Conference Speakers
CA Technologies, A Broadcom Company
Bonus SessionsShamim Ahmed is a thought leader in DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Testing and Application Life-cycle Management (ALM). He has more than 15 years of experience in large-scale application design and development, software product development and R&D, application quality assurance and testing, organizational quality management, IT consulting, and practice management. He...Read more |
CEO test.ai
Leadership Summit SessionsConcurrent SessionsTutorialsKeynotes |
Vice President of Quality Engineering EPAM Systems
Adam Auerbach is the Vice President of Quality Engineering at EPAM Systems, a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and software development services. Before joining Epam, Adam served as the VP of Quality and DevOps Engineering at Lincoln Financial Group where Adam was responsible introducing and leading the DevOps...Read more |
Target
As a Senior Engineer in Test for Mobile Apps at Target, Andrew Bardallis leads the QA and test automation development efforts for all Target guest-facing mobile applications. He has built numerous test automation projects – mostly in Ruby using tools such as Cucumber, Calabash, Appium, Net::HTTP, and Charles – to...Read more |
mabl
Concurrent SessionsDan Belcher is a co-founder at mabl, a venture-backed startup that is using AI to make end-to-end testing easier. Prior to mabl, Dan was the Lead Product Manager for monitoring and logging at Google, which he joined through its acquisition of Stackdriver, a company which he also-co-founded. He spent his...Read more |
Vocera Communication
Concurrent SessionsWilliam Bell has ten years experience working in test engineering for the Department of Defense where I worked in a double helix customer interaction model that allowed agile like development in a waterfall industry. He moved from being a test engineer to building and leading teams of test engineers within...Read more |
BenderRBT
Training ClassRichard 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 |
mParticle
Women Who Test SessionsTutorialsFrom the largest companies to the very smallest, Melissa Benua has worked in nearly every software development role—dev, test, DevOps, and program management—in her career. She cut her teeth while building running high-availability, high-quality services while working on Microsoft’s Bing and Cortana, and honed her skills for rapid iteration and...Read more |
DevelopSense
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 |
VP of Global Solutions tap|QA
Women Who Test SessionsConcurrent SessionsTutorialsJennifer Bonine is an experienced speaker in the US and abroad. You can see her keynote at agile, testing, and Google conferences. She is a VP of global solutions for tap|QA, a company that specializes in strategic solutions for businesses. Jennifer is also the CEO of Style Baby Inc., a...Read more |
Technical Manager Coveros
Training ClassConcurrent SessionsGlenn Buckholz leads CI and deployment automation efforts at Coveros. Using his more than fifteen years of industry experience, Glenn brings success to his customers. Beginning his career as a consultant implementing automated test frameworks, he introduced the concept of change management to many, many projects. After moving on from...Read more |
LogiGear
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 |
Bank of New Zealand
Concurrent SessionsKeynotesKatrina Clokie leads a team of around a hundred testers as a test practice manager in Wellington, New Zealand. Katrina is an active contributor to the international testing community as the author of A Practical Guide to Testing in DevOps, an international keynote speaker, a cofounder...Read more |
Director Quality ProAssurance
Concurrent SessionsAmy Jo Esser is an enthusiastic self-confessed conference and learning addict. She feels like a kid in a candy store at conferences. She has enjoyed learning at conferences from the beginning of her career through today, and she considers herself a learning leader. Amy Jo believes the time is now...Read more |
Independent Consultant
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 |
tap|QA
Concurrent SessionsRick Faulise is a multi-dimensional, technology executive and immensely passionate IT professional who holds extensive experience of working in the Software industry. Equipped with a formidable blend of knowledge and understanding of pioneering new automation technologies, he excels in the niches of methodologies and new platforms such as AI, mobile...Read more |
Principal Agile Coach Vaco
Bob Galen is an agile practitioner, trainer & coach based in Cary, NC. In this role, he helps guide companies and teams in their pragmatic adoption and organizational shift towards Scrum and other agile methodologies and practices. He is a Principal Agile Coach at Vaco Agile, a leading business agility...Read more |
Test automation consultant Freelancer
Seretta Gamba has forty years’ experience in development and fifteen in test automation. After going through all the usual developer roles, in 2001 she was put in charge of test automation for her current company. She developed a framework that enabled her company to quickly get excellent results. After having...Read more |
Consultant Independent Consultant
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 |
Senior QA Manager Aldo Group
Concurrent SessionsNoha currently serves as senior manager of software quality assurance for the ALDO Group. She runs a cross-functional QA department for different testing teams and various initiatives, including SAP ERP implementations, digital transformations, and e-commerce projects spanning multiple channels and solutions platforms, all of which are powered by Hybris technology....Read more |
Principal Consultant Coveros
Training ClassTutorialsGene Gotimer is a proven senior software architect with many years of experience in web-based enterprise application design, most recently using Java. He is skilled in agile software development as well as legacy development methodologies and designing and developing secure, high-quality software. He has extensive experience establishing and using development...Read more |
Software Test Consultant
Concurrent SessionsTutorialsIn 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 |
Associate Consultant Coveros
Concurrent SessionsMatthew Grasberger is an Associate Consultant at Coveros with a specialty in Test Automation, DevOps Engineering, and Security Automation. Matt has worked with clients to build and develop robust test automation suites that are integrated into DevOps pipelines based on industry leading practices. In addition, Matt has leveraged open source...Read more |
Principal Automation Architect Magenic
Concurrent SessionsAs a Principal Automation Architect at Magenic, Paul Grizzaffi is following his passion of providing technology solutions to testing and QA organizations, including automation assessments, implementations, and through activities benefiting the broader testing community. An accomplished keynote speaker and writer, Paul has spoken at both local and national conferences and...Read more |
PlanGrid
Graeme Harvey has spent 10 years working in software testing and is a recognized speaker, invited to present at conferences globally on the topics of context-driven testing and automation. Besides being QA Tech Lead at PlanGrid, Graeme is heavily involved in the Waterloo (Canada) tech community, previously working at some...Read more |
Huntington National Bank
Concurrent SessionsThomas Haver is presently serving as a Senior Application Architect for Huntington National Bank. He is responsible for the conversion from manual testing to Ruby/Cucumber automation for the entire enterprise. Originally accountable for the development and maintenance of automation frameworks for Digital Channels, he now leads the automation effort for...Read more |
PerfTestPlus, Inc.
Women Who Test SessionsTutorialsDawn 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 |
Founder & CEO Ladies Leading Ladies
Nikki Henry is a leader in her community recognized for her effective leadership and supportive managerial style. Nikki has helped teams grow from just a few people to over fifty full-time staff, with budgets from a couple hundred thousand to the multimillions, and has always brought her teams to success,...Read more |
Coveros
Training ClassBrian 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 |
Dell EMC
Concurrent SessionsMichael Hobbs is a 15-year computer industry veteran who has had the opportunity to work on all facets of the computer. From CPU Validation to Enterprise Server Test, Michael has spent years gathering best practices from various cultures and companies. Through this diverse background, a unique perspective has been developed....Read more |
Lightning Keynotes
KeynotesLightning keynote speakers coming to STAREAST! Prominent speakers will include Seretta Gamba, Bob Galen, Angie Jones, Jason Arbon, Isabel Evans, Dorothy Graham, Tariq King, Adam Auerbach, and Lloyd Roden—all hosted by program chair Mike Sowers!Read more |
Senior Developer Advocate Applitools
Concurrent SessionsTutorialsAngie Jones is a Senior Developer Advocate who specializes in test automation strategies and techniques. She shares her wealth of knowledge by speaking and teaching at software conferences all over the world, as well as writing tutorials and blogs on angiejones.tech. As a Master Inventor, Angie is known for her...Read more |
Lead Software Test Engineer Renaissance Electronic Services
Concurrent SessionsChad Jung is a Lead Software Test Engineer for Renaissance Electronic Services with over ten years of software testing experience. Currently he builds relationships between Development, Testing, and Operations teams to ensure highly successful and quality products.Read more |
CEO of Creative Trespassing Creative Trespassing
Tania Katan, CEO of Creative Trespassing, is an award-winning author, creative consultant and keynote speaker who believes in storytelling at all costs! She has been a featured speaker at Business of Software, Social Innovation Summit, Etsy, S.H.E. Summit, NPR, Comedy Central Stage, TEDx, and more. Her work has been written...Read more |
Head of Quality Ultimate Software
Tariq King is the Head of Quality at Ultimate Software. With over fifteen years' experience in software testing research and practice, Tariq leads a team of directors, architects, and engineers responsible for guidance, strategy, innovation and outreach in software quality and performance engineering. His areas of research interest include software...Read more |
Chief Evangelist, Author perfecto
Concurrent SessionsEran Kinsbruner is the chief evangelist and author at Perfecto, a Perforce company. He authored two books, The Digital Quality Handbook and Continuous Testing for DevOps Professionals. Eran is also a monthly columnist at InfoWorld.com and The Enterprisers Project. Eran is a software engineering professional with nearly twenty years of...Read more |
MasterControl
Bonus SessionsJim 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 |
InGenius Software
An Automation Architect at InGenius Software, Chris Loder is an automation enthusiast to the core. His passion and experience help companies reduce regression time and improve overall software quality. With over two decades of automation experience, he designs and implements automation frameworks with his team of automation developers. Chris is...Read more |
Sr Manager Experience Quality Standards Carnival Corp & plc
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 |
Lohr Systems
Training ClassClaire 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 |
Dow Jones
Sumeet Mandloi is an experienced professional with a career spanning nearly 20 years in quality assurance, test automation, and product and release management with leading companies like UBS, Citibank, and TD Ameritrade. Sumeet currently serves as engineering director at Dow Jones, where he supports faster releases, improves quality, and creates...Read more |
JetBloom
Wilson Mar has been building and bringing enterprise applications to market on major platforms—from mobile to server clouds—as an architect, developer, performance tester, and manager. His website provides concise, in-depth advice on leading technologies. For the past three years, Wilson has been refining his training techniques on Git...Read more |
Moser Consulting
Bonus SessionsJohn McConda is an experienced Software Quality Control/Assurance tester, technician, and manager. Experienced in multiple methods of software testing from rigorous validated system testing, to session-based exploratory testing, test automation, and performance. Teacher and speaker for software testing classes and conferences. |
Test Architect DellEMC
Concurrent SessionsGeoff Meyer is a test architect in the Dell EMC Infrastructure Solutions Group and has thirty-five years of industry experience as a software developer, manager, program manager, and director. He drives the test strategy and architecture for over four hundred software and hardware testers across India, Taiwan, and the United...Read more |
Software Engineer in Test WeWork
Concurrent SessionsTalia Nassi is a quality-driven Test Engineer at WeWork with a passion for breaking and rebuilding software to be the highest possible quality. She started interning in QA when she was studying at UC San Diego and immediately knew that she had found her calling. From UCSD she was recruited...Read more |
CA BlazeMeter
Concurrent SessionsKlaus Neuhold is a Product Manager at BlazeMeter. Klaus has 10+ years of experience in startup and enterprise environments in leadership roles as an entrepreneur, Product Manager, consultant, and software engineer. Klaus has spoken at conferences and meetups across Europe and the United States on DevOps Adoption for Enterprise, Open...Read more |
Northern Test Consulting AB
Training ClassKristoffer Nordström is a test developer who has worked with telecommunications systems, distributed compilers, cloud technology, smartphone OS development, embedded systems, and much more. As a testing devotee and a member of the context-driven test community, with his own company Kristoffer consults and teaches the course Python for Testers because...Read more |
Centric Consulting
Concurrent SessionsJoseph Ours has spent over two decades leading, coaching, speaking, and living the IT industry. Using his real-life, in-the-trenches experience, his view is radically different than most, a view focused on value individuals bring to an organization. He is the author of popular articles, such as, “Why You Need Women...Read more |
Testing Strategist and Evangelist Technology Strategy Research
Concurrent SessionsGerie Owen is Testing Strategist and Evangelist at Technology Strategy Research. She is a Certified Scrum Master, Conference Presenter and Author on technology and testing topics. She enjoys mentoring new QA Leads and brings a cohesive team approach to testing. Gerie is the author of many articles on technology including Agile...Read more |
Director, AutonomIQ Bonus SessionsRick is a former commissioned in the US Army Signal Corps, with 20 plus years experience as an entrepreneur and hi-tech executive. In addition to being a co-founder of VirtuOps, Rick was an early contributor at Mercury Interactive, and WorkSoft and he currently runs Revenue Operations at AutonomIQ.Read more |
Training ClassTauhida Parveen is a consultant and trainer specializing in software testing and cloud computing. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Florida Institute of Technology. She has over 10 years of experience working in Quality Assurance with organizations such as The WikiMedia Foundation, Millennium Engineering & Integration, Yahoo!,...Read more |
CEO and Founder Coveros
Training ClassLeadership Summit SessionsTutorialsKeynotesJeffery Payne is CEO and founder of Coveros, Inc., a consulting company that helps organizations accelerate delivery using agile methods. Since its inception in 2008, Coveros has become a market leader in agile and DevOps engineering while being recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies...Read more |
API Fortress
Concurrent SessionsPatrick Poulin has been working in NYC tech for 12 years. His career started as a project manager, but soon he was managing the retail vertical for a company building the first mobile websites for over 75 major brands such as Tesco, Target, Macys, and MAC Cosmetics. After a (thankfully)...Read more |
TD Bank
Concurrent SessionsAlireza Razavi has more than 20 years experience as a QA director, Senior Advisor, and Practice Lead in organizations like; TD BANK, BNP PARIBAS BANK, National Bank of Canada, Montreal exchange. He has managed, defined, established norms, standard, best practices and governance strategy for different testing teams both on and...Read more |
Microsoft
Women Who Test SessionsJeanne Blasi Riley is a strategic senior leader with extensive product/program management experience. She spent most of her career with Accenture and local consulting firms followed by several years at Amazon before joining Microsoft 3 years ago. Her passions are developing exceptional customer experiences and driving business process efficiency through...Read more |
Lead Test Engineer ACT/NRCCUA
Concurrent SessionsKat Rocha has over twenty years of experience in Test Engineering and is currently the Lead Test Engineer for the Austin Engineering group of Imperva, Inc., a leading cyber-security company. Kat has managed and lead test teams working at The Advisory Board Co., Dell, HP and Compaq, working on computer...Read more |
Lloyd Roden Consultancy
Concurrent SessionsTutorialsWith more than twenty-eight years in the software industry, Lloyd Roden has worked as a developer, test analyst, and test manager for many different organizations. Lloyd was a consultant/partner with Grove Consultants for twelve years. In 2011 he created Lloyd Roden Consultancy, an independent UK-based training and consultancy company specializing...Read more |
retest
Concurrent SessionsDr. Jeremias Rößler (@roesslerj) is the founder of retest, bringing AI to testing. He routinely speaks at international conferences, and is a blogger, developer & computer scientist. He is concerned with AI in testing and how to solve the “automation bottleneck”. He loves to...Read more |
Principle Consultant AmiBug.Com, Inc.
Training ClassTutorialsRob Sabourin has more than thirty-five 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 |
Principal Quality Architect Ultimate Software
Dionny Santiago is a Principal Quality Architect at Ultimate Software, a leading cloud provider of human capital management solutions. Dionny provides expertise and leadership in software testing and contributes in various capacities including hands-on testing, technical problem solving, training, and internal tools development. Test automation being one of his primary...Read more |
Director of Test and Automation Coveros
Max Saperstone has been working as a software and test engineer for over a decade, with a focus on test automation within the CI/CD process. He specializes in open source tools, including the Selenium tool suite, JMeter, AutoIT, Cucumber, and Chef. Max has led several test automation efforts, including developing...Read more |
Director of Testing and Quality Anthem
Concurrent SessionsAdam Satterfield, Director of Testing and Quality at Anthem, has been in the software testing industry for nearly 20 years. He has a wide background in industries such as military, SaaS, telecom and healthcare. Adam enjoys leading and mentoring quality assurance teams as well as teaching testers how to find...Read more |
Software Engineer Renaissance Electronic Services
Concurrent SessionsCurtis Severance is a Software Engineer with over seven years of software development experience for Renaissance Electronic Services. He is passionate about leading small development teams to assist software test engineers and tirelessly works to bridge the gap between engineers and testers.Read more |
Coveros
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 |
Texas Capital Bank
Concurrent SessionsSanjay Srinivas is an experienced IT Leader in a constant learning mode with core expertise in Software Testing/QA. Sanjay has been building and retaining high performing testing teams at Fortune 1000 companies for over ten years and has been consistently selected by executive management to handle challenging issues such as...Read more |
Vaco
Chief storyteller of the book The Three Pillars of Agile Testing and Quality, Mary Thorn is owner of Mary Thorn Consulting in Raleigh, NC. During her more than twenty years of experience with healthcare, financial, and HR SaaS-based products, Mary has held director, manager- and contributor-level positions in software development...Read more |
Senior QA Strategist Rainforest QA
Leadership Summit SessionsConcurrent SessionsMelissa Tondi has spent most of her career working within software testing teams. She is the founder of Denver Mobile and Quality (DMAQ), past president and board member of Software Quality Association of Denver (SQuAD), and Consultant Manager at Rainforest QA, where she assists companies to continuously improve the pursuit...Read more |
Delta Dental of Wisconsin
Concurrent SessionsJolene Trzebiatowski is the Quality Assurance Analyst in Software Test Automation at Delta Dental of Wisconsin, a leading provider of dental insurance in the state of Wisconsin. Her current primary focus is leading a test automation initiative involving multiple departments throughout the company. In a short matter of time, she...Read more |
Head – Quality Engineering & DevOps Practice, Marlabs Bonus SessionsSiva has over a decade and half of progressive experience in the software testing/quality engineering. He has architected and developed automation testing frameworks integrated with Agile and DevOps. Siva has rich experience in conducting QA/QE assessments and in helping organizations with business / technology transformations. Siva holds several professional degrees...Read more |
Managing Director Technology Strategy Research
Concurrent SessionsPeter Varhol is a software strategist and evangelist who closely observes the testing industry and uses his knowledge and experience to identify new technologies and help companies respond to those trends. His diverse technical background enables him to seamlessly integrate new technologies into his practices and provides him with a...Read more |
Salesforce
Concurrent SessionsDmitry Vinnik is a Lead Software Engineer at Salesforce and has been passionate about Software Quality since the very beginning of his career. He started out as a Quality Engineer, and was able to bring test expertise into his current Software Engineering role to ensure delivery of a high quality...Read more |
President TechWell Corp.
Women Who Test SessionsAlison Wade is the President of TechWell and 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 has been the Program Chair for the Mobile Dev + Test and IoT...Read more |
Quicken Loans
Hilary Weaver-Robb is a software quality architect at Detroit-based Quicken Loans. She is a mentor to her fellow QA team members, makes friends with developers, and helps teams level-up their quality processes, tools, and techniques. Hilary has always been passionate about improving the relationships between developers and testers, and evangelizes...Read more |
Software Engineer Renaissance Electronic Services
Concurrent SessionsKaleb Weddle is the newest Software Engineer in Test at Renaissance Electronic Services. He has taken automation tactics from a large-scale company to a smaller business while maintaining the same level of automation coverage. In conjunction, Kaleb works with development to strengthen CI build pipelines to speed up deployment cycles...Read more |
Engineering Manager MakeMusic
Concurrent SessionsJason Wick has more than a decade of 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 testing and QA...Read more |
Ultimate Software
Concurrent SessionsYesenia Yser has over eight years in Information Technology and Software Security. She holds a bachelor's degree in computer science and a master's degree in digital forensics. Her professional background is composed of security software development and incident response, with emphasis on customer support, communication, training, security, and leadership awareness....Read more |