Chris Armstrong

Product Quality Strategy Manager – Provar, United Kingdom

Chris is currently working as a Product Quality Strategy Manager at Provar. Having worked in quality for 17 years, Chris specialises in test leadership. Through the years, he has worked with and led testing teams, and has learnt the skills needed to overcome many challenges faced by team leads and test managers. Chris is passionate about quality; people, process, and products. He is an active member of the global software testing community and co-host of the popular podcast “Testing Peers”. Chris loves to engage with new people – facilitating events and interesting discussions is his bag. He has been part of the Community Team at multiple EuroSTAR conferences and UKSTAR, co-ordinating community events and leading the Huddle team of volunteers.

Thomas Shipley

Delivery Consultant – GlobalLogic, United Kingdom

Thomas Shipley is a QA currently working as a Delivery Consultant at GlobalLogic. Here he works with clients to help them improve their approach to delivering quality throughout the development lifecycle.He does this by mentoring, pairing, persuading and promoting a culture of shared quality ownership in teams.Experienced across many different industries covering retail, gaming and financial services at companies including, John Lewis, Just Eat, Microsoft and HSBC.

You can learn more by coming along to talks he gives on the practical skills and ways of working within the QA discipline or at his blog.

René van Veldhuijzen

Test Specialist – Testimist, Netherlands

René van Veldhuijzen has been active as a test specialist since 1998. With various roles in between such as Academy Coach, Unit Manager and Oracle Alliance Manager, his passion has always remained software testing, from politically sensitive projects in Test Management roles to creating test scripts using Oracle ATS or Selenium. René calls himself an Enterprise Automation Specialist, combining ubiquitous testing principles with Test Automation and Robotic Process Automation into integrated automation solutions for customers. Talking about Test Automation Architecture has brought René on stage at Accelerate (Tricentis in Vienna), SeeTest (Bucharest), Test Automation Days (Rotterdam) and as a keynote at TAPOST (Riga).

Rick Tracy

Test Pathfinder – Hapalion Consultancy, Netherlands

As a life-long student of human interaction and system optimization, I regularly delve into either or both subjects to find a new angle on improving testing as a craft. Taking on the title of Pathfinder I try to live up to the role by finding new perspectives, advancements and enhancements for testing and organizations in general. I’ve worked for retail, finance, medical and a host of other types of clients and projects. Using this variety of industries I’ve done my best to mix my experience together with that of hundreds of test experts and learning consultants, often engaging both the technological and psychological sides of testing. My interest always remains in the individual, and how each person has something to add to the body of knowledge. Stories are a constant in my life. As such, I dedicate much of my training and leisure time to seeking, hearing and continuing the stories of others. I enjoy conference for just such a reason, where we all can come together to share our slice of life and learn from one another.

Barry Ehigiator

Software Test Engineer – Verisure Innovation, Sweden

Barry Ehigiator is a Software Test Engineer at Verisure, working on products designed to enable customers to manage, and efficiently use their home smart alarms. His passion is in helping teams build a quality culture based on team responsibility, collaboration, and the implementation of a well-managed context driving testing.

Barry is an avid learner, who is driven by engaging conversations and learning opportunities. When he is not advancing quality testing and systems, Barry is expanding his curiosity on human psychology, society, people, and culture. He also enjoys soccer, video games, and exercising.

Sanne Visser

Testconsultant – Capgemini, Netherlands

Test manager, quality lead, or whatever you want to call the job. 10+ years in software testing and still love it. Prefer working on complex software projects preferably spanning multiple organizations. Do a monthly vlog with my 9out10testers pals and program chair for TestJam 2022. Part-time stoic, my motto is “Every effort is beautiful, you are what you do every day”.

Wim Decoutere

Learning & Development Expert – CTG, Belgium

Wim Decoutere started his testing career at CTG Belgium over 15 years ago and has been testing at a number of companies ever since, mostly in the financial sector. He’s passionate about teaching and feels at home when standing in front of a classroom. A couple of years ago, he became a full-time trainer, coaching and teaching about the wonderful world of testing but also ISTQB, IREB, IQBBA, test design techniques, soft skills, etc… As a veteran youth instructor with a passion for learning theories and people management, Wim is constantly looking for new ideas to improve his own performance and that of the entire testing team.

Irina Malgina

Process Manager – BDO Holding, Netherlands

Irina is a professional with 15 years experience in testing and quality management. Most of her career she has worked as a test consultant in various areas including transport, financial, human resources and machine data. At the moment she is working as a Process Manager at BDO Holding in the Netherlands, where she is responsible for improving the process and product quality. She also puts her effort in shaping a learning culture with focus on sharing experiences of different professionals and teams in order to learn and improve. She’s passionate about testing and quality management and enjoys sharing her knowledge and experience.