Conference Speakers
Concurrent Sessions
Jeff Abshoff is a testing manager at ANSYS, Inc., a global developer of engineering simulation software. At ANSYS for more than eleven years, Jeff has worked on projects ranging from small, single team features to large cross-business-unit feature integration. With a strong emphasis on exploratory testing, he still regularly participates...Read more
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Involved in agile development for more than ten years, Todd Albers has worked for both large and small companies—all practicing or adopting Agile. From this exposure to different types of agile development, he has learned to take the ideas that work best and implement them within different types of teams....Read more
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The agile testing lead for Sweden-based King/Midasplayer AB, developer of the popular mobile game Candy Crush Saga, Alexander Andelkovic has worked on multiple complex test projects ranging from using session-based test management for quality assuring MED-Tech devices for life critical systems to establishing a world class approval process for Spotify...Read more
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Wayne Ariola has contributed to the design of core Parasoft technologies and has been awarded numerous patents for his inventions. A recognized leader on topics such as the SDLC, Service Virtualization, SOA and APIs, quality policy governance, and business strategy, Ariola is a frequent contributor to business publications—as well as...Read more
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Raj Bajracharya has more than 15 years of experience in program management, quality assurance in software testing and information technology in a wide variety of applications across multiple industry sectors. Raj manages the QA & Testing team that is accountable for comprehensive end-to-end testing for CGI IP Wealth360 suite of...Read more
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Accessibility IT specialist David Best has more than thirty years of experience in project management, software design, and development. David developed glaucoma at age five and lost all eyesight by age twenty. Despite this setback, he was one of the first blind Canadians to graduate with a degree in computer...Read more
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Tutorials
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
Women Who Test Sessions
Concurrent Sessions
Tutorials
Keynotes
VP of global delivery and solutions for tap|QA, Inc., Jennifer Bonine began her career in consulting, implementing large ERP solutions. Jennifer has held executive level positions leading development, quality assurance and testing, organizational development, and process improvement teams for Fortune 500 companies in several domains. In her career, she has...Read more
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Gopal is a Performance Architect/Principal Engineer. His experience spans e-Commerce, Financial and various Technology industries. His responsibilities have included preparing sites for peak events, developing engineering frameworks and expanding performance engineering activities into the development cycle and production. He has presented at numerous industry events and been featured...Read more
Tutorials
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
Delivery director Rick Faulise has been working in the automated testing space for eighteen years—managing teams building fully automated test suites and pioneering new automation technologies. He has worked to expand automation capabilities outside standard methodologies and into new platforms—mobile devices, streaming devices, TVs, and autos. With his management experience...Read more
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A veteran of Inclusive’s Web Accessibility team, Sandy Feldman is a seasoned and creative accessible web designer and front-end developer. With vast experience in digital design and website creation, Sandy specializes in designing visually innovative sites, individually tailored to the client’s needs and mission. A strong supporter of many disability-related...Read more
A director of engineering and leader of a Cloud Foundry team at Pivotal Toronto, Dwayne Forde is responsible for the technical success, hiring, evangelism, and communication with other offices. His background is in full stack development including the front-end (Javascript, HTML, CSS), backend (Ruby on Rails, Java), and mobile (iOS,...Read more
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Jane Fraser has managed tests groups from just herself to a team of 120. Her focus is in developing testers into key members of the community with true influence on the product and process. Jane has spent the past twenty years on a span of projects including publishing programs, web/e-commerce,...Read more
Training Class
President and senior consultant of Intellectica Systems Inc., Conrad Fujimoto is an information technology professional with thirty-five years of experience in the education, government, financial, and utility sectors. An accomplished educator and author of several courses, Conrad delivers courses in software testing, relational database technology, data modeling, application programming, business...Read more
Women Who Test Sessions
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Keynotes
Head of testing and implementation at a UK bank, Julie Gardiner provides consultancy, delivery, and training in all aspects of testing, management, and agile, specializing in risk, usability, and test management and using both traditional and agile methodologies. Julie is a certified ScrumMaster and agile coach with more than twenty-five...Read more
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Concurrent Sessions
Tutorials
Gene Gotimer is a senior architect at Coveros, Inc., a software company that uses agile methods to accelerate the delivery of secure, reliable software. As a consultant, Gene works with his customers build software better, faster, and more securely by introducing agile development and DevOps practices. He has many years...Read more
Concurrent Sessions
Oscar Gracia has been in software quality assurance for 15 years working with teams to build a wide array of software, from Real-Time Ad-Exchange to Payment System software. Oscar has worked with small and large teams across a diverse set of companies ranging from start-ups to mature organizations that employed...Read more
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Tutorials
Senior test architect Chip Groder has more than thirty years of experience in software development, software testing, and software quality. Chip has helped multiple Fortune 1000 organizations achieve success with test automation by defining test automation architectures; assisting with the creation, selection, and implementation of test automation frameworks; and training...Read more
Concurrent Sessions
A founding director of Inclusive Media and Design, Rob Harvie brings a rich background in ICT and accessibility solutions. At the University of Toronto for more than ten years, he directed IT for the faculty of Information, and lectured on human-computer interaction and emerging technologies, including augmented and virtual reality...Read more
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A leading expert on all things software application lifecycle related, Tony Higgins has amassed a broad base of skills and experience in software and technology marketing, development, delivery, and enablement. With experience in both start-up and enterprise-level organizations, Tony offers a comprehensive perspective on both the technical and business requirements...Read more
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Syed Hossain is a proven test management consultant with more than twelve years of experience in top-tier retail, financial, and workforce industries. At QA Consultance he provides consulting services in designing and implementing performance testing solutions. Syed has successfully developed, managed, and executed QA programs and projects that helped clients...Read more
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A software quality assurance and testing specialist for Ryerson University in downtown Toronto, Matt Joste has more than fifteen years of experience in software quality assurance including two years as a ScrumMaster. Passionate about helping teams become as agile and self-sufficient as possible, Matt has journeyed through the finance, banking,...Read more
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As test architect for commercial sales and enterprise solutions, Mark Keating guides the definition and implementation of the test processes and test strategies for many of Dell’s servers, systems management, and solutions products. A ten-year veteran of Dell, his roles as director, lead engineer, and developer have spanned the server/storage/software...Read more
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Sammy Kolluru brings rich experience in agile software testing and quality assurance with a proven track record of leadership and commitment to delivering quality software with his unique perspective—effectiveness, efficiency, measurement, and visibility. Sammy is a member of both the executive board of directors at the Canadian Software Testing Board...Read more
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Software engineer and test consultant Peter Kruse works in the domain of testing, including evolutionary testing and the classification tree method. He is an experienced software developer and tester in the German automotive industry. Peter’s project experience includes hardware-in-the-loop testing, model driven-development, ISO 26262, and evolutionary structural and functional testing....Read more
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Pradeep Macharla is a passionate technical and business leader with over 13 years of experience managing, coaching and growing teams. Pradeep currently leads DevOps & Automation Practices at Inmar Inc. His background and experience has made him a highly sought after technical leader and mentor, consulting or working at the...Read more
Concurrent Sessions
A passionate testing professional who currently works at Magnet Forensics, Christine McGarry came to the testing world via an unconventional path. Beginning with her study of the arts, she honed the critical thinking, analytical, and communication skills essential to success as a software tester. Christine then undertook technical studies that...Read more
Razia Moolla is the VP for IT Shared Services at Rogers Communications. Razia is responsible for QA & Testing, PMO, Release Management and Test Environment Management function. In her previous role at Sprint, she was responsible for the IT testing organization delivering various facets of Testing in Agile and Waterfall...Read more
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Chief technology officer and cofounder of LeanDog, Jeff “Cheezy” Morgan has been teaching classes and coaching teams on agile and lean techniques for twelve years. Most of his work has focused on the engineering practices used by developers and testers. For the past few years, he has experienced great success...Read more
Women Who Test Sessions
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 and...Read more
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Jerry Penner is a passionate tester who loves helping ridiculously smart people build better software. He has been testing desktop software, websites, web apps, mobile apps, and APIs for startups and large companies for more than ten years. Jerry’s favorite testing task is helping developers and testers find important bugs...Read more
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Adam Rosenberg is the associate director of quality assurance at Elephant Inc., where he leads the testing of large-scale enterprise systems. A strong believer in context-driven exploratory testing, Adam is always looking for ways to improve work quality during all stages of a project’s development. Since 2007, he has worked...Read more
Training Class
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Keynotes
Rob Sabourin, P. Eng., 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,...Read more
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At Comcast Douglas Sanders is an executive director of engineering and technology ambassador, leading the business services testing initiatives and development of automation frameworks for residential device validations. With his varied experience in IT and communications and more than twenty years in the IT, software development, and telecommunications industries, he...Read more
Training Class
For almost a decade, Max Saperstone has been a test engineer focusing on test automation and the continuous integration/continuous delivery process. Max specializes in open source tools—Selenium, JMeter, AutoIT, Cucumber, and Chef. He has led several testing automation efforts, including developing an automated suite focused on web-based software to operate...Read more
Bonus Sessions
Industry Technical Presentations
Kirpal leads TCS' Assurance Services practice in Canada. With over 15 years experience, he has successfully completed assurance strategy and process consulting engagements for global customers. He has helped many large organizations align their QA strategy to the changing needs of business and the marketplace.
Tutorials
TechWell’s IT director 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...Read more
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Senior quality engineering manager Nir Szilagyi brings more than sixteen years of experience to the risk platform engineering team he leads at PayPal. Previously at eBay, he led the products platform quality engineering team in Israel and US. In both companies, Nir led the team transformation from a classic advisory...Read more
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Florin Ursu has been in the testing industry for more than fifteen years and a test manager for the past eight. Florin is highly technical and passionate about understanding the whys and hows of each of his projects. He has worked in environments from marketing automation to the games industry...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
Jim Westcott is a Research Manager for the Canadian Digital Transformation: Application and Professional Services program. In this role Jim manages IDC's research on enterprise applications and application services. Jim also manages the Canadian Small and medium business market overview report series, which addresses SMB trends and sizing within the...Read more
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Tom Wissink worked for Lockheed Martin (LM) managing, developing and testing software intensive systems for 35 years. He was a Lockheed Martin Senior Fellow when he left Lockheed Martin to became a consultant for Intervise, Inc. in February 2016. From January 2010 until becoming a consultant he was the LM...Read more
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A senior test lead in projects at the Nordic Insurance & Pension company—KLP, Iuliia Zavertailo has ten years of experience in the testing and quality assurance field focused on test management and test processes. As a consultant and adviser on test matters, Iuliia has been working with ISO 9000 standards...Read more