Pilar Grande Ayuso & Raquel Moreno

Pilar Grande Ayuso and Raquel Moreno lead the Quality Assurance team at Orange Spain, one of the main European telecommunications operators. For Orange, software quality is an unwavering commitment and to fulfill it, testing and its automation are essential tools. Raquel and Pilar, who have been linked to the organization for years, have lived with the problems caused by the lack of adequate test data. Together with their team, they lead the deployment of the company's TDM strategy.

Ewout Van Driel

Ewout is a software tester living in Barcelona and has been active in the QA arena for over 20 years. He is passionate about growing the testing community and teaching software testing. In 2012 he founded Qualitate, a specialist consulting firm for high added value QA services. Aside from managing the company, Ewout is actively participates in QA coaching projects. He is currently Agile QA transformation Lead at a major Dutch retailer assisting 28 teams in their journey towards Agile QA.

Eduardo Maldonado

Eduardo Maldonado is part of the Technical Direction of ALTEN Spain, leading the QA&Testing area. His entire professional career has been linked to quality assurance at different clients and in different sectors, which has helped him to develop a passion for new technologies and the application of innovative solutions in the field of product and software quality control.

Gjore Zaharchev

Gjore Zaharchev is an Agile Evangelist and Heuristic Testing fighter with more than 15 years of experience in Automated, Manual, and also Performance Software Testing for various domains and clients. In this period Gjore has led and managed QA people and QA teams from different locations in Europe and the USA and different team sizes. He recognizes testers as people with various problem-solving skills and an engineering mindset and believes that Software Testers are more than mere numbers to clients. Currently working at Seavus, with an official title of a Quality Assurance Line Manager responsible for the Software Testing Team.

Gitte Ottosen

Gitte is a test manager/ quality coach with a strong focus on a value driven approach to software development. She has 26 years of experience within testing, test management and process improvement, in both traditional and agile contexts. Gitte has worked with testing in a scaled agile context several years, both within the SAFe® framework and other scaled agile implementations. Gitte is a dedicated trainer within the areas of agile and test and is a regular speaker at international conferences.

Yogev Baron

A Senior Product Manager with Digital.ai, Yogev Baron is responsible for the Autonomous Testing product as part of the Test Authoring solution. Previously, Yogev worked as a Product Manager in the Supply Chain industry and was responsible for both the growth-centered and mobile team. Yogev holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Master’s degree in Business and Law with a specialization in entrepreneurship.

Inmaculada Ramirez

Inma is a Telecommunications Engineer with a masters in Business Administration from the Miguel Hernández University in 2007. After a long journey in support and consulting focused mainly on automation and performance, she is currently the Technical Director of the Barcelona area at Sogeti Spain. She has almost 15 years of experience in the field of software quality assurance, as well as in the execution and management of functional and non-functional testing projects for multinational clients, her experience and vision help design, every day, strategies focused on ensure a correct user experience.

Joaquin Suarez

Joaquin is a Telecommunication Engineer with more than 10 years in the IT world, first as a developer and then as a tester and quality engineer in several roles. Passionate about agility, agile testing and training, I currently hold the role of Quality Advisor at Capitole Consulting, combining this work with being an official instructor of the "Agile for The Whole Team" course.

Juan Botias

Juan started his career as a Software Developer in 2007 and switched to Quality Assurance in 2010, working as a tester for companies such as Sogeti and Ricoh. For the last 8 years, he has been a Sales Engineer in the Application Delivery & Management area in Micro Focus, working with customers in Lifecycle Management, Testing Management, Automation, Performance and DevOps.

Maurizio Di Stefano

Maurizio is a Computer Science Engineer with almost 20 years of experience across Software Development, Technical Consultancy and Presales. For the last 9 years playing an Application Security Specialist role helping customers to implement DevSecOps and AppSec programs within their organizations.

Juan Luis Fernandez

Juan Luis is the Global Head of NTTDATA's Performance Center of Excellence and responsible for QA in Spain for the Insurance and Utilities sectors. Passionate about innovation and new technologies and in charge of designing new solutions and testing strategies for major clients. Enjoys working with multicultural teams. And our motto is "we test the present to improve the future".

Louise Gibbs

Louise is a Senior Automation Tester at PebblePad. Her main job is to review and maintain the automated tests that are run overnight, and investigate the causes of any failures. She has also worked for companies in the e-commerce, scientific research and automotive industries, and runs a personal blog at louisegibbstest.wordpress.com, where she talks about her experiences as a software tester. She enjoys improving her testing skills and her main method for achieving this is by speaking to other Testers and discussing ideas.

Luis Lobo

Luis Lobo has developed his career as a consultant in the disciplines of software engineering, implementation and process improvement, project management and IT governance. He has been involved in many projects of implementation of frameworks (Agile, Lean-Kanban, Scrum...), methodologies (ITSM, CMMi, ITIL, RUP, Métrica3...), standards (ISO 9001, ISO 27001, UML, SysML...) and tools (Atlassian, Enterprise Architect...), also developing software for these environments.

Michal Buczko

Michal is a Quality Manager at Viessmann where he is the advocate for fast and efficient testing. Michal gives his insights in design of the test harness and solutions for customer cases, the definition of the scope of testing and work with Automotive Scrum Teams. Michael focuses to be responsible for sharing “new-fancy stuff” with others and helping people grow as individuals. He is involved in various activities including testing, consulting, requirements analysis and taken a step into the world of the Product Ownership. Now sharing his experience as Test Management Consultant.

Nicole van der Hoeven

Nicole is a performance engineer with over a decade of experience in breaking software and learning to build it back up again. She has lived in the Philippines, the US, Australia, and now the Netherlands, helping teams all over the world scale up their load tests on the cloud. She currently works at k6 as a Developer Advocate for performance testing, which means she learns new stuff for a living and then tells people about how she did it. She plays tabletop roleplaying games five times a week, makes videos on YouTube about taking notes, and studies more languages than she can remember.

Moises Rodriguez

Moisés, Computer Engineer and MBA from the School of Industrial Organization, has developed his career always associated with the world of telecommunications and digitalization. He currently works as Director of the Telco, Media and Cybersecurity business unit at CENTUM Digital and is a professor at CUNEF. He has been involved in the design and creation of products and solutions dedicated to test automation. Also, in the last stage exploring the linking of cybersecurity in QA environments. Passionate about technology, he has more than 20 years of experience in both technical and business environments. Do you have a challenge? Let him try!

Micael Gallego

Dr. Micael is Professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos with more than 12 years of experience in teaching web applications, distributed systems and concurrent programming. He is co-director of CodeURJC, a software development laboratory in the university. The laboratory works with national and international companies providing consultancy and training about software development, focusing on cloud technologies, continuous integration and testing. Currently he is technical coordinator of the H2020 project ElasTest, where he is researching novel ways of testing cloud infrastructures and applications, including 5G, IoT and real-time communication systems.

Pablo Bermejo

Pablo Bermejo is a Platform Product Manager at Guidewire Software building the best Developer Experience for Guidewire Cloud, the industry-leading insurance cloud platform. During the past 20 years at the edge of the software development industry, Pablo has learned how to help organizations through technology and more importantly, motivated teams, where he contributed by playing different global software leadership roles. Pablo is committed to any just-in-market innovation in the field of contemporary user interfaces, low operations, and serverless architectures in order to provide global customers with superior levels of user experience, live deployments, managed services, and cost control. He also enjoys writing and spreading the word about what he is learning: he hosted technical, sales, and management training sessions, speaker at corporate international conferences, published whitepapers and articles, and collaborated at University seminars.

Rick Tracy

Rick is an avid test philosopher, constantly digging into themes and activities in testing. With a background in retail, banking, medicine, psychology and of course information technology, he enjoys exploring how all converge in new experiences and scintillating debate. Whether as a Tester, manager, pathfinder, scrummaster or coach, he always find himself drawn to the wild open exchange of ideas and techniques in any testing event. When not at work he enjoys spending time with him newborn twin boys, him wife and my cats, or settling in for a good reading or writing session. Come talk to him about anything!

Rob Sabourin

Rob has more than 35 years of management experience leading teams of software development professionals. A highly-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 authored 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 principal consultant (and president/janitor) of AmiBug.Com, Inc.

Ru Cindrea

Ru Cindrea is a Senior Test Consultant and Managing Partner at Altom Consulting. With more than ten years of experience in software testing, she is particularly interested in mobile testing and test automation with a special interest in mobile games. Ru is an instructor for the Black Box Software Testing series offered by Altom in collaboration with KFA. She is also one of the maintainers for AltUnityTester, an open source tool for Unity automation.

Roman Segador

Román is a Quality Engineer currently working for Omnipresent. With almost 15 years of experience in the Software Testing and Quality industry. Follower of the Modern Testing Principles and always looking for agile approaches to improve the team's quality. He has been exposed to many different environments during the last years, including high load systems with more than a hundred microservices, BI projects, or serverless architectures.

Ricard Ruiz

Ricardo is Senior QA Engineer in Service Quality Assuarance at Inetum. He also works as a teacher at the private professional training school ADAITS, where he teaches Programming, Development Environments and Client Environments. He is scpecialize in test automation tools and the infrastructure around it for web pages, mobile devices, native applications in Windows, MacOS, Android and iOS, APIs and webservices with tools like Selenium, UFT, Postman, etc, and different languages like Java, C#, Python or Javascript.

Sanne Visser

Sanne won the EuroSTAR Rising STAR Award for this idea in 2018, and has been working on how to test blockchain applications ever since. She has built this taxonomy and is now validating and extending the model. She has been testing blockchain applications since 2017 and giving workshops, tutorials and talks on the subject frequently. She is also the president of the Blockchain Testing Community and works with them on improving Testers understanding of how blockchain works and how to test blockchain applications.

Seb Rose

Seb has been a consultant, coach, designer, analyst and developer for over 40 years. He has been involved in the full development lifecycle with experience that ranges from architecture to support, from BASIC to Ruby. During his career, he has worked for companies large (e.g. IBM, Amazon) and small, and has extensive experience of failed projects. He's now Developer Advocate with SmartBear Advantage, promoting better ways of working to the software development community. Co-author of the BDD Books series "Discovery” and "Formulation" (Leanpub), lead author of “The Cucumber for Java Book” (Pragmatic Programmers), and contributing author to “97 Things Every Programmer Should Know” (O’Reilly).

Lisandra Armas

Lisandra graduated as a Software Engineer and started her first steps in the world of testing in 2011 and has been working in areas related to Software Quality for more than 10 years. She has specialised in the areas of Usability, UX and Accessibility. He has taught courses on software testing and accessibility. He teaches the "UX, Usability and Accessibility Testing" module of the "Software Testing" Diploma at the Catholic University of Bolivia. He has written articles and presented talks and workshops on accessibility and usability in several IT Communities.

Sune Engsig

As Leapwork’s Chief Evangelist, Sune helps hundreds of organizations deliver business capabilities faster and more efficiently with automation. He has more than 20 years of experience working with business and process development as well as IT architecture for enterprises. In addition, he has extensive project management experience from both government and the telecoms industry. Sune is driven by a mission to find ways for businesses to extend their capabilities with the help of technology.

Veerle Verhagen

Veerle is a software tester with RisQIT. She has a background in historical linguistics and spent a few years in education before turning to IT. She is particularly interested in the human beings behind the software, core skills, agile testing, and ethics in tech. So far her absolute favourite project in testing has been a mobile travel planner app. Besides testing, she likes to put her background in education to use by creating and facilitating workshops. Veerle is a social animal who cannot wait for the office (and the pub!) to open again. Until that time she tries to connect and keep in touch online with Testers all around the globe, from the comfort of her own kitchen.