Tools Q&A panel
- Date
- February 22, 2019
- Time
- 18:10 – 18:55
- Stage
- Stage B
- Format
- Panel discussion
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Language
- English
- Level
- For beginners

Gleb Bahmutov
VP of Engineering at Cypress.io, USA
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.

Dmitriy Gumeniuk
Delivery Manager at EPAM, Belarus
Delivery Manager, Product Manager. 12 years in Software Development. Java stack development, project management, product management, Agile engineering and test automation at any scale. Active participant and conference speaker. For the last 5 years i’m leading solution accelerators development for test automation, focusing of Machine Learning and Neural Networks usage in testing, at the moment. Previously known as Dzmitry Humianiuk.

Dave Haeffner
Software Developer at Applitools, Israel
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.

Michael Bodnarchuk
CTO at SDCLabs, Ukraine
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.

Sergey Pirogov
QA Automation Lead at Whirl Software, Ukraine
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.

Marcus Merrell
Director of Technical Services at Sauce Labs, USA
Marcus Merrell has written UI and API test frameworks since 2001. He holds sacred the idea that test frameworks should be approached, developed, and tested just as carefully as that of production software. He has recently shifted to Sauce Labs, as the Director of Technical Services. His team can be found all over the world, helping improve the process and quality of Sauce Labs customers at all levels.
