James Lyndsay
Program ChairJames is an independent consultant, specialising in systems testing. He helps organisations to find surprises, to adapt their approaches, and to keep their testers interested – and helps people to make informed and practical decisions about their testing.
A regular keynote speaker and teacher at international events, and an active participant in a variety of testing communities, James has written award-winning papers, built the Black Box puzzles, kicked off the TestLab, and run the London Exploratory Workshop in Testing. He received the 2015 European Tester Excellence award.
Kasia Morawska
Test manager having 10 years experience in IT, also as a tester. An active supporter of beginners in testing, initiator and organizer of workshops and meetups for newbies. Kasia enjoys being part of complex projects and loves challenges. Her biggest passion is working with people who have never tested before – this is why a lot of her focus is on managing UAT. She knows conferences from various perspectives – she participated in them as an organizer, a speaker and a host. Outside of the software testing world – she likes active life, outdoor activities, travels and meeting new people.
Ru Cindrea
Ru Cindrea is a Senior Test Consultant and Managing Partner at Altom Consulting. With more than ten years of experience in software testing, she is particularly interested in mobile testing and test automation with a special interest in mobile games. Ru is an instructor for the Black Box Software Testing series offered by Altom in collaboration with KFA. She is one of the organizers of the Test Lab, an open-space concept set up at testing conferences where participants practice testing and learn from their peers.
Michał Stryjak
Michał Stryjak works as Head of Software Development at DataWalk. Currently involved in creating a product that helps identify patterns and relationships of data elements between large, complex data sets that may be scattered around the company. Since 2007, when his adventure in testing began, Michał gained experience as Tester and Test Manager at Siemens, Volvo or Objectivity. He quickly realized that testing itself does not improve the quality so he started to focus on processes and relations. He discovered that the real key to Quality is a well organized team and efficient communication with project stakeholders.