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Jenna’s passionate about helping teams move to a culture of whole team quality and empowering testers to be quality leaders on their teams. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5613dd9de4b09aeb11b7adeb/1642099194913-VG69MYQP8QG6OQKSI8YB/DavidDangBW200.jpeg TSQA 2022 - Wild Wild Test - David Dang David Dang, VP of Automated Solutions for Zenergy Technologies, has been a leading figure in the software automation industry for over twenty years. At Zenergy, David coaches companies in DevOps and Automation to help them develop better software faster. As a former developer, DevOps and automation were natural fits for David when he first began to use them. He quickly developed improved DevOps strategies and better, more effective automation techniques to help companies become competitive in modern software development methods. David is in high demand as a DevOps strategist and automation architect at Zenergy’s clients and consistently presents at major industry conferences. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5613dd9de4b09aeb11b7adeb/1641836280250-NL7J130DABYWWY925X9H/mesutBW.png TSQA 2022 - Wild Wild Test - Mesut Durukal Mesut has more than 12 years’ experience in Embedded Systems, Defense Industry, Industrial Automation, IoT platforms, SaaS/PaaS services, Cloud Services and Autonomous Mobile Robots. He has taken the responsibility for verification and validation activities and the role as a Product Owner in the QA teams. He has managed the testing activities in multinational projects and had the technical lead positions in several projects leading multiple QA squads. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5613dd9de4b09aeb11b7adeb/1645809338842-51USFDE1PBNMH7PJYIR6/matiasBW200.jpeg TSQA 2022 - Wild Wild Test - Matias Fornara https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5613dd9de4b09aeb11b7adeb/1642525340997-15819Q5VS1MCL8EVXTOG/monicafriendBW.jpg TSQA 2022 - Wild Wild Test - Monica A. Friend Monica A Friend is self described human among humans, mental health advocate, and tester friend to one and all. Monica has been in the testing field for almost 10 years and practices risk-based heuristic testing for highly regulated industries, such as enterprise software, auto insurance, and loan issuance. While she loves testing down to her testing bones, Monica is also an avid crafting enthusiast, baker, and cat mom to her two kittens - Alex Trebek and Sean Connery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5613dd9de4b09aeb11b7adeb/1641836642547-RM7BHTPAUOLEXYYIVRON/JianGaoBW.JPG TSQA 2022 - Wild Wild Test - Jian Gao Jian Gao is a Software Engineer in Test at logDNA. At work, he enjoys all things automation, and advocates testing culture throughout the software development life cycle. He believes we should mention DevTestOps more often than DevOps. Outside work, he is trying to learn piano and kickboxing. He also likes to watch sci-fi shows and soccer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5613dd9de4b09aeb11b7adeb/1642686396290-RHVR5GLQVEOQSEJ911I8/JanetGregoryBW.jpg TSQA 2022 - Wild Wild Test - Janet Gregory Janet Gregory is an agile testing 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 activities 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 or LinkedIn. 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5613dd9de4b09aeb11b7adeb/1641836080509-S8LY11OKCX1R690C8GON/grizzaffiBW.jpeg TSQA 2022 - Wild Wild Test - Paul Grizzaffi As a Principal Automation Architect at Cognizant Softvision, Paul Grizzaffi is following his passion for providing technology solutions to testing, QE, and QA organizations, including automation assessments, implementations, and through activities benefiting the broader testing community. An accomplished keynote speaker, international conference speaker, and writer, Paul has spoken at local and national conferences and meetings. He is an advisor to Software Test Professionals and STPCon, as well as a member of the Industry Advisory Board of the Advanced Research Center for Software Testing and Quality Assurance (STQA) at UT Dallas where he is a frequent guest lecturer. In addition to spending time with his twins, Paul enjoys sharing his experiences and learning from other testing professionals; his mostly cogent thoughts can be read on his blog at https://responsibleautomation.wordpress.com and he tweets from @pgrizzaffi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5613dd9de4b09aeb11b7adeb/1641837309548-V93DPGGN5P9PVSY7N0ZS/haverBW.jpeg TSQA 2022 - Wild Wild Test - Thomas Haver Thomas is presently serving as a Test Automation Architect. He leads a team of testers, ops engineers, and production support analysts in the adoption of DevOps practices. Previously, he led the enterprise automation support of 73 applications at Huntington National Bank that encompassed testing, metrics & reporting, and data management. Thomas has a background in Physics & Biophysics, with over a decade spent in research science studying fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy before joining IT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5613dd9de4b09aeb11b7adeb/1642772460790-X7REDV4D4648KQS4QJJD/JohnHillBW.jpeg TSQA 2022 - Wild Wild Test - John Hill John Hill is a Web UI Test Engineer working at the NASA Ames Research Center on the VIPER Mission's Web-based Mission Control Software. A Triangle native, he has 10 years of UI Testing experience ranging from the dark age of Flash to modern PWAs. John specializations in Web Test Automation, Performance Engineering, and Test Automation Architecture. His passion has always been for Open Source Software and has worked on Jenkins, Ansible, and now on Open MCT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5613dd9de4b09aeb11b7adeb/1641836849373-O8A1RWYMWDC9W9HZPZ6N/andyknightBW.jpeg TSQA 2022 - Wild Wild Test - Andrew Knight Andrew Knight is the Automation Panda and a Developer Advocate at Applitools. He strives to help others in solving problems in software development, testing, and quality. Over the past decade, he has designed and built robust test automation projects from the ground up that can run thousands of tests continuously. He is the author of the upcoming book "The Way To Test Software" from Manning Publications, and he is also the lead developer for Boa Constrictor, the .NET Screenplay Pattern. Read his tech blog at AutomationPanda.com, and follow him on Twitter at @AutomationPanda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5613dd9de4b09aeb11b7adeb/1642010680154-99FBOCB8VHFV725HSR1S/mikelylesBW200.jpg TSQA 2022 - Wild Wild Test - Mike Lyles Mike Lyles is a Director of QA and Project Management with over 25 years of IT experience in multiple organizations, including Fortune 50 companies. Mike has been successful in career development, team building, coaching, and mentoring for over two decades. Mike has been an international keynote speaker at multiple events, and is a certified John Maxwell Team coach, speaker, and trainer. He is the author of the motivational, self-help book, "The Drive-Thru Is Not Always Faster". You can learn more about Mike at www.MikeWLyles.com where you can also find his social media links and connect with him there also. 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He is the producer and host of the Spanish language version of the PerfBytes podcast and the Sefior Performo learning YouTube channels. He is an international public speaker participating in multiple conferences, events and webinars, with keynotes, workshops and multiple talks on his belt. And last, author of "The Hitchhikers Guide To Load Testing Projects", a fun walkthrough that will guide you through the phases or levels of an IT load testing project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5613dd9de4b09aeb11b7adeb/1642098800923-J3B2WFMO0WEOJWH1DVZT/JoelMontiveliskyBW.jpeg TSQA 2022 - Wild Wild Test - Joel Montvelisky Joel Montvelisky is a Co-Founder and Chief Solution Architect at PractiTest. Joel has been in testing and QA since 1997, working as a tester, QA Manager and Director, and a Consultant for companies in Israel, the US and the EU. Joel is a Forbes council member, a blogger with the QA Intelligence Blog, and is constantly imparting webinars on a number of testing and Quality Related topics. In addition, Joel is the founder and Chair of the OnlineTestConf, the co-founder of the State of Testing survey and report and a Director at the Association of Software Testing. Joel is a conference speaker, presenting in various conferences and forums worldwide, among them the STAR Conferences, STPCon, JaSST, TestLeadership Conf, CAST, QA&Test, and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5613dd9de4b09aeb11b7adeb/1641835885623-G6CJ73W3OK9VLGBI611E/Raluca_Morariu_IsachiBW.jpeg TSQA 2022 - Wild Wild Test - Raluca Morariu With over 13 years experience in the software industry Raluca has started her career as a developer back in 2006. Having shifted her career to testing in 2011, she started working at Paddy Power Betfair as an automation specialist, where she led the efforts around continuous delivery, automation and performance testing. In her current role as a Delivery Manager she is responsible for project delivery, people management of multiple teams while still being involved as a tester advocate in the overall testing effort of the company, especially in areas related to microservices automation and testing ways of working. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5613dd9de4b09aeb11b7adeb/1642100071573-SQS85DYDVYDG7BDCO3UK/EElizondoBW200.jpg TSQA 2022 - Wild Wild Test - Eugenio Elizondo Perales Robotics Engineer with 4-year experience in the automotive industry coordinating Advanced Manufacturing processes in production lines for new products, 7 years as Automation Tester and 2 as Performance Tester. Currently working in Epicor Software as Sr. Automation QA Analyst responsible for testing processes of 7 different applications and supervising the work of an intern. In addition to performing tests and in coordination with the developers, I actively participate in development processes to implement requirements, improvements, or customer special requests to be applied to our product. In charge of the training of our support team and new resources, responsible for creating manuals and necessary documentation for customers. Following the objective of promoting a continuous learning culture within my team I created a site using our internal platform where you can find articles, bibliography, training for QA topics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5613dd9de4b09aeb11b7adeb/1641834970514-8UKZV5JQ452YE559FLJI/kenpughBW.jpeg TSQA 2022 - Wild Wild Test - Ken Pugh Ken Pugh helps companies develop software effectively by applying lean-agile principles and practices. 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