Conference Speakers

In her career at companies from large to small, Melissa Benua has worked in nearly every software development role—engineer, test, DevOps, and program management. She's created and run high-availability, high-quality services at Boeing and Microsoft on products such as Bing, Cortana, and Xbox One. Melissa discovered her love of massively-scaled...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

Jenny Bramble came up through support and devops, cutting her teeth on that interesting role that acts as the 'translator' between customer requests from support and the development team. Her love of support and the human side of problems lets her find a sweet spot between empathy for the user...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

Eun Chang is a lifelong learner, an avid consumer of new technologies, and a data scientist at Microsoft specializing in machine learning. In her career at Microsoft, Eun has driven a number of projects focusing on Windows post sales monetization and enterprise device usage. Her research uses a broad spectrum...Read more

Chris Colosimo is a Product Manager, with expertise in SDLC acceleration through automation. Chris strategizes product development and deployment of Parasoft’s Continuous Testing solutions (Parasoft SOAtest, Virtualize and Continuous Testing Platform), across major enterprises such as CapitalOne and Care first. Being a service virtualization and API testing subject matter expert...Read more

Vice president of Quality at Hudl, Ashwin Desai is responsible for leading the transformation of a worldwide QA team to an automation focused organization following the testing pyramid and setting quantitative measures to allow the company to learn and improve quality. Previously Ashwin was the VP of Engineering, Quality and...Read more

Independent quality and testing consultant Isabel Evans has more than thirty years of IT experience in the financial, communications, and software sectors. Her work focuses on quality management, software testing, and user experience (UX). Isabel authored Achieving Software Quality through Teamwork and chapters in Agile Testing: How to Succeed in...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

Julie has more than twenty years' experience in the IT industry, including time spent as a developer, database analyst, project and program manager, test analyst, test team leader, test consultant, and test manager. She is now director of consulting at Hitachi Consulting, providing consultancy and training in all aspects of...Read more

Artem Golubev is a software veteran, with more than 20 years in Software Development building various B2B Enterprise and E-Commerce software at companies like Microsoft, Salesforce. He is a Certified Enterprise Architect, holds CC, CL, ACB certifications from Toastmasters. During his career, he’s learned a lot about infrastructure, code management,...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

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

Julene Johnson is a Senior Quality Assurance Specialist at Lucid Software Inc. She spent four years prior to joining Lucid studying molecular biology, and approximately a year of that time working in labs. After graduating, Julene decided to take her experience testing and apply it to a different field. She...Read more

Griffin Jones is an Agile consultant and coach, specializing in applying human-centered systems thinking to regulated industries. He has a technical background of over twenty-five years of testing as an individual contributor, Manager, Director, and Consultant - for medical device and pharmaceutical companies, clinical research organizations, banks, and insurance companies....Read more

Mike Keith is System Test Engineer Lead, Progressive Insurance. Mike Keith has been a Test Engineer for over 15 years, focusing primarily on the automation testing for back-end systems and APIs. Over the last 5 years he’s stepped into the dark arts of combinatorial testing techniques and test oracles. More recently...Read more

Mark Lambert, Vice President of Products, is responsible for ensuring that Parasoft solutions deliver real value to the organizations adopting them. His team helps customers optimize their software development processes by assessing their specific development needs, then determining how to apply Parasoft technologies, processes, and methodologies to achieve their goals....Read more

Heng Kar Lau has been developing application, system software and managing software development teams for 15 years. As a product owner of software testing department for Internet of Things Group at Intel, he is responsible to lead a team to develop software testing life cycle framework, incorporate agile practices into current...Read more

Janna 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

Wilson Mar is a Services Manager and Architect at JetBloom, where he focuses on Performance, Scalability, and Resiliency of enterprise DevOps and Cloud software. Wilson has conducted live hands-on tutorials for Techwell for the last 4 years (since 2014), bringing his techniques on Git and GitHub so attendees quickly understand...Read more

Aprajita Mathur is a Bioinformatics Software Quality Assurance Manager with a engineering background in Bioinformatics. She has more than 10 years of software testing experience and over 5 years of testing in a compliance environment. She has worked as a manual and automation tester on a wide range of products...Read more

Paul Merrill is principal software engineer in test and founder of Beaufort Fairmont Automated Testing Services. A frequent writer on testing and test automation in top-notch testing publications and an international speaker at testing and software conferences, Paul works with clients every day to accelerate testing, mitigate risks, and increase...Read more

Jaimee Newberry worked in the Web Interaction Design & Development industry from 1998-2013 with emphasis on empathetic and behavioral psychology-applied design for web, mobile web, iOS + Android applications working with some of the world’s biggest brands including Audi, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Disney, McDonald's, Nintendo, and Zappos. She’s CEO...Read more

Gitte Ottosen is a Test Manager and Test Coach at Capgemini-Sogeti Denmark. As a career tester, Gitte has more than 20 years of experience in test engineering and test management, in both traditional and agile contexts. She has worked with test process improvement; first as a test architect/manager in Systematic...Read more

Alan Page has been improving software quality since 1993, now as director of quality for services at Unity. He spent more than twenty years at Microsoft, working on a variety of operating systems and applications in nearly every Microsoft division, and two years as Microsoft’s director of test excellence. Alan...Read more

As founder and CEO of Total Performance Consulting, Amit Patel brings more than fifteen years of experience in performance engineering, quality assurance, and software testing. Amit prides himself on being a vital part of his client’s development team, delivering world-class performance engineering, quality assurance, and test automation during all stages...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 while being recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies in...Read more

Sanil Pillai is the Director of Infostretch Labs & Strategic Insights. He is an experienced leader for digital and enterprise applications. Throughout his career he has built and managed offshore and onsite engineering teams, including managing several mobile projects for Fortune 500 clients, and has deep technical and functional expertise...Read more

Raj Rao is the Co-Founder of AutonomIQ, the leading AI Testing Platform that transforms English language test cases
into instantly executable and sharable Selenium scripts and test data. Raj’s thought leadership in the application
of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to solve some of Software Engineering’s most intractable and...Read more

Rob Sabourin 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, SQA, testing,...Read more

Dona Sarkar wishes she’d been born a cat so she could have had nine lives. Since that didn’t work out, she decided to live nine lives in this one. Dona spends her days running the Windows Insiders program at Microsoft, celebrating diversity in STEM fields as a fashion blogger at...Read more

With more than two decades of experience, Ben Simo, aka QualityFrog, is a skilled context-driven software tester who views software testing as a cognitively complex activity that requires critical thinking, effective communication, and rapid self-directed learning. Ben approaches software testing as a search for knowledge―both confirming existing beliefs and seeking...Read more

Coveros' Executive Vice President of Training Mike Sowers has more than twenty-five years of practical experience as a global leader of internationally distributed test teams across multiple industries. Mike is a senior leader, skilled in working with both large and small organizations to improve their software development, testing, and delivery approaches....Read more

From the olden days of DOS to the contemporary world of software testing, Gil Tayar was, is, and always will be a software developer. He cofounded WebCollage, survived the bubble collapse of 2000, and worked on various big cloudy projects at Wix. His current passion is figuring out how to...Read more

Peter Varhol is a well-known writer and speaker on software and technology topics, having authored dozens of articles and spoken at a number of industry conferences and webcasts. He has advanced degrees in computer science, applied mathematics, and psychology, and he is director of practice strategy at Kanda Software. His...Read more