Amanda Nobil is a Sr. Staff Test Engineer at Medidata Solutions, Inc. She started out in public policy and administration as well as law and legal studies, but began what she thought would be a “rebound relationship” with testing after moving to the San Francisco Bay Area. Many years later, she finds herself instead as part of a loving, if cheeky, union with code based on mutual respect and admiration.

Amanda often finds herself in a number of roles within a role: Investigator, Doctor, and Psychologist to name the most prominent few. However, she is of the opinion that such is testing and such is life.

When not uttering either the words, “Wait, but why?” or “Let’s explore that feature/thought/statement/etc. a little more,” you can find her observing (lurking?) on Twitter or thinking a lot about testing, software, and her place in that realm.

Bernardo Guerreiro, from Portugal and living in London, is a Software Engineer with a focus on Release and Testing. He has a wide range of experiences, ranging from device automation to testing of distributed systems, both from a frontend and backend perspective. In particular, he has solid hands-on experience of implementing Contract Testing at a large scale on a micro-services architecture. Recently he has been very interested in how DevOps can complement the role of Quality Assurance in an organisation, and in trying to solve company-wide problems by being involved in architecting and building infrastructure and tooling to support multiple teams. He currently works for Auth0, an industry leading identity as a service provider.

On a personal note, he likes to spend his spare time with his partner and friends, is an avid traveller, and now enjoys card games as a hobby (having formerly played some of them on a professional level).

Corina is a Test & Automation Lead, with focus on testing by means of Java, Selenium, TestNG, Spring, Maven, and other cool frameworks and tools. Previous endeavours from her 11+ years testing career include working on navigation devices, in the online gaming industry, in the aviation software and automotive industries.

Apart from work, Corina is a testing blogger (https://imalittletester.com/) and a GitHub contributor (https://github.com/iamalittletester). She is the creator of a wait based library for Selenium testing (https://github.com/iamalittletester/thewaiter) and creator of “The Little Tester” comic series. She also tweets at @imalittletester.

Hi! I’m Crystal and I have become very passionate about topics that are still considered more or less taboo like expressing our authentic selves, embracing our fears and shortcomings, and enjoying our share of the pie to the fullest. I started my career as a software developer and I am now an Emotional Skills Coach which essentially means, becoming a life-long student of life.

Daniel Irvine (he/him) loves to code. He’s a London-based independent software consultant and builds all kinds of software for his clients. He’s the author of Mastering React Test-Driven Development. He runs the Queer Code London meet-up and, in the odd moments that he’s not thinking about code, he likes to cook and practice yoga.

Elizabeth tests software at Mendix in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She was the keynote speaker at Let’s Test in South Africa in 2018, and she’s spoken at Agile Testing Days’ and other conferences in North America and Europe. Her article about mind maps became one of the most viewed on Ministry of Testing Dojo in 2017. You can find Elizabeth on the internet on Twitter and Medium.

Fiona Charles is an independent coach, consultant, and workshop facilitator specialising in the human side of software development, quality, and testing. She teaches organizations to manage their software quality risk, and software practitioners human skills “beyond process”—hands-on practical skills essential to thrive, excel, and lead on any kind of software team. Fiona speaks and conducts interactive workshops at international conferences and in-house for clients, has recorded several webinars, and published many articles in quality-related publications.

Contact Fiona via her website www.quality-intelligence.com, and follow her on twitter @FionaCCharles.

Gáspár Nagy is the creator and the main contributor of SpecFlow, regular conference speaker, blogger (http://gasparnagy.com), editor of the BDD Addict monthly newsletter (http://bddaddict.com), and co-author of the “BDD Books - Discovery: Explore behaviour using examples” and “BDD Books - Formulation: Express examples using Given/When/Then” (http://bddbooks.com).

Gáspár is an independent coach, trainer and test automation expert focusing on helping teams implementing BDD and SpecFlow. He has more than 18 years of experience in enterprise software development as he worked as an architect and agile developer coach.

Gem Hill is a Senior Tester in the Voice + AI team, working on BBC skills for Alexa and other voice platforms. She is passionate about self care and mental health, and is developing resources and exercises to help people come up with self care strategies. She can be found on twitter @Gem_Hill. She drinks a lot of tea, reads a lot of comics, and loves to bake.

Hilary Weaver-Robb is a software quality architect at Detroit-based Quicken Loans. She is a mentor to her fellow testers, makes friends with developers, and helps teams level-up their quality processes, tools, and techniques. Hilary loves to help train folks in API testing and automation, using static analysis to inform our testing, and has always been passionate about improving the relationships between developers and testers, and evangelizes software testing as a rewarding, viable career.

She runs the Motor City Software Testers user group, working to build a community of quality advocates. Hilary tweets (a lot) as @g33klady, and you can find her thoughts and experiences in the testing world, at g33klady.com.

Janet Gregory is an agile testing coach and process consultant with DragonFire Inc. She is the co-author with Lisa Crispin of Agile Testing Condensed: A Brief Introduction (LeanPub 2019), More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team (Addison-Wesley 2014), and Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009), the Live Lessons Agile Testing Essentials video course, and “Agile Testing for the Whole Team” 3-day training course.

Janet specializes in showing agile teams how testing practices are necessary to develop good quality products. She works with teams to transition to agile development and teaches agile testing courses worldwide. She contributes articles to publications and enjoys sharing her experiences at conferences and user group meetings around the world. For more about Janet’s work and her blog, visit https://janetgregory.ca or https://agiletester.ca You can also follow her on twitter @janetgregoryca.

Together with Lisa Crispin, she has founded the Agile Testing Fellowship to grow a community of practitioners who care about quality. Check out https://agiletestingfellow.com to find out more about courses and membership.

Dr. Jeremias Rößler (Roessler, @roesslerj, he) has a PhD in Computer Science and more than 10 years of experience as a software developer and tester — is the founder and CEO of @retest_en (https://retest.de), a German-based startup that brings AI to test automation. His 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 problem.

João Proença comes from Lisbon, Portugal, and is Quality Owner in R&D for OutSystems, a company that provides one of the leading low-code development platforms in the world. He has had various roles throughout his career in the past 12 years, including quality assurance, development, customer support and marketing. Finding innovative solutions for difficult problems is what drives him the most, so he is always eager to talk about how professionals are overcoming testing challenges around the world. Outside of IT, João is passionate about songwriting, movies and football. You’ll see him tweet about all of these topics using the @jrosaproenca handle.

Joep wandered into testing in 2006. Two years later he discovered context-driven and realized that testing is actually not that bad a fit for a philosopher. In 2015 he joined Mendix, one reason being that he wanted to increase his technical skills. Since then he’s become more and more involved in automation, while also taking on the roles of scrum master, then team lead, and as of October 2018 tech lead testing. Somewhere along his journey (some say it was 2013) he started speaking at conferences. Outside of work his thoughts tend to revolve around coffee, fountain pens and bouldering.

Jokin as been a Software Tester since 2008, he had moved from Waterfall to Agile, from Test cases to Exploratory testing, from Excel to Rapid Software Testing. He has learnt from James Bach & Michael Bolton, from Huib choots & Richard Bradshaw, from Lisa Crispin & Fiona Charles, from Pekka Marjamäki & Martin Hynie … and one night he invited Pradeep Soundararajan to dinner, so he knows about the secret sauce of testing. In this year 2019 he has changed role, and now performs as Product Owner in Flywire, using his old tester skills and learning the Product Owning thing.

Lisa Crispin is the co-author, with Janet Gregory, of Agile Testing Condensed, More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team, Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams, the LiveLessons Agile Testing Essentials video course, and “The Whole Team Approach to Agile Testing” 3-day training course.

Lisa was voted by her peers as the Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Person at Agile Testing Days in 2012. She is a testing advocate working at mabl to explore leading practices in testing in the software community. Please visit www.lisacrispin.com and www.agiletester.ca for more.

Hi, my name is Matteo and I’m a Software Craftsman and a Technical Coach. eXtreme Programming practitioner and TDD lover, I’m very passionate about creating well crafted software that delivers high value to the customer.

I’m addicted to conferences and meetups. I love to share knowledge with people in order to improve myself and hopefully inspire other people.

Melissa Benua has worked in nearly every software development role—dev, test, DevOps, and program management—at companies big and small and somewhere in-between. She’s created and run high availability, high-quality services for PlayFab, Bing, Cortana, and Xbox One, and now for mParticle’s enormous data platform. Melissa discovered her love of massively-scaled systems while growing the Bing backend, where she honed the art of keeping highly-available complex systems up while undergoing significant code churn. Now an engineering manager with mParticle, she’s passionate not only about maximizing efficiency both in her product code and in her developer tools but also about sharing best practices among colleagues and the tech world at large.

Software crafter with a profound interest in defining environments where teams can thrive to build great products. Experience with agile, software architecture and technical excellence in both SME and corporate settings.

Focus on delivering results. Agile in itself is not a goal, but Agile principles help to deliver value in rapidly changing environments. Experiences in assessing and setting up technical excellence to deliver quality products. Worked with companies in the following domains: energy, logistics and automation, automated warehouse systems, tank terminals, public transport, municipalities and government administration, security and banking.

Rob Meaney is a tester that loves tough testing and software delivery problems. As Head of Quality Engineering in Poppulo, Rob works with development teams to improve the quality of both their software products and processes using agile and lean principles. He is an active member of the online testing community, co-founder of Ministry of Test Cork, speaks frequently at software conferences and is the co-author of “Team Guide to Software Testability” alongside Ash Winter.

Previously he has held positions as Test Manager, Automation Architect and Test Engineer with companies of varying sizes, from large multinationals like Intel, Ericsson & EMC to early-stage startups like Trustev. He has worked in diverse areas from highly regulated industries like safety automation & fraud detection to dynamic, exciting industries like gaming.