spriteCloud Team

spriteCloud really started a few years ago when four career QA engineers came together to work for Joost, a global IPTV media startup based in The Netherlands and found they had a mutual interest in the art and science of software Quality Assurance. At Joost they worked as part of the team that led the Quality Assurance charge to roll out high quality releases of a web service developed in short sprint/release cycles.

Much of the groups collective knowledge about Quality Assurance was challenged under the pressure of meeting very tight deadlines in the loosely structured work environment at the new media startup. Over time the team began to refine their own set of QA practices to compliment the development work that was built on a foundation of open source technology and herded together using AGILE development practices. This work culminated in a paradigm of new ideas based on open source testing frameworks which could be adopted by any QA group working in web development.

When Joost closed its doors in Europe, the opportunity presented itself to form their own company and bring these ideas to the broad QA community world wide, and so spriteCloud was formed. The company focuses on providing both Quality Assurance services, and what they feel is, quite simply, the best QA tools and solutions for AGILE web development shops on the market today.

Founder (the Irish one)

Mark has a technical degree from the premier technology school in Ireland; Limerick University. His expertise is in rapid application development of distributed internet applications which is the basis for all spriteCloud software-as-a-service products. Coupled with his education Mark has a number of years commercial experience working in global enterprise organisations QA environments, both as a hands-on resource and as an organisational manager. He had notable successes delivering automation frameworks for large scale application testing, and in managing the test process with distributed teams.

Founder (the Dutch one)

Mark has achieved academic excellence having obtained a Masters of Science degree from Delft University in The Netherlands. His degree thesis was presented publicly to multiple conferences early 2007. Mark then worked for a number of years at a global online media company in a technical capacity in the QA group before leaving to start spriteCloud. He has a strong expertise in software quality process for multimedia sites which are heavily invested in video.

Founder (the Finnish one)

Marko worked for a decade in Nokia, Finland starting with the technical group responsible for enabling consumer internet access, and then changing roles numerous times to eventually become the test manager and program manager for end user services. Marko has extensive experience in quality assurance and testing, both as a QA manager and QA specialist. He has setup and managed QA teams in different types of environments and is very familiar with QA processes in general. His experience covers all the phases from setting up a test strategy to creating automation tests and reporting the results. Marko has a career track record in delivery of mission critical services and has cultivated a broad technical skill set that makes him ideally suited for testing the performance of highly scalable web services.

Founder (the Aussie one)

Andrew has over 17 years experience in commercial IT and a decade in Quality Assurance across a broad range of industries including R&D, government services, Business-to-Business and Business-to-Consumer online services. He has held most roles within a QA group from junior tester through to group manager. He has a proven track record in delivering enterprise applications to market, implementing QA best practice and process improvement, as well as building and managing Quality Assurance teams. As one of the founders he consults with customers on all aspects of their software engineering, and the improvement in the measurable level of software quality their customers will experience.