Conference Speakers

Vice president of quality and DevOps engineering at Lincoln Financial Group, Adam Auerbach is responsible for leading the implementation of continuous testing and continuous delivery across the organization. Previously Adam was the senior director of technology for advanced testing and release services at Capital One Financial Corporation. Adam led Capital...Read more

Melissa Benua has worked in nearly every software development role—dev, test, DevOps, and program management—at companies big and small. She's created and run high-availability, high-quality services on products such as mParticle, PlayFab, Bing, Cortana, and Xbox One. Melissa discovered her love of massively-scaled systems while growing the Bing backend, where...Read more

Jennifer Bonine is a VP of global delivery and solutions for tap|QA Inc., a global company that specializes in strategic solutions for businesses. Jennifer began her career in consulting, implementing large ERP solutions. She has held executive-level positions leading development, quality assurance and testing, organizational development, and process improvement teams...Read more

A performance architect/principal engineer, Gopal Brugalette has experience that spans eCommerce, financial, and various technology industries. He is developing a machine learning-based system for analyzing production and test data. Gopal’s responsibilities have included preparing sites for peak events, user behavior insights, DevOps transformations, applying data science and machine learning to...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

VP of quality at QASymphony Elise Carmichael is responsible for helping customers improve their QA process, expand test automation, and maximize their investments in QASymphony solutions. She has a strong desire to help people get their testing solutions organized—from security testing to functional testing. Elise has nearly twenty years of...Read more

Tom Chavez has more than twenty years of experience as a manager and product manager in the software development tools field. Tom works in product marketing as senior manager of developer marketing at Splunk, the leader in operational intelligence. Tom has worked across the Silicon Valley in California...Read more

Irene Dhong has been a QA Engineer for over 6 years. She has experience as a build engineer and a system administrator. She's passionate about building frameworks and tools that maintain a high level of quality in lean, rapid development environments. She enjoys bringing quality to new challenges like machine...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

In software testing for more than forty years, Dorothy Graham is coauthor of four books—Software Inspection, Software Test Automation, Foundations of Software Testing, and Experiences of Test Automation—and is currently working with Seretta Gamba on a test automation patterns wiki. A popular and entertaining speaker at conferences and seminars worldwide,...Read more

Paul Grizzaffi is a principal automation architect at Magenic. His career focus has been on the creation and deployment of automated test strategies, frameworks, tools, and platforms. Paul has created automation platforms and tool frameworks based on proprietary, open source, and vendor-supplied tool chains in diverse product environments of telecom,...Read more

Jim Holmes is an executive consultant at Pillar Technology where he works with organizations to improve their software delivery process. he is also the owner/principal of Guidepost Systems which lets him engage directly with struggling organizations. Since joining the US Air Force in 1982, Jim has been in various corners...Read more

A senior automation engineer at Twitter, Angie Jones has developed automation strategies and frameworks for countless software products. As a master inventor, she is known for her innovative and out-of-the-box thinking style which has resulted in more than twenty patented inventions in the United States and China. A strong advocate...Read more

Tariq King is the senior director and engineering fellow for quality and performance at Ultimate Software. With more than fifteen years’ experience in software testing research and practice, Tariq heads Ultimate Software’s quality program by providing technical and people leadership, strategic direction, staff training, and research and development in software...Read more

Early on in his career Andrew Krug found his calling—test automation. He got his start at Ceridian HCM where he was a quality test engineer, working on a variety of projects from large scale intranet upgrades to new feature development for business intelligence and health care initiatives. Since then Andrew...Read more

Jim LeBaron is an Agile Manager working for MasterControl, a company that provides QMS solutions for FDA regulated companies. Jim has worked over 18 years in the industry, and over 11 years in a regulated environment. Jim has experience authoring, executing, automating and reviewing validation documents, hosting audits and streamlining...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

Paul Merrill is principal software engineer in test and founder of Beaufort Fairmont Automated Testing Services. Paul works with clients every day to accelerate testing, reduce risk, and increase the value of testing processes with test automation. An entrepreneur, tester, and software engineer, Paul has a unique perspective...Read more

Jaimee Newberry is the CEO of Picture This Clothing. She brings industry leadership and experience gained from advising C-level and senior management teams at startups, agencies, and Fortune 500 companies. Her insight, practices, and a personal ecology have proven to elevate the culture, processes and quality of high-performance software design and...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

Director of Infostretch Labs Sanil Pillai is an experienced engineering leader for digital and enterprise applications. He has built and managed both offshore and onsite engineering teams, managed mobile projects for Fortune 500 clients, and has deep technical and functional expertise. At Infostretch, Sanil has established agile development and continuous...Read more

A software professional with testing emphasis, Maaret Pyhäjärvi considers herself an empirical technologist, a tester and a programmer, a catalyst for improvement, and a speaker. Maaret’s day job is working with a software product development team as a hands-on testing specialist with focus on exploratory testing. In addition to tester...Read more

Amber Race is a senior software development engineer in test at Big Fish Games. After majoring in Asian studies, teaching in Japan, and traveling the world, she stumbled into software testing and has been loving it ever since. Amber has more than fifteen years of testing experience at Big Fish...Read more

Harry Roberts is a Senior Solutions Architect with Perfecto and has over 5 years of experience helping customers be successful with mobile automated testing. He has presented at multiple user conferences and tradeshows and has managed Development, QA, Support and Implementation Teams. Harry is an enthusiastic about helping customers develop...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

As principal consultant for the quality assurance practice at Rural Sourcing, Inc., Jeanne Schmidt leads a team of software testers who help customers deliver quality software and advise customers on test strategies. Rural Sourcing is the leader in domestic sourcing and a cost-effective, onshore alternative to the traditional model for...Read more

An experienced software quality professional, Kim Tatum has eighteen years of information technology and full project lifecycle experience, focused on enterprise testing and quality assurance within agile environments to maximize the efficiency and quality of software delivery. Kim has held various quality roles across healthcare, technology, and telecom industries, and...Read more

Evgeny Tkachenko has more than eight years of experience in test management, automation testing, and release management, mainly on complex projects in the telecommunication, financial, and online entertainment industries. Previously his experience as a test manager in Russia’s most important technology center gave Evgeny a unique perspective in test process...Read more

A QA test developer at SurveyGizmo, Sue Uyetake has installed, coded, supported, trained, written about, and tested software her entire career. Her passion is in the communication aspects of quality assurance. Trained in 2009 as an Agile ScrumMaster, Sue has experience that includes everything from a six-person dot-com...Read more

Jason Wick has more than a decade of software experience as an engineering manager, QA manager, team lead, automation engineer, audio tester, and manual tester. After working in a variety of fields from video games to music software, Jason has dramatically shifted his perspective on the role of QA inside...Read more