Test automation tool Q&A panel

Adam is the Co-founder and CTO of Applitools – a cloud service provider for automated visual testing. Prior to Applitools he held management, research and development positions at Safend, IBM and Intel. He regularly talks about software testing at conferences around the world, and organizes the Israeli Selenium Meetup group.

Alexei has been working in various IT projects in Germany for more than 15 years. He consults about quality assurance, test automation and about how to keep calm and be a good tester. Developer of Selenide. The founder and moderator of Radio QA podcast.

Being passionate hacking out with his first personal computer Andrii decided to start his career as software tester. Within years worked on various projects with different product complexities, from small mobile startups to large Enterprise programs. Tried himself in different roles, such as: software tester, test automator, scrum master, team leader, test consultant. As well as initiatives: speaker, trainer, conference organiser, blogger. Currently working at Spotify with focus on improving development productivity of agile teams applying engineering practices in order to minimise delivery cycle and improve product quality.

Dmitriy Kovalenko worked in quality assurance for eight years (Rosetta Stone Inc., ThoughtWorks, Centro, Groupon), seven of which he spent in Agile environments. Dmitriy has worked with Selenium professionally for four years, during which time he has carried out a test suites for small and large enterprises. Last two years he spent working in the field of DevOps. Author of agilesoftwaretesting.com blog.

Hugh works as a Principal Software Engineer in Test with Liberty IT in Belfast. He has over ten years of experience, latterly focused on helping teams realize their testing and automation capabilities. He has been the organizer of the Belfast Selenium Meetup since 2013.

Marcus has been in QA-related jobs since 2001, starting with Web Service testing and taking on UI testing using QTP and then Selenium. In the last few years, however, he’s broken into the world of feature-driven software development as an Engineering Manager at RetailMeNot, inc. He’s an avid piano player, plays bass for the RetailMeNot house band the WailSharks, and enjoys life in Austin, TX with his wife and two crazy boys.

Delivery Manager and Java Tech Lead. Expert in Java development, scalable architecture, Agile engineering practices and project management. Having 12+ 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).

The main specialization of Sergey Pirogov is functional automation testing. He is active bloger at http://automation-remarks.com. Has experience in building test automation processes from scratch. A fan of Groovy language. Participated as a speaker at QAFest, SeleniumCamp, SQADays, QA Conference, QA Expert Day.