Special Edition: Industry Panel Emerging Frameworks – Hot or Not?

Gleb Bahmutov is a JavaScript ninja, image processing expert, and software quality fanatic. During the day Gleb is making the engineers more productive at Mercari US in his position as the Senior Director of Engineering. At night he is fighting software bugs and blogs about it at https://glebbahmutov.com/blog/. You can follow him and his work @bahmutov and find the slides from conference presentations at https://slides.com/bahmutov.

Laveena Ramchandani is an experienced Testing Consultant with a comprehensive understanding of tools available for software testing and analysis. She aims to provide valuable insights that have high technical aptitude and hopes to inspire others in the world through her work. Laveena holds a degree in Business Computing from Queen Mary University of London and regularly speaks at events on data science models and other topics.

Marie currently works as a Quality Engineering Manager at Zoopla. Previously, she was a Principal Test Automation Engineer at News UK. Her role is to improve testing and quality processes and to also educate everyone about software testing and test automation so the responsibility of testing is shared across the team. In the past, she has also worked as a Test Automation Consultant having worked with different clients from different industries to help them speed up their testing cycles. She is also a tech blogger, a Cypress Ambassador, an accessibility advocate and an online course instructor at Ministry of Testing and Test Automation University.

As a Principal Automation Architect at Cognizant Softvision, Paul Grizzaffi is following his passion for providing technology solutions to testing, QE, and QA organizations, including automation assessments, implementations, and through activities benefiting the broader testing community. An accomplished keynote speaker, international conference speaker, and writer, Paul has spoken at local and national conferences and meetings. He is an advisor to Software Test Professionals and STPCon, as well as a member of the Industry Advisory Board of the Advanced Research Center for Software Testing and Quality Assurance (STQA) at UT Dallas where he is a frequent guest lecturer. In addition to spending time with his twins, Paul enjoys sharing his experiences and learning from other testing professionals; his mostly cogent thoughts can be read on his blog at https://responsibleautomation.wordpress.com/.

Kristin Jackvony discovered her love of software testing in 2009 after a career in music education. She believes that good testing begins with good thinking: knowing why you are testing, planning what to test, and determining the best way to test it.  She's been a QA Lead, QA Manager, and a Software Development Engineer in Test, and she's currently working as a Principal Engineer for Quality at Paylocity.  She posts regularly on her blog, thinkingtester.com, and she's also hard at work on her first book, "The Complete Software Tester", which will be published on Kindle in December. 

Eran Kinsbruner is a person overflowing with ideas and inspiration, beyond that, he makes them happen. He is a best-selling author, continuous-testing and DevOps thought-leader, patent-holding inventor (test exclusion automated mechanisms for mobile J2ME testing), international speaker, and blogger. 

With a background of over 20 years of experience in development and testing, Eran empowers clients to create products that their customers love, igniting real results for their companies.

Johnny helps Fortune 500 enterprises and leading tech companies optimize and implement modern test automation strategies. With a software engineering background and over 10 years of experience embedded in development and testing teams, Johnny is both knowledgeable and passionate about improving testing efficiency and quality at scale.