Conference Speakers

Melissa Benua has worked in nearly every software development role—dev, test, DevOps, and program management—at companies big and small and somewhere in-between. She's created and run high availability, high-quality services for PlayFab, Bing, Cortana, and Xbox One, and now for mParticle's enormous data platform. Melissa discovered her love of massively-scaled...Read more

Since he got his first computer at age thirteen, Kaushal Dalvi has been interested in systems and software performance. He spent days researching performance characteristics of different motherboards, CPUs, GPUs, RAM, and disks to configure and overclock them in order to squeeze the maximum frames per second out of the...Read more

Darrel Farris is a Solutions Engineering Manager at mabl, a low-code, intelligent test automation solution for quality engineering. As a former Senior Software Engineer in Test, he’s dedicated to helping software development teams at all stages of agile adoption master the tools, techniques, and skills needed to thrive in the...Read more

Peter has been working at EPAM since 2012 and moved to the USA in 2019 where he is working as a Test Automation Consultant. He has experience in mobile, web and desktop testing in all levels of test automation in the financial, gaming, fitness and other domains. Processes, architecture, code...Read more

Andreas Grabner has 20+ years of experience as a software developer, tester and architect and is an advocate for high-performing cloud scale applications. He started his career as a tester for a performance testing tool. He since moved on to monitoring, observability and site reliability. Over the past years Andi...Read more

Susan J. Harrington brings more than 25 years of software development experience serving as a consultant and mentor to clients including the Federal Reserve Bank, Sprint, Bell Atlantic (Verizon), Direct Energy, and MetaSolv Software (Oracle).  When she has not been on a client site, Susan has been in the classroom...Read more

Shay Hibler is a Software Quality Assurance Manager at NIPR where she provides QA Strategy and implements new QA practices. Shay has over 10 years of QA experience -specifically in Agile, Regression, Functional and Automation. Shay enjoys working within a team collaborating, leading teams, cross-training , mentoring, and implementing new...Read more

Marc Jimenez is a DevSecOps Architect at Dell Technologies. He has been in the Technology industry for over 18 years in a wide range of roles from SAN Integration Engineer to Software Engineer to DevSecOps and Site Reliability Engineer. Some of his responsibilities have varied from Scrum Master, Technical Team...Read more

Sherl John is the Senior Quality Architect at EPAM Systems, a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and software development services. She has ~17 years of experience in designing and implementing automation solutions for enterprise applications. Her areas of expertise include technical leadership, CI-CD, delivery, process set up, Microservice...Read more

Carlos Kidman is a Director of Engineering at an AI company, but was formerly an Engineering Manager at Adobe. He is also an instructor at Test Automation University with courses around architecture, design, containerization, and Machine Learning. He is the founder of QA at the Point, which is the Testing...Read more

Eran Kinsbruner is a bestselling author, TechBeacon Top 30 test automation leader, and the Chief Evangelist and Senior Director at Perforce Software. His published books include the 2016 Amazon bestseller, “The Digital Quality Handbook”, “Continuous Testing for DevOps Professionals”, and “Accelerating Software Quality – ML and AI in the Age...Read more

Chris Loder, a QA Automation Manager at Upland Software, is an automation enthusiast to the core. His passion and experience allow him to help companies reduce regression time and improve overall software quality. With over two decades of automation experience, he designs and implements automation frameworks with his team of...Read more

Dilruba is a Senior Software QA Manager, at Palo Alto Networks leading the IoT Security QA team. Dilruba has extensive experience in hands-on end-to-end software testing as well as leading and managing engineering teams. She has worked for both large and startup companies including Microsoft, Cisco, RetailNext, and Hitachi. Dilruba...Read more

Mark Minson is a Swiss-Army knife in the QA field. A certified Scrum Master with QA Lead and automation experience, he has also spent time doing project management and an assortment of other duties. He enjoys the challenge of quality and having fun in the workplace. Since going back to...Read more

Kristoffer Nordström is a test developer who has worked with telecommunications systems, distributed compilers, cloud technology, smartphone OS development, embedded systems, and much more. As a testing devotee and a member of the context-driven test community, with his own company Kristoffer consults and teaches the course Python for Testers because...Read more

Jeffery Payne is CEO and founder of Coveros, Inc., a company that helps organizations accelerate software delivery using agile methods. Prior to founding Coveros, he was the co-founder of application security company Cigital, where he served as CEO for 16 years.

Jeffery is a recognized software expert and popular keynote speaker...Read more

Michael serves as a QA Technical Mentor for the Software Consulting Services team at World Wide Technology. His focus involves software consulting for UI test automation, testing strategy, quality advocacy and agile transformation.

Michael has consulted for multiple Fortune 500 companies in his career. He is experienced in test automation...Read more

Andrew Prueser has 20+ years of experience in high-tech manufacturing where he developed industry leading analysis software, spearheaded global data, systems integration, modernization, and M&A initiatives.  In those years he has seen firsthand how good, or non-existent testing strategies can make or break a project. As a Solutions Architect now with...Read more

Throughout my 19 years in the Software Industry, I have worked as Test Automation engineer across various domains like network management, mobile, e-commerce, online security and online travel. Currently I'm working at Expedia as a Principal Software Engineer in Test, guiding all teams on the best practices of test automation,...Read more

Rob Sabourin has more than thirty-five 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, SQA, testing,...Read more

Dionny Santiago is an Engineering Manager at Indeed and has 12+ years of industry experience working as an SW/QA/ML engineer, software/test architect, and engineering manager. Dionny completed his master's thesis on exploring the intersection between AI and test automation and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in this problem space....Read more

Gerta is co-founder and COO of LocalStack, the leading platform for local cloud development and testing, based on the hugely popular open source framework with 37k+ stars on Github. Prior to founding LocalStack, Gerta led Product Management for AI/ML based test automation solutions at Tricentis, where she also consulted customers...Read more

Mike Sowers has over forty years of practical experience as a global leader of internationally distributed IT teams across multiple industries. Mike is a senior leader, skilled in working with both large and small organizations to improve their agile software development, testing, and DevOps delivery approaches. Mike is an industry...Read more

During his 20 year career, Greg Sypolt has focused on improving quality engineering strategies, techniques, and leadership. He is currently the VP of Quality Engineering at EVERFI, where he has successfully transitioned the organization from a traditional manual testing process to an automation-first approach, coaching multiple development teams on how...Read more

Latha Vatti is a Sr. Software Quality Engineer at NIPR where she leads coordinated testing efforts. She is an automation enthusiast and enjoys learning new skills to enhance her testing efforts. She is known for her extensive QA Automation knowledge and expertise. She is rigorous and methodical in her testing...Read more

Sarah Watkins is a Software Engineer in Test at Q2 where she works on an automated end-to-end web UI testing solution that continuously runs thousands of tests daily. She also shares her knowledge of best practices and good coding methodologies with other teams. In addition to this, she is a...Read more

Robert Woods is an agile community leader, requested industry speaker, published author, and mentor with a proven history of facilitating enterprise transformation while helping create and provide catered training and coaching for organizations consisting of culturally, generationally, and geographically diverse backgrounds. He's the creator of the CLEAR (Collaborative-Lean-Evolving-Adaptive-Reportable) principles for...Read more