Markus Gärtner works as an agile tester, trainer, coach and consultant with it-agile GmbH, Hamburg, Germany. Markus founded the German Agile Testing and Exploratory Workshop in 2011, is one of the founders of the European chapter of Weekend Testing, is a black-belt instructor in the Miagi-Do school of software testing, contributes to the Agile Alliance FTT-Patterns writing community as well as the software craftsmanship movement. Markus regularly presents at agile and testing conferences all over the globe, as well as dedicating himself to writing about testing, foremost in an agile context.