Honored Contributors


Tarun Lalwani, founder of KnowledgeInbox.com and author of QuickTest Professional Unplugged, is one of the most prominent contributors to the worldwide QTP community. Tarun is a passionate automation developer, eager to help others with his knowledge. As such, he conducted several seminars on various Automation topics, and also contributed more than 85 articles on KnowledgeInbox and over 12,000 posts across various QTP forums. He also has passion for development and has created various free tools for the community (available here). Tarun has also been involved in the design and implementation of a number of Automation Frameworks (Data/Keyword Driven, Hybrid and HP BPT framework) for different Telecom projects in US and Australia.	Anshoo Arora, Web and Java forums co-moderator. Holding a degree in Electrical Engineering, his first testing assignment was during his University days when he was sent to Germany for testing an Elevator car system. He hasn’t looked back since and has been in the SQA industry for the past 5 years. Anshoo is a QTP and LoadRunner expert and has good experience with Quality Center/Test Director and SilkPerformer. Currently he is also putting an effort into learning IBM Functional Tester. He is currently working as a SQA Consultant at EDS, USA.

Stefan Thelenius, General, Web & Web-Services forums co-moderator. Stefan has been practicing QA professionally since 1994 in various business segments such as Finance, Medical technology and Telecom. Since 2000 he is engaged mainly in technical aspects of automated functional and performance testing, as well as developing testing tools. Stefan is an expert in QuickTest Professional, Loadrunner and TestDirector. He lives and works in Sweden and has his own blog.	Olga Ivolgin, TE forum co-moderator. Olga lives in Israel, and employs her extensive expertise in automatic test engineering in her work at the Log-On company. She has deeply grounded experience with the Test Automation cycle. She has developed different projects for corporations like Orange, Comverse, Sapiens, and possesses unique experience in Mainframe and AS400 automatic testing in large corporations. Olga thinks QTP is the most advanced automated testing tool available, and finds it fascinating to work with it.

Asiq Ahamed, co-moderator of the General Q&A Forum, has a master degree in Information Technology. He has been in the field of software development and testing since 2007, and focused on manual and automated testing since 2008. He has developed automation scripts for various customers. Asiq is enthusiastic about QTP automation and is eager to share with others his knowledge on scripting, which he acquired through his extensive professional experience. Prior to joining AdvancedQTP as co-moderator, Asiq has been learning Perl script and Adobe Flex. Asiq lives and works as Testing Engineer in India (Hewitt Associates) and has his own blog.	Paul Grossman, General, QC and TE forums co-moderator. Paul Grossman is an HP Certified Instructor who holds a Quality Center CPS/CPC and QuickTest Professional CPS. Paul has seven years experience leading automation projects in both WinRunner and QuickTest Professional, as well as installing and customizing Quality Center. In addition, Paul has been a featured Track Speaker at several conferences including Mercury World 2004 & 2005 and HP Software Universe 2007.

Shay Ginsbourg, moderator of the Load & Performance forum. Shay is an expert in verification and validation of software and medical devices, and also experienced with various regulatory certifications. Shay has near 20 years of experience in the field of QA and software testing. Among the positions he fulfilled: QA manager of LoadRunner at Mercury Interactive (now part of HP software), ISO 9000 project manager at Tedea Huntleigh, PO and SW QA manager at Cadent, and Head of QA at Paeion Medical. Currently Shay is an independent Regulatory & Testing Affairs Consultant (www.ginsbourg.com). Shay holds two M.Sc. degrees: one in Bio-Medical Engineering (cum laude) from Tel Aviv University and another in Mechanical Engineering from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.	Naveen Thota, co-moderator of the SAP Q&A Forum, has a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and is in the field of SW QA since 2003. Naveen has extensive experience with a wide array of HP tools, including QTP, QC and OTA, BPT, LR and open source tools such as AutoIt, Selenium and WatiN. Naveen is a Mercury certified QTP and Load Runner specialist and a HP ASE – Implementing QC SW. Naveen is also a ISTQB certified Testing Pro and is trained on using iTKO LISA. Naveen has provided his excellent services to several companies and is currently fulfilling the role of Automation Test Lead in ATC (Automation Testing Center of Excellence) at JCPenney, Plano and lives in Dallas, Texas.

Monika Arora Gautam, FR Project forum co-moderator. Monika has a degree in Chemistry and Biology, and has undergone a 2 year course in system management. Monika acquired extensive experience in developing Internet technologies for two years, and has been practicing QA professionally since 2002. Monika has ample experience working internationally, as she’s worked in the US, UK, and India.	Yogeesh Gangaiah, co-moderator of the SAP Q&A Forums, has a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and is in the field of SW QA since 2005. Yogeesh has extensive experience with QTP and QC, and has designed and implemented data driven and hybrid automation frameworks. Yogeesh has provided his excellent services to several companies and is currently fulfilling the role of SAP Automation Test Lead in the USA at Target Technology Services, Minneapolis.

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