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

A 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 an engagement for...Read more

Originally focused on becoming an accountant, Marcia Buzzella shifted gears and twenty years ago applied her passion for quality and details to the art of software testing. She is now the testing practice leader at CSAA Insurance Group, where she manages the creation and maintenance of testing standards, builds trusted...Read more

Melissa Chawla manages a software development team at Guidewire. For the previous five years, she managed the test infrastructure and performance engineering teams at Shutterfly. Prior to that, Melissa held software development positions at startups in the high performance computing storage and development tools software industries. She worked in the...Read more

With thirteen years of QA experience across various logistic domains, Lisa denDekker-Redemann is the UPS flight and crew QA manager, working on mobile solutions, creating a mobile lab, and transitioning her area to DevOps. Lisa’s responsibilities have included transitioning the QA role to agile, re-defining QA artifacts, and championing the...Read more

Independent quality and testing consultant Isabel Evans has more than thirty years of IT experience in quality management and testing in the financial, communications, and software sectors. Her quality management work focuses on encouraging IT teams and customers to work together via flexible processes designed and tailored by the teams...Read more

Andrea Fox was a collections supervisor before making the switch to software testing as a test analyst. With a natural curiosity and mind for detail, it quickly became the perfect fit. A senior test analyst with Cerner for three years, Andrea spends her time developing an internal best practice for...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

At American Family Insurance Byron Glick is part of the I/S quality engineering team, delivering software quality assurance, people advantages, and practice transformation. His passion is helping technologists deliver greater value to their organizations and constituents. Byron led the first campus-wide ISP for the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the first...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

Dawn 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

Brian 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

An Open Group Master Certified IT specialist in application development, Marianne Hollier has strong, practical expertise in measurably improving the software development lifecycle and driving the necessary cultural changes to make it work. Marianne is instrumental in architecting, tailoring, and deploying best practices and appropriate software development tools on many...Read more

QA department head at Baaz, Inc., Talal Ibdah has more than seven years of experience and knowledge covering the areas of e-business performance optimization and quality engineering, release management, leadership, test automation, strategic data analysis, social media marketing, as well as project management, progress monitoring, and performance KPI tracking. Talal...Read more

Sreekala Kalidindi is a senior software test engineer and certified Scrum Master, currently working with E-gineering, LLC, a custom software solutions company based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Sreekala has been manually testing software products for over twelve years and has been doing so within regulated industries for the past four years....Read more

Tariq King is the director of quality engineering at Ultimate Software. With more than fifteen years of experience in software testing research and practice, Tariq provides technical leadership, people leadership, strategic direction, and staff training in software quality and test engineering. He has previously held positions of test manager, test...Read more

Mark Lambert, Vice President of Products, is responsible for ensuring that Parasoft solutions deliver real value to the organizations adopting them. His team helps customers optimize their software development processes by assessing their specific development needs, then determining how to apply Parasoft technologies, processes, and methodologies to achieve their goals....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

Working with companies and testing teams of all sizes and skills, Jeffrey Martin is product owner of SmartBear Software’s test management solution QAComplete. With more than fifteen years of experience in product management, quality, regulatory, sales, engineering, and marketing, Jeffrey brings his broad, cross-discipline skill set to uncover unique insights...Read more

Kenneth Merkel’s twenty-two year IT career has covered development, test, and operations. From developing in the telecommunications industry to helping customers with development platforms, testing frameworks, and operations platforms for monitoring applications, Kenneth has spanned the entire SDLC. For the past seven years Kenneth has focused on service virtualization at...Read more

A test architect in the Dell EMC infrastructure solutions group, Geoff Meyer has more than thirty years of industry experience as a software developer, manager, program manager, and director. Geoff oversees the test strategy and architecture for more than 400 software and hardware testers across India, Taiwan, and the United...Read more

With operations experience in a variety of regulatory settings from public utilities to video games, Bill has been involved in projects that require compliance with payment processing, privacy, rate structures and consumer protection. After joining a global QA organization, Bill broadened his legal and regulatory compliance background with testing for regional requirements from around...Read more

Michael Nauman started out his career doing computer aided design but after a decade made the leap from an AutoCAD user to a tester on the test development team for Autodesk Inc.’s flagship product AutoCAD. He has spent the past twenty years testing various versions of AutoCAD. Michael started out...Read more

Kristoffer Nordström is a Test Developer that in his career has worked with technologies such as Telecommunications System, Distributed Compilers, Cloud technology, Smartphone OS development, Embedded systems, and much more. A testing devotee and a member of the Context-Driven test community who with his own company, Kristoffer consults and teaches...Read more

Jeffery Payne is CEO and founder of Coveros, Inc., a software company that builds secure software applications using agile methods. Since its inception in 2008, Coveros has become a market leader in secure agile principles and recognized by Inc. magazine in 2012 as one of the fastest growing private companies...Read more

An information technology leader at Infosys, Jithesh Ramachandran has expertise in software development, quality assurance, testing, and software process improvement in a highly matrixed and collaborative environment. He has more than seventeen years of strategic leadership experience providing technology-enabled business solutions. Jithesh has used his IT role to align with...Read more

Paola Rossaro is Co-Founder and CTO at Nouvola. She loves seeing data and distributed systems in action, working flawlessly. Her career has spanned leadership roles at Teachscape and Wind River where she was responsible for the teams ensuring distributed enterprise application testing and monitoring (i.e.: making sure everything works flawlessly)....Read more

Anna Russo is an ALM MVP specializing in ALM TFS Software Process consulting and training. Since 2008 Anna has worked with a variety of clients to improve their software quality and processes by properly implementing Microsoft Team Foundation Server, Test Manager, and Visual Studio tools. Anna applies hands on expertise...Read more

VP of testing services at KMS Technology, Adam Satterfield leads software testing and DevOps for this technology consulting and development firm. He is responsible for integrating manual and automated testing as well as DevOps strategy across the Atlanta and Ho Chi Minh City offices of KMS Technology, where nearly 700...Read more

Calabrio’s quality assurance manager Karen Schaefer is responsible for reviewing processes and metrics to increase quality and reduce risk across Calabrio's product deployments. With twenty-five years of quality assurance and software testing experience, Karen applies her analytical and organizational talents to continually refine the testing approach to keep the QA...Read more

TechWell’s CIO and president of SQE 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...Read more

Tom Stiehm is a 20 year veteran of the Information Technology industry. He has spent the past 10 years managing, designing and implementing software products and applications using agile software development methods. Prior to Coveros, Tom held a variety of CTO and architect positions at software development companies. Tom is...Read more

Chief storyteller of The Three Pillars of Agile Testing and Quality, Mary Thorn is director of agile practices at Ipreo in Raleigh, NC. Mary has a broad agile and testing background that spans automation, data warehouses, and web-based systems in a wide variety of technologies and testing techniques. During her...Read more

Vincent Truong has eighteen years of hands-on experience in globalization quality engineering. He is a globalization quality engineering manager at VMware and has been managing the QE efforts for VMware products under the cloud management business unit (CMBU) for five years. He serves as a globalization program manager, helping drive...Read more