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Debra Forsyth

Debra Forsyth is the Quality Assurance Practice Lead and a Senior QA Consultant with ObjectSharp Consulting. As QA Practice Lead, Debra is an experienced Visual Studio Team System and Test Edition instructor and consultant providing training and support to clients. Recently Microsoft awarded Debra the MVP (Microsoft Most Valued Professional) award for her involvement with the community. Debra is the first person to be awarded an MVP for their involvement in the testing community, as well as the first woman to be awarded the ALM MVP (Application Life Management). She has over 25 years' experience in software testing within various business fields. A passionate advocate of the Agile/Scrum methodology, Debra mentors companies and test teams in the process of becoming Agile. She currently participates in Microsoft's Inner Circle meetings for all Microsoft testing tools. She is also the author and trainer for the ObjectSharp Team Foundation Server for QA Professionals course. Her specialties: Microsoft VSTS 2010 for Testers, Test Manager, Coded UI, Web Performance and Load Testing; mentoring, training, software quality assurance best practices, Agile & Scrum methodologies. Debra's published articles include the 'Big Bang Theory' in Agile Record and 'Collaboration Equals Quality' in Testing Experience.

Testa's Paradise: http://blogs.objectsharp.com/cs/blogs/deb/