Test Team Roulette - Choose your Ideal Candidate!

Ash, a former chef, put recipes aside when she began her career in software development, falling back on her skills in engineering she acquired as a kid building computers with her brother. A progressive type, Ash has focused her efforts within technology on bringing awareness to the inclusion of women and people of colour, especially in the Context-Driven Testing and Agile communities. An avid fan of matching business needs with technological solutions, you can find her doing her best work on whichever coast is the sunniest. Having helped teams build out testing practices, formulate Agile processes and redefine culture, she now works as an Engineering Manager in Quality for Credit Karma and continues consulting based out of San Francisco.

Jake Brower is a Quality Engineering Manager, Scrum Master, and Agile Facilitator with Credit Karma in San Francisco and has worked in software testing since 1994 where he started his career building/testing web sites for local nonprofits in Seattle. From there, he worked at various companies testing everything from AS400 mainframe systems to commercial web sites to desktop and mobile apps. He has been in San Francisco now for 15 years and in that time he's led many Quality/company-wide transformations that focus on pushing Quality further left, driving process engineering/adoption, and guiding testing teams to hone their intuition skills beyond the scripted test.

Jake's true passions lie in managing people and building world-class teams. Having been in management for about 10 years, he has acquired deep skills in hiring/managing/mentoring and has a great love of learning what makes people tick as well as their motivations for doing what they do every day. Jake's other passion is electronic music production and he has toured the world making live techno on stages big and small.