The Top 100 People Shaping Software Quality Across Australia & New Zealand

Founder and NVDA lead developer, NV Access

Brisbane · Australia · Accessibility & Inclusive Quality

Chief Scientist, Proofcraft

Sydney · Australia · Verified & Formal Systems

Scientia Professor, UNSW Sydney

Sydney · Australia · Verified & Formal Systems

Professor, Swinburne University of Technology

Melbourne · Australia · Testing Research & Education

Software Engineer; NVDA Co-founder, Canva

Brisbane · Australia · Accessibility & Inclusive Quality

Consultant, DiUS; Co-founder, PactFlow; Pact maintainer, DiUS / PactFlow

Melbourne · Australia · Test Automation & Tooling

Creator and Maintainer of Verify, Independent

Canberra · Australia · Test Automation & Tooling

Performance engineer, OpenAI

Sydney · Australia · Performance & Reliability

Engineering leadership coach and author, Independent

Wellington · New Zealand · Testing Practice & Leadership

Open-source developer, rsync / ArduPilot / MAVProxy projects

Canberra · Australia · Quality Engineering & Delivery

Senior Lecturer; ARC DECRA Fellow, University of Melbourne

Melbourne · Australia · Testing Research & Education

Applied AI and Engineering Leader, Planit; Selenium Project Leadership Committee, Planit Testing

Sydney · Australia · Test Automation & Tooling

OpenSSH developer, OpenSSH project

Melbourne · Australia · Security & Assurance

Founder and CEO, Wallaby Team (Wallaby.js), Wallaby Team

Gold Coast · Australia · Test Automation & Tooling

President, OpenSSL Corporation; CTO & Technical Director, Cryptsoft, OpenSSL Corporation / Cryptsoft

Brisbane · Australia · Security & Assurance

Professor, Monash University

Melbourne · Australia · Testing Research & Education

Pact maintainer; PactFlow co-founder, SmartBear

Melbourne · Australia · Test Automation & Tooling

Bouncy Castle co-founder; VP Software Engineering, Crypto Workshop

Melbourne · Australia · Security & Assurance

Founder of Planit Testing; founding Chairman of ANZTB; company director, Self-employed (company director)

Sydney · Australia · Testing Practice & Leadership

PostgreSQL developer and committer, Microsoft

Wellington · New Zealand · Performance & Reliability

CTO, Datarwe; Chairman and founder, KJR, Datarwe / KJR

Gold Coast · Australia · Testing Practice & Leadership

Co-founder of PactFlow; Pact core maintainer, SmartBear (PactFlow)

Melbourne · Australia · Test Automation & Tooling

Technical Advisor and Co-Founder, Develocity

Melbourne · Australia · Quality Engineering & Delivery

Principal Automation / Group Owner, Telstra / Testing Times

Sydney · Australia · Testing Practice & Leadership

Vice President, Software Assurance, Oracle

Brisbane · Australia · Security & Assurance

Software Testing Author and Former Consultant (Retired), Dr Lee Consulting

Portarlington, Victoria · Australia · Testing Practice & Leadership

Software testing researcher; co-originator of metamorphic testing, University of Wollongong (formerly); NIO Automobile Technology

Wollongong · Australia · Testing Research & Education

Creator and maintainer, MicroPython

Melbourne · Australia · Quality Engineering & Delivery

Director of AI Capability & Enablement; Founder, Testing Talks, NRI Australia & New Zealand

Melbourne · Australia · Community & Advocacy

Cryptlib creator and developer, Digital Data Security

Auckland · New Zealand · Security & Assurance

Global Quality Engineering Practice Director, Planit

Melbourne · Australia · Testing Research & Education

Senior Research Scientist and UI Intelligence Team Lead, CSIRO Data61

Sydney · Australia · AI & Quality

Cryptographer; Adjunct Professor, Thinking Cybersecurity; UNSW Sydney

Melbourne · Australia · Security & Assurance

Software Tester and Test Coach; Co-founder, WeTest and NZTestingConf, Kiwibank

Wellington · New Zealand · Community & Advocacy

CEO, Proofcraft; CEO and Treasurer, seL4 Foundation, Proofcraft; seL4 Foundation

Sydney · Australia · Verified & Formal Systems

Senior Digital Specialist — Testing, LINZ; Co-founder and Director, NZ Tech Rally, LINZ / NZ Tech Rally

Wellington · New Zealand · Community & Advocacy

Associate Professor in Software Engineering, University of Queensland

Brisbane · Australia · Testing Research & Education

PostgreSQL developer and committer, Microsoft

Christchurch · New Zealand · Performance & Reliability

Project Manager, Arvida Group; founder of WeTest Auckland, Arvida Group

Auckland · New Zealand · Community & Advocacy

Founding Engineer, Amutable

Sydney · Australia · Security & Assurance

Co-founder and CTO, Chromatic; Storybook core maintainer, Chroma (Chromatic)

Melbourne · Australia · Test Automation & Tooling

Principal PM, AI, Security & Cloud Transformation, Microsoft

Melbourne · Australia · Community & Advocacy

Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney

Sydney · Australia · Verified & Formal Systems

Lecturer in Software Engineering, University of Sydney

Sydney · Australia · Testing Research & Education

Associate Professor in Software Engineering, Monash University

Melbourne · Australia · AI & Quality

Senior/Lead AI QA Engineer and SDET; Chair, Sydney Testers meetup, UNSW Australia

Sydney · Australia · Community & Advocacy

Associate Professor, Department of Computing Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology

Melbourne · Australia · Testing Research & Education

Professor; MiniZinc researcher, Monash University

Melbourne · Australia · Verified & Formal Systems

ARC DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer; Course Director, Software Engineering, Monash University

Melbourne · Australia · AI & Quality

Forward Deployed Engineer, Amp Labs

Not publicly confirmed · Australia · Security & Assurance

Managing Director and Co-founder, Assurity Consulting

Wellington · New Zealand · Testing Practice & Leadership

Chair, Australia and New Zealand Testing Board (ANZTB); Co-founder, TTC Global, ANZTB

Auckland · New Zealand · Testing Research & Education

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Have I Been Pwned

Gold Coast · Australia · Security & Assurance

Director of Engineering, Octopus Deploy

Brisbane · Australia · Test Automation & Tooling

Founder, Unreasonable Magic; Founder, Buildkite, Unreasonable Magic

Melbourne · Australia · Quality Engineering & Delivery

Test Manager Lead, Woolworths Group; Founder and Test Architect, Test-Fast Software Solutions, Woolworths Group / Test-Fast Software Solutions

Melbourne · Australia · Community & Advocacy

Quality and Testing Practice Lead, NCS Group Australia; founder, OZWST, NCS Group Australia

Adelaide · Australia · Testing Practice & Leadership

Research Scientist; Professor of Computer Science, Google DeepMind; Australian National University

Sydney · Australia · Performance & Reliability

Enterprise Transformation and Capability consultant; ANZTB board member; former Planit practice director, Skills club

Sydney · Australia · Testing Research & Education

Technical Fellow, Honeycomb

Sydney · Australia · Performance & Reliability

Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Tritusa

Sydney · Australia · Testing Practice & Leadership

Automation Lead, Auto & General; WatirMelon author, Auto & General Australia

Brisbane · Australia · Test Automation & Tooling

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Octopus Deploy

Brisbane · Australia · Quality Engineering & Delivery

Emeritus Professor of Software Engineering, University of Queensland

Brisbane · Australia · Testing Research & Education

SSLeay author — foundational contribution, SSLeay project

Brisbane · Australia · Security & Assurance

Senior Director of Product Experience, ScyllaDB; founder of Flood IO, ScyllaDB

Australia · Performance & Reliability

Founder, AgileWay; test automation coach and author, AgileWay Pty Ltd

Brisbane · Australia · Test Automation & Tooling

Staff Engineer (Remix / React Router), Shopify

Melbourne · Australia · Quality Engineering & Delivery

Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland

Auckland · New Zealand · Testing Research & Education

Group Leader; Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO

Sydney · Australia · AI & Quality

Professor in Theoretical Computing Science, University of Melbourne

Melbourne · Australia · Verified & Formal Systems

Associate Professor, Software Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology

Melbourne · Australia · Testing Research & Education

Research Director, CSIRO

Sydney · Australia · AI & Quality

Senior Facilitator & AI Facilitation Specialist; founder of Disqover, Red Marble AI

Melbourne · Australia · Testing Research & Education

Head of Engineering Excellence and Reliability, Macquarie Group

Sydney · Australia · Quality Engineering & Delivery

Independent facilitator and keynote speaker; KWST co-organiser, Independent

Sydney · Australia · Testing Research & Education

Group Chief Technology Officer, TTC Global

Auckland · New Zealand · AI & Quality

Associate Professor, Australian National University

Canberra · Australia · Verified & Formal Systems

Engineering Manager; Vue Test Utils maintainer, Microba Life Sciences

Brisbane · Australia · Test Automation & Tooling

Engineering manager and software engineer, Canonical

Christchurch · New Zealand · Quality Engineering & Delivery

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer; Testing Coach and Author (TestSheepNZ), Air New Zealand

Wellington · New Zealand · Testing Practice & Leadership

Founder and CEO, Mechanical Rock (formerly MagenTys), Mechanical Rock

Perth · Australia · Testing Practice & Leadership

Chief Research Officer, Sonic Labs; Professor, University of Sydney, Sonic Labs / University of Sydney

Sydney · Australia · Security & Assurance

Principal Software Engineer, Atlassian; Shouldly and TestStack maintainer, Atlassian

Perth · Australia · Test Automation & Tooling

Founder and CEO; Adjunct Associate Professor, NeoHive / Logilica; UNSW Sydney

Sydney · Australia · Security & Assurance

Associate Professor and Software Engineering Subject Leader, Massey University

Palmerston North · New Zealand · Testing Research & Education

Pact-JS maintainer; creator of ContractCase; independent consultant, Independent Consultant

Melbourne · Australia · Test Automation & Tooling

BeeWare founder; Python core developer, BeeWare

Perth · Australia · Quality Engineering & Delivery

Co-founder of Qual IT (sold to Planit 2022); currently self-employed, Self-employed

Wellington · New Zealand · Testing Practice & Leadership

Kaihuawaere Matihiko; He Māwhitiwhiti Matihiko ki te kākahu o Hine-Raraunga, Catalyst IT / Te Kāhui Raraunga

Wellington · New Zealand · Quality Engineering & Delivery

Co-founder and Director of Accessible Technologies, Intopia, Intopia

Melbourne · Australia · Accessibility & Inclusive Quality

Consultant, Core State Consulting; former Software Testing Practice Lead, SoftEd, Core State Consulting

Brisbane · Australia · Testing Research & Education

Product Manager, Open Source Security & Insights, Google

Sydney · Australia · Security & Assurance

AI Research Engineer, Common Defense

Sydney · Australia · Testing Research & Education

Group Chief Technology Officer, Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Sydney · Australia · Quality Engineering & Delivery

iOS Developer; creator of NSubstitute

Sydney · Australia · Test Automation & Tooling

Contract Performance Tester, Breakpoint; KWST organiser, Breakpoint

Paraparaumu · New Zealand · Performance & Reliability

Lecturer, School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University

Melbourne · Australia · AI & Quality

Co-founder and Director, Turing Consulting; Quality Engineering and Automation Manager, Bendigo Bank, Bendigo Bank / Turing Consulting

Melbourne · Australia · Test Automation & Tooling

Head of Quality Engineering Practice, Adactin Group

Sydney · Australia · Testing Practice & Leadership