Conference Speakers
 Application Engineer Discover Financial
Concurrent SessionsPradnya Adwankar has more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry as an Application Engineer at Discover Financial Services. Her responsibilities include software design, development, and technical team leadership for her product family. She is passionate about DevSecOps principles adaption, TDD, BDD, test transformation, and more. Pradnya is...Read more |
 VP of Cloud and DevTestSecOps EPAM Systems
TutorialsConcurrent SessionsAdam Auerbach is the Vice President of Cloud and DevTestSecOps at EPAM Systems, a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and software development services. Before joining Epam, Adam served as the VP of Quality and DevOps Engineering at Lincoln Financial Group where Adam was responsible introducing and leading the...Read more |
 Senior Technical Staff Member IBM
Concurrent SessionsSachin Avasthi is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM's CIO organization where he focuses on Application Modernization and helping teams assess, identify, and implement a plan to modernize their application. He also works with IBM Research to co-create tools that can help accelerate the modernization journey and scale the...Read more |
 Staff Technology Engineer State Farm
Concurrent SessionsBrian Batronis has over 30 years of software engineering experience in the insurance industry and has been working with JavaScript for about two decades. Brian has more than 15 years of experience enabling engineering teams with testing. In the past six years, he has also been working with engineering teams...Read more |
 Senior Consultant Coveros
Training ClassHajer Ben Moussa has been leading in the testing industry emphasizing agile software development practices for more than 6 years. Her extensive experience includes all aspects of manual testing, in addition to automation testing of client servers and web-based applications. Hajer analyzed and verified frameworks implementing Page Object Model (POM)...Read more |
 Director of Engineering mParticle
TutorialsConcurrent SessionsMelissa 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 |
 Director of Quality Engineering Carpe Data
Concurrent SessionsBrendan Connolly is a Test Automation University instructor and recipient of the EuroStar Rising Star Award. He is currently the Director of Quality Engineering at Carpe Data, an insure-tech company providing next generation data solutions to insurance carriers. He is focused on creating and executing testing strategies, building healthy teams...Read more |
 UKG
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 |
 QA Team Lead Insider Intelligence
Concurrent SessionsPhilip Daye is a seasoned software quality professional with over 25 years of experience in the field. Currently the QA Team Lead at Insider Intelligence, he has a diverse background as a tester, manager, architect, and leader, and has worked with companies of all sizes to ensure the delivery of...Read more |
 Quality Architect EPAM Systems
TutorialsPeter Földházi was first involved with QA as a beta tester of DOTA in 2006. Since joining EPAM in 2012, he moved towards test automation, and is currently working in the USA as a Quality Architect. He has experience in designing and developing solutions for mobile, web and desktop applications within...Read more |
 AppSec Consultant and Trainer Coveros
Training ClassDalton Forbes brings his years of experience as a security analyst and manager within the US government to the Coveros AppSec team. He has experience in using change management strategies, vulnerability discoveries, and risk management to uncover deficiencies within systems, business logic, or processes. He follows the general Pareto principle...Read more |
 Technical Manager Coveros
Training ClassBob Foster is a Technical Manager with over 20 years experience as a senior software engineer and team lead. Bob has proven experience in all aspects of software development and delivery (including DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code). He is a firm believer in the benefits gained by software teams...Read more |
 Founder & CEO Mobot
Concurrent SessionsEden Full Goh is the Founder and CEO of Mobot, a physical testing infrastructure in the cloud for mobile apps powered by supervised, mechanical robots. At Mobot, Eden works directly with mobile-first companies to support their mobile testing strategy and implementation of physical testing automation. Previously, Eden built products that...Read more |
 Principal Consultant EPAM Systems
Julie Gardiner works as a Principal Consultant at EPAM Systems, providing consultancy, delivery, and advice in all aspects of testing, management, and agile/DevOps. She is a certified Scrum Master and agile coach, who has over 25 years of experience, including time as a Developer, DBA, Project Manager, Head of Operations...Read more |
 Director Systems Testing Excellence Program University of Memphis
Dr. Mark L. Gillenson is the Director of the Systems Testing Excellence Program (STEP) in the FedEx Institute of Technology at the University of Memphis, where he is University Research Professor in the Business Information and Technology Department of the Fogelman College of Business and Economics. STEP, founded in 2006...Read more |
 Accessibility Director CGI Federal
Concurrent SessionsPavani Gonuguntla, a Director within the CGI Federal Emerging Technology Practices Accessibility team, is a digital accessibility professional who has served the public sector since 2012. She has an expert understanding of accessibility guidelines, including Section 508, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), and the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)...Read more |
 Head of Testing Products EPAM Systems
Dmitriy Gumeniuk is the Head of Testing Products, Senior Delivery Manager at EPAM Systems, a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and software development services. Dmitriy led development of solution accelerators at Test Competency Center, focusing of Machine Learning and Neural Networks usage in test automation such as Healenium,...Read more |
 Technical Trainer Coveros
Training ClassSusan 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 |
 Software Development Engineer in Test MRI Software
Tim Heck has over 25 years of experience in the software industry and has been working with automated testing for over half of those years. He has a deep understanding of automation and has implemented solutions for several large-scale projects in the financial, automotive, and marketing sectors. Tim has experience...Read more |
 QA Manager CSAA
Concurrent SessionsTonya Jackson has been in the QA space for over 17 years. She consistently focuses on remaining at the forefront of rapidly evolving technology, which allows her to drive enterprise-wide innovation and maintain a competitive advantage. Her passion is 'true' AI testing and emerging technologies such as ChatGPT. Currently, she...Read more |
 Lead Software Engineer Disney
Concurrent SessionsJohn Jenkins has been in the software testing trenches for over 15 years, creating testing solutions for both front-end and back-end testing challenges. With around 10 years experience working with Selenium type solutions, and close to five years working with API and backend automation, he has begun focusing his efforts...Read more |
 VP of Product-Service Systems EPAM Systems
TutorialsConcurrent SessionsKeynotesTariq King is the Vice President of Product-Service Systems at EPAM, where he manages a portfolio that lies at the intersection of software products and services, and supports the business through technology consulting. Tariq has over 15 years' experience in software engineering and testing and has formerly held positions as...Read more |
 Developer Advocate Applitools
Andrew Knight is the Automation Panda and a Developer Advocate at Applitools. He strives to help others in solving problems in software development, testing, and quality. Over the past decade, he has designed and built robust test automation projects from the ground up that can run thousands of tests continuously....Read more |
 Director, Quality Assurance EAB Global, Inc.
Concurrent SessionsPushpa Koneri's education and work experience has centered on technical and management aspects of information technology and quality assurance. This background has provided Pushpa with knowledge in design, development, software testing, strategy planning, client management with user acceptance and overall test management of a software project. Currently, Pushpa is working at...Read more |
 Upland InGenius
TutorialsConcurrent SessionsChris 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 |
 Director of Engineering mParticle
TutorialsConcurrent SessionsJanna Loeffler has more than fifteen years of software quality experience. She holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering and a master's degree in business administration. Working in a variety of software engineering roles, including development, testing, quality assurance, and DevOps, has provided her with a holistic view of software...Read more |
 Senior Product Manager Microsoft
Jia Ma is a technically skilled Co-Founder and Product Manager with years of experience in leading multiple product teams and organizations concurrently delivering cost effective products and services, with obsession over customers and passion for data. She is currently a Senior Product Manager within Data Platform + Growth Team at...Read more |
 Associate Director, Bioinformatics System Software Engineering Guardant Health
KeynotesAprajita Mathur is a mom, inventor, mentor and international speaker with an engineering background in Bioinformatics. She has more than 15+ years of software testing experience. She has worked on a wide range of products like instrument software, LIMS, integrated solutions and data analysis pipelines which are used in the...Read more |
 Manager of Software Quality Assurance Kickfin
Concurrent SessionsStephanie McSwain got her start fresh out of college in manual testing at IBM. In her several years at IBM, she was encouraged to gain coding skills and learned Java and Javascript. This propelled Stephanie into a few backend developer positions, but she eventually madehery way back into testing by...Read more |
 DevRel Grafana k6
TutorialsConcurrent SessionsLeandro Melendez is a performance testing advocate with K6-Grafana helping everyone to ramp up on their performance practices. He has over 20 years of experience in IT and over 10 in the performance testing practice where he served multiple S&P500 customers all over the USA, Mexico,...Read more |
 Senior Director for Technical & QA Cox Automotive
Concurrent SessionsRoya Montazeri is the Senior Director for the Technical & QA teams at Cox Automotive. She is responsible for quality engineering initiatives across the Dealertrack organization. She works with agile scrum teams, release management, test and performance engineers, and quality assurance analysts to establish practices and test frameworks for the Dealertrack...Read more |
 Senoir Delivery Consultant Global Logic UK & I
Concurrent SessionsSamer Naqvi is a Test Architect with over 16 years of work experience in QA and currently works as Practice Lead for a customer via Global Logic. Samer's aim is to continuously develop and enable teams with best practices and industry standards on the latest tools. She specializes in assisting...Read more |
 Sr. Quality Engineer World Wide Technology
Concurrent SessionsKathleen Naughton has been a Software Test Architect and Quality Engineering consultant for more than 30 years. She has assisted and guided testing of pre-iPhone streaming multimedia cellphone software, consumer and enterprise printer software, virtual storage area network devices, as well as web and mobile applications. Kathleen is a hardcore...Read more |
 CEO Dev Tools, Inc.
Concurrent SessionsChris Navrides is the CEO of Dev Tools AI where they bring the latest AI advancements to the entire developer & test pipeline. Previously he was the VP of engineer at test.ai, which is built the first AI based mobile & web testing solution. Before that, Chris worked at Google...Read more |
 Northern Test Consulting AB
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 |
 Enterprise Agility Transformation Leader CGI Federal
Concurrent SessionsStephen Omojuyigbe is Senior Enterprise Agile Coach at CGI. He is a SME and responsible for agile learning and development in the CGI Agile Center of Excellence (ACoE). Stephen is a SAFe® Certified Practice Consultant (SPC) and agile coach with 21 years project and change management experience spanning several industries...Read more |
 Managing Member focus.dev solutions
Concurrent SessionsJacob Orshalick is a software consultant, agile practitioner, author, speaker, and the founder of focus.dev solutions. Jacob has over two decades of experience developing software for startups, Fortune 500 companies, and everything in between. He is the author of a best-selling book and has published articles with numerous industry sources....Read more |
 Lead Quality Engineer ZS Associates
Concurrent SessionsGerie Owen is a Lead Quality Engineer at ZS. She is a Certified Scrum Master, Conference Presenter and Author on technology and testing topics. She enjoys analyzing and improving test processes and mentoring new Quality Engineers as well as bringing a cohesive team approach to testing. Gerie is the author...Read more |
 Software Engineering Team Lead Bloomberg
Concurrent SessionsJacqueline Pan is an automated testing enthusiast and works with multiple teams at Bloomberg to design and simplify their automated testing infrastructure. With five years of industry experience as a software engineer, Jacqueline leads the Trade Automation team for Bloomberg’s Buy-Side Order Management Enterprise Solution. She has led Bloomberg’s Women...Read more |
 CEO and Founder Coveros
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 |
 Managing Consultant Coveros
Training ClassTutorialsJeff Pierce has more than 20 years of experience in software engineering management, specializing in program, project, and software quality assurance management. Jeff is also experienced in building technical teams that are rapidly able to implement solutions and deliver business value. More recently, Jeff has focused on Agile project management...Read more |
 Director Test Engineering O.C. Tanner
Concurrent SessionsKevin Pyles has been in the QA industry now for over 15 years with project, product, and management roles throughout. Kevin is currently the Director of Test Engineering at O.C. Tanner. Kevin also served on the board for QA at the Point (a local testing meetup), and is an award-winning...Read more |
 Vice President - Strategy Chainsys Corporation
Concurrent SessionsSatish Rajamani has 27 years of rich, multi-national experience in organizations like Oracle Corporation and Cognizant Technology Solutions. He has In-depth expertise in ERP and CRM Applications like Oracle, SAP, and Salesforce. Satish also has a passion for teaching and has taught for over 18 years of in leading technical...Read more |
 Manager KPMG US, Advisory Services, Lighthouse
Concurrent SessionsDinesh Rajput is a Manager in KPMG’s Quality Engineering practice. He has over 15 years of experience delivering data quality and enrichment solutions within the data platform and analytics domain. Dinesh has spent last several years supporting and providing consultation to several communication service providers, addressing their traditional and emerging...Read more |
 Principle Consultant AmiBug.Com, Inc.
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 |
 Engineering Manager Indeed
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. One...Read more |
 Sr. Director of Engineering Enablement Global Payments
TutorialsAdam Satterfield, Sr Director of Test Engineering at Global Payments, has been in the software testing industry for 20 years. He has a wide background in industries such as military, SaaS, telecom, mobile, healthcare and finance. Adam enjoys leading and mentoring quality assurance teams as well as teaching testers how...Read more |
 Senior Manager, Quality Assurance Council for Affordable & Quality Health
Concurrent SessionsNeeta Sonnakul has about 25 years of experience in Information Technology. First few years in development, then quality assurance experience working in various roles for several employers. She has built and led QA teams for companies such as Verizon Wireless, REI, DefyWire to name a few. She has built robust...Read more |
 Coveros
Training ClassTutorialsMike 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 |
 IT Manager, Testing and Test Automation Markel Insurance
Concurrent SessionsShai Srinivasan manages the Centre of Test Enablement at Markel (Insurance) as part of Enterprise Cloud/DevOps. With a goal to integrate Continuous Testing into the DevOps lifecycle and achieve optimized automation in testing, Shai is passionate about integrating the testing process into the fabric of the entire organization. She is...Read more |
 Sr. Manager, QA and Delivery AccuWeather, Inc.
Concurrent SessionsElizabeth Stewart started her journey in quality assurance in 2001. On her first day, she questioned the testing approach and that has been her jam ever since. Elizabeth likes to challenge the status quo of testing and software development practices. She is currently the Sr. Manager of QA and Delivery...Read more |
 CTO Coveros
Training ClassTutorialsTom Stiehm has been developing applications and managing software development teams for over twenty years. As CTO of Coveros, he is responsible for the oversight of all technical projects and integrating new technologies and testing practices into software development projects. Recently, Tom has been focusing on how to incorporate DevSecOps...Read more |
 Engineering Manager, Quality Iterable
Megha Tiwari is the Engineering Manager of Quality Engineering at Iterable, a metric-driven cross-channel marketing platform. She has over with over nine years of experience. Megha sees quality engineering is an amalgamation of software engineering, program management and quality assurance, which propelled her to transition from software engineer to quality...Read more |
 Director - Software Quality Assurance Oracle
Concurrent SessionsVenkatesh Venkataraman has two decades of experience in software development & quality assurance. In his current role as Director of Software Engineering & QA at Oracle, he is spearheading the implementation of automated quality gates for a multi-tenant microservice based platform. He is a thought leader in microservice testing and...Read more |
 President TechWell Corp.
KeynotesAlison Wade is the President of TechWell and an accomplished executive dedicated to the business of software. For the past fifteen years, she has worked with industry leaders developing programs for software development and testing professionals. She currently serves as the Program Chair for EPIC Experience, STAREAST, and STARWEST. She plays a...Read more |
 Software Engineer in Test Q2
TutorialsSarah 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 |
 President Westfall Team, Inc.
Concurrent SessionsLinda Westfall is the President of the Westfall Team, which provides software engineering, quality, and project management training and consulting services. Linda has more than 40 years of experience in the software industry. Linda is the author of The Certified Software Quality Engineer Handbook. Linda is a past chair of...Read more |
 Director of QA Engineering FORT Robotics
Lisette Zounon is a passionate quality engineering leader with over 17 years of experience helping people and companies improve the quality of their applications, with solid tools, a simple process, and a smart team. She strongly believes that industry best practices including implementing agile methodologies and DevOps practices are invaluable....Read more |