2025

Mohit Gaur

Red Hat, India

Hello, I’m Mohit Gaur, a Software Quality Engineer on the Platform Engineering team at Red Hat.

I’m a lifelong learner, constantly experimenting with new tools and contributing to open-source projects.

Sharing knowledge and empowering others to embrace technology’s potential fuels my fire. Beyond coding, I find inspiration in brainstorming sessions and stimulating discussions.

So, whether you’re looking for a quality engineer, a fellow traveller on the digital frontier, or simply a sounding board for your latest ideas, feel free to connect! My thirst for collaboration and conversation never runs dry.

Madhulika Mitra

Runa, UK

With 14 years of experience in QA engineering, I’ve honed a deep understanding of how quality assurance functions as a crucial part of the development lifecycle.

My approach emphasizes building a solid foundation of testing practices while constantly refining the process through collaboration and continuous feedback loops.

I’m passionate about giving back to the community by sharing insights on optimizing automation, streamlining testing strategies, and embedding quality at every stage.

I ensure that I learn and share by means of articles, talks, or training. Continuous learning keeps me honest at work and helps me grow my teams.

Venkat Edagottu

Hitachi Digital Services, US

Mr. Venkat Edagottu is a Senior Manager in Software Development Test Engineering with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. His extensive career spans various domains and includes managing globally distributed teams.

His expertise in various testing methodologies, coupled with his exceptional team management skills, has consistently driven success in both consulting and leadership roles.

Venkat is deeply passionate about inspiring his team members and fostering diverse, inclusive work environments. In his spare time, Venkat is an active blogger and conference speaker, sharing his wealth of knowledge and insights with a wider audience.

Venkatesh Mukhopadhyay

Fiserv, Ireland

Experienced QA automation tester with expertise across banking, telecom, and pharma domains. Passionate about AI and its transformative potential, with a graduate degree in machine learning. Continuously exploring innovative ways to integrate AI into software testing, enhancing efficiency and accuracy in quality assurance processes.

Anamika Mukhopadhyay

Nagarro, India

With over a decade of experience in software testing and automation, Anamika is a dedicated QA consultant passionate about inclusivity and equality in the development process.

She actively explores innovative AI solutions to enhance software testing, ensuring quality and accessibility for all users in the tech landscape.

Brijesh Deb

Infosys, Netherlands

Brijesh Deb brings 25 years of expertise in software testing, AI, and Agile leadership, driving teams across high-tech sectors such as Automotive, Avionics, Space, Agriculture, and Energy. As a hands-on tester, he blends technical knowledge with leadership, delivering customer-centric solutions and highlighting AI’s role in enhancing stakeholder and customer value.

An Agile Transformation Agent, Brijesh promotes collaboration and cultural shifts within organizations, guiding them to adopt Agile principles effectively. Based in the Netherlands, he is an active social media wordsmith, a keen student of anthropology, and enjoys quality time with his son.

Liliia Abdulina

JetBrains, France

I’ve been with JetBrains for over 7 years, currently serving as the Head of QA in the Open Source Ecosystem Department, where I lead the quality assurance for the Kotlin programming language and its ecosystem.

With a background in computer science and over 10 years of experience in the IT industry, my expertise spans mobile QA, software development, and ensuring the quality of large-scale, complex projects like Kotlin.

Mark Harman

Meta, UK

Mark Harman is a full-time Research Scientist at Meta Platforms working on software engineering automation.  He was previously in the Simulation-Based Testing (SBT) team at Meta, which he co-founded.

The SBT team developed and deployed both the Sapienz and WW platforms for client- and server- side testing. Sapienz grew out of Majicke (a start up Mark co-founded) that was acquired by Facebook (now Meta Platforms) in 2017.

The technologies Mark has researched, developed and deployed have been used to test systems of 100s of millions of lines of lines of code, daily relied upon by over 3 billion people for communications, business, social media and community building.

The commercial viability of approximatively 200 million companies worldwide rests on the reliability of these systems, for which this automated testing work plays an important role. Mark is also a part time professor at UCL. In his more purely scientific work, he co-founded the field Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE) in 2001, now the subject of active research in over 40 countries worldwide.

He received the IEEE Harlan Mills Award and the ACM Outstanding Research Award in 2019 for his research work, and was awarded a fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2020.

Ivan Merola

Build 38, Spain

Ivan became QA tester, for more than 9 years now, working with many different frameworks and programming languages, as well as working in big and small companies and abroad.

The past 2+ years he’s been working on a cybersecurity company, and he was presenting his experience in the previous EuroStar.

Cristian Merola

Esneca, Spain

Cristian has a bachelors degree in Audiovisual communication and Journalism and a masters degree in Digital marketing. For the last 2 years, he’s been working on AI prompting text generation and editor.