Kathleen Naughton

Kathleen 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 Agilist, working on agile teams since 2004. She is a believer in the whole team owning quality, the power of testers’ questions, conversations about how to prevent defects and find and fix them fast. Through her journeys she had mastered a wide variety of technology stacks, manual and automated testing, single and scaled team delivery, and dabbled in article writing and presentations at Grace Hopper, Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, and Agile Testing Days.