Marie Walsh

Marie Walsh is a freelance program test manager, having started her IT career in 1998 after a career change from customer service management roles.

During her IT career, Marie has worked as a technical tester, test automation specialist, business analyst, data analyst, systems analyst, test manager, release and implementation manager, change manager, problem manager, project manager and solutions delivery manager. Her experience spans a large range of technologies, methodologies and disciplines across many industry sectors, including banking, finance, telecommunications, utilities, health and government.

Marie has been involved in various Agile development teams since 2002. Her first Agile project was with a middleware development team that had adopted an XP Agile approach. Since 2002 she has worked with many other companies, who subscribed to various Agile practices ranging from Microsoft's MSF, Scrum, Kanban and many variances of other Agile practices. Recent roles have involved problem management of struggling Agile development teams, and implementing techniques to assist the teams to stabilise and recover.

Marie’s career focus is on the testing discipline, and her diverse roles have provided her with a solid understanding of the importance of testing within IT project lifecycles. Her passion is to improve the image of testing, and to work with teams to build testing capability and processes that are flexible, adaptable and effective in improving software quality.

Marie currently holds the vice chair position on the Australia and New Zealand Testing Board (ANZTB), a national board of the ISTQB®, and is a co-author of the ISTQB® Foundation Level Agile Tester syllabus.