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Speaker Index
Verisign
In his sixteen years in software engineering, Vijay Atmavilas has focused primarily on software testing and development as a hands-on tester, test team lead, automation and test-tools developer, CPI implementer, and trainer. Vijay has worked at Verisign for nine years as a technical team lead on various products, including the world’s largest Internet domain name registry—Dot-COM/Dot-NET. He also has tested registration systems for other registries and related services. Most recently, Vijay has led the work of modeling registry functionality to improve regression suites and new tests. He also mentors new team members.
Concurrent Session:
Visualization: Seeing Test Requirements in a New Light
Thursday, April 19, 2012 3:00 PM
Satisfice, Inc.
James Bach is founder and principal consultant of Satisfice, Inc., a software testing and quality assurance company. In the eighties, James cut his teeth as a programmer, tester, and SQA manager in Silicon Valley in the world of market-driven software development. For nearly ten years, he has traveled the world teaching rapid software testing skills and serving as an expert witness on court cases involving software testing. James is the author of Lessons Learned in Software Testing and Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar: How Self-Education and the Pursuit of Passion Can Lead to a Lifetime of Success.
Afternoon Tutorial:
Exploratory Testing Explained
Monday, April 16, 2012 1:00 PM
Full-day Tutorial:
Critical Thinking for Software Testers
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 8:30 AM
Concurrent Session:
The Dirty Secret of Formal Software Testing
Thursday, April 19, 2012 11:15 AM
eBay, Inc.
Jon Bach joined eBay (San Jose) as a QA director for the Buyer Experience team. Formerly a manager of corporate intellect and senior test consultant at Quardev, Jon has been in testing since 1995 with experience that includes managing teams at Microsoft, HP, and LexisNexis. The co-inventor (with his brother James) of session-based test management, Jon is an award-winning speaker on test management and exploratory testing. He’s mostly known for his “half-baked” ideas about how to inspire innovation and create a learning culture for test teams. Find Jon on Facebook and Twitter (@jbtestpilot). View his presentations at quardev.com/articles and his blog at jonbox.wordpress.com.
Afternoon Tutorial:
Exploratory Testing Is Now in Session
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 1:00 PM
PerfTestPlus, Inc.
A prominent performance testing thought-leader and chief technologist at PerfTestPlus, Scott Barber makes his living writing, speaking, consulting, and coaching with the goal of advancing the practice of software testing. Scott authored Web Load Testing for Dummies and contributed to three other books including Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications. A prolific writer and speaker, Scott served as the executive director of the Association for Software Testing and co-founded the Workshop on Performance and Reliability. Recently, he began developing a software product assessment approach focused on maximizing business value while managing risk. Scott spends his free time exploring the world with his sons and his partner Dawn. Learn more about Scott at about.me/scott.barber.
Concurrent Session:
Simple and Informative Performance Tests You Can Do Now
Thursday, April 19, 2012 9:45 AM
Bonus Session:
The Workshop on Regulated Software Testing (WREST)
Friday, April 20, 2012 8:30 AM
LeanDog Inc.
Matt Barcomb is passionate about building collaborative cross-functional teams, the out-of-doors, puns, and providing holistic sustainable solutions to organizations trying to improve. Matt started programming as a wee lad and eventually wound up getting paid for it. It took him nearly ten years before he realized that the “people problem” was the biggest issue facing most software development. Since then, he has spent his time and energy trying to find interesting ways of making the business-software universe a better place to work, play, and do business. Matt is employed by LeanDog where he keeps busy with organizational transformations. He shares his insights on his blog.
Concurrent Session:
You Can’t Spell Agile Testing without “ET”
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 1:45 PM
SOASTA, Inc.
Dan Bartow is vice president of product management and cloudtest evangelist at SOASTA, the leader in performance testing from the cloud. Prior to joining SOASTA, Dan was senior manager of engineering at Intuit, where his team was responsible for the speed and stability of TurboTax Online. During the past decade he has been responsible for the performance of websites for leading consumer brands. Dan has set multiple industry precedents including launching the world's largest stateful JBoss cluster and using more than 2,000 cloud computing cores to generate load against a live website. A frequent industry presenter, Dan has spoken at leading testing and cloud computing conferences.
Afternoon Tutorial:
Production Performance Testing in the Cloud
Monday, April 16, 2012 1:00 PM
DevelopSense, Inc.
Tester, consultant, and trainer Michael Bolton is the co-author (with James Bach) of Rapid Software Testing, a course that presents a methodology and mindset for testing software expertly in uncertain conditions and under extreme time pressure. Michael is a leader in the context-driven software testing movement with twenty years of experience testing, developing, managing, and writing about software. Currently, he leads DevelopSense, a Toronto-based consultancy. Prior to DevelopSense, he was with Quarterdeck Corporation, where he managed the company’s flagship products, and directed project and testing teams both in-house and worldwide. Contact Michael at michael@developsense.com.
Full-day Tutorial:
A Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing
Monday, April 16, 2012 8:30 AM
Keynote:
Evaluating Testing: The Qualitative Way
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 10:00 AM
Up Ur Game Learning Solutions
Jennifer Bonine serves as a partner and VP of Global Delivery for Up Ur Game Learning Solutions, a global people development company that offers F2F and virtual models for team and personal development. Jennifer began her career in consulting, implementing large ERP solutions. She has held director level positions leading development, quality assurance and testing, organizational development, and process improvement teams for Fortune 500 companies in several domains. In her most recent engagement for one of the world’s largest technology companies, Jennifer served as the Strategic Quality and Process Improvement Executive. Throughout her career, she has had the opportunity to build several global teams from the ground up while managing the required organizational change.
Afternoon Tutorial:
Leading Change (Even If You’re Not in Charge)
Monday, April 16, 2012 1:00 PM
Pitney Bowes
Principal QA Engineer at Pitney Bowes Software, Todd Brasel built a successful measurement program from the ground up in the past five years, overcoming organizational resistance, cultural inertia, a persistent lack of funding, and several reorganizations. Todd has fifteen years of experience spanning manufacturing and software, in companies ranging from start-ups to multinational Fortune 400 organizations. He has worked in all areas of quality, from hands-on testing of GUIs, APIs, and hardware to designing and building software test automation frameworks, spearheading quality initiatives, and working directly with customers to resolve product issues. Todd is trained in agile, Scrum, and Six Sigma process improvement.
Concurrent Session:
Talking Quality to Business: Metrics for Improvement
Thursday, April 19, 2012 1:30 PM
EBG Consulting
Sue Burk, senior associate at EBG Consulting, enables business and technical organizations to meet business needs better through excellence in requirements analysis and testing. Sue has more than twenty-five years of experience working as a practitioner, trainer, mentor, modeler, and facilitator with business, application development, data management, and business intelligence teams—and with centers of excellence and competency centers. Her recent work has focused on the close, complementary relationship between requirements analysis and testing and ways to leverage that relationship to streamline project efforts. Sue shares her knowledge and experience on requirements topics as part of Tech Target’s “Ask The Expert” series.
Afternoon Tutorial:
Agile Requirements Exploration with Tester Collaboration
Monday, April 16, 2012 1:00 PM
Concurrent Session:
Test Scenarios for Data-centric Systems
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 3:00 PM
LogiGear
An internationally recognized expert in testing, Hans Buwalda is the pioneer of keyword-driven test automation, an approach now widely used throughout the testing industry. Originally from the Netherlands, Hans is the CTO of California-based LogiGear, directing the development of the successful Action Based Testing™ methodology for keyword-driven test automation and its supporting TestArchitect™ toolset. Prior to joining LogiGear, he served as project director at CMG (now Logica) in the Netherlands. Hans speaks frequently at international conferences on concepts such as Soap Opera Testing, Three Holy Grails of Test Development, Testing in the Cold, and Jungle Testing. Hans is coauthor of Integrated Test Design and Automation: Using the TestFrame Method.
Full-day Tutorial:
BIG Testing: Dealing with Large and Complex Testing Projects
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 8:30 AM
Concurrent Session:
Test Design for Automation
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 1:45 PM
Sogeti USA
With more than thirteen years of IT experience, Dr. Mirkeya Capellán is a QA manager consultant at Sogeti USA, specializing in Internet development, graphic design, and quality assurance testing. She presently works as a test engineer/project manager at a leading automotive company, responsible for coordinating and conducting enterprise testing. Mirkeya is an adjunct professor at Pace University; a mentor at the College of Mount Saint Vincent; and a senior member of Latinas in Computing, an organization promoting leadership and professional development among Latinas. She has conducted various workshops encouraging careers in technology while fostering leadership and professional development among women in science and technology.
Concurrent Session:
Creating a Risk-based Testing Strategy
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 11:30 AM
Software Quality Engineering
Lee Copeland has more than thirty-five years of experience as a consultant, instructor, author, and information systems professional. He has held a number of technical and managerial positions with commercial and non-profit organizations in the areas of applications development, software testing, and software development process improvement. Lee frequently speaks at software conferences both in the US and internationally, and currently serves as Program Chair for the Better Software conferences, the STAR testing conferences, and Software Quality Engineering’s Agile Development Practices conferences. Lee is the author of A Practitioner’s Guide to Software Test Design, a compendium of the most effective methods of test case design.
Full-day Tutorial:
Key Test Design Techniques
Monday, April 16, 2012 8:30 AM
Bonus Session:
Speaking 101: Tips and Tricks
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 5:30 PM
Keynote:
Lightning Strikes the Keynotes
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 4:30 PM
Software Quality Engineering
A consultant, lecturer, author, and test manager, Rick Craig has led numerous teams of testers on both large and small projects. In his twenty-five years of consulting worldwide, Rick has advised and supported a diverse group of organizations on many testing and test management issues. From large insurance providers and telecommunications companies to smaller software services companies, he has mentored senior software managers and helped test teams improve their effectiveness. Rick is co-author of Systematic Software Testing and is a frequent speaker at testing conferences, including every STAR conference since its inception.
Afternoon Tutorial:
Leadership for Test Managers
Monday, April 16, 2012 1:00 PM
Morning Tutorial:
Essential Test Management and Planning
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 8:30 AM
Afternoon Tutorial:
Measurement and Metrics for Test Managers
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 1:00 PM
Boston Scientific
Christopher Crapo is the technical lead for the tools and automation team at Boston Scientific Neuromodulation and co-architect for the in-house-developed automation system. During the course of this effort, testing has progressed from fully manual to approximately 70% automated, with a testing cycle-time reduction of 60–95%. The automation system is now in use at every level of product development testing—from unit/regression testing to formal system-level verification. Bringing his background in electrical engineering and mathematics to software test and automation system design, Christopher has contributed on every level from PCB design and hardware interfacing to software development to overall design patterns and system architecture.
Concurrent Session:
Test Automation in a Mixed Software/Firmware Environment
Thursday, April 19, 2012 9:45 AM
Spark Quality, LLC
Lanette Creamer likes testing software even more than Diet Coke and cats. After working for a decade at Adobe, including leading coordinated testing across products on the Creative Suites, Lanette jumped into independent consulting. Throughout her career, Lanette has evangelized advancement of real-time human thought over process solutions in software quality. Testing should be customized, using a context appropriate balance of automation and tool-assisted creative techniques to achieve effective coverage. Deeply passionate about collaboration, Lanette believes it is a powerful solution when facing complex technical challenges. Find Lanette on her well-known TestyRedhead blog, on Twitter, and occasionally in industry magazines and technical papers.
Concurrent Session:
You Can’t Spell Agile Testing without “ET”
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 1:45 PM
Coveros, Inc.
Alan Crouch is a senior software security specialist with Coveros, Inc. a Virginia-based firm focusing on agile, software quality, and application security. Alan has worked closely with federal agencies and private companies to advise, audit, and support IT security and governance teams. In addition to his cybersecurity experience, he has a strong background in software engineering, test analysis, test automation, and security testing. With a passion for software and security, Alan has focused his career on building secure software and developing better software security practices. Contact Alan at alan.crouch@coveros.com.
Concurrent Session:
Security Testing: The Foundations and More
Thursday, April 19, 2012 9:45 AM
Zenergy Technologies
David Dang is a HP/Mercury Certified Instructor for QuickTest Professional, WinRunner, and Quality Center. A recognized automation expert, David has provided automation strategy and implementation plans for numerous clients to maximize ROI and minimize script maintenance. David has been a featured speaker on test automation and related topics at local and national QA and testing conferences including STAR EAST.
Concurrent Session:
End-to-End Test Automation of ERP Software: A Case Study
Thursday, April 19, 2012 11:15 AM
Grove Consultants
Mark Fewster has thirty years of experience in software testing. Since joining Grove Consultants in 1993, Mark has provided consultancy and training in software testing, particularly in the application of testing techniques and test automation. He has published papers in respected journals and is a popular speaker at national and international conferences and seminars. Mark has served as programme secretary on the committee of British Computer Society's Specialist Interest Group in Software Testing (BCS SIGiST) and has also served on the Information Systems Examination Board (ISEB). He is currently helping the ISTQB in defining the expert level certification for test automation. Mark has co-authored two books with Dorothy Graham, Software Test Automation, and their most recent book Experiences of Test Automation.
Concurrent Session:
Experience-driven Test Automation
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 3:00 PM
Quality Metric, Inc.
With more than thirty years of experience in test, software systems, process improvement, and change management for organizations of all sizes, Jan Fish partners with project teams to identify and implement process improvement. She engages with project teams, together identifying and implementing process improvements that range from improving traceability to implementing peer reviews to running production readiness testing during the systems acceptance process—and shaving weeks off project timelines. Jan is an advocate of honest and accurate product status from the test point of view as well as partnering with teams to recommend next steps based on current goals. She has presented at a number of conferences on a variety of testing topics.
Concurrent Session:
One QA Team’s Journey from No Process to Continuous Feedback and Improvement
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 11:30 AM
Deutsche Bank
Bob Galen is an agile coach at Deutsche Bank Global Technology and director, agile solutions at Zenergy Technologies, a North Carolina-based firm specializing in agile testing and leading agile adoption initiatives. Bob regularly speaks at international conferences and professional groups on topics related to software development, project management, software testing, and team leadership. He is a Certified Scrum Master Practicing (CSP), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), and an active member of the Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance. In 2009, Bob published Scrum Product Ownership–Balancing Value from the Inside Out, which addresses the gap in guidance toward effective agile product management. You can reach Bob at bob@rgalen.com or bob.galen@zenergytechnologies.com
Morning Tutorial:
A Test Leader’s Guide to Agile
Monday, April 16, 2012 8:30 AM
Concurrent Session:
Session-based Exploratory Testing on Agile Projects
Thursday, April 19, 2012 9:45 AM
Sage UK
In the IT industry for more than twenty years, Julie Gardiner has held positions as an analyst programmer, Oracle DBA, and project manager. She has first-hand experience as a test analyst, test team leader, test consultant, and test manager. Previously with UK-based Grove Consultants for seven years, Julie now is a QA Test Manager with Sage UK, R&D Division. A certified ScrumMaster, Julie specializes in risk-based testing, agile testing, test management, and people issues. She has been a keynote speaker at STAR EAST, STAR WEST, Innovate Test Management, ANZTB, and STANZ.
Morning Tutorial:
Usability Testing in a Nutshell
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 8:30 AM
Afternoon Tutorial:
Code Coverage Is for Testers Too
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 1:00 PM
Raymond James
Eric Gee initially developed his passion for testing as a Naval electronics technician, troubleshooting and repairing ship-based surface search radar and missile guidance systems in the early ‘90s. Since then, Eric has worked at several Fortune 1000 companies, traveling the world and mentoring testers in Bangalore and Hyderabad, Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and many stops in between. Currently managing both the corporate and performance test teams at Raymond James, Eric strives to identify process improvement opportunities throughout organizations and to share his ideas with anyone who has time to listen.
Concurrent Session:
Performance Testing Earlier in the Software Development Lifecycle
Thursday, April 19, 2012 11:15 AM
Raymond James
David Gilbert is the quality improvement advisor at Raymond James Financial Services, owner and principle consultant for Sirius SQA, and creator of TestExplorer. With a background in manufacturing QA, David has been in the software quality assurance business for almost twenty years. Most of that time was spent as an independent consultant, training dozens of companies on automated software testing. Later in his career, David became a strong advocate of exploratory testing and created TestExplorer, the industry’s first testing tool designed specifically for exploratory testing. David now happily helps Raymond James create and redesign processes across the entire SDLC to create higher quality software from the ground up.
Concurrent Session:
Simple Metrics for Starters
Thursday, April 19, 2012 3:00 PM
Independent Test Consultant
In testing for more than thirty years, Dorothy Graham is co-author of four books— Software Inspection, Software Test Automation, Foundations of Software Testing, and Experiences of Test Automation: Case Studies of Software Test Automation (2012). Dot was a founding member of the ISEB Software Testing Board, a member of the working party that developed the first ISTQB Foundation Syllabus, and served on the boards of conferences and publications in software testing. A popular speaker at conferences and seminars worldwide, she has been coming to STAR conferences since the first one in 1992. Dot holds the European Excellence Award in Software Testing. Her website is DorothyGraham.co.uk.
Full-day Tutorial:
Managing Successful Test Automation
Monday, April 16, 2012 8:30 AM
Keynote:
What Managers Think They Know about Test Automation—But Don’t
Thursday, April 19, 2012 8:30 AM
DragonFire, Inc.
The co-author of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Agile Testers and Teams, Janet Gregory specializes in helping teams build quality systems. Based in Calgary, Canada, Janet’s greatest passion is promoting agile quality processes. As tester or coach she has helped introduce agile development practices into companies and has successfully transitioned several traditional test teams into the agile world. Janet’s focus is working with business users and testers to understand their roles in agile projects. She has partnered with developers on her agile teams to implement successful test automation solutions. Janet is a frequent speaker at leading agile and testing software conferences around the world, including the STAR testing conferences.
Morning Tutorial:
Distributed Agile Testing: Yes, You Can
Monday, April 16, 2012 8:30 AM
Afternoon Tutorial:
Agile Requirements Exploration with Tester Collaboration
Monday, April 16, 2012 1:00 PM
Concurrent Session:
Agile Testing Practices
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 11:30 AM
eBay, Inc.
Julian Harty was hired by eBay to help revamp testing across the organization, to significantly improve the effectiveness and relevance of testing. Since then he's learned plenty about testing techniques that work, some that don’t, and ways that automation can help. In the process, Julian started writing and sharing material with others who were interested in testing mobile software. That work has been shared at workshops and tutorials around the world, and the test automation techniques ended up being published as a book and now online. Julian is an active contributor to several open-source testing and development projects. Learn more at blog.bettersoftwaretesting.com.
Full-day Tutorial:
Test Automation for Mobile Apps
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 8:30 AM
PerfTestPlus, Inc.
Dawn Haynes is COO, principal trainer, and consultant for PerfTestPlus, Inc., and a former director of the Association for Software Testing. Dawn’s unique blend of experience, humor, and effectiveness at providing tools and techniques that help students at all levels generate new approaches to common and complex software testing problems has resulted in her international recognition as an elite trainer of testers. She provides consulting services and is a frequently invited speaker at testing conferences, local groups, and intimate gatherings of testers. Dawn has more than twenty-five years of experience supporting, administering, developing, and testing software and hardware systems—from small business operations to large corporate enterprises.
Morning Tutorial:
How to Break Software: Robustness Edition
Monday, April 16, 2012 8:30 AM
Telerik
The Test Studio Evangelist at Telerik, Jim Holmes has more than twenty-five years in the IT field as a PC technician, WAN manager, customer relations manager, developer, and, yes, tester. Jim has previously held jobs in the DoD, software consulting domain, and commercial software product sectors. He has been a long-time advocate of test automation and has delivered software on a wide range of platforms. Jim co-authored the book Windows Developer Power Tools, blogs frequently at FrazzledDad.com, and is the president of the Board of Directors for the CodeMash conference, held at an indoor waterpark in Sandusky, Ohio, in the middle of winter.
Concurrent Session:
Making Distributed Testing Teams Work
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 1:45 PM
Independent Consultant
For more than twenty-five years Karen Johnson has worked in the software industry as a tester, manager, technical writer, trainer, and consultant. She is the co-founder of The Workshop on Regulated Software Testing ( WREST). Karen is a contributing author to the book, Beautiful Testing; has published numerous articles about her experiences with software testing; works as an independent test consultant based in Chicago; and is a regular speaker at conferences and organizations worldwide. Find out more about Karen at karennjohnson.com.
Concurrent Session:
Testing in the Mobile Environment: A Functional View
Thursday, April 19, 2012 1:30 PM
Bonus Session:
The Workshop on Regulated Software Testing (WREST)
Friday, April 20, 2012 8:30 AM
Congruent Compliance, LLC
The owner of Congruent Compliance, Griffin Jones provides consulting services on context-driven software testing and regulatory compliance to companies in regulated industries. Recently he was the director of quality and regulatory compliance at iCardiac Technologies which provides core lab services for the pharmaceutical industry to evaluate the therapeutic efficacy or safety of their potential new drugs. Griffin was responsible for all matters relating to quality and regulatory compliance for an FDA regulatory compliant quality system, including frequently presenting the verification and validation (testing) results to external regulatory auditors. Griffin was previously a product quality lead for eighteen years at Eastman Kodak. He can be reached at griffin.jones@congruentcompliance.com.
Concurrent Session:
Surviving an FDA Audit: Heuristics for Exploratory Testing
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 3:00 PM
Barclays Capital Global Test Center
Keith Klain is the head of Barclays Capital Global Test Center, which provides functional and non-functional software testing services to the investment banking and wealth management businesses. With more than fifteen years of experience in software testing, Keith has built and managed global test teams for financial services firms in the US, UK, and Asia Pacific, and worked as a software quality management practice director for an international technology consultancy.
Keynote:
Bridging the Gap: Leading Change in a Community of Testers
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 8:45 AM
voke, inc.
Founder of voke, inc., Theresa Lanowitz is recognized worldwide as a strategic thinker and market influencer in application lifecycle, virtualization, cloud, and convergence markets. With more than twenty years of experience, Theresa has worked on some of the breakthrough technologies of our time—the C-17 transport plane, Borland’s JBuilder, and Sun’s Jini project. As an industry analyst with voke, Theresa is a trusted advisor to some of the world’s largest software companies. Previously, Theresa was a research director at Gartner; senior marketing and product manager at Sun Microsystems, Borland, and Taligent; and in development and IT at McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing).
Keynote:
Testing Trends: Cloud, Virtualization, and Mobility
Thursday, April 19, 2012 4:15 PM
LessPainful
Jonas Maturana Larsen is co-founder of LessPainful, an ambitious start-up offering automated functional testing of mobile applications as a cloud-based service. The goal of LessPainful is to help mobile developers focus on developing and suffer less from exhaustive testing across a multitude of devices. Before starting LessPainful, Jonas worked as a consultant, mostly on larger Java and Android projects, including the national Danish security infrastructure NemID. Responsible for design and architecture at LessPainful, Jonas is a polyglot developer using technologies such as Ruby, JavaScript, Java, Clojure, Gherkin (even taking on sysadm duties)—whatever it takes to make it work.
Concurrent Session:
Automated Acceptance Testing of iOS and Android Applications
Thursday, April 19, 2012 3:00 PM
SideReel.com
Michael Larsen started software testing full time in 1992. For more than nineteen years, he has tested networking equipment, virtual machines, capacitance touch devices, video games, and distributed database and web applications. He currently works as the “Lone Tester” for SideReel. This unique viewpoint informs the writing he does for TESTHEAD, his professional software testing blog. Michael is the co-founder of the America’s Chapter of Weekend Testing. He is a black belt in the Miagi-do School of Software Testing, an instructor and member of the board of the Association for Software Testing, and a contributing author of How to Reduce the Cost of Software Testing.
Concurrent Session:
Improving Quality: One Weekend at a Time
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 1:45 PM
Consultant
To keep up with ever-changing systems, most test automation developers spend countless hours updating, reworking, debugging, and validating test scripts. Bindu Laxminarayan is an ISTQB Advanced Level Certified Tester with experience in testing various products related to retail, airlines, and security fields. She has experience in testing web applications, web services, APIs-DLL, installation/de-installation, application features, and websites along with experience in testing desktop and network-based applications on various operating systems. Bindu has designed several automation testing frameworks and is well versed in a number of automation tools. Her interests include root cause analysis, implementing strategies to achieve best quality, improving QA processes, and testing large scale systems.
Concurrent Session:
Design Patterns in Automated Testing: May the Power Be with You
Thursday, April 19, 2012 3:00 PM
Sogeti USA
A QA manager consultant at Sogeti USA, Mary LeMieux-Ruibal has more than fifteen years of experience in quality management with strength in establishing quality assurance and PMO processes which enhance her clients’ established software development lifecycle. Mary is proficient in applying structured test process improvement (TPI) for clients by conducting gap analyses on current project maturity, assessing the risks, and then laying out a roadmap for implementing process improvements. Her work entails building organic testing infrastructures at client sites to ensure compliance with SOX, ISO, CMM, Six Sigma, and PMP practices while streamlining project processes and procedures.
Concurrent Session:
Creating a Risk-based Testing Strategy
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 11:30 AM
Crosscheck Networks
Crosscheck Networks CTO Jason Macy is responsible for implementation and product strategy for cloud computing, virtualization, and SOA technologies. As co-founder of Crosscheck Networks, Jason pioneered the field of SOA testing and service virtualization with product deployments in more than 50,000 installations worldwide. As the VP of Engineering for the wholly-owned subsidiary Forum Systems, Inc., he is responsible for XML Gateway and Identity Acceleration technologies for security, identity, and governance. Earlier in his career, Jason worked as the lead architect for Raytheon and was responsible for deployment, acceptance testing, and successful commissioning of the Air Traffic Control system currently in use at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam.
Morning Tutorial:
Adapting Testing Techniques for Cloud Computing and Virtualization
Monday, April 16, 2012 8:30 AM
Knowledge Bridge Partners
Business advisor with Knowledge Bridge Partners, Kent McDonald helps organizations discover and implement solutions through business analysis consulting, mentoring, and training. Kent’s more than fifteen years of experience include work in business analysis, strategic planning, project management, and product development in a variety of industries including financial services, health insurance, performance marketing, human services, nonprofits, and automotive. He is co-author of Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility, writes a column for ProjectConnections.com, and blogs at BeyondReqs.com. Kent currently delivers business analysis training for B2T Training, and agile, lean, and collaborative leadership coaching and training for Accelinnova.
Concurrent Session:
Talking Quality to Business: Metrics for Improvement
Thursday, April 19, 2012 1:30 PM
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Manoj Narayanan is the Director of Testing Services at Cognizant Technology Solutions, a leading provider of information technology and consulting services. He manages the QA delivery and client relationship of Cognizant’s Retail and Consumer Goods, Travel and Hospitality and Manufacturing verticals in North America. In his current role, Manoj provides thought leadership and implementation assistance for his clients as they transition the QA organization towards the next maturity level. During his fifteen years in the IT services industry, Manoj has successfully played multiple roles including that of Performance Services Evangelist, Program Manager, and Transition Advisor. Prior to Cognizant, Manoj was a management consultant with A T Kearney with primary focus on business process re-engineering and risk optimization.
Concurrent Session:
Testing in the DevOps World of Continuous Delivery
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 3:00 PM
ThoughtWorks, Inc.
Paul Nelson's passion for software development began when a pair of Apple IIs showed up at his high school through the beneficence of an anonymous donor. At the time, he had no idea that pushing pixels around a green screen could ever be anything more than goofing around and having fun. Today, as a ThoughtWorks principal consultant, Paul travels the world, spreading his passion for finding pragmatic solutions to software development challenges in organizations of all sizes. Pair programming, coaching teams, and assisting C-level executives draft, socialize, and implement overall testing strategies are a few of the ways he has applied his passion, empowering organizations to enhance their corporate culture and release quality products in record time. And Paul is still having fun!
Concurrent Session:
Enhancing Collaboration through Acceptance Tests
Thursday, April 19, 2012 1:30 PM
CodeSquads, LLC
Nate Oster is an agile player-coach and founder of CodeSquads, where he helps clients adopt lean and agile methods. Nate builds high-performance teams that adapt to change, embrace a pragmatic philosophy of continuous improvement, measure progress with new features, and deliver high-quality software that delights customers. As a coach, he inspires adopters with hands-on mentoring and simulations that provide a safe learning environment for new ideas. Nate promotes testing as a serious technical discipline and is frequently consulted as an expert in agile test automation and system performance engineering. He and his wife Heather enjoy technical rock climbing, backpacking, and travel. Nate is easily defeated at all card games. Contact him at NateOster@CodeSquads.com.
Morning Tutorial:
Acceptance Test-driven Development: Mastering Agile Testing
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 8:30 AM
Concurrent Session:
Concurrent Testing Games: Developers and Testers Working Together
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 11:30 AM
QA InfoTech
As director of engagement, Rajini Padmanaban leads the engagement and relationship management for some of QA InfoTech's largest and most strategic accounts. She has more than ten years of professional experience, primarily in software quality assurance. Rajini actively advocates software quality assurance through evangelistic activities including blogging—on test trends, technologies, and best practices—and providing insights on software testing to analyst firms such as Gartner and IDC. Her official blogs are available at qainfotech.com. Rajini lives in Seattle, WA, and can be reached at rajini.padmanaban@qainfotech.net.
Concurrent Session:
Best Practices for Implementing Crowdsourced Testing
Thursday, April 19, 2012 11:15 AM
Trane
Lead test engineer for embedded controls at Trane Commercial Systems (Ingersoll Rand), David Palm started his career twenty-two years ago in software engineering, developing embedded software applications for materials testing, automotive, industrial, and HVAC equipment. David transitioned seven years ago to software testing and spearheaded the development of TATU (Trane Automated Test Utility), an automated test tool specifically designed for test automation on embedded controls. Automated tests using TATU are now an integral part of every embedded control project at Trane. The technology has revolutionized the way Trane and other Ingersoll Rand affiliates test embedded control applications.
Concurrent Session:
Automated Software Testing for Embedded Systems
Thursday, April 19, 2012 1:30 PM
Neovest, Inc./JP Morgan
Paul Parsons has worked in the software industry for more than twenty-five years as a writer, programmer, software team leader, software department manager, tester, and QA manager. Currently, Paul is vice president of QA for Neovest, Inc. (a subsidiary of JP Morgan) where he oversees the testing and quality efforts that support Neovest’s international financial market trading software. Using his extensive technical background and programming experience, Paul’s specialty is designing, architecting, and building practical testing software, analytics, and extensible automation frameworks. He is co-founder and an active member of the Utah QA Focus Group, a Salt Lake City-based user group.
Concurrent Session:
Launch and Grow Your Test Automation
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 11:30 AM
Software Quality Engineering
Dale Perry has more than thirty-four years of experience in information technology as a programmer/analyst, database administrator, project manager, development manager, tester, and test manager. Dale’s project experience includes large-system development and conversions, distributed systems, and both web-based and client/server applications. A professional instructor for more than twenty years, he has presented at numerous industry conferences on development and testing. With Software Quality Engineering for fifteen years, Dale has specialized in training and consulting on testing, inspections and reviews, and other testing and quality-related topics.
Full-day Tutorial:
Risk-driven Testing with the STEP™ Process
Monday, April 16, 2012 8:30 AM
Full-day Tutorial:
Software Performance Testing: Preparing for a Successful Test
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 8:30 AM
Polteq Testing Services BV
Martin Pol has played a significant role in helping to raise the awareness and improve the performance of testing worldwide. Martin provides international testing consulting services through POLTEQ Test Services BV. He’s gained experience by managing testing processes and implementing and improving structured testing in many organizations around the world. A co-author of Test Process Improvement, a classic text on models for improving testing, Martin has developed approaches to successfully manage test outsourcing services. In 2010, Martin received the Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau award from the Netherlands for his lifetime contributions to the IT and software industries.
Morning Tutorial:
Compact Test Process Improvement
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 8:30 AM
Rice Consulting Services, Inc.
A leading author, speaker, and consultant with more than thirty years of experience in the field of software testing and software quality, Randy Rice has worked with organizations worldwide to improve the quality of their information systems and optimize their testing processes. He is co-author of Surviving the Top Ten Challenges of Software Testing and Testing Dirty Systems (with William E. Perry). Randy is an officer of the American Software Testing Qualifications Board (ASTQB). Founder, principal consultant, and trainer at Rice Consulting Services, Randy can be contacted at riceconsulting.com where he publishes articles, newsletters, and other content about software testing and software quality. Visit Randy’s blog at randallrice.blogspot.com.
Afternoon Tutorial:
Free and Cheap Test Tools
Monday, April 16, 2012 1:00 PM
Full-day Tutorial:
Becoming an Influential Test Team Leader
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 8:30 AM
Lloyd Roden Consultancy
With 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 within Grove Consultants for twelve years. In 2011 he created Lloyd Roden Consultancy, an independent training and consultancy company specializing in software testing. Lloyd’s passion is to enthuse, excite, and inspire people in the area of software testing. He has spoken at conferences worldwide including STAR EAST, STAR WEST, Better Software, EuroSTAR, AsiaSTAR, Belgium Testing Days, as well as Special Interest Groups in software testing in several countries.
Morning Tutorial:
The Test Manager’s Dashboard: Making It Accurate and Relevant
Monday, April 16, 2012 8:30 AM
Afternoon Tutorial:
Quantifying the Value of Testing
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 1:00 PM
Concurrent Session:
Surviving or Thriving: Top Ten Lessons for a Professional Tester
Thursday, April 19, 2012 9:45 AM
AmiBug.com
Rob Sabourin, P. Eng., has more than twenty-five years of management experience leading teams of software development professionals. A well-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, management, and internationalization. Rob wrote I am a Bug!, the popular software testing children's book; works as an adjunct professor of software engineering at McGill University; and serves as the principle consultant (and president/janitor) of AmiBug.Com, Inc. Contact Rob at rsabourin@amibug.com.
Morning Tutorial:
Using Visual Models for Test Case Design
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 8:30 AM
Concurrent Session:
The Tester’s Role in Agile Planning
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 3:00 PM
Sealed Air Corporation
David Satterlee is the test automation project lead for Sealed Air Corporation. Working with test automation for more than ten years, Dave has significant experience in the creation, scripting, and long-term maintenance of advanced test automation frameworks. He also has vast experience implementing and supporting SAP. Dave spends his spare time chasing grandkids and “testing” online poker and chess games for defects.
Concurrent Session:
End-to-End Test Automation of ERP Software: A Case Study
Thursday, April 19, 2012 11:15 AM
Georgia Department of Transportation
Bryan Sebring spent the first ten years of his career in retail and call center management and training. He transitioned into IT starting as a self-taught web developer and continuing on to his creation of the IT Quality Assurance Teams for both First Union National Bank (eChannels) and, more recently, the Georgia Department of Transportation. Bryan’s diverse background has given him a unique customer-driven perspective that allows him to look beyond the typical QA work scope to identify additional areas in which higher quality can be attained. Bryan is a firm believer in “Infinite Dissatisfaction”—Nothing man made is perfect and everything can be improved upon.
Concurrent Session:
Total Quality Assurance: Stepping Out of the Testing Box
Thursday, April 19, 2012 3:00 PM
Microsoft
Charles Sterling has over eighteen years of developer tools experience at Microsoft. He started at Microsoft in 1992 on the phone support team focusing on the Microsoft development tools. Chuck went on to become the product owner for MSMQ and the product manager for the .NET Framework 1.0. After shipping the .NET Framework, he worked in Australia for 7 years on community feedback channels. Chuck is now back in Redmond, Washington working as Senior Program Manager in the Visual Studio Test Tools Team in charge of the customer feedback channels and beta releases. Prior to Microsoft, Chuck was a marine biologist working for the United States National Marine Fisheries doing marine mammal research in the Bering Sea.
Concurrent Session:
The New Mindset for Testing Cloud-based Applications
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 11:30 AM
Wood Cliff Consulting
IT management consultant Mark Strange focuses on training, coaching, and implementing agile/Scrum for software development organizations. With his background in engineering, quality management, and software development, Mark has helped many companies in a wide range of industries to improve their software development efficiencies. Contact Mark for tailored agile training, coaching, or consulting at mstrange@woodcliffconsulting.net, or visit the Wood Cliff Consulting website at woodcliffconsulting.net.
Concurrent Session:
Agile Testing: What Would Deming Do?
Thursday, April 19, 2012 11:15 AM
Polteq Testing Services BV
An international test consultant at POLTEQ Test Services BV, Ruud Teunissen has performed several test functions in a number of IT projects: tester, test specialist, test consultant, and test manager. Ruud participated in the development of the structured testing methodology TMap®—Test Management Approach. Together with Martin Pol and Erik van Veenendaal, Ruud is co-author of several books on structured testing, including Software Testing: A Guide to the TMap® Approach.
Morning Tutorial:
Compact Test Process Improvement
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 8:30 AM
Afternoon Tutorial:
Reliable Test Effort Estimation
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 1:00 PM
Concurrent Session:
Exploring Old-fashioned Test Design Techniques
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 1:45 PM
Concurrent Session:
Test Management for Cloud Applications
Thursday, April 19, 2012 9:45 AM
Florida Institute of Technology
Scott Tilley is a professor of software engineering in the Department of Computer Sciences at the Florida Institute of Technology, professor of information systems in the College of Business, and an associate member of the Harris Institute for Assured Information. Scott is a visiting scientist at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute. His current research is in software testing, cloud computing, and system migration. Scott is co-author of Software Testing in the Cloud: Migration & Execution, and lead editor of Software Testing in the Cloud: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline. He writes the weekly “Technology Today” column for the Florida Today newspaper.
Bonus Session:
Hard Problems in Software Testing
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 12:30 PM
Concurrent Session:
Software Testing in the Cloud: Issues and Opportunities
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 3:00 PM
Gerdau
Jim Trentadue has more than twelve years of experience as a coordinator/manager in the software testing field. Jim’s various roles in testing have focused on test execution, automation, management, environment management, standards deployment, and test tool implementation. In the area of offshore testing, he has worked with multiple large firms on developing and coordinating cohesive relationships. As a speaker Jim has presented at numerous industry conferences, chapter meetings, and at the University of South Florida's software testing class, where he mentors students on the testing industry and discusses trends for establishing future job searches and continued training.
Concurrent Session:
Integrating a Cloud Solution into Your Test Environment
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 1:45 PM
CTG Belgium
With a background in commercial engineering and cultural science, Zeger Van Hese started his professional career in the motion picture industry, switching to IT in 1999. A year later he was bitten by the software testing bug (pun intended) and has never been cured. A test manager at CTG Belgium, Zeger has a passion for exploratory testing, testing in agile projects, and, above all, continuous learning from different perspectives. He considers himself a lifelong student of the software testing craft. Co-founder of the Dutch Exploratory Workshop on Testing (DEWT), Zeger muses about testing on his Test Side Story blog, is co-author of CTG’s STBoX Agile flavor, and regularly speaks at conferences worldwide.
Concurrent Session:
Artful Testing: Learning from the Arts
Thursday, April 19, 2012 1:30 PM
Improve Quality Services BV
A leading international consultant and trainer, and a recognized expert in the area of software testing, Erik van Veenendaal ( erikvanveenendaal.nl) is the founder of Improve Quality Services BV, a company that specializes in testing and quality management. He is the author of a number of books and papers within the profession, one of the core developers of the TMap testing methodology, a participant in working parties of the International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB), and currently the vice-chair of the TMMi Foundation. Erik is a frequent keynote and tutorial speaker at international testing conferences. For his major contribution to the field of testing, Erik received the 2007 European Testing Excellence Award.
Morning Tutorial:
Requirements Engineering for Testers
Monday, April 16, 2012 8:30 AM
Concurrent Session:
Test Process Improvement with the TMMi® Model
Thursday, April 19, 2012 1:30 PM
Thomson Reuters
In the software industry for fifteen years, George Viegas currently wears the hat of QA director for Thomson Reuters ELITE where he directs the QA function for specialized financial software in the legal industry. George has varied experience in software having directed development, IT operations, and project management. He has worked in varied verticals including security, media, video gaming, and scientific and financial software. Specializing in the business side of QA, George is passionate about demonstrating QA value and its impact on the business, and bridging the technical divides between the business and the QA function.
Concurrent Session:
Moving to the Next Level: From Tester to Visionary Manager
Thursday, April 19, 2012 11:15 AM
Siemens AG
Peter Zimmerer is a principal engineer at Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, in Munich, Germany, where he performs consulting, coaching, and training on test management and test engineering practices—including test strategies, test methods, test processes, test automation, and test tools in real-world projects—and drives research and innovation in these areas. For more than twenty years Peter has been working in the field of software testing and quality engineering for object-oriented, component-based, distributed, service-oriented, and embedded software systems. An ISTQB® Certified Tester Full Advanced Level, Peter has authored several journal and conference contributions, and is a frequent speaker at international conferences. He can be contacted at peter.zimmerer@siemens.com.
Concurrent Session:
Software Design for Testability
Thursday, April 19, 2012 3:00 PM
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