Conference Speakers

Adam Auerbach is the Vice President of Quality and DevOps Engineering at Lincoln Financial Group. Adam is responsible for leading the implementation of Continuous Testing and Continuous Delivery across Lincoln. Prior to joining LFG, Adam was the senior director of technology for advanced testing and release services for Capital One...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

Hans Buwalda has been working with information technology since his high school years. In his career, Hans has gained experience as a developer, manager, and principal consultant for companies and organizations worldwide. He was a pioneer of the keyword approach to testing and automation, now widely used throughout the industry....Read more

Ömürden Cengiz is a QA lead at Hipo, a digital product consultancy that specializes in delivering design, development, and strategy services to startups and enterprises worldwide. For the past nine years, he has worked in CRM and Telco projects in companies including Nortel and Huawei. For two years,...Read more

Some have described Dawn Code as the most passionate tester they have ever met. Her current role, as quality engineering manager at IBM Clinical Development, encompasses her love of testing and test automation with her future goals of using cognitive computing for healthcare applications. A lifelong learner who often deep...Read more

With thirteen years of QA experience across various logistic domains, Lisa denDekker-Redemann is the UPS flight and crew QA manager, working on mobile solutions, creating a mobile lab, and transitioning her area to DevOps. Lisa’s responsibilities have included transitioning the QA role to agile, re-defining QA artifacts, and championing the...Read more

Independent quality and testing consultant Isabel Evans has more than thirty years of IT experience in quality management and testing in the financial, communications, and software sectors. Her quality management work focuses on encouraging IT teams and customers to work together via flexible processes designed and tailored by the teams...Read more

Andrea Fox was a collections supervisor before making the switch to software testing as a test analyst. With a natural curiosity and mind for detail, it quickly became the perfect fit. A senior test analyst with Cerner for three years, Andrea spends her time developing an internal best practice for...Read more

An agile methodologist, practitioner, and coach, Bob Galen helps guide leaders and teams in their pragmatic adoption and organizational shift toward Scrum and other agile methods. Bob is often called “a Coach of Coaches” because of his deep and broad experience in the agile arena. He is director, agile practices...Read more

In software quality assurance for fifteen years, Oscar Gracia has worked in diverse situations—start-ups to mature organizations, small and large teams, waterfall to agile methodologies—to build a wide array of software from real-time ad-exchange to payment system software. For the past five years, Oscar has been working with AppFolio, focusing...Read more

Fredrik Håård is a slow-moving digital nomad, freelance developer, entrepreneur, and speaker. With experience ranging from doing scripted manual testing of sales systems to being tech lead at government institutions and setting up start-up development teams from scratch, his most cherished skill is making himself...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

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

Claire Lohr has been an active professional in the computer field for thirty years, with the last twenty years emphasizing software process improvement and testing. Claire provides training—design, authoring, and instruction—and consulting services for a wide variety of both government and commercial clients. She is a Lloyd’s Register trained ISO...Read more

Working with companies and testing teams of all sizes and skills, Jeffrey Martin is product owner of SmartBear Software’s test management solution QAComplete. With more than fifteen years of experience in product management, quality, regulatory, sales, engineering, and marketing, Jeffrey brings his broad, cross-discipline skill set to uncover unique insights...Read more

Kenneth Merkel’s twenty-two year IT career has covered development, test, and operations. From developing in the telecommunications industry to helping customers with development platforms, testing frameworks, and operations platforms for monitoring applications, Kenneth has spanned the entire SDLC. For the past seven years Kenneth has focused on service virtualization at...Read more

A test architect in the Dell EMC infrastructure solutions group, Geoff Meyer helps craft the test strategies for Dell EMC server, firmware, and software solutions and supports more than 400 test engineers across India, Taiwan, and the United States. With more than thirty years in the software industry, Geoff was...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

Jeffery Payne is CEO and founder of Coveros, Inc., a software company that builds secure software applications using agile methods. Since its inception in 2008, Coveros has become a market leader in secure agile principles and recognized by Inc. magazine in 2012 as one of the fastest growing private companies...Read more

An information technology leader at Infosys, Jithesh Ramachandran has expertise in software development, quality assurance, testing, and software process improvement in a highly matrixed and collaborative environment. He has more than seventeen years of strategic leadership experience providing technology-enabled business solutions. Jithesh has used his IT role to align with...Read more

Nouvola’s cofounder and CTO Paola Rossaro has more than twenty years’ experience in the high-tech industry, providing technical and organizational leadership in industries from software and core technology to enterprise applications. She has led several teams in distributed systems and network technology, in particular on OS kernel technical and performance...Read more

Anna Russo is an ALM MVP specializing in ALM TFS Software Process consulting and training. Since 2008 Anna has worked with a variety of clients to improve their software quality and processes by properly implementing Microsoft Team Foundation Server, Test Manager, and Visual Studio tools. Anna applies hands on expertise...Read more

VP of testing services at KMS Technology, Adam Satterfield leads software testing and DevOps for this technology consulting and development firm. He is responsible for integrating manual and automated testing as well as DevOps strategy across the Atlanta and Ho Chi Minh City offices of KMS Technology, where nearly 700...Read more

Calabrio’s quality assurance manager Karen Schaefer is responsible for reviewing processes and metrics to increase quality and reduce risk across Calabrio's product deployments. With twenty-five years of quality assurance and software testing experience, Karen applies her analytical and organizational talents to continually refine the testing approach to keep the QA...Read more

TechWell’s CIO, Mike Sowers has more than twenty-five years of practical experience as a global quality and test leader of internationally distributed test teams across multiple industries. Mike is a senior consultant, skilled in working with both large and small organizations to improve their software development, testing, and delivery approaches. He...Read more

Paul Stringer was given his first Mac in 1985—starting a lifelong obsession with technology and Macs. He’s programmed everything from hypercard to WebObjects, which he used in 2003 to develop one of the earliest mobile cloud services, Treasuremytext.com. Several million text messages later, these worlds collided with the launch of...Read more

Jim Trentadue has more than seventeen years of experience as a coordinator and manager in the software testing field. In his various career roles in testing, Jim has focused on test execution, automation, management, environment management, standards deployment, and test tool implementation. In the area of offshore testing, Jim has...Read more

Alison Wade is 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 is the Program Chair for the Mobile Dev + Test and IoT Dev + Test conferences, and she...Read more