Trevor Atkins

Trevor Atkins is Principal Consultant and west-coast Regional Director for PQA Ltd. Prior to that, he was Principal Consultant with Silverpath Technologies and the west-coast Regional Director of Quality Services with UST Global. He was also a founder and the VP Operations of QA Labs Inc., once the largest independent software testing company in Canada.

Trevor has been involved in literally 100's of software projects over the last 15+ years. Experienced in all project roles, Trevor's primary focus has been on planning and execution of projects and improvement of the same, so as to optimize quality versus constraints for the business.

Trevor engages collaboratively with teams to raise the quality bar within their project and organizational contexts and has a demonstrated track record of achieving rapid ROI for his customers and their business.

For information on how Trevor can help your company or project reach a higher quality bar with lower overall costs, visit http://www.pqa.ca.

Visit http://thinktesting.wordpress.com and http://ca.linkedin.com/in/trevoratkins for more information.

Trevor has presented:

• Apr. 26, 2012: It's Raid Night! Gamification for Software Test Teams?
• Feb. 24, 2011: Role of Outsourcing: Finding Your Vision
• Oct. 29, 2009: Test Automation: Building Your Business Case
• Feb. 26, 2009: Metrics - Thinking In N-Dimensions
• Oct. 30, 2008: Capturing Wild Requirements for Testing
• May 29, 2008: Increasing Test Effort Estimation Effectiveness
• Nov. 24, 2005: Optimize Your Defect Lifecycle - Philosophy of Resolution