2023

Maaret Pyhäjärvi

Principal Test Engineer – Vaisala, Finland

Maaret Pyhäjärvi is an exploratory tester extraordinaire with a day-job at Vaisala as Principal Test Engineer. She is an empirical technologist, a tester and a (polyglot) programmer, a catalyst for improvement, a speaker and an author, and a community facilitator. She has been awarded the two prestigious global testing awards, Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Person 2016 (MIATPP) and EuroSTAR Testing Excellence Award (2020), and selected as Top-100 Most Influential in ICT in Finland 2019&2020. She’s spoken at events in 25 countries delivering over 400 sessions. With 25 years of exploratory testing under her belt, she crafts her work role into a mix of hands-on testing and programming, and leading and enabling others. She leads TechVoices enabling new speakers, blogs at https://visible-quality.blogspot.fi and is the author of three books: Ensemble Programming Guidebook, Exploratory Testing and Strong-Style Pair Programming.

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EuroSTAR 2023 Keynote

Whose Test Is It Anyway?

09:00-10:00 Thursday 15th June

Mirja Pyhäjärvi

Senior Tester – Mezzoforte, Finland

Mirja Pyhäjärvi works as a senior tester at Mezzoforte, working on the largest online auction site in Finland. She is a career changer from the service industry where she learned about navigating different kinds of people, and has advanced from trainee to senior in three years. Her specialty is combining extensive knowledge acquisition of connections of features in her product with good understanding on what problems matter, and capturing things in GUI and API automation while facilitating developer participation.

Ezanne Grobler

QA Advisor – EOH, South Africa

Ezanne is a highly experienced professional, who effectively combines strong technical, problem-solving, and planning capabilities. She also assists in finding solutions to clients’ quality assurance challenges and/or delivering testing projects on time and on budget. She has more than 20 years’ experience in Quality Assurance and Testing, and possesses excellent business acumen and interpersonal skills. She is passionate about sharing her knowledge and experience, and use her ability to communicate professionally across all levels – not just in consulting but also in being a vivid testing lecturer and mentor.

Anne Kramer

Global CSM – Smartesting Solutions & Services, Germany

During her career in highly regulated and therefore demanding industries (e-payment, life sciences, automotive), Anne has gained an exceptional wealth of experience in IT projects – especially in QA and testing. As an expert in test design approaches based on visual representations, Anne, who holds a PhD in physics, contributed to the ISTQB curriculum on Model-Based Tester and is co-author of the related textbook (Model-Based Testing Essentials – Wiley – 2016).

Anne is passionate about sharing her knowledge and expertise. So it is fitting that after more than 20 years as a project manager, process consultant and trainer, she decided at the end of 2021 to go in a completely new direction once again. Since April 2022, Anne has been Global Customer Success Manager at Smartesting, a French manufacturer of SW testing tools.

Bryan Jones

Test Practice Director – Sopra Steria, UK

Having graduated from Staffordshire University with one of the first IT degrees in the country, I decided that the best way to stick my nose into everything that was going on was to be an Integration Tester. So, I started on Safety Critical Real-Time avionics systems. In the 33 years since then, I have spent 18 years as a Freelance Test Consultant, and the last 11 years working for Sopra Steria, now fulfilling the role of Test Practice Director for the Private Sector. In that time I have worked in most industry sectors, on a wide variety of projects for many different clients including Jaguar Land Rover, Rolls Royce Jet Engines, Boeing, PowerGen, Barclays Bank, BarclayCard, Britannia Building Society, Yorkshire Water, Tesco, Vodafone, various government departments, a challenger bank, and many others.
In summary, I am a career testing professional with a lifetime obsession with testing and quality, not to mention an insatiable curiosity and learning addiction.

Jenny Bramble

Director of Quality Engineering – Papa, USA

Jenny Bramble came up through support and DevOps, cutting her teeth on that interesting role that acts as the ‘translator’ between customer requests from support and the development team before diving headlong into her career as a tester. Her love of support and the human side of problems lets her find a sweet spot between empathy for the user and empathy for her team. She’s done testing, support, or human interfacing for most of her career. She finds herself happiest when she’s making an impact on other people–whether it’s helping find issues in applications, speaking at events, or just grabbing coffee and chatting.

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EuroSTAR 2023 Half Day Tutorial

Building Better Teams Through Play

09:00-12:30 Tuesday 13th June

Manfred Baumgartner

Director Quality Assurance – Nagarro, Austria

After studying computer science at the Vienna University of Technology, Manfred worked as a software developer for a large software company in the banking sector, and later as a quality manager for a provider of CRM solutions. Since 2001 he built up the QA consulting and training services of Nagarro GmbH, one of the leading service providers in the field of software testing.
He’s a board member of the Association for Software Quality and Further Education (ASQF) and the Association for Software Quality Management Austria (STEV), as well as a member of the Austrian Testing Board (ATB). He contributes his extensive experience in classical and agile software development as a sought-after speaker at internationally renowned conferences, and as author and co-author of several relevant specialized books:
* “The System Test – From Requirements to Quality Proof” (2006, 2008, 2011) * “Software in Numbers” (2010) * “Test Automation Foundation” (2012, 2015, 2021) * “Agile Testing – The Agile Way to Quality” (2013, 2017, 2021) * “Test Automation Fundamentals – A Study Guide for the ISTQB® Certified Test Automation Engineer Exam” (2022).

Jenny Bramble

Director of Quality Engineering – Papa, USA

Jenny Bramble came up through support and DevOps, cutting her teeth on that interesting role that acts as the ‘translator’ between customer requests from support and the development team before diving headlong into her career as a tester. Her love of support and the human side of problems lets her find a sweet spot between empathy for the user and empathy for her team. She’s done testing, support, or human interfacing for most of her career. She finds herself happiest when she’s making an impact on other people–whether it’s helping find issues in applications, speaking at events, or just grabbing coffee and chatting.

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EuroSTAR 2023 Half Day Tutorial

Soft Skills of Automation

13:30-17:00 Tuesday 13th June

Irina Malgina

Process Manager – BDO Holding, Netherlands

Irina is a professional with 15 years of experience in testing and quality management. She has worked as a test consultant for most of her career, in various areas including transport, financial, human resources, and machine data. She is currently working as a Process Manager at BDO Holding B.V. in the Netherlands, where she is responsible for improving the process and product quality. She also puts her efforts into shaping a learning culture, with a focus on sharing experiences of different professionals and teams in order to learn and improve. She’s passionate about testing and quality management, and enjoys sharing her knowledge and experience.