Mesut Durukal

Mesut is a Quality Assurance Capabilities Leader with extensive experience in test automation, CI/CD transformation, and building quality into development lifecycles. In his role as a cross-squad quality leader, he focuses on scaling organizational quality capabilities across teams while continuously improving the efficiency and impact of QA practices. He brings strong expertise in Agile, CMMI, and PMP methodologies, and has held key roles such as Quality Owner, Hiring Manager, and Chapter Lead in multinational environments. His experience spans a wide range of industries, including Industrial Automation, IoT, SaaS/PaaS, Cloud Services, Defense, Autonomous Mobile Robots, Embedded Software, and Supply Chain Management. Beyond his day-to-day work, Mesut is an active contributor to the global QA community. He is a frequent international speaker, Best Presentation Award winner, and program committee member at industry conferences. He is also the founder of Tokyo Test Fest, the first international Software QA conference in Japan, bringing together professionals from over 30 countries and fostering global collaboration. See: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lKTxhk1KEhXBw4kJRTBnHrfusn1S6-Yi/view