Jennitta Andrea's professional software career spans twenty years. Her domain experience includes: telecommunications, petroleum, health care, electrical utilities, and rail transportation. Her technical experience covers: compilers, software methodologies, expert systems, object oriented development, and agile methods. She has been involved in over a dozen different agile projects as a hands-on practitioner as: process coach, tester, analyst, retrospective facilitator, and developer.

As an early adopter of agile methods in 2000 Jennitta has consistently contributed to the advancement of the state-of-the art through the publication of many experience-based papers for international conferences and software journals. Jennitta is a keen observer of teams and process, and brings these valuable insights to her practical and engaging training sessions covering: agile requirements, process adaptation, automated functional testing, and project retrospectives. Her main interest is in improving the state of the art of automated functional testing as it applies to agile requirements; she applies insights from her early experience with compiler technology and domain specific language design.

She is serving her second term on the Agile Alliance Board of Directors, is a member of the Advisory Board of IEEE Software, and has assisted on several conference committees. She has a B. Sc., Computing Science (Distinction) from the University of Calgary.