I’ve been in the craft of testing for 24 years, mostly in leadership roles, and feel as passionate about testing now, as I did in my first year. I’ve had many roles, from testing the world’s first touchscreen smartphone, to heading up Sony PlayStation European Test Operations, to Head of test for a clinical software firm. I’ve currently made the jump across to Engineering Manager and a company called cinch I’m a huge advocate of self-development, and sharing your learnings from that self-development. I've spoken at over 50 conferences and meetups, ran meetups, and compered at Testbash, Swanseacon, and Manchester tech festival

Erol is a QA Engineer with 7+ years of experience. He's currently working as a Senior QA Engineer at Guidewire. He is passionate about learning and exploring new test automation technologies. He likes every aspect of automation and has experience in web testing, mobile testing, API testing and performance testing. Also, he enjoys using open source tools and technologies. He likes travel and attending tech meetups and conferences.

Alan has been improving software quality since 1993 and currently leads an organization that includes software infrastructure, tools, documentation, and quality coaching. Previous to Unity, Alan spent 22 years at Microsoft working on projects spanning the company – including a two-year position as Microsoft’s Director of Test Excellence. Alan was the lead author of the book “How We Test Software at Microsoft”, contributed chapters for “Beautiful Testing”, and “Experiences of Test Automation: Case Studies of Software Test Automation”. His latest ebook (which may or may not be updated soon) is a collection of essays on test automation called “The A Word: Under the Covers of Test Automation”, and is available on leanpub .

Wojciech Bulaty is writing on behalf of WB Software Consultancy Limited. Wojciech has more than 10 years of hands-on and leadership experience in software development and testing. WB Software Consultancy has consulted for a spectrum of clients like British Sky Broadcasting and Lloyds Bank, and a range of startups.

Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Bede is a Senior Test Engineer, working for Medic Mobile, a San Francisco-based nonprofit organisation that builds software for health workers and health systems. He has a number of years in Software Testing, working on Enterprise Desktop, Web and Mobile Applications. Bede is also the founder and organiser of the Automated Testing Auckland Meetup and speaks at conferences.

He will share his experiences testing IOT systems and discuss associated challenges and security vulnerabilities.

I am recently a Co-Organizer for MoT NYC and have been in QA for about 15 years I also enjoy stout beers, whisky, and coffee. Feel free to reach out and chat!

Neil Studd is a UK-based tester with over 15 years' experience of leading quality initiatives within agile startups and large enterprise organisations. He is the creator of the Testers' Island Discs podcast which is available on the MoT website, and co-hosts the Tech Team Weekly and Screen Testing podcasts.

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.

Gene Gotimer is a DevSecOps Senior Engineer, focusing on agile processes, secure development practices, and automation. Gene feels strongly that repeatability, quality, and security are all strongly intertwined; each depends on the other two, making agile and DevSecOps that much more crucial to software development.

James (he/they) is a QA Analyst at Oak National Academy, a UK government body. He specialises in quality advocacy, accessibility (testing/advocacy/training), process improvement and knowledge-sharing.

I wrote Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time, the canonical reference on temporal bugs. You can also read about me in The Devops Handbook and in the Practical Guide To Testing In Devops.