Peter Collewijn

Consultant- TestNet, Netherlands

Peter is an IT consultant with a wide range of interests and capabilities. He has worked in several industries in several roles. Most often in the world of ERP Systems.

He has a keen understanding of the business part, the functional part and the technical part of a software project and has a several ISTQB advanced certificates.

For the last two years Peter is focusing on a new upcoming market: Testing AI systems. Also, for this market he wants to understand the functional and the technical part and has trained himself in Python, TensorFlow and AI related tests and test processes. 

Hannie Van Kooten

Test Specialist – TestNet, Netherlands

Hannie has worked as a test specialist, manager and security officer. Interested in innovation. Member of Workgroup testing and ai.

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. 

Jyoti Prasad Bhatt

CEO – ImpactQA, USA

JP began his career with Polaris Software Labs, and later worked with clients like JPMorgan Chase, American Express, Toyota Motor Corporation. He also worked with Sopra Group and provided consultancy to Airbus, Societe Generale, Schneider Electric, Capita Financial Services, Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Media and holds immense knowledge in driving testing solutions, nurturing, managing, mentoring, and delivering QA solutions with his best-in-class teammates.

In 2012 he started a pure-play software testing firm, ImpactQA, with a vision of becoming a leader in software testing and providing various cutting-edge test-automation solutions to customers across the globe. Presently, JP is working on revolutionary ideas in the field of Cyber Security, IoT, AI and Cloud Testing.

Narasimha Raju

CTO – ImpactQA, India

Sr. Executive of global IT, Cloud ( AWS, Azure) Transformations, Automation-DevOps. Narasimha is a seasoned professional with over 20+ years of experience with a proven record of delivering results consistently in challenging business environments. Collaborative, Decisive, employee focussed and innovative; highly valued for expertise developing Corporate Vision & Strategy, Quality, operational excellence & exceeding client expectations. Providing corporate leadership to multi-functional, cross-cultural teams. Recognized for revenue growth, cost management, drive leadership, and manage client relationship management in Telecom, Banking, Healthcare industries.

Specialties: Cloud Implementation ( AWS, Azure), DevOps, Digital Transformation, Project Management, Quality Assurance (CMMi L5), Test Automation, Recruiting and developing talent; Change management, Global Strategic Sourcing, Narasimha’s client portfolio has included Temenos, Akamai, Avaya, AA, Verizon, Ericcson, Digicel, Guardian Life Insurance, Washington Mutual Bank, Pfizer, Kaiser Permanente 

Maria El Haddad

Senior Quality Assurance Consultant – Murex, Lebanon

Maria El Haddad is a senior quality assurance consultant at Murex specialising in testing foreign exchange derivatives solutions on a capital market platform. 

For the past five years she has been focusing on diverse projects enabling continuous integration, improving test management tools and agile team test operations, as well as exploring the topic of code coverage. 

Along with this range of interests in her career, Maria comes from a mechanical engineering and economics background where she is passionate about exploring smart and sustainable designs of green buildings and renewable energy technology.

She seeks to put self-development at the service of the community, through coaching and sharing experiences within her agile team and QA department, in addition to organising workshops, competitions and fundraisers within the Murex’s employee activities committee.

John Ferguson Smart

Founder – Serenity Dojo, UK

John Ferguson Smart is an international speaker, consultant, author and trainer well known in the Agile community for his many books, articles and presentations, particularly in areas such as BDD, TDD, test automation, software craftsmanship and team collaboration. John is the author of the best-selling BDD in Action, as well as Jenkins: The Definitive Guide and Java Power Tools and also leads development on the innovative Serenity BDD test automation library, described as the “best open source selenium webdriver framework”. Based in London, John helps clients around the world deliver better software sooner through advanced agile practices such as BDD, test automation software craftsmanship, and scaled agile patterns..

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.