Senior test automation engineer at imbus and the developer of the Eggplant Library.

Antti Karjalainen is the CEO and co-founder of Robocorp, an industry-leading open-source company that's set out to redefine Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Backed by investors such as Benchmark and Canvas Ventures, Robocorp is democratizing access to RPA through free tooling that allows anyone to start building and operating bots that can automate virtually any routine software task that people do manually today.

Before being a founder, Antti has been a long-time open-source enthusiast with a background in software engineering. He serves on the board of the Robot Framework Foundation which is a non-profit dedicated to advancing the community around the Robot Framework project.

Asko is a full-time software development professional, who has been using Robot Framework since 2012. Currently, he works as a Software Architect at Digital Services of University of Jyväskylä, where Robot Framework is used for both acceptance testing and process automation.

Asko bootstrapped the work on RobotKernel, Robot Framework support for Jupyter platforms, at the sprints of RoboCon 2018, and continues to bring Robot Framework with him to new adventures.

I'm QA and DevOps enthusiast who loves to contribute to open source projects. I'm author of Robocop and Robotidy projects - designed to improve quality of your Robot Framework code.

Ed Manlove is a Robot Framework community member and leader who is dedicated to building up the community. Currently he is a member of the SeleniumLibrary team and helps lead the ecosystem of projects around web testing using Selenium. He has been a part of the Robot Framework community since 2011. Most recently Ed has been a Robot Framework Coach and Mentor consulting with a few clients and creating targeted robot training courses for them. You can see his latest contributions on his GitHub profile.

Elmar works both as a researcher and a founder. Elmar wrote his PhD thesis on static code analysis and is still active as a researcher in software quality analysis. In 2009, he co-founded CQSE GmbH and since helps teams in using analysis tools more effectively. Elmar frequently talks at research conferences (e.g. ICSE, ICPC) and industry events (e.g. GTD, OOP, JAX). He was elected best speaker at Clean Code Days, Software Quality Days and Java Forum Stuttgart. Elmar was named Junior Fellow of the GI in 2015.

Elout is a test automation consultant with Capgemini Netherlands. He is the companies representative with the Robot Framework Foundation and has over 7 years of experience with Robot Framework.

Career

• 2013-present application engineering and validation/verification engineering at ams-osram
• 2011 – 2013 home automation at intrate(c)
• 2010 – 2011 RMA engineer at infineon
• 2009 graduation at the university of applied sciences FH JOANEUM
• 2007 – 2010 mixed signal ASIC development at FH JOANEUM
• 2008 participation at the CERN Summer Student programe
• 2001 – 2005 industrial automation at intrate(c)

Gregor Schmid started development of the GUI automation tool
QF-Test over 20 years ago. He is co-founder of Quality First
Software GmbH, based in Germany and dedicated to further
development, distribution of and support for QF-Test.

When approached by DB Schenker he gladly took on the challenge of
creating an integration between QF-Test and Robot Framework. He
still has a lot to learn about Robot Framework but the
integration is coming along well and should become public early
2022.

I am test automation specialist, certificated by ISTQB. I have broad experience in testing both backend and frontend, and in functional and non-functional tests.
I have been using robot framework to automate testing for couple of years, I have used it and I have tuned it to my needs.
Currently employed by Posti Oy as Senior Test Engineer.

Jeff King is a Quality Assurance engineer from the Boston/New York (Connecticut) area of the United States. Jeff has approximately 20 years QA experience in the financial, theater/live arts and specialty insurance industry, transitioning from manual to automated testing during that time. Jeff is married to wife, Carrie, and has two children Josh and Megan. He is also a hiker and musician and has published one fiction novel and is currently on a quest to run a race in all 169 towns of his home state of Connecticut.

DevOps Engineer @ Anders Innovations

Josh Grant is a test automation professional who has worked in this space for nearly a decade. In that time he has worked on automation at all levels, in a variety of languages, frameworks, and organizations.

Currently, he is a solution architect at Sauce Labs, helping enterprise teams succeed with their test automation. He’s based in Toronto, Ontario.

I am a Full Stack tester. My professional journey began with testing Mainframe Applications, Data Warehousing & ETL processes, Business Intelligence reports and now API & UI Applications in Microservices architectures.

Test Automation to me is an extension of my Manual Testing exploits. It helps improve my efficiency and makes time for exploratory testing. I am a big fan of the Context Driven school of Testing and use that mindset at work (and in life).

When I am not working, I am doing or thinking about something adventurous.

Katri Saarikivi is a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Helsinki. Her work examines the neural mechanisms involved in learning, collaboration, empathy and trust, and explores how these mechanisms could be better supported in online environments. Alongside research, she is enthusiastic about popularizing science, and especially about opening the scientific method to people outside academia.

Music Composer with a passion for technology (and a decent paycheck). I have been working for software development companies for 14 years. Automation has been my core focus for the last 8 years utilizing various scripting tools and languages for tests and other processes.

I am an avid sourdough break baker (even pre-pandemic), home brewer, and Raspberry Pi tinkerer. I am an active musician in my area playing Horn (French Horn) and British Tenor Horn. My happy place is writing and arranging music for the groups I play.

While not officially diagnosed, I am a gnome-a-holic and do not plan to go into any recovery program for the malady.

I'm a full stack application developer, who was introduced to Robot Framework through the Browser projects initial funded start at 2020 summer. Since then I have been maintaining it as part of the open-source team. In general I like exploring programming languages, libraries and concepts. As my day job I create and maintain. developer tooling at Robocorp.

From zero to (almost) hero :-).

I'm a Test Automation Engineer at DB Schenker Technology Center in Warsaw. I started my adventure with testing about 6 years ago as a manual tester of mobile applications. Since then I had the opportunity to learn and use different automation tools and frameworks, both backend and frontend, from SoapUI, Postman through Selenium and Protractor to Robot Framework (which I'm using right now). Currently I'm diving into the realm CI/CD and OS virtualization for testing purposes.

I'm an avid fan of all music, where the gain knob goes to 11 and I'm a semi-good guitar player. I'm also fond of animals, I've got 3 fish tanks, 2 dogs and 1 crab paludarium.

I'm a Test Manager at DB Schenker and a regular Robot Framework User since 2020.

I like to help other people getting started with Robot Framework (and Test Automation in general) and I know that it can be overwhelming sometimes.
In my daily work, I support projects in the setup of their test automation solution - for Web Applications, Desktop Applications, APIs or even Document Tests.

I'm a believer in test automation - but convinced that testing itself cannot be automated.

Markus is tech evangelist Arvato Systems and for years an active member of Robot Framework community. His passion is open source, especially open source based process automation with Camunda & Robot Framework.

QA Engineer with 7+ years of experience but most importantly an open-source software enthusiast and creator with a dedication to clean code principles and a pragmatic programming. Spent last few years on focusing his effort around testing frameworks, especially to make testing more accessible activity while not forgetting about making it more fun.

Nick is a long-time contributor to many Jupyter, Python, and JavaScript projects, bringing skills and knowledge to integrate Robot across many parts of the Jupyter ecosystem and beyond. Nick works at the Georgia Tech Research Institute as a Systems Architect, while also providing code, design and architecture contributions as a Jupyter Project core team member.

I started to work as a test engineer doing mainly test automation in the year 2000. Since then I have created test automation tools and frameworks using Java, Perl, shell scripts and nowadays mainly Python. Over the years I have also used a wide range of commercial and open source test tools, and most of the time had much better success with the latter.

I graduated from Helsinki University of Technology in 2006, and wrote my Master's Thesis about large scale test automation frameworks. Especially the keyword-driven prototype that I created for the thesis was really successful, and I started working with a framework based on it in a customer project afterwards. In June 2008 this framework was open sourced as Robot Framework.

I learned about Agile software development for the first time in 2002 when studying software processes at the university. Unfortunately it took some years before I got into a real Agile project, but I have been lucky enough to avoid waterfalls since then. I have mostly experience from Scrum and since 2006 I have been able to call myself Certified ScrumMaster.

In addition to using open source tools, I have also followed many open source project closely and participated to them by submitting bug reports and answering questions on mailing lists. For Jython project I have contributed both bug reports and patches, and nowadays I am obviously highly involved with Robot Framework open source project.

Eliga Oy was founded on February 2007.

René Rohner is a Senior Consultant for Testing Systems in Germany and Chairman of the board of Robot Framework Foundation.

He is member of the Core Team of Robot Framework Browser and author of Robot Framework DataDriver. He is trainer and coach for Keyword-Driven and Behavior-Driven Testing in multiple small and huge projects in Germany.

• team leader testautomation at DB Netz AG, project PRISMA
• lecturer for IT Security at HSB Akademie

Robin has over 15 years of experience in the testing profession where test automation has always been an important part of his work. The past 7 years he has specialized in Python and the Robot Framework. After many years of working in R&D teams in high-tech SMEs he recently moved into consultancy as a test automation specialist.

Software Test Architect at SAS Institute, Inc.

Validation Engineer at ams-OSRAM with 10 years experience in lab validation of various sensor ICs.

Tatu Aalto works at F-Secure as Senior Software Developer in Test with Windows anti-virus client team. He has +10 years experience with Robot Framework and more than 20 years experience in testing at general. Tatu maintains several libraries or tools in the Robot Framework ecosystem, example PyhtonLibCore and is one of the core team member in the Browser library.

Building the future of software development. Passionate about making pipelines fluent.

Yusuf is Full Stack Developer at EnOcean GmbH. He has 4 years of experience in development of automation tools and solutions in various domains.