Conference Speakers

Adam Auerbach is the Vice President of Cloud and DevTestSecOps 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...Read more

Lee Barnes has over 25 years of experience in the Software Quality Assurance and Testing field. He has been involved in the implementation of test automation and performance testing solutions in hundreds of environments across a wide array of industries. As CTO of Utopia Solutions, Lee is responsible for the...Read more

Suze Bolduc wrote her first test automation while working on a homegrown solution using REXX in a VM/CMS IBM 370 environment in the 1990's. Then graduated to teaching HTML classes and other technical classes. She moved on to teach herself automation tools like QARun, Test Complete, Selenium and Geb. Currently,...Read more

Jennifer Bonine is the CEO of AI Appstore, Inc., and was the first female Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) platform tech CEO. AI Appstore specializes in custom subscription technology bundles, leveraging an intelligent platform using a personalized ‘virtual research assistant’ to enhance corporate growth. The company exceeds expectations of integration, testing, delivery,...Read more

Douglas Burton has been a QA engineer, test team manager, trainer, and mentor for 17 years. He has specialized in automated and manual software testing in healthcare, hospitality, and media industries where he has built teams from the ground up for startups and evolved existing test teams to look at testing...Read more

Jenna Charlton has been a software tester for nearly a decade. In that time she’s focused on manual testing, taking a particular interest in web accessibility and usability. Jenna’s experience in testing runs the gamut from lone tester on a Scrum team to test lead on an enterprise-level project. Jenna’s...Read more

Nandan Chhabra is a technology enthusiast at heart who likes to explore new technologies. Professionally, he has over 8 years of industry experience in SDLC and STLC. Has worked on different development methodologies like Agile, Waterfall and Kanban. Currently working as a Lead, QA Automation, and providing automated solutions covering...Read more

Since he got his first computer at age thirteen, Kaushal Dalvi has been interested in systems and software performance. He spent days researching performance characteristics of different motherboards, CPUs, GPUs, RAM, and disks to configure and overclock them in order to squeeze the maximum frames per second out of the...Read more

Travis Davidson is an accomplished Senior Quality Engineering Leader. Travis currently leads a team of creative engineers responsible for ensuring quality, risk reduction, performance engineering and monitoring. With over 13 years in software quality, development, process management and Agile methodologies, Travis has continuously demonstrated best in class technology and process...Read more

Chris DeMars is a Developer Advocate at Rocket Mortgage, the nation’s largest lender, based in Detroit, Michigan. He has over 20 years of technical experience and speaks all over the world on web accessibility, and CSS. For his community contributions, he holds awards as a Microsoft MVP, Google Developer Expert, and...Read more

Shivani Gaba is a passionate QA Engineer who believes that knowledge sharing boosts up all engaged parties and increases their confidence. It was summer of 2013 when Shivani and “testing” met each other for the first time and have been best friends since then. Holding rich experience in the testing...Read more

As 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

Paul Herzog is a Group Product Manager at Devbridge in Chicago.  He has over 20 years of experience in backlog elaboration and refinement, business analysis, software quality assurance and Agile planning as a Scrum Master.  His engineering career has taken him through projects in a wide variety of industries, from...Read more

Dr. Jess Ingrassellino is the engineering manager for Influx Data. She is a frequent speaker at international conferences and focuses on community, collaboration, and improvisational practices for enriching professional life. In her spare time, Jess teaches software testing and Python, writes, and plays violin and viola.Read more

Jagdish Karira leads an agile and DevOps digital transformation services practice at one of the leading consulting companies. Jagdish is an innovative, self-motivated, result-oriented, fiscally responsible, pragmatic, relentless, as well as a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) Program Consultant (SPC), SAFe® DevOps Practitioner (SDP), ICAgile® DevOps Certified Professional who is Coaching...Read more

Byron Katz has been in love with computers since his father bought the family a Commodore 64. A degreed architect, he found his way back to software development in 2010, and his career has included roles as a quality assurance lead, a full-stack developer, consultant, and sales engineer. Byron has...Read more

Rob Lambert is on a mission to make management more interesting, rewarding, and fun. It's an uphill struggle. Rob started his career as a software tester, became an engineering manager, and then made the logical move sideways to HR, before setting up his own management consulting company. When he's not...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

Aprajita Mathur is a mom, inventor, mentor and international speaker with an engineering background in Bioinformatics. She has more than 15+ years of software testing experience. She has worked on a wide range of products like instrument software, LIMS, integrated solutions and data analysis pipelines which are used in the...Read more

Mark Minson is a Swiss-Army knife in the QA field. A certified Scrum Master with QA Lead and automation experience, he has also spent time doing project management and an assortment of other duties. He enjoys the challenge of quality and having fun in the workplace. Since going back to...Read more

Joel Montvelisky is a Co-Founder and Chief Solution Architect at PractiTest. Joel has been in testing and QA since 1997, working as a tester, QA Manager and Director, and a Consultant for companies in Israel, the US and the EU. Joel is also a blogger with the QA Intelligence Blog,...Read more

Talia Nassi is an international keynote speaker who delivers content on all things testing and quality. She is currently a Senior Development Advocate at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Previously, she worked at Split Software as a developer advocate and at WeWork as an engineer, and implemented Testing in Production from...Read more

Jaimee Newberry worked in the web interaction, design, and development industry from 1998 to 2013, with emphasis on empathetic and behavioral psychology-applied interface design for web, mobile web, and iOS applications. Currently, she is the cofounder and CEO of Picture This Clothing, which started as a passion project launched by a...Read more

Jeffery 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

Kanika Rehani is a Principal Designer at test.ai. An SVA alumni, she previously held a lead design role at Hearst, Inc.’s Emerging Tech team (focusing on Voice AI for Amazon Alexa apps). Kanika also drove design for BranchOut, Oyster, CondéNast Portfolio, NYMag, et.al. She has a design background in multimodal...Read more

Adam Sandman was a programmer from the age of 10 and has been working in the IT industry for the past 20 years in areas such as architecture, agile development, testing and project management. Currently Adam is a Director of Technology at Inflectra Corporation, where he is interested in technology,...Read more

Adam Satterfield, Sr Director of Test Engineering at Global Payments, has been in the software testing industry for 20 years. He has a wide background in industries such as military, SaaS, telecom, mobile, healthcare and finance. Adam enjoys leading and mentoring quality assurance teams as well as teaching testers how...Read more

Amy Smidutz is the Director of the Delivery Engineering Team at Netflix. Delivery Engineering owns a variety of platforms responsible for Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Infrastructure Experimentation. She and her team continue to build and enhance delivery tools that enable engineers at Netflix to deploy their services with confidence...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

Mythili Venkat is a technology consulting leader with significant experience in quality engineering, digital transformations and program management. She has handled large custom application development engagements and has successfully enabled quality engineering levers for successful delivery. She has significant experience tailoring QE strategies to suit applications on the cloud and...Read more

Harshal Vora is a skilled DevOps and Mobility Practice Lead with credible standing across different roles - Solutions Architect, Technology lead, Thought Leader. Leading solution engineering initiatives to drive development efficiency, improve business agility and help capture new revenue streams across industry verticals. Ambitious, self-driven technologist with 10+ years in...Read more

Mark Waite maintains the Jenkins git plugin and is the Jenkins documentation officer. He's a long-time contributor to the Jenkins project and has been involved in software delivery and software testing for many years. He's a manager at CloudBees and a frequent contributor to open source software. He is one...Read more