Introduce yourself & meet the community!

Hello! 

My name is Daria and I’m in charge of ShiftSync community at Tricentis 💫

• I lived and worked in US, Germany, Switzerland and now settled down in Vienna, Austria. But my heart still remains a traveler 🙂🎟
• If you call me up in the middle of the night I’ll most likely be able to answer any of your questions related to performance marketing, community building and OSS communities. 
• I believe the that future of SDLC will be shaped by quality, speed and continuous improvement. The secret path to get there is through exchanging ideas, finding unconventional solutions for common problems and keeping up with trends. And in community the whole is greater than the sum of its’ parts 🪙🚀
• I have a galaxy on interests outside of work. But mostly I enjoy reading, modern art exhibitions, podcasts (check out Stuff You Should Know to learn about ketchup, frozen waterfall climbing, japanese gardens and everything else in the world, I promise you wont regret).

            Also, I like everything related to aviation 🛫 and llamas 🦙

I’m really happy to welcome You in this community and excited to see you learn, exchange ideas and grow professionally.

You can always reach me via e-mail, our contact form or via LinkedIn

So I'll get started! 🚀If you don't know me yet, I'm Kat. In this super cool community, I'm the community manager and your first contact if you have any problems or just want to talk about life. 😉

• I have been living in Vienna for 7 years now, but I am from Ukraine, Odessa, which is located on a Black Sea. So the sea, sun and beaches are my things.🏖️
• I consider myself an expert in the fields of community, marketing and influencer management. If you have any cool ideas on how we can improve this community or any suggestions for engagement programs, don't hesitate to message me. Let's make this space awesome together. 🤠
• My hidden talent...hmmm...I don't usually hide my talents.😂 I think my greatest strength is communication and empathy. 
• Why is quality important?➡️ Because the today's world moves at a very fast pace and we are expected to keep up with it. However, there is often no time for quality assurance and the end result often suffers because of it.

P.S. Folks, don’t be strangers. Let’s connect on LinkedIn.Kateryna Gandzeichuk | LinkedIn!

Meet my sweet dog. His name is Yosik and we both love cakes 🍰

I go Next!

• I am Vipin and live in Jaipur, India all my life. The summers are horrible > 45 C so I love hill stations, and cold places
• I am a seasoned QA coach, mentor, and professional and work for Metacube Software Ltd for last 19 years, overall exp. is 25 years now.
• I love to talk about life, mind health, strategies, Learnings and philosophy.
• I love travelling, and meeting people. As an International speaker, I spoke all across Europe 29 times since 2012. Seen beautiful cities of Madrid, Barcelona, San Sebastian, Amsterdam, Budapest, Prague, Vienna, Belgrade, Poznan, Gdansk, Warsaw, Frankfurt, Berlin and Potsdam, London and Cambridge and The Hague all from my speaking assignments.
• I developed into a blogger 1.5 years ago and then into community contributor, where I met Kat and here I am.
• In family I have 2 kids, daughter aged 22 doing Fashion Communication and Son aged 20, doing Bachelors in Maths/Economics in Berlin. My wife is a PhD professor computer science
• I live with my mom as Indian traditions and love her so much!

My Linkedin is Vipin Jain 

To Earn, you have to Learn, and to Learn, you have to Burn - Vipin

Hi 👋🏻, my name is Daniel Knott and I am based in Hamburg/ Germany. Maybe some of you have seen me already somewhere on testing conferences, since I love to talk about software testing. I am working in the field of software testing for almost 15 years now. 

Currently, I am working as Head of Product Quality Engineering at MaibornWolff GmbH. In my spare time, I still can’t get enough from software testing 🥶. Since 2011, I am the author of the blog www.adventuresinqa.com. 

The topic I am considering myself as an “expert” is mobile testing. In 2015, I published the book Hands-On Mobile App Testing. Since 2022, I have my own software testing YouTube channel. So as you can see, I love to share my knowledge with testing communities. That’s why I am really happy to be part of this one here, too.

My hidden talent 🤔 is, maybe, that I am really engaged with topics that I love. If I am hooked to a topic, I want to learn EVERYTHING about it 😊. But not sure if this is a talent 😅. If I am not working, writing blogs or creating videos, I love to spend my time with my family and travel as much as we can. I am also a big fan of running and cycling. Doing sports is really important for me to calm down and to relax my mind.

Let me know if you have any other questions. In case you want to connect, take a look at my profile or send me a message.

#HappyTesting

Hi everyone! 😀✋ I’m Alex, a British guy who’s been living in Helsinki, Finland for the past 15 years.

• Working as a test automation architect for Nordea bank
• I’ve a background in many IT areas - mostly as a developer, but also stints in network admin, database admin & business intelligence and of course, testing too
• I love to help people so any of those topics or more in IT I could likely/hopefully give help on
• To say I’m a passionate cook is an understatement… definitely one hidden talent is being in the kitchen playing with food! 
• I also love playing all sports, partying, cinema, pub culture (with darts, pool etc.), restaurants, church… & life in general. There’s not too much I dislike or wouldn’t try out
• Why is quality important: to prevent crappy product decisions, scope, priority etc. as Microsoft put out, or released products which are unstable & crash as EA + most other AAA computer game makers put out nowadays.
• I love hamsters but don’t currently have a pet (would love a piglet & goat as those are hilarious but am not allowed those in the apartment!)… but here’s a turtle picture if that still counts...

Hey all, I’m Bas! I’m seeing some familiar names on here already, but here goes anyway!

• I live in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, with my wife and two sons (and a range of small pets)
• I work as an independent test automation trainer and consultant, which means that I work with individuals, teams and companies to help them improve their automation efforts.
• My main area of interest is automation, and more specifically anything around either API testing and automation, or around code craftsmanship in test automation. Talk to me whenever you want to talk about API testing, mocking, contract testing or programming principles and patterns.
• If I’d let you know what my hidden talent was, it wouldn’t really be hidden anymore, would it? Anyways, I’m a fan of most of the things from the 90’s and Italian language, music and of course the food.

Speak soon!

Hi all, I’m Mirza, I live in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

• I’m a (now a casual one) RPG gamer, who loves classics like Fallout 1 & 2, Planscape Torment, Arcanum, Icewind Dale(s), Baldur Gate(s), etc.
• I live sci fi and fantasy and I can quote pretty much everything from the original Star Wars movies and communicate fluently in prequel memes. I don’t like the last three movies at all but I do like most of the new Disney’s series and cartoons
• I work as a tester in fintech, on a project that uses BDD - properly to my delight 
• Right now my main professional interest are test management and quality coaching and mobile testing
• I like being active in the community, writing blogs, doing occasional conference or meetup talks, I run a small local testing meetup and do a bit of pro-bono mentoring when I got time
• My favorite music genres are old school hip hop and classical heavy metal
• In my free time I like to goof around with my son, take long walks and listen to software quality-focused podcasts like, the AB Testing podcast, for example

  

   

• Hello everyone I am Ioan and depending in the time I either live in Germany or in Romania.
• Currently I am Lead QA/Senior QA at a really nice company in Munich called Blu Beyond where I have been working for the past 8 years now.
• It is hard to say what I am an expert at, but if I had to choose a topic I would go with API testing ( mostly Rest, but trying to get better as MirzaSisic at GraphQL)
• My hidden talent could be poetry and story telling. While I still did not try to write bugs in the form of a poem but there is still time :)
• If you want to connect to me just drop a request on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/%F0%9F%95%B5ioan-s-b0928516/)

Hello everyone. I’m Alan Page, and I’m the VP of Engineering Experience at NBCUniversal. I recently left a similar role at Unity Technologies, and before that, I spent a few decades at Microsoft.

I do some writing, including some posts at TestProject, as well as on my weekly leadership blog, and my weekly knowledge sharing blog, and some other places as well.

I live in the pacific northwest, about 10 miles east of Seattle where I battle the dreariness by doing as much hiking and biking and skiing as I can.

Hi Everyone 👋🏽 I’m Rex Jones II. I live in Dallas, Tx. Here’s some info about me

• Sr. Automation Engineer
• Passion for testing applications
• Like to automate web applications
• Enjoy sharing knowledge via books, blogs, and video
• For quality time, I hang out with my wife, daughter, and son

You can find me on YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and GitHub