Conference Speakers
 Senior Software Engineer VISA USA, INC
Navya Alapati, a Senior Software Engineer at VISA USA, INC, is celebrated for her innovative contributions to data processing. With a robust background in designing, developing, maintaining, and optimizing database solutions, Navya has driven business success through high-performance databases supporting complex applications and large-scale data processing. Her deep understanding of...Read more |
 Director of Quality Engineering Hilton
Concurrent SessionsWith over 20 years in the testing industry, George Andraws has seen it all. He has successfully led transformative quality initiatives and scaled diverse product portfolios at tech giants like Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon. He has conducted over 1,000 interviews and grown multiple teams as a Director of Quality Engineering....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 |
 Chief Quality Officer Forte Group
Concurrent SessionsLee Barnes has over 30 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. Most recently, he has been involved with bringing quality practices...Read more |
 CEO Code Lingual LLC
Hajer Ben Moussa, founder and CEO of Code Lingual, has been a prominent figure in the testing industry for almost a decade. Specializing in agile software development practices, she brings extensive expertise in manual and automation testing of client servers and web-based applications. Code Lingual, her brainchild, is a multilingual...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 |
 Automation Lead Fidelity Investments
Concurrent SessionsDr. Rajkumar J. Bhojan is an expert in AI and automation with more than two decades of experience in academics and IT. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Bharathiar University, India, and holds M.Sc (Physics), MCA (CS), and M.Phil (CS) degrees. Dr. Raj has multiple U.S. Patents and...Read more |
 Engineering Leader Microsoft
Ronit Bohrer Hillel is an Engineering Leader at Microsoft and a seasoned product-engineering leader with a proven track record of delivering innovative solutions and enterprise-scale products. With over 20 years of diverse experience, she has successfully led Engineering, QA, Product, and Science teams across various domains, including SaaS, AI, no-code,...Read more |
 Principal & Founder Ignite Insight + Innovation
Tricia Broderick, co-author of Lead without Blame, is a leadership and organizational advisor. With over twenty-five years of experience, her transformational leadership ignites the growth of leaders and resilient high-performing teams to deliver quality outcomes. Tricia boldly role models putting people first. She aims to create inclusive connections and collaborations...Read more |
 Sr. Engineer FamilySearch
Concurrent SessionsPaul Burnside is a seasoned QA Engineer with 25 years of experience, including two decades in performance testing. As a Senior Engineer on FamilySearch's Performance and Scalability team, he brings diverse industry knowledge from consulting, telecommunications, cable, travel, banking, and education. This background gives him a unique perspective on performance...Read more |
 Head of Quality Engineering Platform Science
Concurrent SessionsAlbrecht Cruz has been a QA professional for 15+ years and is currently the Head of Quality Engineering at Platform Science. Albrecht has worked across defense, hospitality, and transportation industries, ranging from Startups to Fortune 500 companies, helping companies with their investments in quality and test transformation. Albrecht has learned...Read more |
 QA Manager Gold Bullion International (GBI)
Amanda Curtis is the QA Manager at Gold Bullion International (GBI), recognized for her exceptional communication skills and attention to detail. With over 17 years of experience in the tech industry and a decade of expertise in both manual and automated testing, she excels at guiding cross-functional teams and cultivating...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 |
 Quality Assurance Team Lead Insider Intelligence
Concurrent SessionsPhilip Daye is a seasoned software quality professional with more than 25 years of experience in the field. Currently the QA Team Lead at Insider Intelligence, he has a diverse background as a tester, manager, architect, and leader, and has worked with companies of all sizes to ensure the delivery...Read more |
 Principal QA Automation Engineer Capco
Concurrent SessionsJúlio de Lima is a specialist in Software Testing with 15 years of experience. Júlio has a Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, a specialization in Teaching in Higher Education, and a Master's Degree in Electrical and Computational Engineering with a focus on Testing and Artificial Intelligence. He currently lives in...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 |
 Technical Product Manager Mighty Acorn Digital
In another life, Sean Eddings might have been a cartographer. Fortunately, in his decade of experience as a technical product manager, he found many of the same skills relevant in software testing: precision, visualization, and exploration—essential for mapping requirements, identifying edge cases, and creating flow. He uses those skills to...Read more |
 QA Manager Kimedics
Concurrent SessionsAmanda Ellison has more than a decade of software quality experience. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in psychology and sociology, a Master's Degree in experimental psychology, and a second Bachelor's Degree in game design. Her software career started as a manual tester at an IT consulting company and she quickly...Read more |
 Independent Consultant
Women Who Test SessionsKeynotesAfter over 30 years in industry, software quality and testing practitioner Isabel Evans is now a post-graduate student at the University of Malta. Her research takes people-focused approach to designing tool support for testing. This arose from real-life experiences in industry and led to the academic papers: “Stuck in Limbo with...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 Agile Coach Zenergy Technologies
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 Director of Agile Practices at Zenergy Technologies, a leading business agility transformation company. He...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 |
 Senior Principal Solutions Architect Amazon Web Services
Concurrent SessionsTod Golding is a cloud applications architect who has spent the last 11 years immersed in cloud-optimized application design and architecture. As a global architecture lead within AWS, Tod has been publishing and providing cloud best practices guidance through a broad set of channels (speaking, writing, and working directly with...Read more |
 Principal Tester BBC
Concurrent SessionsJitesh Gosai's expertise in testing spans over two decades, during which he has partnered with various organisations to scale up their testing and automation processes. As the Principal Tester at BBC's iPlayer & Sounds department, Jitesh works with multiple teams, including those dedicated to Mobile, TV, Web, and Smart Speakers....Read more |
 QA & Automation Director Merkle
Concurrent SessionsAugustin Gottlieb Pequeno has been working on the IT space for the last 10 years, both as a developer and as a QA. He felt in love with everything tested related early in his career, when wanting to deliver high quality features to the customer, which also started his journey...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 |
 Founder Blockchain by Women, Appdome
Concurrent SessionsKaren Hsu 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 from bad actors. With over 25 years of experience in tech, Karen is co-inventor of 5 patents and has led teams for security,...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 |
 Sr. Director, Quality Engineering EPAM Systems India Pvt Ltd
Over two decades of experience, Srinivas Rao Labhani has established himself as an accomplished engineer and architect, consistently successfully managing technology roadmaps, driving solution/accelerator development and fostering employee growth within global organizations. Mr. Labhani has a proven track record in various facets of IT, including delivery, project management, software development,...Read more |
 Principal Testing Manager Testlio, Inc.
Ramy Loaiza is a Principal Testing Manager at Testlio, a leading software QA and testing company that provides quality assurance, crowd testing and QA consultancy solutions. He has over 26 years of experience in QA and testing for consumer hardware and software, working with companies like Microsoft, Palm, EA, Bose,...Read more |
 Senior QA Manager Privacy Analytics
Chris 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 |
 Director of Engineering mParticle
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 |
 Software Engineer FamilySearch
Concurrent SessionsBryan Lopez is a Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience, specializing in performance testing and system optimization. In his current role at FamilySearch, he supports performance testing initiatives by setting up alerts and dashboards to maximize resource consumption and ensure optimal service performance. With a background in banking and...Read more |
 Sr. Director, Quality Engineering S&P Global
Concurrent SessionsAnupama Malladi heads Quality Engineering for Structured Finance & US Public Finance within S&P Global Ratings Technology division, she has over 19 years of experience in the banking and financial services domain in the areas of quality engineering, strategy development, program management, business development, and customer relationship management. In her...Read more |
 Manager of Software Quality Assurance Kickfin
Concurrent SessionsStephanie McSwain got her start fresh out of college in manual testing at IBM. In her several years at IBM, she was encouraged to gain coding skills and learned Java and Javascript. This propelled Stephanie into a few backend developer positions, but she eventually madehery way back into testing by...Read more |
 DevRel Grafana k6
Leandro 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 |
 Principal Test Strategist Sauce Labs
Concurrent SessionsAs Principal Test Strategist at Sauce Labs, Marcus Merrell uses experience from 20+ years in test architecture to build robust, customer-centric solutions around test automation, release management, and the entire SDLC. He started using Selenium/WebDriver in 2007, is a Selenium Project Leadership Committee member, and enjoys living in Marin County,...Read more |
 Sr. Lead Engineer Capital One
Concurrent SessionsSapna Natarajan is the Application Architect for a number of different products within Risk Tech space at Capital One. Prior to Capital One, Sapna led teams developing SaaS products for load testing and perfomance monitoring of websites that are widely used in the industry today. She has a Masters Degree...Read more |
 Head of Product Engineering QA and Data S&P Global
Chintan Pandya is a seasoned technical leader with a passion for leveraging domain knowledge, user-centric quality, data analytics, and automation to enhance the customer experience. With a comprehensive background in quality assurance and portfolio management, Chintan brings over two decades of progressive experience and a proven track record of significant...Read more |
 CEO and Founder Coveros
Training ClassTutorialsLeadership Summit SessionsJeffery Payne is CEO and founder of Coveros, Inc., a company that helps organizations accelerate software delivery using agile methods. Prior to founding Coveros, he was the co-founder of application security company Cigital, where he served as CEO for 16 years. Jeffery is a recognized software expert and popular keynote speaker...Read more |
 Managing Consultant Coveros
Training ClassJeff Pierce has more than 20 years of experience in software engineering management, specializing in program, project, and software quality assurance management. Jeff is also experienced in building technical teams that are rapidly able to implement solutions and deliver business value. More recently, Jeff has focused on Agile project management...Read more |
 AI/ML SDET FamilySearch
Concurrent SessionsKevin Pyles works for FamilySearch as an AI/ML SDET where he is learning how to test AI with AI. Yeah, it has come to that. He has been in the QA industry now for over 15 years with project, product, and management roles throughout. Kevin worked previously for test.ai where...Read more |
 Senior Quality Engineer SiriusXM
Concurrent SessionsDan Reiley is a Senior Quality Engineer at SiriusXM with over 18 years of experience in quality assurance for leading technology and mobile companies. He holds a B.S. in Video Game Art and Design from The Art Institute of California (San Francisco). Previously, Dan has played key roles at Disney...Read more |
 Application Security Consultant Coveros
Training ClassDerrick Roach is a member of the Application Security Team at Coveros and an accomplished information security professional with experience implementing security programs as well as securing enterprise assets. Previously serving in an IT analyst capacity, he swiftly observed the necessity to integrate security into all critical systems and processes,...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 |
 Sr. Director Capital One
Concurrent SessionsRaghavan Sadagopan leads the Architecture and Engineering Excellence functions of a technology division at Capital One. As a Chief Architect for Risk, Audit & Compliance functions, Raghavan is focused on the product/technology strategy impacting how Risk Management is performed at the Enterprise. As the Technology leader leading the Engineering Excellence...Read more |
 Engineering Manager Indeed
Dionny Santiago is an Engineering Manager at Indeed and has 12+ years of industry experience working as an SW/QA/ML engineer, software/test architect, and engineering manager. Dionny completed his master's thesis on exploring the intersection between AI and test automation and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in this problem space. One...Read more |
 Product Engineering Director Ellofant
Concurrent SessionsAakash Singhal is a seasoned Engineering Leader with experience being thrown into some of the most complex implementations with their “hair on fire”. Having had the opportunity to work across multiple industries including; Retail, Healthcare and Financial Services, Aakash has led the innovation and experimentation of many modern practices that...Read more |
 Test Architect Sii Poland
Michal Slezak has over 9 years of experience in test automation. He has led projects for large banks and has worked on aviation projects as well as for other major companies. Additionally, he has experience with startups such as ArtistGrowth and WhatClinic.com. At Sii, he serves as a test architect,...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 ClassTutorialsTom 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 |
 Cloud Architect Otis Elevator Co
Concurrent SessionsAyisha Tabbassum is a certified Enterprise and Multi-Cloud Architect with over nine years of industry experience. She has a proven track record in enterprise, business, and cloud architecture, focusing on infrastructure automation and CI-CD application deployments. Ayisha currently leads observability and AI/ML test automation initiatives at her organization, creating robust...Read more |
 IT Manager Progressive
Concurrent SessionsMaxine Thompson has over 17+ years in IT, software engineering, telecommunications/cable, and financial industries. She has years of experience in QA management, application development, production support and vendor relations. As Director of Software Engineering, Maxine created strategies to deliver predictable, repeatable and optimal support for deploying, managing, and supporting software engineering...Read more |
 Vice President of IT Strategy and Transformation S&P Global Ratings
During her more than 20 years of experience with financial, health care, and SaaS-based products, Mary Thorn has held VP, director, and manager-level positions in various software development organizations. A seasoned leader and coach in agile and testing methodologies, Mary has direct experience building and...Read more |
 Product Engineer III Esri
Junuen Villa is a Senior QA Automation Engineer as a contractor for Esri, bringing over 5 years of experience in the testing field. As a passionate advocate for quality and agile solutions, she has played an important role in enhancing the automation framework at the company. When she first started...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 currently serves as the Program Chair for AI Con USA, STAREAST, and STARWEST. Alison strives...Read more |
 Software Test Architect Equity Residential
Concurrent SessionsIngrid Warden is a Software Test Architect at Equity Residential and has a bachelors degree in Accounting from Augusta University. She has worked at Equity Residential for 25 years, spending the first 18 years moving up the ranks in Accounting before realizing that her interest in, and talent for, technology...Read more |
 Software Engineer in Test Q2
Sarah 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 |
 Test Engineer IBM
Lisa Waugh is a Software Development Engineer in Test, passionate about quality and innovation. She brings over 40 years of experience in information technology, with concentration on DevOps, Continuous Testing, and Performance Testing. She has a diverse background in multi-platform hardware and software technology and extensive technical experience in cloud,...Read more |
 CEO Zsquare Solutions Inc.
Concurrent SessionsTutorialsLisette 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 |