As Planit’s global Practice Director for Quality Engineering (QE) and Assurance, Tafline is responsible for driving best practices in QE across Planit, including its thousands of consultants and hundreds of clients worldwide. Tafline has over 20 years of experience in the ICT industry and has delivered large and complex programmes of work with teams of over 80 testers. Tafline holds a PhD in software testing and is a regular feature in software engineering, technology and quality engineering conferences. Tafline is also an international standards leader, developing quality engineering and testing standards with ISO and IEEE. She is chair of the software and systems engineering committee at Standards Australia (IT-015), representing Australia’s interests in software and systems engineering standards development with ISO. Tafline is also a visiting Professor of Practice at La Trobe University, teaching software testing and metrics to the next generation of software engineers.