Jon Bach
Quardev, Inc.

Currently a managing consultant for Seattle-based test lab Quardev, Inc., Jon Bach has been in testing for fourteen years, twelve as a manager. His experience includes managing teams at Microsoft, HP, and LexisNexis. The co-inventor (with his brother James) of Session-Based Test Management, Jon frequently speaks about test management and exploratory testing. Jon is co-author of Microsoft’s Patterns and Practices book on acceptance testing (freely available online) and has written articles for testing magazines. Find him on Facebook, Twitter, or his many presentations, articles, and his blog at jonbox.wordpress.com.
 

Richard Bender 
BenderRBT, Inc.

Richard Bender has more than forty years experience in software with a primary focus on quality assurance and testing.  He has consulted internationally to large and small corporations, government agencies, and the military. He has been involved in establishing industry standards for software quality, serving as the Technical Lead for the International Y2K Test Certification Standards and assisting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in defining their Software Quality Guidelines. He was one of the first programmers ever awarded IBM’s Outstanding Invention Award. This was for his breakthroughs on code-based testing.
 

Goranka Bjedov 
Senior Test Engineer, Google

Known for her technical achievements and her refreshing wit, Goranka Bjedov has worked at Google where she has planned and implemented product testing and has been responsible for risk analysis and assessment for the past five years. Her current testing interests include both server and client-side performance, robustness, and scalability testing for Web-based applications. Before Google, Goranka held senior test engineering positions at Network Appliance and AT&T Labs. Previously, she was an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at Purdue University. A speaker at numerous testing and performance conferences, Goranka also has authored many papers, presentations, and two textbooks. 
 

Erik Boelen
qa consult

Erik Boelen is a passionate test professional with his own company, qa consult. As a test coordinator and test consultant, he has helped a large number of companies set up effective test processes. In addition to specializing in agile testing, Erik challenges traditional views of testing to better serve his clients in their specific needs. After helping a specific client, Erik translates his learning into specialized training materials, generalizing them in order to help other organizations deal with their specific problems. Erik can be reached at erik.boelen@qaconsult.eu.
 

Michael Bolton
DevelopSense

Michael Bolton has been teaching and providing consulting on software testing on five continents for nine years. He is the co-author (with senior author 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. He has been Program Chair for TASSQ and is a co-founder of the Toronto Workshops on Software Testing. Michael wrote the Test Connection columns in Better Software magazine for three years and sporadically produces his own newsletter. Michael lives in Toronto, Canada, with his wife and two children and can be reached at mb@developsense.com or at developsense.com.
 

Jeff Carollo
Google

Jeff Carollo is a Senior Software Engineer in Test at Google.  He currently works on Chrome and Chrome OS.  In the past, Jeff has worked on numerous server-side projects at Google, including the VoIP platform for Google Voice.  Jeff holds a degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M University.  He is originally from New Orleans, and is a die hard Saints fan. 

Ross Collard 
Collard and Company

A consultant who specializes in software testing and quality, Ross Collard conservatively estimates that he has helped clients save $ billions. They include ADP, American Express, Apple, AT&T, Bank of America, Bell Labs, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Boeing, Cisco, Citigroup, Exxon Mobil, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Google, HP, IBM, Intel, JP Morgan Chase, Merck, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, Prudential, State Farm and Verizon. Government clients include the CIA, Federal Reserve Bank and NASA. As an adjunct professor, he has taught software testing topics for several years at UC Berkeley, Harvard and NYU. Ross has been a keynote speaker for about 25 major international software conferences.

Lee Copeland 
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 conference, the STAR testing conferences, and Software Quality Engineering’s Agile Development Practices conference. Lee is the author of A Practitioner’s Guide to Software Test Design, a compendium of the most effective methods of test case design.

Nat Couture
Professional Quality Assurance Ltd.

Nat Couture is CTO at Professional Quality Assurance Ltd., an independent software testing firm based in Atlantic Canada. He provides technical leadership and guidance to more than seventy consultants and plays an active role in recruiting and training testers. Nat leads testing engagements and regularly delivers process improvement consultation, primarily in the financial and healthcare sectors. He has spent the past five years in software testing, holding roles from performance tester to QA Manager. Nat is an advocate for good processes, progressive testing techniques, and innovative solutions that improve quality and reduce manual efforts. Nat has played a key role in defining PQA’s software testing methodology.

Dan Craig
Coveros, Inc.

Dan Craig is a managing director at Coveros, Inc., a company established to help customers accelerate delivery of secure, high-quality software. Dan has nearly twenty years of experience in all aspects of the development lifecycle and particular depth in software quality assurance, testing, and process improvement within the context of agile development methodologies. He often is asked to help customers during project rescues where time is of the essence and creativity is required. Dan has published articles in Better Software magazine and other industry trade journals.
 

Rick Craig
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.
 

Lisa Crispin
ePlan Services, Inc.

An agile testing coach and practitioner, Lisa Crispin has co-authored Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (with Janet Gregory) and Testing Extreme Programming (with Tip House). Lisa specializes in showing agile teams how testers can add value and guide development with business-facing tests. For the past ten years, Lisa has worked as a tester on agile teams developing Web applications in Java and .Net. Lisa regularly contributes articles to Better Software magazine, IEEE Software, and Methods and Tools. For more about Lisa’s work, visit lisacrispin.com.

Jane Fraser
QA Director, Electronic Arts

As an industry veteran with more than fourteen year of experience, Jane Fraser brought her expertise from the ecommerce and telecomm industry to the online gaming world when she joined Pogo in 2004. In her role as QA director, Jane oversees the QA Department, which includes Pogo.com, Club Pogo, and the downloadable business. She has successfully launched more than sixty games in six territories including Scrabble and Battleship. During her time with Pogo, Jane has provided leadership, established testing process, and managed a team of testers, which she has grown from six to a robust team of sixty-eight in four countries. Prior to joining Pogo, Jane worked for companies including Corel, Vodafone, and Bigwords.

Bob Galen
iContact

Bob Galen is the director of R&D at iContact and president of RGCG, LLC., a North Carolina-based firm specializing in strategy development, coaching, and training teams making the shift to Scrum and other agile practices. 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, he 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 rgalen.com.
 

Euan Garden
Microsoft 

Euan Garden is an architect focused on application quality with the Visual Studio Team at Microsoft. In more than ten years involvement in engineering team leadership, Euan has worked in local government, financial institutions, startups, and now Microsoft. He has been involved in projects that have spanned software with single digit users to SQL Server and Visual Studio with millions of users. Euan is deeply passionate about working with users to define products, experiences, and quality in software.
 

Julie Gardiner
Grove Consultants

In the IT industry for nearly twenty years, Julie Gardiner has spent time 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. At UK-based Grove Consultants, Julie provides consultancy and training in all aspects of testing, specializing in risk-based testing, agile testing, test management, and people issues. She is a certified ScrumMaster. Julie won best presentation at STAREAST; best presentation at BCS SIGiST; and best tutorial at EuroSTAR. She has been a keynote speaker at STARWEST, Innovate Test Management, and STANZ.
 

Martin Gijsen
DeAnalist.nl

With thirteen years of experience in the software industry, Martin Gijsen is a test consultant, test automation architect, software architect, and business analyst. Starting as a software engineer, he soon became interested in test automation. Martin has since supported numerous testers by designing and creating effective automated testing solutions for a variety of systems with many different interfaces (including Web, Web services, and payment messages). He has also released the freeware Essential Test Automation Framework, easy to use with other free and open source test software (like Selenium, WebDriver, and Abbot). Martin frequently presents at international conferences and gives workshops for both testers and test automation specialists.
 

Adam Goucher
Consultant

For more than ten years, Adam Goucher has been testing software professionally, working with startups, large multinationals, and those in between, in both traditional and agile testing environments. A believer in the communication of ideas big and small, Adam writes frequently at adam.goucher.ca, teaches and speaks on testing and automation skills, and co-edited the Beautiful Testing anthology. In his off hours, he can be found either playing or coaching box lacrosse—and then promptly applying the lessons learned to testing. Adam is an active member of the Association for Software Testing.
 

Dorothy Graham
Software Testing Consultant

Dorothy Graham has been in testing for more than thirty years and is co-author of Software Inspection, Software Test Automation, and Foundations of Software Testing. She helped start testing qualifications in the UK. Dorothy holds the European Excellence Award in Software Testing and was Programme Chair for EuroSTAR in 1993 and 2009.

Janet Gregory
DragonFire, Inc.

The co-author of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Agile Testers and Teams, Janet Gregory is a consultant who specializes in helping teams build quality systems using agile methods. 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. Her focus is working with business users and testers to understand their roles in agile projects. Janet teaches courses on agile testing and is a frequent speaker at agile and testing software conferences around the world.
 

Rajeev Gupta
iTKO

Rajeev Gupta is a solution strategist with fourteen years of hands-on experience in software architecture, design, development, and testing of large-scale enterprise applications. As a leader of the value delivery practice at iTKO, he has mentored customer teams and led testing and virtualization strategies for many Fortune 500 clients. A passionate advocate of and blogger on software quality, Rajeev has presented at STARWEST and other conferences. Prior to iTKO, he managed SOA Quality for enterprise applications at Sun Microsystems.
 

Ravi Gururaj
VMLogix

Founder and CTO of VMLogix, Ravi Gururaj has more than nineteen years of technology product development, management, and marketing experience, having held positions at companies including Trilogy, UberWorks and Dialogic. Ravi founded two software start-ups that designed and licensed reusable software components for application developers worldwide. Ravi has been a speaker at Interop Mumbai, STAREAST, STeP-IN Summit, and the Virtualization Conference & Expo in NY.
 

Elisabeth Hendrickson
Quality Tree Software, Inc.

Elisabeth Hendrickson is the founder and president of Quality Tree Software, Inc., a consulting and training company dedicated to helping software teams deliver working solutions consistently and sustainably. Elisabeth wrote her first line of code in 1980. Moments later, she found her first bug. Since then Elisabeth has held positions as a tester, developer, manager, and quality engineering director in a variety of companies ranging from small startups to multi-national enterprises. A member of the agile community since 2003, Elisabeth has served on the board of directors of the Agile Alliance and is one of the co-organizers of the Agile Alliance Functional Testing Tools program. These days, Elisabeth splits her time between teaching, speaking, writing, and working on agile teams with test-infected programmers who value her obsession with testing. She blogs at testobsessed.com. You can also find her on Twitter as @testobsessed.
 

Joachim Herschmann
Borland (a Micro Focus company)

The product director of test automation at Micro Focus, Joachim Herschmann is responsible for the company's automated testing offerings. With more than fifteen years of experience in the software development and testing disciplines, he has been a frequent speaker and instructor on these topics for more than a decade. Joachim joined Micro Focus in July 2009 through the acquisition of Borland where he was in charge of the company's Lifecycle Quality Management suite of products. Previously he was a consultant specializing in the implementation, testing, and launching of large-scale Web site projects.
 

Matthew Heusser 
Socialtext

A member of the technical staff at Socialtext, Matt Heusser has developed, tested, and managed software projects throughout his professional career. He is a contributing editor for Software Test and Performance magazine and a part-time instructor of Information Systems at Calvin College. The initial organizer of the Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference, Matt was lead organizer of the workshop on Technical Debt. Matt contributed a chapter to Beautiful Testing, in which he describes Socialtext’s test process in detail.
 

Paco Hope
Cigital, Inc.

A technical manager with Cigital, Inc., Paco Hope has twelve years of experience in application security at the software and operating system level. He has focused on analyzing the security of Web-based applications and embedded systems—online gaming, lottery systems, cell phones, casino gaming devices, and smart cards. He is a frequent speaker on software security, security testing, and Web application security. Paco is co-author of the Web Security Testing Cookbook and is a subject matter expert for the Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) certification.
 

Krishna Iyer
ZenTEST Labs

CEO of ZenTEST Labs, Krishna Iyer is a young entrepreneur, a prolific speaker, and author. Prior to ZenTEST Labs, Krishna was a quality manager at Kanbay where he worked with clients such as CitiFinancial, HSBC, IBM, and GE. Krishna shapes ZenTEST Labs’s strategy using his financial background, improves its operations using his rich IT and process consulting experience, and transforms its culture using his expertise as a behavioral trainer. He is a chartered accountant and holds international certifications in software quality. Krishna is a regular presenter at testing and quality conferences including STARWEST and STAREAST.
 

Andy Kaufman
Institute for Leadership Excellence & Development, Inc.

Andy Kaufman works worldwide with people who want to improve how they lead teams and deliver results. He helps professionals and managers focus on the most important issues and proactively solve them. Andy’s workshops and coaching services have reached tens of thousands of people—from hundreds of companies—helping them become more confident leaders and achieve the results they desire while maintaining balanced lives. Andy is the author of Navigating the Winds of Change: Staying on Course in Business & in Life, Shining the Light on The Secret, and an e-book How to Organize Your Inbox & Get Rid of   E-Mail Clutter. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) and host of The People and Projects Podcast. 
 

James Knowlton 
McAfee, Inc.

James Knowlton is a QA automation engineer with McAfee, where he drives test automation efforts on McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator. He has more than eighteen years of experience in the software industry, including working for clients such as Novell, Symantec, and Nike. He is the author of Python: Create, Modify, Reuse. Follow his blogging at agilerubytester.com.

Jonathan Kohl
Kohl Concepts, Inc.

Jonathan Kohl is the founder and principal software testing consultant with Kohl Concepts, Inc., based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. A noted testing thinker, Jonathan is recognized as a leader in the exploratory testing community. He is a popular author and speaker who believes that testing is a challenging, intellectual craft. Jonathan’s blog on software development and testing issues is one of the most often-read testing blogs in the industry. Jonathan is also a regular contributor to Better Software magazine, as an author.
 

Peter M. Kruse
Berner & Mattner Systemtechnik GmbH

Peter M. Kruse is a software engineer working in the domain of testing, including evolutionary testing and the classification tree method. He is an experienced software developer and tester in the German automotive industry. Peter’s project experience includes Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing (HiL), model driven-development (MDD), and evolutionary structural and functional testing. He is responsible for development of CTE XL, a very popular test design tool.
 

Miles Lewitt
VP Advanced Technology, Intuit

A vice president at Intuit since 2001, Miles Lewitt manages a corporate development group and specializes in leading change that produces dramatic improvements. A proven senior engineering leader with a passion to deliver for customers, he takes teams on journeys of innovation and continuous improvement, and leads projects where the organization wants to do something significantly new. Early in his career, Miles managed Intel's software technology lab and the development of many hardware and software products, including the Product of the Year as selected by Electronic Products magazine. He launched and managed Intel's first overseas software development group.

Rafal Los
Hewlett-Packard

Rafal Los, Security Specialist with Hewlett-Packard's Application Security Center (ASC), is an industry veteran who has worked in a variety of security positions—from consultant to Information Security Officer in the Fortune 100—within some of the most demanding business environments.  Rafal’s unique blend of technical expertise and business knowledge enables him to teach audiences about security techniques, programs, and processes that they can both understand strategically, and apply.  He has extensive experience in security testing, risk analysis and management, penetration testing, and architecture and policy.  Previous successes include building and implementing a successful Web application security program for one of the largest and most diverse companies in the world.
 

Magdalena Luniak
Berner & Mattner Systemtechnik GmbH

Magdalena Luniak’s project experience includes development of statistical analysis tools. She has transferred her experience from data analysis into the field of software testing, working on the enhancement of the classification tree method at Berner & Mattner. Magdalena has been involved in software development at StataCorp LP in Texas, as well as teaching computer science at the Technical University Berlin, Germany.

Mukesh Mulchandani
ZenTEST Labs

CTO of ZenTEST Labs, Mukesh Mulchandani is the architect behind the organization’s various testing solutions and is responsible for establishing ZenTEST Labs as a key player in the software-testing domain. He has eight years of experience in the information technology industry, most spent in the banking and financial services sector. Before joining ZenTEST Labs, Mukesh worked with Kanbay, Capgemini Consulting, and Fortune 500 clients. He has played a major role in designing functional automation processes at the organizational level. A Certified Software Test Engineer and a Certified Product Consultant for WinRunner and QTP, Mukesh is a regular presenter at STARWEST and STAREAST. Contact Mukesh at mukesh@zentestlabs.com.
 

Alan Myrvold
Microsoft 

A senior tester at Microsoft, Alan Myrvold has more than twenty years of software development experience—as a test manager, software developer, development manager, testing toolsmith, and security pen-tester. Since joining Microsoft in 2005, he has worked on the Microsoft Office trustworthy computing team, focusing on security testing. Alan has been a speaker on software metrics, test automation, and security testing. He is passionate about testing and still loves finding cool bugs. Prior to joining Microsoft in Redmond WA, Alan worked at Cognos and Entrust, both in Ottawa, Canada.
 

C.V. Narayanan
Sonata Software Limited

C .V. Narayanan (CVN) heads the Managed Testing and Web Technologies division at Sonata. He previously managed the consulting group responsible for servicing customers in the US and Europe in varied technologies such as .NET, Java, Business intelligence Solutions, and Mainframe. With a cumulative experience of more than twenty years in various areas of software testing and quality assurance, CVN has been spearheading various QA initiatives within Sonata, key among them establishing various Centers of Excellence (CoE) in the areas of test automation, business process testing, agile testing, security and performance testing, and ERP testing.
 

Alan Page
Microsoft

A tester since 1993, Alan Page joined Microsoft in 1995 and currently is the Director of Test Excellence, where he oversees the technical training program for testers and other activities focused on improving testers, test tools, and testing across Microsoft. At Microsoft, Alan has worked on various versions of Windows, Internet Explorer, and Windows CE. He is the lead author of How We Test Software at Microsoft, writes about testing on his blog, and recently contributed a chapter to Beautiful Testing. Alan is a board member of the Seattle Area Software Quality Assurance Group (SASQAG) and speaks frequently about software testing and careers for software testers.
 

Chris Patterson
Microsoft

A senior program manager in Visual Studio Team System at Microsoft, Chris Patterson has been in the software industry for ten years, working in both the product development and consulting sides of the industry. While at Microsoft, he has been part of shipping the load testing features in Visual Studio Team System 2008. For Visual Studio Team System 2010, he works on the server side of the new test management features, where one of his primary concerns is performance and scale.
 

Jeff Payne
Coveros, Inc.
 
Jeff Payne is CEO and founder of Coveros, Inc., where he has led the startup and growth of the company. Prior to Coveros, Jeff was Chairman of the Board, CEO, and co-founder of Cigital, Inc. Under his direction, Cigital became a leader in software security and software quality solutions, helping clients mitigate the business risks associated with failed software. Jeff is a recognized software expert and speaks to companies nationwide about the business risks of software failure. He has been a keynote and featured speaker at CIO and business technology conferences, and frequently testifies before Congress on issues of national importance, including intellectual property rights, cyber-terrorism, and software quality.
 

Dale Perry
Software Quality Engineering

With more than thirty years of experience in information technology, Dale Perry has been a programmer/analyst, database administrator, project manager, development manager, tester, and test manager. Dale’s project experience includes large systems development and conversions, distributed systems, and online applications, both client/server and Web-based. He has been a professional instructor for more than fifteen years and has presented at numerous industry conferences on development and testing. With Software Quality Engineering for thirteen years, Dale has specialized in training and consulting on testing, inspections and reviews, and other testing and quality related topics. 

 

Martin Pol
POLTEQ IT 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 IT 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.

 

Andrew Pollner
ALP International

Andrew Pollner is president and CEO of ALP International Corporation, a leader in the area of test process improvement and in the use of test automation tools. As an early adopter of test automation tools, Andrew has built a consulting and training practice serving financial, insurance, healthcare, telecommunications companies, and government organizations. He has published articles on software testing and automation, and regularly speaks at major national and international testing conferences, including STAR, EuroSTAR, and the National Capital Area Software Testing Forum, which he created and chairs. Andrew is a director for the American Software Testing Qualifications Board (ASTQB) and chairs the Expert Level Test Automation Working Party for the ISTQB worldwide tester certification body.
 

Kiran Pyneni
Aetna, Inc.

As senior QA manager at Aetna, Kiran Pyneni is responsible for improving test organization efficiencies through automation. Kiran leads a team of innovative automation enablers responsible for driving automation across Aetna. Prior to joining Aetna, Kiran had several roles: software developer, senior tester, testing architect, QA lead, and delivery manager for Fortune 500 organizations. Kiran was an invited speaker at the HP Software Universe 2009 USA Conference speaking about automation testing.
 

Robert Reff
Thomson Reuters

Robert Reff is the Director of Quality Control at Thomson Reuters where he oversees a department located both onshore and offshore. Robert has more than twenty-five years of testing and methodology experience in independent testing labs, pharmaceutical companies, regulatory environments, and product development shops. He directs testing strategies and refines theoretical philosophies into a practical methodology, the latest of which is implementing an agile methodology in a regulated environment. Robert is a former chair of the Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) and a former technical editor for Software Digest, a monthly newsletter of comparative software product evaluations.
 

Doron Reuveni
uTest

In 2007, Doron Reuveni co-founded uTest, which provides functional and usability testing services through a community of software professionals that includes 20,000+ testers from 158 countries. Prior to uTest, he was the senior vice president of technology at Enigma, Inc., delivering large-scale software implementations through his global team of product managers, developers, QA professionals, and project managers. He has more than twenty years of experience delivering software applications to Fortune 500 companies as well as young, agile startups. Doron is a published author and expert in testing methodologies for Web, desktop, and mobile applications. More information can be found at utest.com.
 

Randy Rice 
Rice Consulting Services

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 with William E. Perry of Surviving the Top Ten Challenges of Software Testing. 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.
 

Tim Riley
Mozilla Coporation

Director of Quality Assurance at Mozilla, Tim Riley has tested everything from spacecraft simulators, ground control systems, high security operating systems, language platforms, application servers, hosted services, and open source Web applications. He has managed international software-testing teams from startups to large corporations. Tim holds a software patent for a test execution framework that matches test suites to available test systems. His new book Beautiful Testing is a collaboration with twenty-seven leading testers and developers. In addition to his interest in software testing, Tim enjoys live/studio sound engineering and being a breeder-caretaker for Canine Companions for Independence cci.org.
 

Lloyd Roden
Grove Consultants

With more than twenty-five years in the software industry, Lloyd Roden has worked as a developer, managed an independent test group within a software house, and joined UK-based Grove Consultants in 1999. Lloyd has been a speaker at STAREAST, STARWEST, EuroSTAR, AsiaSTAR, Software Test Automation, Test Congress, and Unicom conferences as well as Special Interest Groups in software testing in several countries. He was Program Chair for both the tenth and eleventh EuroSTAR conferences.
 

Rob Sabourin
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. 
 

Sebastián Schiavone
 Google

Sebastián Schiavone leads the concerted test planning efforts for the Test organization in Seattle/Kirkland, including the Chrome OS project at Google. Sebastián is working to codify best practices and build tools that accelerate test engineering and and planning. On a previous life, Sebastián was found roaming the halls of Silicon Valley staples Apple, Adobe, and Microsoft; he graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Electrical Engineering. 
 

Alim Sharif 
Ultimate Software

Alim Sharif has worked as a database administrator, project manager, network engineer, IT data center manager, test automation engineer/architect, SQA manager, and performance test engineer. He has developed and implemented performance test processes, procedures, and tools that resulted in huge gains in team productivity. In an agile environment at Ultimate Software, Alim initiated early performance test processes where he is responsible for identifying and resolving performance, reliability, stability, and scalability issues of the company’s Human Capital Management (HCM) system.
 

Sean Stolberg
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Sean Stolberg is a software engineer who is passionate about delivering compelling, quality software to customers. Over the past ten years, he has worked as a software tester, test lead, QA manager, and currently as a developer of customer-facing software. Ever since Sean began working on agile development teams two years ago, he has been obsessed with integrating test with development and pushing unit and automated acceptance testing into the development phase.
 

Rob Swoboda
HomeShore Solutions

Rob Swoboda has more than ten years of quality management and quality assurance experience. His diverse background includes work in the education, insurance, financial, banking, shipping, and biochemical industries. Rob has expertise in all levels of testing from unit to beta testing, testing methodologies, product and project management, and configuration management. Rob created and managed functional testing, systems integration, user acceptance, and beta teams whose effectiveness has resulted in a reduction of product delivery time and implementation issues by 50% to 66%.
 

Ruud Teunissen
POLTEQ IT Services BV

An international test consultant at POLTEQ IT Services BV, Ruud Teunissen has performed several test functions in a number of IT projects: tester, test specialist, test consultant, and test manager. He 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.