Hey I'm Richard Bradshaw, aka FriendlyTester. A true driving force in the software testing and quality domain. I’m a tester, automator, speaker, writer, teacher, strategist, leader, and a friendly human. My work has impacted the career of thousands of quality professionals across the globe and helped many companies achieve highly effective testing. I specialise in two areas; human centric automation in the context of software testing, automation that truly adds value to the existing team testing efforts. I avoid the big bang automation efforts, and instead analyse the context, measure testability, and form an approach that adds value immediately, and doesn’t completely disrupt existing testing efforts. This results in automation that allows teams to move efficiently and confidently. The second is the whole team approach to quality to help teams deliver the high quality products. This goes beyond testing but helping teams implement practices and approaches to test early, test often and be able to measure that the work we’ve done has had a positive impact on the product. I’m fluent in all areas of software development and can code in multiple different languages. I also have vast tool knowledge and experience. I'm a co-creator of the 'Automation in Testing' namespace. A namespace aimed at improving the industries use of automation in the context of testing. You can read more about Automation in Testing (AiT) over at https://automationintesting.com, and see our event & training pages for where we'll be and what we offer. We provide training all around the world on how to design human centric valuable automation, that truly supports your testing efforts. I don't believe there is a single approach to testing software, I believe we need to adapt our approach to the context. To do this, I'm constantly adding new tools to my toolbox, so that I can deal with the diverse and exciting world of software development."