2021

Marielle Roozemond

Agile Coach – University of Applied Sciences Rotterdam, Netherlands

As a lecturer at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences and an independent Agile coach & trainer I am always searching for gems at the border of communication sciences and IT. As such I am advocating the use of communication tools in the practice of agile coaching as a board member of Agile Consortium. As chair of the Agile MarCom Consortium I am introducing agile practices and test techniques to communication and marketing professionals. I am co-author of “Scrum in Actie”, the modern classic on how to use Scrum in non-IT situations.

In my work as lecturer and trainer I switched to online remote education due to the COVID situation. As I experimented with various techniques, I know what it takes to extend attention spans and to keep the interaction among participants going in online knowledge sessions.  

Elias Nogueira

Principal Software Engineer – Backbase, Netherlands

Elias is an experienced IT professional with a background in software engineering, consulting, agile coach, and tech lead, currently working as Principal Engineer in Test at Backbase. He helps software engineers to develop their quality mindset and deliver bug-free software.

His specialization in Quality Engineering for backend, frontend, and mobile technologies. He’s a writer, blogger, and love to help the community by running meetups, sharing knowledge giving presentations around the world, and helping out.

Jihad Ghandour

Quality Assurance Operations Manager – Murex, Lebanon

Jihad Ghandour is a Senior Quality Assurance Operations Manager at Murex. Jihad works on projects to enhance Murex’s testing techniques by embracing new methods or evolving existing tests. Jihad is an expert in technical domains of the product, such as Cluster Management, Security, and Operability.

Lukasz Pietrucha

QA Manager – Netguru, Poland

Throughout my career as a tester, consultant and manager I was always mostly interested in QA process improvement. Searching for ways to enable testing as leverage to mitigate risk in different contexts always opens a lot of different paths that need investigating and are much dependent on the business you are operating in. I’ve spent half of my 1.5-decade career in software houses but was also involved in test outsourcing service company for almost 3 years. Different experiences with startups, large enterprises and growing mid-sized companies allowed me to build a solid foundation which I am currently exercising holding a QA Manager position at Netguru. We’ve been growing as a company and so was the entire QA team (together with me), pushing us to searching for new solutions that allow building partnerships with our client in an effort to help them with their businesses. I am a huge context-driven approach supporter and I really think „it depends” is always a good starting point to answer a difficult question… 

Jana Gierloff

Senior Quality Assistance Engineer – InnoGames, Germany

Jana Gierloff is a Senior Quality Assistance Engineer at InnoGames who was introducing and leading the transition to Quality Assistance at Forge of Empires. With 10+ years of experience in the games industry, Jana empowers the team to confidently test by providing trainings, tools, and environments. She has a very good track-record of inspiring testers and teams to take their testing to new levels and to find unexpected bugs in unexpected ways, as well as providing help with all automation matters. Curious and passionate about testing she also speaks at software conferences all over the world.

Zoran Gjorgiev

Quality Assistance Engineer – InnoGames, Germany

Zoran Gjorgiev is a Quality Assistance Engineer at InnoGames and for the last 4 years has worked on the successful title Forge of Empires. He started as a Community Manager but his passion and efforts towards the game’s quality standards lead him to join the ranks of QAE. Having an appreciation of technology but wanting to explore a field that offers far more opportunities than coding on a daily basis, he found this to be a perfect fit. He’s always looking to learn and improve and strives for growth both on a personal and team level. Seeing the team embrace the quality mindset is what keeps him motivated.

Laveena Ramchandani

Senior Test Consultant – Deloitte, UK

Laveena Ramchandani is an experienced Testing Consultant with a comprehensive understanding of tools available for software testing and analysis. She aims to provide valuable insights that have high technical aptitude and hopes to inspire others in the world through her work. Laveena holds a degree in Business Computing from Queen Mary University of London and regularly speaks at events on data science models and other topics.

Irja Straus

Senior Quality Control Analyst & Team Leader – Infobip, Croatia

After her adventure in product management, Irja has gone back to her first love – Software Testing. She’s currently a Senior Quality Control Analyst and Team Leader in Infobip – global cloud communications platform, responsible for the SaaS products testing strategy.

She likes to learn the human and business side of software, experiment with products to investigate risks, and advocate bugs that matter. She loves to do software testing, and she never wrote the same test strategy twice in her 10-year career.

Christian Kram

Coach – oose Innovative Informatik, Germany,

After graduating in linguistics, I stepped directly into the field of comparative product testing before getting into software testing, which I haven’t left ever since. I currently work as a trainer, coach and consultant for oose Innovative Informatik eG. My core areas in those roles are software testing and agile methodology. I helped getting customers the quality they need for nearly 15 years in different roles, ranging from manual tester in comparative product evaluation over automotive test manager to head of testing for ERP software. My main topics are in the field of agile testing, getting people to work together and establishing quality in the whole software development cycle.

In addition to being a software testing coach, outside of work, I have also been a basketball coach for over 20 years.