Learn from the Testing Experts

Featured Speakers

Jay Bhati

Test Manager
Tuatahi First Fibre

Nelly Sajwan

Test Automation Architect
Spark NZ

Deepthi Thagadegowda

Data Test Lead
Television New Zealand

Tariq Azoor

Principal Consultant at Polymathic
SteadyPay

Panel Discussion SpeakeRS

Mei Reyes-Tsai

General Manager – Innovaton and Technology, TTC Global

Mei is currently the General Manager of Innovation and Technology at TTC Global. She started her career as an automation engineer – and with a passion for all things testing and quality, she has gradually transitioned into managing test programmes ranging in different sizes, building testing capabilities and centres of excellence across multiple projects and domains. Her current role merges strategic leadership with a hands-on approach to foster testing solutions across various sectors, which has involved contributing to business development and supporting various organisations’ test teams through her technical and consultancy expertise.

Mei has been successful in leading and implementing value-driven changes in client organisations, and she has extensive experience in directing the testing of numerous Digital Transformation Programmes of varying sizes – specifically deploying SaaS products such as Infor M3 & SAP technologies (ANZCO and Sealord), D365 (Farmlands) and Salesforce, Workday, & Infor LN/EAM/IPS (DIA – 3Waters).

Mei has built testing capability with 50+ testers, across multiple projects under different testing phases and SDLC methodologies –augmenting test teams using near and offshore consultants.

She collaborates at C-Suite level with ease, conveying messages to various stakeholders and advising on how to uplift quality throughout organisations taking into account Cloud and SaaS architecture.

More recently, she has become one of the key members of TTC Global’s AI Leadership Team – and is very passionate in sharing her insights to the testing community.

Her industry experience includes Food and Beverage, Banking, Finance, Digital, Media, Utilities, Retail, and Insurance.

Francis Ho

Director of Engineering, Auror

Francis Ho is the Director of Engineering at Auror, where they build software that helps retailers like Walmart and Woolworths reduce crime and loss in their stores. It’s one of those products where quality actually matters in a tangible way. If they get it wrong, real people are affected.

Francis ended up in quality engineering the same way most people do, which is by accident, and then on purpose. He started as a developer, but somewhere along the way realised he was more interested in different ways thing might break. That shift turned into a career, and eventually into leading engineering teams that builds software product.

Lately, a lot of his thinking has been sitting at the intersection of AI and quality. Not the hype version, but the practical one: What does it actually change about how we test, how we build, and how engineering teams work? He’s been running experiments with his teams, trying to figure out what’s genuinely useful versus what just sounds impressive in a blog post.

He believes the people closest to the problem usually have the best answers, and that his job is mostly to clear the path and ask the questions nobody wants to ask out loud.
Outside of work, Francis helps organises the Auckland Testing meetup, drinks an irresponsible amount of bubble tea, and enjoys spending time with his kids at home.