Core faculty
The mentors who own a program end to end: they teach it, mark it and sign the report card.
Faculty and industry network
Learn from people doing the work.
Every mentor listed here still tests software, leads testers or buys quality work for a living. Access continues after your program through our industry network.
How the network is organised
Four kinds of access
Program mentors
Practising testers and quality engineers assigned to cohorts, reviewing submitted work each week.
Guest speakers
Industry practitioners invited into cohorts to speak on live problems in their own organisations.
Project defence panellists
Invited professionals who question students on their final project the way a hiring panel would.
Core faculty
The mentors who will mark your work
Principal Mentor, Foundations Faculty
Lead mentor, beginner and career switch programs
Twelve years of hands on quality work across fintech, health tech and public sector delivery, the last six spent building beginner pipelines for product teams that had never hired a tester before. Runs the Friday live review class, marks every assignment personally and writes the report card that goes out with your certificate.
- ISTQB Certified Tester, Advanced Level
- Built and staffed QA functions for four Nigerian product teams
- Has mentored more than 900 first time testers into paid roles
Senior Mentor, Testing Craft Faculty
Lead mentor, Deep Dive Into Software Testing
A practising Quality Engineer on live payment and lending products, where a missed edge case is measured in money. Teaches testers to argue for coverage with evidence, to write a strategy a product lead will actually read, and to trace a defect back to the decision that caused it.
- Quality Engineer on high volume payments platforms
- Author of the risk scoring model used across Testify Group engagements
- Regular reviewer on cohort project defence panels
Automation Lead Mentor
Lead mentor, Upskill with Test Automation
Spends the working week maintaining automated suites that run on every merge, so the class is taught the way the job is actually done: small, readable, stable tests that survive a redesign. Reviews your code, not just your results, and leaves written feedback on each pull request you submit.
- Maintains production automation suites in Playwright and Selenium
- Builds CI test pipelines on GitHub Actions and GitLab CI
- Reviews every code submission in the automation cohort
AI Quality Mentor
Lead mentor, AI Testing
Tests AI powered features in production, which means grading answers that are never identical twice. Teaches evaluation sets, hallucination and bias probes, prompt driven test generation, and where an AI assistant genuinely shortens your day rather than quietly inventing coverage you do not have.
- Quality lead on live AI assisted product features
- Designs evaluation harnesses for model backed releases
- Contributes the Cycluno AI testing case studies used in class
Founder and Executive Faculty
Lead mentor, leadership programs
Has built quality engineering practices and delivered testing engagements across eighteen countries, and now sits on the buying side of the table often enough to know which quality arguments survive a board meeting. Runs the leadership cohorts as working sessions on your own organisation, not as lectures.
- Founder, Testify Group, quality engineering across 18 countries
- Has hired, structured and rebuilt QA teams at every seniority level
- Advises executives on quality metrics and delivery risk
Practice Mentor, Test Leadership
Co mentor, Test Management for Test Leaders
Manages testers for a living and teaches the part nobody trained them for: running a one to one that changes behaviour, sizing a team against a roadmap, defending a testing timeline without losing the room, and coaching a struggling tester back to competence.
- Test manager across distributed multi squad delivery
- Owns the hiring rubric Testify uses for QA recruitment
- Coaches new test leads through their first ninety days
Faculty are listed by the seat they hold. Named profiles and photographs are published as each mentor's details are confirmed for the coming cohort.
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Practising professionals can mentor a cohort
If you test, lead testers or run quality for a product organisation, we are always looking for mentors, guest speakers and defence panellists.