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Paul Holland is a Senior Director of Test Engineering at Medidata Solutions, Inc. in New York City. Paul has over 20 years experience in software testing. Prior to joining Medidata in August 2016 he was Head of Testing at a small New York based consultancy for 2 years. Previously he spent 2 years as the principal consultant and owner at TestingThoughts, and 17 years in testing at Alcatel-Lucent.

Paul specialises in adapting testing methodologies to reduce waste, and be more effective and efficient; finding ways to document only that which needs to be documented; modifying reporting of test activities to provide actionable information to stakeholders; and reduce/eliminate potentially harmful metrics. Paul is one of four instructors of the Rapid Software Testing course, developed by James Bach and Michael Bolton.