Disclosure

Who I work for, and why this show is still independent

The short version: I am a Test Automation Advisor at ACCELQ. ACCELQ does not sponsor, endorse or review The Sign-Off Table. The longer version is below, along with why I care so much about testers in the first place.

The disclosure

My employer. I, Matt Angerer, am employed by ACCELQ as a Test Automation Advisor. ACCELQ makes test automation software.
No endorsement. ACCELQ does not sponsor, fund, endorse, approve or review The Sign-Off Table, its podcast, guides, templates, statistics or newsletter. This is a personal project.
My views are my own. Nothing here represents the views of ACCELQ or of any employer, past or present, and the same goes for every guest.
Clearly labeled.The guides and templates are written to be useful whatever tooling you use. The newsletter includes a short section, labeled “From my day job”, that points to ACCELQ resources I think are worth your time; that section is my choice, not ACCELQ’s. Guests are never asked to endorse a product, including ACCELQ’s.
Your data.What you share through this site’s forms and newsletter is used to run The Sign-Off Table. It is not shared with ACCELQ or anyone else.
If it ever matters, I will say so. If a conversation on the show touches a product I have a professional interest in, I will say so on the record.

Why I do this

25 years of loving testers

I started in this field in the late ’90s and early 2000s, before “quality engineering” was a job title and when test automation meant record-and-playback scripts that broke if someone moved a button. I have watched it grow into one of the most important disciplines in enterprise software, and I have never stopped being a fan of the people who do it.

Testers are the conscience of a release. They are the ones who ask the uncomfortable question in the go/no-go meeting, who find the defect at 2 a.m. during the mock cutover, and who rarely get the credit when the go-live is quiet, because a quiet go-live looks like nothing happened. Something happened: they happened.

Over the years I have written test scripts, built automation frameworks, run SIT for thousands of scenarios, stood up Testing Centers of Excellence, audited SAP for the U.S. Army, and helped tool vendors understand what testers actually need. Through all of it, the thing I have cared about most is the same: giving quality engineers better tools, better practices and a louder voice.

That is what The Sign-Off Table is for. It is a place for the people who decide whether an ERP release is ready to tell their stories, and for practitioners to get free, practical help from people who have done the work. It is independent of my day job, and it will stay that way.

Matt Angerer

Host, The Sign-Off Table · Test Automation Advisor, ACCELQ

Beyond testing

Building for the communities I care about

Quality engineering taught me that the people who keep things running rarely have the best tools. The same is true in local communities. So outside my day job I build software that anyone can start using for free: tools for nonprofit leaders, church leaders, property managers and landlords, renters and homeowners.

I also host a second podcast, The Sign-In Table, where I periodically sit down with nonprofit leaders to talk about the impact they make in their communities: mentoring children, tutoring students, caring for the elderly and housing young adults who have nowhere else to go. It uses the same interview format as this show.

Home

I live and work in Babcock Ranch, Florida, America’s first solar-powered community. When I am not talking about go-lives, you will find me with my family, out on the hiking and walking trails, or unwinding with classical music.

The journey

From record-and-playback to agentic AI

Late 1990s – early 2000s
Fell into testing the way most of us did: by being the person who asked "but what happens if…?" Started in the field around the turn of the century and never left.
2002
SAP SD, MM and EDI at Unilever: learning order-to-cash from the inside, and learning that the interface is usually where things break.
2005 – 2008
SAP QA and independent verification and validation for the Defense Logistics Agency, the Navy and the U.S. Army. Testing as a discipline, with standards, evidence and consequences.
2009 – 2015
Building test teams and frameworks: QTP and Quality Center at scale, a global SAP Testing Center of Excellence for Mettler-Toledo, and SIT for Honda, SM Energy and Tory Burch with 60+ business testers.
2014 – 2019
Helping SAP-run organizations adopt Quality Center, UFT and LoadRunner as an HP Platinum Partner, then connecting the whole test toolchain at Tasktop.
2020 – 2025
Nearly five years leading SAP test automation customer success at Tricentis, often parachuted into the S/4HANA programs that were in the most trouble.
Today
Test Automation Advisor at ACCELQ, helping teams bring AI-driven, codeless automation to enterprise applications, and host of The Sign-Off Table.

The full career story, with every program and organization, is on the About page. Questions about this disclosure? Get in touch.