Conference Speakers
 CEO Checkie.AI
Jason Arbon is the CEO at Checkie.AI. His mission is to test all the world's apps. Google’s AI investment arm led the funding for his previous company (test.ai). Jason previously worked on several large-scale products: web search at Google and Bing, the web browsers Chrome and Internet Explorer, operating systems such...Read more |
 VP of Cloud and DevTestSecOps EPAM Systems
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 |
 Lead Quality Engineer Salesforce
Safiya Bano is a seasoned Lead Quality Engineer at Salesforce, bringing over a decade of profound testing experience in both product and service-oriented enterprises. Currently at the forefront of shaping test strategy, Safiya adopts a customer-driven mindset to navigate multiple Salesforce products towards success. Her influential role extends to orchestrating...Read more |
 Director of Engineering mParticle
Melissa Benua has worked in nearly every software development role—dev, test, DevOps, and program management—at companies big and small and somewhere in-between. She's created and run high availability, high-quality services for PlayFab, Bing, Cortana, and Xbox One, and now for mParticle's enormous data platform. Melissa discovered her love of massively-scaled...Read more |
 Release Train Engineer Edward Jones
Concurrent SessionsRichelle Bixler is a seasoned Release Train Engineer (RTE) and Agile Coach, whose dynamic journey began in 2018 with an airplane development program at Boeing. She has worked with engineers, HR professionals, and currently supports finance technology at Edward Jones. She obtained her RTE certification in 2018 after a whirlwind...Read more |
 Software Quality Assurance Engineer III Western & Southern Financial Group
Jennie Burger is a Software Quality Assurance Engineer at Western & Southern Financial Group where she has spent the last 13 years in various testing and QA roles. She kicked off a Software Quality Assurance Community of Practice for her organization and has worked on numerous projects, including the implementation...Read more |
 Managing Practitioner PhoenixTeam
Shawn J Burke has been developing software since he was eight years old. He is passionate about software delivery like football fans are passionate about the Super Bowl—he has worked every facet of the software stack. Starting as a developer when specifications still came on the back of napkins, Mr....Read more |
 Head of Quality SpeakWithQuality.com
Women Who Test SessionsTutorialsErika Chestnut stands as a dedicated advocate for quality, culture, and leadership, serving as the guiding force behind The Leaders' QA Consulting. Seamlessly navigating these domains, she has become a reliable authority in leadership development. With a focus on leadership coaching, consulting, and workshop facilitation, Erika's mission is to support...Read more |
 UKG
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 |
 Executive General Manager - Technology & Innovation Planit
Concurrent SessionsJoel Deutscher is the driving force behind cutting-edge technology and innovation at one of the foremost pure-play testing companies globally. With over two decades of testing industry experience under his belt, Joel is no stranger to the ever-evolving landscape of quality assurance. His passion lies in the realm of continuous improvement,...Read more |
 CEO and Founder Engenious.io
Leadership Summit SessionsIgor Dorovskikh, CEO and Founder of Engenious.io, is a renowned expert in mobile development and testing with 15+ years of experience. His company serves elite clients, including Apple, Grammarly, and RewardStyle (LTK). Known for his proficiency in building exceptional engineering teams, Igor has successfully delivered top-notch mobile applications with high...Read more |
 Quality Architect EPAM Systems
Péter Földházi was first involved with QA as a beta tester of DOTA in 2006. Since joining EPAM in 2012, he moved towards test automation, and is currently working in the USA as a Quality Architect. He has experience in designing and developing solutions for mobile, web and desktop applications within...Read more |
 Principal Consultant EPAM Systems
Julie Gardiner works as a Principal Consultant at EPAM Systems, providing consultancy, delivery, and advice in all aspects of testing, management, and agile/DevOps. She is a certified Scrum Master and agile coach, who has over 25 years of experience, including time as a Developer, DBA, Project Manager, Head of Operations...Read more |
 Manager, Quality Assurance Fox Corporation
Concurrent SessionsGregory Goldshteyn is a QA Leader with years of experience in the IT industry. His professional journey includes well-known companies such as Canon, Thomson Routers, Salesforce, First Data, Sony, ADP, and Fox. He is honored to be included in Bristol Who's Who, a exclusive international registry that honors and recognizes...Read more |
 Solutions Architect Tricentis
Andres Gomez Potdevin has worked with Tricentis for the past 5 years as a Solution Architect focused on the areas of test management and test automation. He's had the pleasure of working with a wide range of industries and global user base to help guide their test management strategy and...Read more |
 Lead SDET Rhythm Management Group
As a goal-oriented and innovative Software Engineer, Anand Gopalakrishnan has a proven track record in crafting efficient automation frameworks for regression testing. His expertise lies in Full Stack Development, Software Design, and Test Automation, with a wealth of experience managing pivotal projects and leading Quality Engineer teams. In his role...Read more |
 Head of Testing Products EPAM Systems
Concurrent SessionsDmitriy Gumeniuk is the Head of Testing Products, Senior Delivery Manager at EPAM Systems, a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and software development services. Dmitriy led development of solution accelerators at Test Competency Center, focusing of Machine Learning and Neural Networks usage in test automation such as Healenium,...Read more |
 VP of QA HealthEdge
With an extensive background spanning over 15 years in software quality assurance including at Tinder, GoodRx, and Oscar Health, Priyanka Halder is a certified leader deeply committed to steering large-scale quality engineering, automation, and compliance projects within global multi-billion-dollar organizations. Holding a Master of Science in Computer Science from California...Read more |
 Software Development Engineer in Test MRI Software
Concurrent SessionsTim Heck has over 25 years of experience in the software industry and has been working with automated testing for over half of those years. He has a deep understanding of automation and has implemented solutions for several large-scale projects in the financial, automotive, and marketing sectors. Tim has experience...Read more |
 Engineer Bloomberg
Concurrent SessionsRyan Hoban is an engineer at Bloomberg, where he works on the company’s Software Security Platform team. He previously worked on Trading Systems, Fixed Income Pricing, and Quality Engineering. A strong advocate for proper testing processes & automation, he has developed several training courses to evangelize a test automation strategy...Read more |
 DevRel Replay.io
TutorialsFilip Hric is DevRel at Replay.io. He teaches testers about web development and developers about testing. Filip is an international keynote speaker and one of the leading experts on test automation in Cypress.io. He’s an author of several Cypress workshops and has taught hundreds of testers and developers around the...Read more |
 SVP, Mobile, DevOps, and Security Solutions Appdome
Concurrent SessionsKaren Hsu is SVP Mobile DevOps and Security Solutions at Appdome, focused on automating the delivery of secure mobile apps inside the DevOps pipeline. She co-founded BlockchainIntel to identify fraud in ACH, credit card, and crypto transactions, becoming part of Appdome to extend the mission of protecting people and companies...Read more |
 Lead Engineer Browserstack
Concurrent SessionsAs a Lead Engineer at Browserstack for the past three years, Puja Jagani drives automation advancements, particularly in the Selenium project. Her role encompasses bug fixes, user support, feature enhancements, product advancement, and documentation. Puja serves as a core committer and member of the Technical Leadership Committee in Selenium, focusing...Read more |
 Lead Software Engineer Disney
Concurrent SessionsJohn Jenkins has been in the software testing trenches for over 15 years, creating testing solutions for both front-end and back-end testing challenges. With around 10 years experience working with Selenium type solutions, and close to five years working with API and backend automation, he has begun focusing his efforts...Read more |
 Cloud Engineer/Data Engineer KwaanBear
Concurrent SessionsDion Johnson has spent much of his 25+ years in IT as a contractor working on mission critical efforts in various roles within the software development lifecycle. Former President and CEO of the Automated Testing Institute he currently functions as a Data Engineer and Cloud Engineer with a Security+ certification...Read more |
 Staff Software Engineer in Test Guardant Health
Concurrent SessionsDeepika Kale is deeply passionate about coding and software testing. With every line of code she writes and every test she conducts, Deepika is driven by a desire to create reliable and innovative software solutions. With over eight years of experience as a Staff Software Engineer in Test, she's deeply...Read more |
 Associate Director Cognizant Technology Solutions
Concurrent SessionsVinod Kashid has 18+ years of experience in performance engineering. Currently, he is managing performance engineering delivery for Insurance clients. His experience includes building Chaos experiments for validating application resiliency and availability and he has completed 2 Gremlin certifications for Chaos Engineering. Vinod's experience spans various industries and includes strategizing...Read more |
 Chief Engagement Officer HALO Strategies
Concurrent SessionsTania Katan has been helping innovative leaders and fast-growth brands harness the power of storytelling to transform apathy into alchemy, metrics into movements, and status quo into social change. She is a potent keynote speaker, well-respected innovation coach, and visionary mind behind the globally viral social impact campaign #ItWasNeverADress, a...Read more |
 Qualiti
Concurrent SessionsCarlos Kidman is a Director of Engineering at Qualiti but was formerly an Engineering Manager at Adobe. He is also an instructor at Test Automation University with courses around architecture, design, containerization, and Machine Learning. He is the founder of QA at the Point, which is the Testing and Quality...Read more |
 CEO and Head Test IO
Tariq King is a recognized thought-leader in software quality engineering. He is currently the CEO and Head of Test IO, an EPAM company that specializes in crowdsourced and professional testing, development, and automation services. Tariq has over fifteen years' professional experience in the software industry, and has formerly held positions...Read more |
 Senior Director of Product Management Cycle Labs
Andrew Knight, also known as “Pandy,” is the Automation Panda. He’s a software quality champion who loves to help people build better quality software. Currently, he works as the Senior Director of Product Management at Cycle Labs, focusing on building an excellent test automation platform for enterprise systems. Previously, Pandy...Read more |
 Test Automation Engineer Cronn
KeynotesAs a child, Sophie Küster wanted to be a ballerina or an astronaut...or both. Today, she holds diplomas in math and yodeling and is a test automation engineer at Cronn, a Bonn, German-based IT company. After years of successfully hunting bugs, she also trains and leads other testers. Recently, she...Read more |
 Consultant Coveros
Phil LaFrance is a software engineer very experienced in working in super fast-paced and agile environments where ambiguity is common and the need to be constantly learning is a requirement. Some of his favorite challenges are tackling difficult tasks that require learning and thought to solve. Prior to joining Coveros,...Read more |
 CTO & Co-founder Speedscale
Concurrent SessionsMatthew LeRay has invested the past 25 years improving the performance of applications across multiple generations of technology. Prior to co-founding Speedscale, he was head of product at Observe, SVP at CA Technologies (acquired by Broadcom) and engineering leader at ILC (acquired by General Dynamics). He is an alumnus of...Read more |
 Senior Manager of Quality Assurance BluWave-ai
Concurrent SessionsTutorialsChris Loder, Senior Manager of Quality Assurance at BluWave-ai, is an automation enthusiast to the core. His passion and experience allow him to help companies reduce regression time and improve overall software quality. With over two decades of automation experience, he designs and implements automation frameworks, helping companies reduce their...Read more |
 Senior Quality Specialist MOIA Gmbh
Concurrent SessionsWith nearly a decade of experience in the QA field, Zhanat Mambetbayeva has navigated the spectrum from manual to automated testing, hardware to software testing, waterfall to agile, and from desktop to mobile applications, moving from local startup in Kazakstan to international companies in Russia and Germany. Her journey through...Read more |
 QA Manager Randstad USA
Concurrent SessionsA working mom and constantly striving to achieve the best possible work life balance, Sapna Manjunath is a very motivated and energetic professional. As a certified US Mentor for her company, she is always looking for ways to help others. Having worked in the Quality Assurance field for several years,...Read more |
 Director of Product Management Mozilla
Concurrent SessionsJeremiah Marble is a product leader, founder, author and speaker. He focuses on building high-quality, customer-centric products in the AI era. His career includes leadership roles at Mozilla and Microsoft, where he helped grow the Windows Insider Program from a whiteboard to 22+ million people worldwide. An advocate for tech...Read more |
 Principal QA Engineer Broadcom Inc.
Concurrent SessionsDave Martin has been in the QA industry for 25 years and has built many automation frameworks using a variety of tools. He has experience working in a variety of industries from Publishing to Healthcare to Finance to Security. Dave has presented at RoboCon (the annual Robot Framework conference) and has...Read more |
 Associate Director, Bioinformatics System Software Engineering Guardant Health
Women Who Test SessionsConcurrent SessionsAprajita 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 |
 DevRel Grafana k6
Concurrent SessionsTutorialsLeandro Melendez is a performance testing advocate with K6-Grafana helping everyone to ramp up on their performance practices. He has over 20 years of experience in IT and over 10 in the performance testing practice where he served multiple S&P500 customers all over the USA, Mexico,...Read more |
 Founder and Chief Technology Evangelist SQALogic
Concurrent SessionsDavid Milette is the DevOps Advisory Board Content Chair at DevNetwork, an advisor to Henry and Wolf cybersecurity and data governance law firm, a founding member of the Canadian Quality and Testing Association (CQTA), and cofounder of SQALogic. David leverages his deep knowledge of quality engineering and his expertise in...Read more |
 Director KPMG
Concurrent SessionsAs a digital transformation leader, Sharad Nagariya specializes in guiding clients on testing strategies for emerging technologies like AI and Cloud (GCP), designing quality engineering governance, DevSecOps, and other testing processes to deliver high-quality and tested products. With a proven track record in Cloud migration and implementation projects, with a...Read more |
 Technology Analyst State Farm
Concurrent SessionsAaron Nelson has over twenty years of experience working for State Farm on various efforts as a tester and QA Specialist. After starting with support of call monitoring tools, he moved to workstation platform testing. He later worked on an agile project to create an activity management system as his...Read more |
 CIO Atlas Revolutions, Inc.
Concurrent SessionsSaahil has been a leader in transforming organizations and teams by helping them master Agile, Scaled Agile, and DevOps best practices for over 15 years. He has experience working with large-scale transformations in a variety of contexts. He has worked with start-ups and small businesses, the Federal Government, Fortune 100...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 |
 Sr Manager, Developer Relations GitHub
Concurrent SessionsJon Peck manages GitHub’s Enterprise Advocacy team in the Americas, and meets regularly with exec-level audiences to familiarize them with GitHub’s view of the world, industry knowledge, and product offerings. He leverages 25 years of technical and professional experience to bring engaging, real-world learnings to boardrooms and global conferences. Jon...Read more |
 Software Quality Engineer Mountain America Credit Union
Concurrent SessionsRebecca Petersen started her testing journey in college when the Teaching Assistant mentioned that the testing done for a programming homework assignment might have gone “a little overboard”. It’s been 8 years and a couple of jobs since then and there is nothing to stop her passion for quality. She’s...Read more |
 Product Owner Planit
Concurrent SessionsJarrod Plant is a seasoned professional with 20 years of experience in software testing consulting, providing him with a diverse range of skills and knowledge in various industries, tools, and corporate cultures. He has a technical background, with experience in both Automation & Performance testing, that is balanced by his...Read more |
 Senior Manager of Security Content Cisco
James Risler oversees security course development at Cisco. He works to educate organizations on cybersecurity topics including threat defense, virtual private networks, and firewall configuration. He has 25+ years of IT experience, has launched and managed several firms, worked for Walt Disney World and other major companies, taught security courses...Read more |
 Principle Consultant AmiBug.Com, Inc.
Rob 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 |
 CEO Inflectra
Concurrent SessionsAdam Sandman, founded Inflectra in 2006, and serves as the company’s CEO. He is responsible for product strategy, technology innovation, and business development. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his family. Prior to founding Inflectra, Sandman worked as a Director for Sapient Corporation, where he was in charge of projects with...Read more |
 Product Strategist Parasoft
Concurrent SessionsRenata Santillan, Product Strategist at Parasoft, skillfully aligns product capabilities with customer behavior. With over 8 years immersed in testing tool companies, she embraces all facets of testing, constantly devising innovative ways to engage the community and enhance the developer and QA experience. Having navigated wearing different hats at startups...Read more |
 Sr. Test Architecture Manager Align Technology
Sargis Sargsyan is a professional in the software industry with over ten years of experience. He is a believer in the principles of Agile and teamwork and has honed his skills while working in distributed international teams, utilizing Agile/Scrum/Kanban methodologies. Sargis has been associated with reputable companies specializing in Mobile,...Read more |
 Chief Trouble Maker - Co-Pilot and AI Extensibility Microsoft
Women Who Test SessionsKeynotesDona Sakar believes you are one experiment away from being your most powerful self at work. And yes, in life! Currently, at her day job, she's running 100 experiments as the Chief Troublemaker of the Microsoft AI and Copilot Extensibility Program. Her goal is that people all over the world...Read more |
 Senior Software Test Engineer Expedition Technology
Concurrent SessionsA versatile quality assurance leader with over 10 years of hands-on software and test engineering experience, Sylvia Solorzano has repeatedly helped build cohesive QA teams, company wide training programs, and testing frameworks from the ground up for high-tech industry leaders. Currently guiding overall product quality strategy for Expedition Technology, a...Read more |
 Coveros
Mike Sowers has over forty years of practical experience as a global leader of internationally distributed IT teams across multiple industries. Mike is a senior leader, skilled in working with both large and small organizations to improve their agile software development, testing, and DevOps delivery approaches. Mike is an industry...Read more |
 CTO Coveros
Training ClassConcurrent SessionsTutorialsTom Stiehm has been developing applications and managing software development teams for over twenty years. As CTO of Coveros, he is responsible for the oversight of all technical projects and integrating new technologies and testing practices into software development projects. Recently, Tom has been focusing on how to incorporate DevSecOps...Read more |
 Executive Partner DNAMIC AI
Concurrent SessionsSufyan Subzwari began life as a C++ developer in the wireless technology industry. Intel Corporation brought Sufyan to the west coast where he matured his software skills focusing on test automation. Throughout his career, Sufyan has consulted for Fortune 50 companies including Apple and Lockheed Martin where he advanced the...Read more |
 QA Technical Director Parser
Concurrent SessionsAriadna Trueba studied technology at University and started working in the IT department, until she realized she had a passion for checking bugs and issues. She decided to start investigating further into the QA side and after working as a long experienced QA manual, started diving further into QA automation....Read more |
.jpg%3Fitok=E1dFHSH9&sc=227ec83179b754d6635ecaac669693d2) President TechWell Corp.
KeynotesAlison 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 currently serves as the Program Chair for EPIC Experience, STAREAST, and STARWEST. She plays a...Read more |
 Software Engineer in Test Q2
TutorialsSarah Watkins is a Software Engineer in Test at Q2 where she works on an automated end-to-end web UI testing solution that continuously runs thousands of tests daily. She also shares her knowledge of best practices and good coding methodologies with other teams. In addition to this, she is a...Read more |
 Software Test Architect Trimble PPM, Inc.
James Wood is the Software Test Architect for Trimble, Inc. As researcher, developer, and tester, he has worked 38 years for firms that include Siemens, Google, and Ultimate Software. His primary areas of research have included software testing and architecture. As a developer, he has focused on back-end services, application-level...Read more |
 Head of AI, Agile, Quality Practices Zsquare Solutions Inc.
TutorialsConcurrent SessionsLisette Zounon is an accomplished tech executive, serial entrepreneur, and quality engineering leader with two decades of experience helping people and companies improve the quality of their applications with solid tools, a simple process, and a smart team. She firmly believes that industry best practices, including implementing agile methodologies, DevOps...Read more |