Alan Richardson

Alan Richardson has experience of testing at all levels of the testing role hierarchy: from tester, to manager, to head of testing. In each of these roles he has remained hands on, technical, and actually tests applications. He has introduced exploratory testing, Agile testing, and test automation into a variety of organisations. He helps testers boost their testing and technical prowess, to allow them test better.

Alan is probably best known for writing the Evil Tester blog and as a speaker and keynote at testing conferences. He also makes time to improve his technical skills and experiment with his approach to testing.

He currently provides independent consultancy in Test Automation, Agile Testing, and Exploratory Testing.

Alan is the author of the book "Selenium Simplified" and he provides online training in WebDriver via Udemy.

He blogs at http://eviltester.com  & http://seleniumsimplified.com  and uses http://compendiumdev.co.uk  as his repository for papers,
presentations and the open source tools he has programmed.

Karen N. Johnson

Karen N. Johnson has worked in the software industry as a tester, manager, technical writer, trainer, and consultant. She has long considered herself a member of the context-driven testing community (http://context-driven-testing.com/) and an advocate of Exploratory Testing.

She is the co-founder of The Workshop on Regulated Software Testing (WREST). WREST is a peer workshop focused on helping software testers who work with regulations and audits (both internal and external).

Karen was previously a Director on the board for the Association for Software Testing (AST).

Karen is a contributing author to the book, Beautiful Testing. She has published numerous articles about her experiences with software testing.

Karen currently works as an independent test consultant and is based in Chicago. She is a regular speaker at conferences and organizations worldwide. Find out more about Karen at karennjohnson.com .