testers, Dawn blends experience with a real-world view to provide testers with tools and techniques to help them generate new approaches to common and complex software testing problems. Passionate about improving the state...Read more

Brian Hicks is a software engineer, development manager, and technical architect with over 15 years of hands-on experience designing and developing software using core Java, web services, and related technologies in both the commercial and public sectors. He is also a Certified ScrumMaster® and has experience implementing agile processes, leading...Read more

An Open Group Master Certified IT specialist in application development, Marianne Hollier has strong, practical expertise in measurably improving the software development lifecycle and driving the necessary cultural changes to make it work. Marianne is instrumental in architecting, tailoring, and deploying best practices and appropriate software development tools on many...Read more

QA department head at Baaz, Inc., Talal Ibdah has more than seven years of experience and knowledge covering the areas of e-business performance optimization and quality engineering, release management, leadership, test automation, strategic data analysis, social media marketing, as well as project management, progress monitoring, and performance KPI tracking. Talal...Read more

Sreekala Kalidindi is a senior software test engineer and certified Scrum Master, currently working with E-gineering, LLC, a custom software solutions company based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Sreekala has been manually testing software products for over twelve years and has been doing so within regulated industries for the past four years....Read more

Tariq King is the director of quality engineering at Ultimate Software. With more than fifteen years of experience in software testing research and practice, Tariq provides technical leadership, people leadership, strategic direction, and staff training in software quality and test engineering. He has previously held positions of test manager, test...Read more

Software engineer Julie Lebo has more than eight years of test engineering experience, which began when, as a student, she developed her interest in and appreciation for finding bugs and solving problems. After graduation, Julie became a software developer and quickly became the lead test engineer for a software development...Read more

Wilson Mar has been building and bringing enterprise applications to market on major platforms—from mobile to server clouds—as an architect, developer, performance tester, and manager. His website (wilsonmar.github.io) provides concise, in-depth advice on leading technologies. For the last 3 years, Wilson has been refining his training techniques on...Read more

Daria Mehra has been a bug huntress in the SF Bay Area since the roaring 2000s. Her software development background in distributed systems prepared her for the challenges of testing SaaS and appliance products in data storage space and, more recently, web-based data analytics. As a director of quality engineering,...Read more

Paul Merrill is Principle Software Engineer in Test and Founder of Beaufort Fairmont Automated Testing Services. Paul works with clients every day to accelerate testing, reduce risk, and increase the efficacy of testing processes. He helps teams automate...Read more

Chief technology officer and cofounder of LeanDog, Jeff “Cheezy” Morgan has been teaching classes and coaching teams on agile and lean techniques for twelve years. Most of his work has focused on the engineering practices used by developers and testers. For the past few years, he has experienced great success...Read more

Umang Nahata is a senior system test engineer with Progressive Insurance, where he applies architectural, technical, and process knowledge to deliver software assets that add value by increasing the breadth, coverage, and speed of testing. He has an inquisitive spirit and researches new approaches, tools, and techniques to solve complex...Read more

Jaimee Newberry brings industry leadership and experience gained from advising C-level and senior management teams at startups, agencies, and Fortune 500 companies to her role as COO at MartianCraft. Her insight, practices, and a personal ecology have proven to elevate the culture, processes, and product quality of high-performance software design...Read more

For the past three years, Meher Nori has been global head for quality assurance at Broadridge Financial Solutions. He has introduced methods to measure quality using metrics and has coauthored three publications/presentations in the areas of performance testing, Big Data testing, and mobile testing. Previously, Meher worked in strategy, program...Read more

A software professional with testing emphasis, Maaret Pyhäjärvi considers herself an empirical technologist, a tester and a programmer, a catalyst for improvement, and a speaker. Maaret’s day job is working with a software product development team as a hands-on testing specialist with focus on exploratory testing. In addition to tester...Read more

At Mutual of Omaha Bambi Rands is a quality assurance lead with a focus on mobile testing. Leveraging her prior experience on the business side of insurance, she has spent the past fifteen years creating testing solutions in roles of business analyst, consultant, trainer, and quality assurance lead. With real-world...Read more

Director of product management Amir Rozenberg is responsible for core product strategy at Perfecto Mobile, the leading digital cloud and test automation company. Amir pioneered mobile quality practices at Perfecto to extend the service across the application lifecycle. He has extensive experience in the digital industry with expertise in areas...Read more

Rob Sabourin, P. Eng., has more than thirty-three years of management experience leading teams of software development professionals. A highly-respected member of the software engineering community, Rob has managed, trained, mentored, and coached hundreds of top professionals in the field. He frequently speaks at conferences and writes on software engineering,...Read more

Jennifer Scandariato serves as the test engineering director and leads the Women in Technology initiative at iCIMS. She has more than twenty-one years of experience in developing technical solutions to drive growth and profitability while increasing customer satisfaction through high quality and overall engineering effectiveness. Jennifer is a frequent keynote...Read more

Craig Schwarzwald has more than a decade of professional scripting and automation experience. For the past six years he has focused on creating and maintaining the Selenium framework used by hundreds of testers, developers, and automation engineers at a large financial organization. Widely regarded as his company’s Selenium expert, Craig...Read more

Tom Stiehm is a 20 year veteran of the Information Technology industry. He has spent the past 10 years managing, designing and implementing software products and applications using agile software development methods. Prior to Coveros, Tom held a variety of CTO and architect positions at software development companies. Tom is...Read more

Chief storyteller of The Three Pillars of Agile Testing and Quality, Mary Thorn is director of agile practices at Ipreo in Raleigh, NC. Mary has a broad agile and testing background that spans automation, data warehouses, and web-based systems in a wide variety of technologies and testing techniques. During her...Read more

Vincent Truong has eighteen years of hands-on experience in globalization quality engineering. He is a globalization quality engineering manager at VMware and has been managing the QE efforts for VMware products under the cloud management business unit (CMBU) for five years. He serves as a globalization program manager, helping drive...Read more