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Unicom Seminars

19 Feb 2015 The Palace Hotel - Manchester

Conference Speakers and Panellists

Colin Deady, Test Manager, Capita IT Professional Services

Colin Deady is a Test Manager with 15 years test experience, focussing on automation in the fields of real-time data processing, mobile workforce management and network auditing. A strong Shift Left advocate, he uses BDD to enable his teams to deliver with certainty on client commitments.

 

Andrew Fullen, Managing Consultant, Sogeti UK

Andrew Fullen has worked in Software Testing for 20 years and has been a consultant at Sogeti for the past 2 years. As a testing evangelist he is always looking for ways to improve on quality and testing through process innovation and new testing strategies

 

Paul Gerrard, Gerrard Consulting Limited

Paul Gerrard is a consultant, teacher, author, webmaster, programmer, tester, conference speaker, rowing coach and publisher. He has conducted consulting assignments in all aspects of software testing and quality assurance, specialising in test assurance. He has presented keynote talks and tutorials at testing conferences across Europe, the USA, Australia, South Africa and occasionally won awards for them. Educated at the universities of Oxford and Imperial College London, he is a Principal of Gerrard Consulting Limited, the host of the UK Test Management Forum and the Programme Chair for the 2014 EuroSTAR testing conference.

 

Clement Pickering, Head of Development, Callcredit

Clement Pickering has been with the Callcredit group for over 14 years leading Development teams in creating a wide range of products for the financial services industry. He has long been an advocate of agile development practices and the philosophy that underpins agile as he passionately believes it helps teams deliver more effectively. He has been involved for many years in helping Callcredit adopt agile practices and in his current role has most recently focussed on helping the testing community and project teams within Callcredit get to grips with agile testing.

 

Paul Rutter, Test Manager for Mobile Platforms, BBC Future Media

Paul Rutter is Test Manager for Mobile Platforms in BBC Future Media. Responsible for Testing of BBC iPlayer, BBC iPlayer Radio and other BBC native applications on iOS and Android. Based in MediaCityUK, Salford leading a team of 20 Testers. Particularly interested in Continuous Improvement and Continuous Delivery.

 

Rob Vanstone, Technical Consultant, XebiaLabs Ltd.

Rob Vanstone is technical consultant specialising in Continuous Delivery and process automation at XebiaLabs Ltd. He has during his career worked in a variety of roles spanning the application delivery lifecycle and has always worked to improve infrastructure and application deployment processes. Currently his focus is on the Testing landscape and trying to pull together the impressive testing ecosystem under the Continuous Delivery umbrella.

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