Tariq King is the Chief Scientist at test.ai, where he leads research and development of their core platform for AI-driven testing.

Tariq has over fifteen years of experience in software engineering and testing and has formerly held positions as Head of Quality, Director of Quality Engineering, Manager of Software Engineering, and Test Architect. Tariq holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Florida International University, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Florida Tech. His areas of research are software testing, artificial intelligence, autonomic and cloud computing, model-driven engineering, and computer science education. He has published over 40 research articles in peer-reviewed IEEE and ACM journals, conferences, and workshops, and has been an international keynote speaker at leading software conferences in industry and academia. Over the years, Tariq has served the professional software testing community as a program chair, audit chair, reviewer, committee member, and advisory board member.

Tariq is constantly exploring the technical and scientific limits of software testing. Tariq dedicates much of his time to educating and training the community. He has an online Master Class on the topic of AI and software testing available at: https://youtu.be/gvHnbexnn-4 .

Tariq is a genuinely precious resource in the testing community and incredibly generous with his time and his impact has been felt across the industry.