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More than 6 years in coding. I have experience with different technology stacks and programming languages. Nowadays I work on the automation of the Car Navigation System using technologies of Computer Vision.

System Engineer (DevOps) at EPAM. Working with K8s and it’s ecosystem. Like to collaborate with the Automation Tests developers team.

Engaged in QA for 8 years. During these years had experience in working with web and mobile applications, doing manual and automation testing, working as an engineer and leading the QA team – both co-located and distributed. The main specialty, for now, is QA management with dedicated time for hands-on tech tasks.

Sergey is a Technical QA Manager with over 10 years experience in IT. He has a strong expertise in raising up Development and QA processes from scratch. Consultant and mentor, speaker and open source contributor. At the moment Sergey is leading key projects in Silicon Valley working at Waverley Software.

Charismatic and charming speaker, heading QA practice in Rozum Robotics. Prior to it, Alexey was an Engineer in Test at JUNO, RnD department in Minsk location, and Alexey recalls these times of working in Juno startup with great warmth to the team and professionals with whom he had a chance to work.

Before joining JUNO, Alexey served QA Automation Engineer in Wargaming, that was a time when Alexey started to speak at conferences. Once upon a time, Alexey worked as a programmer on the Belarusian railway. But the prospects for growth and wages did not please him. So he moved to Synesis as a tester.

Software Development Engineer in Test/QA Team Lead at ThinkMobiles. The overall experience is 5 years of web and mobile automation testing. Last 3 years, I am the part of a great team, which is working on a framework for web automation tests on JavaScript+Protractor+Cucumber. The main activities are to provide API tests for a product health check, preconditions, E2E functional tests in BDD style (including cross-browsers and cross-platforms UI check, backend calculations, database records, files, diagrams verifications, etc) and performance testing. Continue to improve framework to cover mobile automation tests with Appium and CodeceptJS.

Test Automation Lead @UBS with 7 years of experience in Quality Assurance fields. The most remembered period of IT life is production go-live being on-site as a Triage Lead. The last 4 years were researching and evaluating performance testing and monitoring tools. Proposing most applicable solutions for global investment banks and replacing legacy approaches. Introducing/auditing Automation Test Strategies across programs involving developers in the testing world. Constantly reviewing Web UI, API, Unit test automation pull requests with a passion to learn/introduce something new and respect to other contributors. Starting from last year, having valuable experience being QA/TA Mentor in one of Wroclaw IT schools for beginners.

Python enthusiast with experience in Web, API, mobile and desktop automation testing. Expert in Continuous Integration with Jenkins for Web, mobile (iOS, Android) and desktop (Windows, Mac OS) applications.

Senior QA Engineer at Ro. Interested in a wide range of QA related subjects – from test architecture to server setups. Privately Linux user interested in open-source software and generally speaking technology. DevOps and automation enthusiast. Speaker at multiple conferences: TestCon Moscow, Testing Stage, What The H@ck, Testing United, Devoxx Poland, 4Developers, TestWarez (three times), Warsaw IT Days, TestCamp, TestFest, ConSelenium (twice), Quality Excites and PyCode.

I help people and companies to deliver high-quality software not only through test automation but thinking about the quality since the earliest stages of the SDLC. I’ve been working in different segments as a QA Engineer giving, presentations, workshops end courses about test automation.

Recently I left my country (Brazil) to works in the Netherlands, where I act as a software consultant and have founded the Ministry of Testing Eindhoven.

Winner of Ukraine IT Award 2018 “Quality Assurance”. Test automation enthusiast and blogger, podcaster aims to advance automation practices via popularization of knowledge at related technologies. Contributes to community as an active speaker and program committee member. Founder of automation-remarks.com and QAGuild Podcast and QAGuild community.

A software developer with 15+ years of professional experience in enterprise development with high security requirements, high load systems, lots of data integrations, large user base and lots of customizations. Aggressive fan of extreme programming, TDD, Agile and open source. Active speaker at conferences. Creator of open-source projects Selenide, RePlay, “pdf-test”, “xls-test”, etc.

Marcus Merrell is the Director of Technical Services at Sauce Labs, provider of the world’s most comprehensive and trusted continuous testing cloud. He is well-versed in helping software developers with release management, CI/CD, cloud software, and test architecture. A frequent speaker at industry conferences worldwide, Marcus’s work in quality engineering spans 20 years, and he is also a contributor to the Selenium project and the co-chair of the Selenium Conference Organizing Committee.

Works in web app testing automation for more than 8 years. Has worked in different teams and occupied different positions up to the head of automation testing group. Has a vast experience with popular tools (Selenium, HtmlElements, Allure, Jenkins). Codes mostly in Java and Groovy.

More than 8 years of experience in Web, API, Desktop, iOS, Android, Gamedev using JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python. The main specialization is functional automation of testing at different levels. Trainer in Start-IT in 3 areas – WEB, API, Test Infrastructure. Winner and judge of the Ukrainian Dev Challenge. Speaker at many conferences – QA Fest, Selenium Camp, Simplicity Days, JS fest and others.

Michael is a passionate web developer from Kyiv, Ukraine. One day he started to think how to get more developers into testing so he created his own testing framework, CodeceptJS. Michael is a speaker of various IT conferences in Ukraine, Europe and US. “Testing should be fun” – is his motto.

Main professional activity of Oleksandr is dedicated to make test automation efforts more effective and engineers more productive. He has 8+ years of experience implementing test automation solutions at Sitecore, SoftServe and Deutsche Bank. Right now Oleksandr works as Lead Software Engineer In Test at Playtika – helping to make UI, API and microservice level automation more scalable and reliable.

QA engineer with 10+ years of experience in automation and teams management. Developed a lot of automation frameworks for different projects (Web, Api, Mobile) based on Java/C#/Python languages (mostly Java).

One of my missions is to create good conditions for the technical growth of teams. I believe that a good QA should be a little bit Developer, a little bit DevOps, and of course a little bit Psychologist. Since 2016 – Head of QA and CI/CD expert in Form.com.

Engineer with a passion for web development, design best practices and software development methodologies. Over the course of my career took part in a number of production projects in various business domains such as sports, communications, e-commerce and workforce management among others.

As part of Qaprosoft team currently working on creation of Cloud-native automation testing platform, allowing customers to spin up test infrastructure in a matter of minutes taking advantage of Docker and Kubernetes as our primaty deployment tools.

Michael is a passionate web developer from Kyiv, Ukraine. One day he started to think how to get more developers into testing so he started his own testing framework, Codeception. Nowadays, he is a lead developer of Codeception (PHP) and CodeceptJS testing frameworks. “Testing should be fun” – is his motto.

5 years as an automation engineer. Main focus now is Mobile Test Automation for retail project.

Developer in Test with passion for open-source projects. Member of amazing Kibana Team. Started in early 2012 with WebDriver + Java came first, followed by CodedUI and TestComplete for desktop apps. Before joining Elastic, Dmitry was building mobile automation during 3+ years in different companies and countries, using Appium/Espresso/XCUITest with integration in SauceLabs/TestDroid/Selenoid. Contirbutes to Appium & in top 3 StackOverflow user with Appium tag.

Developing Dockerized mobile device farm for test automation known as MCloud, actively contributing to open-source reporting instrument Zafira by Qaprosoft. Currently concentrated on DevOPS tasks in context of migration of infrastructure into Docker and Kubernetes. Interested in AI technologies: working on image recognition technology for test automation.

Artem is Lead Engineer of test automation. He deep dive into testing of Sberbank Ecosystem, specifically develop of automated scripts from UT to E2E for Unified Frontal System and supporting Selenium Cluster as Moon Project in OpenShift. In free time is studying Kotlin and contribute to opensource projects. Love clean code in tests.

JavaScript ninja, image processing expert and software quality fanatic. During the day Gleb is making the web a better place as VP of Engineering at Cypress.io. At night he is fighting software bugs and blogs about it at https://glebbahmutov.com/blog/. Microsoft MVP for Open Source Software.

Kateryna is currently working at Wix.com, which she’s joined the company just a few months ago as a member of QA Guild. Having 7 years’ experience as QA, has faced different aspects of QA in teams and projects – manual and automation, web and mobile, engineering and leadership, working and co-located and distributed teams. Still doing it passionately and still enjoys being a QA.

Roman is automation expert with more than 15 years experience. He has been worked on 23 automation projects in 9 companies. Main stack is Java, API, UI automation testing. Currently, he is responsible for implementing automation testing, teaching and mentoring of automation engineers, involving at tech pre-sale. Partially, working as an independent consultancy.

An expert in the field of BDD, an adherent of engineering and DevOps practices. Has strong experience in test automation frameworks development and building of test automation approaches and processes. One of the creators of the BDD library Akita.

Specialist in functional test automation. Engaged in the development of automation projects in different languages (JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python) and different types (Web, API, Desktop, iOS, Android, Gamedev). Finalist and judge of Ukrainian Dev Challenge. Coach at StartIT. Speaker at QA conferences.

Dave Haeffner is writer of Elemental Selenium – a free, once weekly Selenium tip newsletter read by thousands of testing professionals.
He’s also creator and maintainer of the-internet (an open-source web app that’s perfect for writing automated tests against), author of The Selenium Guidebook, and an active member of the Selenium project.

As a Software Developer at Applitools he works full-time as a maintainer of Selenium IDE.

He’s helped numerous companies successfully implement automated acceptance testing; including The Motley Fool, ManTech International, Sittercity, and Animoto. He’s also spoken at numerous conferences and meet-ups around the world about automated functional testing.

Works in web app testing automation for more than 8 years. Has worked in different teams and occupied different positions up to the head of automation testing group. Has a vast experience with popular tools (Selenium, HtmlElements, Allure, Jenkins). Codes mostly in Java and Groovy.

Yevhen is QA Automation Lead at GamePoint with more then 7 years experience in IT and testing itself. Primary focuses on the implementation and development of automated testing in GameDev area. Agile practitioner. Has experience in building test automation processes from scratches. A fan of micro-services architecture and DevOps processes. Founder of GameUnitLab organization.

Software Engineer in Test with more than 12 years experience in IT, 9 years in test automation. Organizer of Minsk Test Automation Meetup.

More than 12 years of industry experience in different scale companies on various roles: engineer, team/tech lead, manager, consultant, trainer. My main areas of interest are data engineering, machine learning and quality assurance. Main languages (tech stacks) are Scala and Python. Meanwhile I have experience also in Ruby, C#, Java, JavaScript and can easily write code there as well.

Winner of Ukraine IT Award 2018 “Quality Assurance”. Test automation enthusiast and blogger, podcaster aims to advance automation practices via popularization of knowledge at related technologies.

Contributes to community as an active speaker and program committee member.

Founder of automation-remarks.com, QAGuild Podcast and QAGuild community.

Senior Delivery Manager, Java Tech Lead, experienced coach, conference organizer and independent consultant. Expert in Java development, scalable architecture, Agile engineering practices and project management. Having 14+ years of development experience, specializes on complex distributed scalable systems. Active participant and speaker of many international conferences. Founder and coach in training center XP Injection. Organizer and founder of Selenium Camp, JEEConf, XP Days Ukraine and IT Brunch conferences. Founder of active “Anonymous developers club” (uadevclub).

IT party animal, test automation engineer, has invented useful test automation processes from scratch, Selenide adept, QA Club Lviv organizer, trainer and active promoter of free test automation education for beginners.

Working at Al Tayer Group as QA Engineer at Dubai. Can has 6 years experience about software testing. He has knowledge about major tools like Selenium, Appium, Gatling, Galen Framework and Robot Framework and CI tools. Also he is contributing Galen Framework nowadays.

Specializing on building WEB automated tests (Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript). Finalist, winner and judge at Ukrainian Dev Challenge (QA), speaker at different confrerences. Teacher at StartIT (ProtractorJS Automation). Now mostly focusing on JavaScript as a language for automated testing.

Software engineer, public speaker and local user group organiser with more than 7 years of commercial experience. Interested in software design, development and testing of desktop, web and mobile apps especially in .NET stack.

IT professional with 15+ years of experience as Information Technologies Consultant, Software Engineer, Software Developer and Software Tester for many different organisations.

Highly experienced in Software Development Life-Cycle, Software Project Management, Business Analysis, Agile Methodologies, Usability, User Experience (UX), Quality Assurance and Software Testing.

Published a number of papers and books within the Software Testing profession and contribute to the field by regularly attending conferences as a speaker, panelist, lecturer, moderator and contributor.

Currently, he is one of the managing partners of Keytorc Software Testing Services, where he holds the responsibilities of delivering test consultancy, outsourced test management, and software testing training (including accredited ISTQB trainings).

Vitaly is a co-founder of Elonsoft and IT61. Before creating a company, he developed various projects with different platforms and frameworks. He has experience with .NET, Node.js and Ruby on Rails. He loves open source software and browsers. Joined the PhantomJS project in 2013 and later became the core developer. Believes that browsers (not robots) will rule the world. A big fan of pure and solid code. Perfectionist.

More than 8 years developing test automation at outsourcing and product companies. Has experience in automation of Linux based embeddable OS, complex VPN-solutions for business, various hardware and software platforms. From January 2012 works as test automation group lead in OK.RU.

Andrei is a software developer with 15+ years of experience in enterprise software development and automated testing. Author of selenide.org – open-source library of concise UI tests. Active speaker at conferences and communities. Aggressive fan of clean code, XP, automated tests and TDD.

QA Automation engineer at GamePoint. Primary focused on the development of distributed systems. Agile practitioner. Has deep experience in 3rd parties integration. Now is interested in microservices architecture.

Tomer Steinfeld is a 22 years old frontend developer at Applitools, self taught web and iOS developer based in Tel Aviv. Recently he started working on Selenium IDE TNG, that is already published on the chrome webstore.

Automated testing specialist at Toptal, team lead in Analytics department. About 10 years experience in IT in various roles: engineer, architect, manager, consultant, trainer. Experience in the majority of popular tools (Selenium, HP QTP, TestComplete, JMeter). Currently I’m programming mostly in Python and Scala but used to write in other languages (Ruby, Java, C#, JavaScript, VBScript).

During the last several years Oleksandra has been developed microservices in Playtika. Half a year ago she decided to learn more about testing of complicated systems (because testing is an inalienable part of the development process) so she have joined Test Automation Team. And now she has enough to share about testing experience in Playtika.

Project Manager and Scrum Master in EPAM Ukraine. Experienced process manager with focus on process optimization and re-engineering using Lean SixSigma toolkit. Learning events designer and gamification adept.