Erik is a technology industry veteran, who has worked across the quality spectrum, testing strategy, management, tools, governance, people management, etc.Erik was recently in a test automation strategy role interspersed with project postings for a federal govt department, both full stack (AWS & Azure) and client based and related tools like data generators and test design. Before that he'd been a test automation/data creation consultant in date warehouse space. Erik has broad skills both strategically and hands on as a tech/quality/risk/test lead across custom software, comms & infrastructure delivery with deep stakeholder & scoping skills to help deliver sensible appropriate software & solutions. He also has extensive oversight & governance skill on large programmes, as well as methodology & tools definition & selection, with a technical coding background. His skillset includes:Leading or coaching software development, at both a strategic and tactical level, for diverse organisations and industries. Helping teams improve their SDLC, testing and quality processes, in both agile and traditional approaches.Helping organisations realign to lean process, utilizing agile and lean approaches and tools.Technical project management focusing on complex and transformation programmes and projects.Test Managing from technical testing to user testing, experienced across dozens of application areas for organizations such as Cathay Pacific (working in Hong Kong for 14 months), ANZ, Telstra, NAB, Medibank, Defence Signals Directorate, RAAF, Army, various government departments.Test Architect across strategy, process, tools, automation.Thought leader, conference speaker, coach, mentor and trainer to hundreds of people in Australia, New Zealand, Asia and North America.Facilitator, running open space conferences, lightning talks, lean coffee discussions, etc.Specialties : Delivery Management, Strategy, Architecture and Process, Program & Project Management, Governance, Oversight, Tools and Test Automation, Agile Coaching, Agile Methodologies, Exploratory Testing, Agile Testing, Training and Mentoring, Facilitation{Agile Explorer & Experimenter, investigating optimal quality, testability, mistake proofing & learning about ML quality approaches. Contact me to collaborate or share ideas....}rik is a test industry veteran, specialisng in testing, quality and governance.