2023

Rob Lambert

Director – Cultivated Management, UK

Rob Lambert is on a mission to make management more interesting, rewarding, and fun. It’s an uphill struggle.

Rob started his career as a software tester, became an engineering manager, and then made the logical move sideways to HR, before setting up his own management consulting company.

When he’s not talking all things management, he writes books, takes photos, explores the English countryside with his family, and makes artwork for the workplace.

You can find Rob at www.cultivatedmanagement.com and on Instagram @simplylambert

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EuroSTAR 2023 Speakers

Can’t make it to EuroSTAR this year? Join our Virtual EuroSTAR Day on 27th June. This is a full day event where you can attend a selection of EuroSTAR talks, and some exclusive virtual bonus sessions. Come for the day or dip in and out as you are available. You’ll enjoy talks on Test Techniques, Methods of Collaboration, Test Automation, Bias, DevOps, Creating Healthy Organisations, Communication & more.

Dermot Canniffe

SmartBear, Ireland

Dermot has been working in various roles in software development since 2001, and will presumably continue until someone stops him. He can often be found expounding the virtues of collaboration and automation to anyone who stands still long enough. He currently works for SmartBear who decided to pay him to do this, as well as being a Solutions Engineer supporting customers during their pre-sales process.

Lalitkumar Bhamare

Tech Arch Manager – Accenture Song, Germany

Lalit is a Manager (Innovation and Thought Leadership) in the DevOps chapter of Accenture Song, Germany. He is the CEO, Co-Founder, and Chief Editor of the popular software testing magazine, Tea-time with Testers and is co-creator of the State of Testing survey. Lalit is also Vice President at the Association for Software Testing, USA, and looks after AST’s education program. His specialties are his test consulting skills, whole team testing, test management, teaching testing, and helping project teams with Quality Conscious Software Deliveries.

Apart from being a proud winner of the “EuroSTAR 2022 Best Paper” award, Lalit is an international keynote speaker and has spoken at leading testing conferences worldwide. He was Program Chair for ConTest NYC 2020 and a Lead Instructor for the BBST Foundations course with AST as well as conducting Rapid Software Testing full-day training courses. Occasionally, Lalit conducts public workshops on Exploratory Testing, to enable testers to do “more with less”. He regularly assists James Bach in his Rapid Software Testing Applied online classes (RSTA). Setting up and running Testing CoPs (Community of Practice) and establishing an intellectual testing culture in an organization is one of his niche skills.

Lalit was recently congratulated by prominent people in the testing industry for his contribution to the community, which he considers to be the true reward for his work. Find out more about Lalit.

Kimberly Snoyl

UX Researcher & Senior Software Tester – Capgemini, Netherlands

Kimberly Snoyl is a UX Researcher with 7 years of experience in Software Testing. With a Masters in Human Media Interaction, she has always focussed on UX Testing in her career as a tester, and gave a Usability Testing course to her colleagues. She is leader of the UX Testing Guild at Capgemini, which aims to spread awareness amongst testers on the importance of UX Testing (e.g. Usability and Accessibility testing). She also started a chapter of Ladies that UX in Utrecht, the Netherlands which has the goal to bring the UX community in Utrecht together by providing monthly meetups where members can share their experiences.

Chris Armstrong

Quality Consultant ~ Testing Peers, UK

Having worked in software quality roles since 2004, Chris specialises in strategic test leadership. Through the years, he has worked with and led testing teams, and has learnt the skills needed to overcome many challenges faced by team leads and test managers. Chris is passionate about quality; people, processes, and products. He is an active member of the global software testing community and co-host of both the popular podcast “Testing Peers” and the monthly YouTube stream “9 out of 10 Testers”. Chris loves to engage with new people – facilitating events and interesting discussions is his bag.

More sessions from this speaker

EuroSTAR 2023 Panel Session

9 out of 10 Testers Find These Things Most Annoying…

14:00-15:00 Friday 16th June

Søren Aasbjerg Andersen

Senior Quality Engineer – Elsevier, Denmark

Master Generalist. Speed talker. Quick thinker. Perpetually curious. Pedantic. A bit too much. Unserious. Ruthlessly honest.Those titles and concepts have all been applied to me at some point or another in my work life as well as my personal life. Those who know me would say they’re all accurate. I invite you to judge for yourself.

BUSINESS STUFF I am a Data Technician by education and have been working in testing since 2007. I have been with my current company, Elsevier, since 2015 where I work as a Senior Quality Engineer. I have worked the in most areas of software test, but most of my time has been spent test automating in various frameworks as well as doing exploratory and manual testing.
In reality, I work with everything from actual test design and implementation to process design and team consultant, both strategic and cohesive.

PERSONAL STUFF Married and 2 kids. 2 cats. Live in tiny village outside Aalborg, Denmark.I like gaming, both 2D, 3D and board, playing the electric bass and watching animated shows.I am interested in scientific advancements, but no particular field. It’s all so interesting! I am neurodivergent and so are both my kids, so you can imagine we do not have a boring life at my house 😉 Fortunately I have been able to turn my handicap into mostly an advantage. I have done many, many weird things in my life and it’s hard to do that complexity justice in a short bio, but come talk to me if you want an interesting conversation, tall tale or just an ear.