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.

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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.

Tara Walton

Technical Community Specialist – Independent, USA

Having spent nearly a decade as an Automation Developer writing test cases and delivering automated results for clients, I recently moved into the community side of DevOps when I found Salesforce. My automations have mainly been frameworks of my own design in C# and other backend languages, but I know just enough Javascript to be dangerous. When I’m not achievement hunting, I like to complete RCA on software bugs and failed relationships. I have dual degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science, know how to do some classic ballroom dancing, love Dungeons and Dragons, and enjoy sharing my knowledge at global conferences.

Alexandru Cusmaru

Test Team Lead – Siemens Mobility, Germany

Alex is a passionate tester with more than 13 years of experience in testing, integrating and validating safety-related railway software and systems.

In the past, he was the responsible for the validation of operation and control software and the integration of train control systems. Currently, he leads a team of testers and validators for Siemens Mobility in Braunschweig and is constantly looking for new ways to improve test skills, processes and activities.

In his spare time, Alex is also a crowd tester, an American football fan and always looking for a new hoppy IPA to “test”.

Ard Kramer

Quality Consultant – OrangeCrest, Netherlands

 Ard is a software tester from the Netherlands, and he is working for OrangeCrest Consulting. He calls himself a Qualisopher, which stands for someone “who loves truth and wisdom and at the same time is decisive to improve man and his environment”. This means he is interested in the world around us, to see what he can learn and apply in software testing. His dream is to participate, as a good qualisopher, in all kinds of projects such as sports, culture, or software testing. He enjoys projects that add value to our community, and wants to inspire others through cooperation, fun, and empathy, and hopefully bring light to someone’s life.

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EuroSTAR 2023 Workshop

Make Yourself Future Proof while Improving your Soft Skills

14:00-15:45 Friday 16th June

Wim Decoutere

Learning & Development Expert – CTG, Belgium

Wim Decoutere started his testing career at CTG Belgium over 15 years ago and has been testing at a number of companies ever since, mostly in the financial sector. He’s passionate about teaching and feels at home when standing in front of a classroom. A couple of years ago, he became a full-time trainer, coaching and teaching about the wonderful world of testing but also ISTQB, IREB, IQBBA, test design techniques, soft skills, etc… As a veteran youth instructor with a passion for learning theories and people management, Wim is constantly looking for new ideas to improve his own performance and that of the entire testing team.

Michaël Pilaeten

Learning & Development Manager – CTG, Belgium

Breaking the system, helping to rebuild it, and providing advice and guidance on how to avoid problems. That’s me in a nutshell. With 17 years of experience in test consultancy in a variety of environments, I have seen the best (and worst) in software development. In my current role as Learning & Development Manager, I’m responsible for guiding our consultants, partners, and customers on their personal and professional path towards excellence. I’m chair of the ISTQB Agile workgroup and international keynote speaker (United Kingdom, France, Spain, Peru, Russia, Latvia, Denmark, Armenia, Romania, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg)

Ken Munro

Partner – Pen Test Partners, UK

IoT security is something of a conundrum. The team at Pen Test Partners publish independent research in to the security of numerous smart devices, exposing poor security practice by device manufacturers. Sadly, it’s often consumers that are the victims of this inattention to security.
Ken looks after vulnerability disclosure at Pen Test Partners and influences government policy on IoT cyber security. Whilst some disclosures are successful, the majority are a train wreck. Watching vendors try to ignore contact from researchers, fumble or try to silence the process led him to working with regulators in an effort to fix the problems at source. He considers carrot and stick are the only way to resolve smart product security.
The work of his team on My Friend Cayla, the vulnerable talking kids doll, was cited as one of the catalysts for California Senate Bill 327, regulating IoT security for California residents. He’s briefed US government departments and spoken at TEDx, DEF CON villages, RSA, Black Hat, BSides and numerous other security events. If you want his attention, just market your smart device as ‘unhackable’. Ken is also a member of the CVE Board.

Jo Dalton

Associate Partner – Pen Test Partners, UK

Jo has worked in Cyber Security for over 15 years and has co-ordinated thousands of assurance and testing projects with clients around the globe. Jo can easily translate areas of serious business risk into relatable topics, while demonstrating how they can be reduced or avoided. From the challenges of the unregulated IoT market to the dangers of remote working on trains; Jo has an informed opinion. Jo speaks publicly; and blogs on various channels on the wider issues of SCADA and ICS Risks, Security Awareness, IoT Security, Cyber Security involving Children and Family. She has spoken at a range of events e.g. EEMUA Industrial Cyber Security Seminar, IP EXPO Manchester, and StocExpo Europe.