SpecFlow/BDD coach, trainer, test automation expertBy Johan Steyn

Michael Bolton is a Rapid Software Testing consultant, teacher and author.By Johan Steyn

Director of Software Craft at Quest SoftwareBy Johan Steyn

Dragan Spiridonov is a tester with a background as a teacher. He currently works as a Director for QA and Testing at Alchemy Cloud, an American-Serbian start-up. Dragan contributes as an event organizer for the local community (Test'RS Club), one of Program Chairs for Belgrade Test Conference and, since 2016, he is a speaker at international testin…

Mark has more than 30 years’ experience in IT Services, specialising in performance testing, and holding a number of senior delivery positions both here and in the UK. Over the last 8 years Mark has been instrumental in building and developing Planit’s diverse technical testing capabilities in Wellington, New Zealand. This vibrant capability covers…

Laura Oniga is the Test Lead at Orbis Investments. "I love testing and I am committed to doing good, meaningful work. I belong to the Context Driven School of testing and I purposefully study the Testing Craft."By Johan Steyn

Paul Gerrard is a consultant, teacher, author, webmaster, developer, tester, conference speaker, rowing coach and a publisher. He has conducted consulting assignments in all aspects of software testing and quality assurance, specialising in test assurance. He has presented keynote talks and tutorials at testing conferences across Europe, the USA, A…

Joel Montvelisky. Co-Founder, Test Specialist & Architect of PractiTest - providing a Lightweight QA Management Solution for the Enterprise. QA & Test Specialists with experience working with hundreds of companies worldwide defining and improving their testing processes, implementing QA & ALM management solutions, and improving their overall Qualit…

Arindam's background is in developing and mentoring Test Engineering organisations to deliver product quality through functional and non-functional cadence by forming teams, bringing technology solutions and grooming talents. Spearheading transformation journeys for large and medium complex retail, healthcare, insurance and e-commerce domains.…

Huib Schoots shares his passion for quality through coaching, training, and giving presentations on a variety of subjects. He is one of four Rapid Software Testing teachers in the world. A member of TestNet, AST and black-belt in the Miagi-Do School of software testing and co-author of a book about the future of software testing. Huib maintains a b…

Thomas Meißner is the Head of QA at ipoque. As an academic, he majored in German language studies and sociology of religion. He eventually ended up as a software quality engineer, testing ERP software designed for real estate companies. He plans to transition to QA Management in the cybersecurity sector.…

Kyle Siemens is the CEO of a global software testing exam provider called Brightest: www.brightest.org.By Johan Steyn

Ash Winter is a learning tester & conference speaker with an eye for an untested assumption or claim. Veteran of various roles encompassing testing, performance engineering and automation. As a team member delivering mobile apps and web services or a leader of teams and change. A co-organiser for the Leeds Testing Atelier, a full day testing worksh…

Management Consultant Digital Assurance & Testing at Sogeti Nederland. Rik is an accredited trainer for ISTQB, TMap- and TPI- certification training courses, but also he has created and delivered many bespoke workshops and training courses. Rik is a contributing author to TestGrip (2007), TMap NEXT BDTM (2008), TPI NEXT (2009), PointZERO (2012), Qu…

Rahul Verma @rahul_verma In a career spanning 15+ years, I've handled 75+ projects as an individual contributor in the space of test automation architecture, web performance engineering, web security and skilled test design. I am the founder of Test Mile through which I offer my services as a testing consultant, speaker and coach. I am the author o…

Paul Mowat is a Technology Delivery Lead (Senior Manager) at Accenture UK specializing in Test Consultancy/advisory as well as managing the end-to-end delivery of technology transformation. Paul currently leads the UK Test Consultancy Practice. He was one of the first globally to gain the Accenture Master Test Architect certification. Since 2014 Pa…

Chapter 2 - The Business of Software Testing. With this edition of my podcast, I provide you with an audio book-type rendition of portions from my books or from the articles I have written. www.thebusinessoftesting.comBy Johan Steyn

Toyer Mamoojee is a 'die-hard' passionate QA Tech Lead with 15 years testing experience across many industries. From Waterfall to Agile approaches, Commercial to Open Source Automation tools and Manual to Automation Testing he has been through the wars of Software Delivery. He is the co-founder of Cape Town Automation User group and co-organizer of…

Keith has built software quality management and testing teams for global financial services and IT consulting firms in the US, UK, and Asia Pacific. Keith designed the Software Testing Education Program with the Bronx based non-profit Per Scholas which has graduated 250+ students from diverse backgrounds into jobs in technology. He was the Executiv…

Chapter 1 - The Business of Software Testing. With this edition of my podcast, I provide you with an audio book-type rendition of portions from my books or from the articles I have written. www.thebusinessoftesting.comBy Johan Steyn

Experienced Tester, Test Manager, Mentor, Coach, Trainer with deep domain knowledge in the Financial services industry. Passionate about exploratory testing as an approach. Focused on refining and practicing this, and adapting testing to the context. Proudly "Uncertified".By Johan Steyn

Special edition: I speak with Corne Kruger from the SASTQB about the TEST-IT Africa conference: 17-19 Sept in Johannesburg, 20-21 Sept in Cape Town http://testitafrica.comBy Johan Steyn

Santhosh Tuppad: Entrepreneur, Exploratory Tester, Ethical Hacker, International Speaker, Keynote Speaker and Automation Expert.By Johan Steyn

Saurabh is the founder of the pioneering Software testing company – Testovation. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science and brings 14+ years of QA & Testing experience. Saurabh has been helping startups and established enterprises in setting up and achieving their Quality goals. We provide innovative solutions that assist young startups and …

Assistant Vice President, Quality Assurance & Automation Analyst at ITG. I have about 10 years of experience working as a software tester with 4-5 years of automation. I have worked as a software tester, an automation engineer and a QA lead too. I am professional in Python, Java and PHP, but I have used other programming languages.…

Johan Jonasson is a test consultant, trainer and coach, based in Linköping, Sweden. Driven by a passion for software testing that dates back to 2006, he now helps organisations, teams and individuals to improve their approach to testing as well as their software development methods at large. Johan is one of the originators of the Let's Test confere…

Ryan Dowdle: Managing Director: iLAB Africa & Advisory Board Member - Rhodes University Information Systems Department. Ryan has over 20 years experience in advising clients from all sectors and industries on the benefits of adopting aggressive, business focussed IT solutions in order to support the achievement of their primary business goals and o…

Caroline Arkesteijn is a senior QA manager who has been working in Software Testing/Quality Assurance business for more than 15 years. During her career, she mainly focused on setting up new QA/QE organizations, change management, and process improvement. She currently works for Wolters Kluwer as senior QA manager, where she is leading the GPO QE c…

Freelance Consultant. Motivational speaker. Working as Software Quality Assurance Engineer, Management Consultant, Leadership coach over the last 10 years. Having vast exposure for testing complex functional domains. Sound knowledge of functional Automation testing in selenium with TestNG, Junit, Cucumber, Maven frameworks.…

I am a software tester from the Netherlands and I work for Improve Quality Services. I call myself a "Qualisopher" which stands for someone “who loves truth and wisdom and at the same time is decisive to improve man and his environment.” This means I am interested in the world around us, to see what I can learn and I can apply in software testing. …

Geoff Meyer is a Test Architect at DellEMC. 30+ years of industry experience as a software developer, manager, program manager, Director and Test Architect. In my current role, I craft the Test Strategy and Architecture for 400+ Software and Hardware testers across India, Taiwan, and the United States. Initiatives include Agile Testing, Test Automa…

Dr. Jeremias Rößler has more than 10 years of experience as a software developer and tester and is the founder and creator of ReTest (https://retest.org). His refreshingly unusual approach to test automation (difference testing) has many advantages over conventional test automation and he shows how to combine it with AI to overcome the oracle probl…

James Bach is founder and principal consultant of Satisfice, Inc., a software testing consultancy. After a little while as a video game programmer, he joined Apple in 1987 and spent the next decade or so as a tester and test manager in Silicon Valley. Since then-- and since 1999 running Satisfice, Inc.-- he has traveled the world teaching rapid sof…

Farieda Mayet is a former head of QA and CIO at First National Bank, a first-tier bank in South Africa. She shares interesting insights about her career, dealing with testing vendors and how CIO's typically view software quality and testing.By Johan Steyn