Quality is not about testing… It’s about value!

Gitte Ottosen

Principal Consultant – Key2Quality, Denmark

Gitte Ottosen is a test manager and agile/quality coach with a strong focus on a value driven approach to software development. She has more than twenty years of experience in IT, primarily within test, test management and process improvement, in both traditional and agile contexts. The last fifteen years she has primarily worked within an agile context, focusing on supporting a quality mindset across teams and organizations, and improving the processes for some of the largest international companies in Denmark. As a self-confessed test and agile evangelist who preaches the need for a strong quality and value driven focus, Gitte is a strong advocate for a context-driven approach, a role requiring profound professional insight, passion, and persistence—qualities that Gitte holds in abundance. Gitte is a dedicated trainer within the areas of agile and test and is a regular speaker at international conferences. She holds a number of certificates within testing as well as agile; ISTQB Expert Level Test Management – fulll, ISEB Practitioner, Certified agile tester (CAT), TMap Test Engineer, Tmap Test Manager, Certified SCRUM Master, SAFe Program Consultant.