Thank you to all of the 2012 KWSQA Targeting Quality presenters. Presentations will be posted as they become available. Please stay tuned!
Adam Goucher
Principal Consultant, Element 34
Adam is in the midst of an identity crisis. He is a tester by trade, but spends his time building Selenium scripts and frameworks for people. Tester? Programmer? Consultant? All of the above? His is also co-editor of ‘Beautiful Testing’; a testing anthology of which 100% of revenue goes to Nothing But Nets to provide anti-Malaria nets to children in Africa.
Declan Whelan
LeanIntuit, Agile Coach
Declan Whelan is an agile developer and coach. He is also a professional engineer with twenty-five years of experience in a wide range of software industries including the financial, medical, educational, and manufacturing sectors. He has started four technology companies and has consulted with many other technology organizations in Canada.
Fiona Charles
Principal Consultant, Quality Intelligence
Fiona Charles is a software test consultant who teaches organizations to match their software testing to their business risks and opportunities. With extensive experience in software development and integration, she has managed testing and consulted on testing on many challenging projects for clients in retail, banking, financial services, health care, telecommunications and emergency services. Throughout her career Fiona has advocated, designed, implemented, and taught pragmatic and humane practices to deliver software worth having—in even the most difficult project circumstances. Her articles on testing and test management appear frequently and she speaks and conducts experiential workshops at international conferences. Fiona edited The Gift of Time, and guest-edited the “Women of Influence” issue of STP magazine. Fiona is co-founder and host of the Toronto Workshop on Software Testing.
Griffin Jones
Consultant, Congruent Compliance
Griffin Jones provides consulting services on context-driven software testing and regulatory compliance to companies in regulated industries, e.g., FDA. Recently he was the Director of Quality and Regulatory Compliance at iCardiac Technologies which provides core lab services for the pharmaceutical industry to evaluate the therapeutic efficacy or safety of their potential new drugs. Griffin was responsible for all matters relating to quality and regulatory compliance for an FDA, GCP, 21 CFR Part 11 regulatory compliant quality system, including frequently presenting the verification and validation (testing) results to external regulatory auditors. Griffin was previously a product quality lead for eighteen years at Eastman Kodak. He is currently the principal consultant with Congruent Compliance and can be reached at griffin.jones@congruentcompliance.com.
Henrik Andersson
.Net Developer & Consultant, Jayway
Henrik Andersson is a software test inspirer and consultant at Jayway. He loves the challenge of integrating testing in an agile team and improving how testers and developers can work together. Henrik is co-founder of the Southern Chapter of the test community Swedish Association of Software Testing. When not speaking at conferences or in test communities, he is spending his time writing articles, blog posts and holding test courses throughout the Nordic countries. Henrik started his career as a developer, and then moved on to software testing. By speaking both languages he brings the gap between developers and testers closer.
Jason Little
Agile Project Guy, JRL & Associates Inc
Jason is currently developing iOS applications for Q4 Web Systems and prior to joining Q4 worked as an independent Agile Coach for 2 years in medium and enterprise organizations. Jason has been using Agile before it was called ‘Agile’ and has over 15 years experience working with professional service teams and software teams. Jason founded the Silicon Halton Agile/Lean peer to peer group in 2011, is a meetup junky and spoke at Agile 2011 and LSSC 2011.
John Hazel
Test Manager, Alcatel-Lucent
John Hazel leads the Customer Focused Test team for Alcatel-Lucent’s Wireline Access portfolio. With over 20 years in telecommunications hardware and software development, he has spent the last 12 years in system testing and management. His focus is on working with test organizations to adapt existing practices toward a value-added risk-based approach regardless of the development environment. Most recently he led the transformation of the ALU Access team from requirements-oriented product test to customer-focused system test using exploratory techniques and direct engagement with the end customer. John is also an Executive Officer of the Professional Engineers Ontario Ottawa Chapter, and Chair of the Education Outreach Committee, partnering with schools and other organizations to unlock the inner scientific curiosity and creativity of elementary and university students.
Kevin Malley
Team Lead SV&V, Research In Motion Ltd.
Kevin Malley has worn multiple testing and project management hats throughout his 14+ year career. He has had experience in the broadcast, financials and handheld device industries and currently holds a QA Team Lead position at Research in Motion. At RIM Kevin is focusing on guiding and supporting his team of software testers, in collaboration with their development partners, to adopt the Agile methodology.
Paul Carvalho
Consultant, Software Testing and Quality Services (STAQS)
Paul Carvalho has been in the IT industry for more than twenty years, with roles in testing, management, software quality assurance, development, training and technical support. He specializes in systems analysis, test design and exploratory testing, and has a gift of teaching for understanding. As an Agile Testing Coach, Paul helps testers and teams grow and adapt to complement development efforts and to deliver more value to projects. He has been published in Better Software magazine, is a regular speaker at testing peer groups and conferences, blogs occasionally, loves scripting with Ruby, and enjoys discovering new ways to break systems and applications. It is rumored that he is also author of the forthcoming book “Handbook of Software Testing.”
Selena Delesie
Founder, Delesie Solutions Inc.
Selena Delesie is the founder of Delesie Solutions Inc, a consulting services company helping software organizations accomplish their mission. As an inspiring leader and in-demand speaker, trainer, author and coach, she has helped thousands of people more effectively and efficiently deliver high-quality solutions that exceed expectations. Selena’s presentations, workshops and articles on leadership, organizational culture, product planning, software development and testing practices have made her an in-demand and innovative leader in the software industry. Meet Selena at www.SelenaDelesie.com.
What metrics does your company use to measure test progress and results? Are the metrics your company uses causing more harm than good? Paul Holland will be reviewing the usefulness or lack thereof of many metrics plus the potential harm that may be caused by using them. He will then present a list of items that he and his fellow test managers use to present required quality and coverage information to management without using traditional metrics.