Pre-millennium Shey broke his testing teeth in computer games, he can be held responsible for such iconic successes as Catwoman, Malice and the little known Harry Potter… Originally from Melbourne Shey’s career has been as varied as his Anglicised Australian vowel sounds. Following a decade in Games Design, Project Management and Software Development he has spent the past 10 years working back in Testing - where his passion truly lies. As a Consultant he's covered various Test roles including a long term placement working with JK Rowling’s Team at Pottermore. Shey’s broad range of experience enables easy connections to be made with colleagues from all areas of the business spectrum. Shey can regularly be found providing the link or explanation between people from different disciplines. Shey has a significant presence within the testing community, sharing his perspective on Twitter, LinkedIn, and MoT's The Club forum among others. In-person he co-organises the London Tester Gathering and has volunteered TestBash. While not the first time Shey has spoken at TestBash, this will be the first time speaking for longer than 99 seconds. This year’s appearance is slightly longer but follows his usual theme of helping leaders to discover and develop their own leadership style. When not talking about testing, Shey can be found talking about his next passion, craft beer. Follow him to find where good beer is being served.

João Proença comes from Lisbon, Portugal, and is a Quality Engineer at Ada Health. He has assumed various roles throughout his career in the past 16 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.

I work in London as Head of QA of an Instant Salesware firm. I started my career 15 years ago as a QA test engineer in the finance and mobile industry. After transitioning to the eCommerce sector, I performed QA in various capacities for online restaurant and travel services. I continue to work in QA as a manager now with special focus on sustainable delivery practices. I pay special attention to team dynamics and ensuring engineers are in roles which give them a sense of purpose. In addition to this, I have been a keen advocate of creating and sustaining diverse teams by speaking at schools and universities to educate students about what a creative space the technology sector can be.

Pradeep Soundararajan is the Founder CEO of Moolya Testing and Product Owner of Bugasura.io Pradeep is on a mission to build a software testing start-up that solves fundamental unaddressed pain points in testing. His approach to get there is by helping people build skills and helping people build tools. 16+ years of experience as a hands-on tester, independent test consultant and now a businessman. Moolya Testing is a CDT inspired testing services that have clients across the globe served by ~200 testers and counting. Pradeep values culture, ethics and professionalism more than money. Pradeep is who he is because of his team and family who let him take credit for their work. Pradeep publishes his thoughts on Quora and Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/testertested/

Jit’s expertise in testing spans over two decades. He currently works as the Principal Tester for the BBC. He aims to help teams build quality into their products and cultivate a Culture of Quality.

Rob Meaney is a tester that loves tough testing and software delivery problems. He works with teams to help create products that customers love and know they can rely upon. Although he enjoys learning about software delivery, in general, he’s particularly interested in Quality Engineering, Test Coaching, Testability, and Testing in Production.

Currently, he’s working as Head of Testing & Test Coach for Poppulo in Cork, Ireland. He’s a regular conference speaker, an active member of the online testing community and co-founder of Ministry of Test Cork.

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.

With around 8 years of QA experience, Charlene used to be obsessed with having the highest bug count in the company until she realized that quality and the product, should not be defined by the amount of bugs testers catch. Since then, she's been working to bridge the information gap in terms of quality by fostering a collaborative environment between testers and developers. She believes that testers are more than bug catchers and encourages her team to explore new technologies and solutions in automation and continuous integration.

Melissa Tondi has spent most of her career working within software testing teams. She is a frequent speaker and writer at forums focusing on the Agile, QA/QE, and DevOps spaces and is in Enablement leadership at Campminder and a Principal Consultant at Disrupt Testing, where she assists companies to continuously improve the pursuit of quality software—from design to delivery and everything in between. In her software testing and quality engineering careers, Melissa has focused on building and organizing teams around three major tenets—efficiency, innovation, and culture – and uses the Greatest Common Denominator (GCD) approach for determining ways in which team members can assess, implement and report on day to day activities so the gap between need and value is as small as possible.

Testing leader, international keynote speaker, grad student researching the application of professional identity formation theory to QA

Lead Engineer at ANZ. Passionate about automation and all things DevOps

I have been involved in software development since 2004, first as a developer, then ops, a scrum master, and finally tester since 2014.

Geoff has been working as a tester with embedded software teams at ResMed for over 6 years. In that role, he brought testing and software quality practices closer to the code being created. Prior to that Geoff worked as a software engineer for over 10 years before deciding testing was the biggest challenge for Agile teams to master. So he made a career change and worked as a Test Manager with the startup Building IQ for a year before moving on to ResMed where he is now a Lead Test Engineer. Outside of work Geoff helps officiate Roller Derby games. At home he is supported by his Wife and two cats.