Szilard Szell

DevOps Transformation Lead – Eficode, Finland

Szilard is a Senior Consultant of DevOps Practice for Telco Business at Eficode. Szilard has a proven track record in large-scale Telco DevOps Transformation Programs as a Test Coach with a focus on Quality Assistance. He has experience as an assessor, trainer, facilitator, and coach in Test Automation and Testing Process improvement area. As a SAFe 5.1 SPC He is running successful training and coaching sessions for larger companies.

As a conference speaker, Szilard is ready to share his view and knowledge with Testing Fellows, which is based on 22 years of industry experience and a multitude of certificates held.
To give back to the Testing Community, Szilard is active in ISTQB. He is also an active member of HUSTEF, UCAAT, and TheDevOps Conferences Programme Committee, and in 2021 he was part of the Programme Committee of EuroSTAR. See more on: https://www.eficode.com/szilard-szell

Fiona Charles

Principal Consultant – Quality Intelligence, Canada

Fiona Charles is an independent consultant, workshop designer/facilitator, and international keynote speaker. She specialises in the human side of software development and projects: teaching organizations to manage their software quality risk, and IT practitioners project skills “beyond process”—hands-on practical skills essential to thrive and excel on any kind of software project. She consults with clients on software quality, testing and test management, works as an Agile testing coach, and acts occasionally as a program-level test manager on difficult projects. She has recorded several webinars, and published many articles in test-related publications.

Contact Fiona via her website www.quality-intelligence.com, and follow her on twitter @FionaCCharles.

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 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 Half Day Tutorial

Social Software Testing Approaches

13:30-17:00 Tuesday 13th June

Kristel Kruustük

Founder – Testlio, Estonia

Kristel Kruustük is the Founder of Testlio. As the originator of the tester-friendly, globally-networked approach to software testing that Testlio is built on, Kristel — alongside her co-founder and husband Marko — led the company from inception to its Angelhack win, refinement in the Techstars accelerator program, Seed and Series A rounds, and subsequent growth. She is among the first three Estonian women to raise a VC funding round for their startup.

A passionate software tester in her own right, Kristel remains intensely focused on improving the quality, prospects and capabilities of the software tester community at Testlio, on increasing the firm’s commitments to diversity and inclusion and to underserved individuals and communities, and on angel investing and mentorship to other women-led technology companies like imagiLabs.

Kristel is a graduate of Estonian Information Technology College (now Tal Tech IT College) and mother of two. You can find her talking about entrepreneurship, making work better, and life on LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok.

Anne-Marie Charrett

Director of Engineering – Testing Times, Australia

Anne-Marie Charrett is a software engineer & founder of Testing Times; a consultancy focused on solutions in quality engineering. An electronic engineer by trade, quality chose Anne-Marie when she discovered compliance did not necessarily mean fit for purpose.As an adjunct professor at UTS, Anne-Marie created and delivered courses on software testing. She has also been an instructor for the online BBST (BlackBox Software Testing) classes. In 2022, Anne-Marie was awarded the EuroSTAR 2022 Award for Software Testing Excellence. Anne-Marie is the author of the quality coach book and writes at https://annemariecharrett.com. She offers the occasional tweet @charrett

Isabel Evans

Independent, UK

After nearly 40 years in the industry, software quality and testing practitioner Isabel Evans is now a post-graduate student at the University of Malta. Her research takes a people-focused approach to the design of tool support for testing. This arose from real-life experiences in the industry and led to the academic papers: “Stuck in Limbo with Magical Solutions”, “Scared, Frustrated and Quietly Proud”, and “Test tools: An illusion of usability”. Research continues with modelling and trialing a framework for test tool design. Isabel authored “Achieving Software Quality Through Teamwork” and chapters in “Agile Testing: How to Succeed in an eXtreme Testing Environment”, “Testing Practitioner”, and “Foundations of Software Testing”. Isabel has chaired EuroSTAR (2019) and HUSTEF (2018), and presented popular tutorials and storytelling keynotes at conferences worldwide. She is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and received the 2017 EuroSTAR Testing Excellence Award.

Thomas Shipley

Head of QA – GlobalLogic, UK

Thomas Shipley is a QA currently working as a Head of QA at GlobalLogic. He works with clients and colleagues to help them improve their approach to delivering quality throughout the development lifecycle. Experienced across many different industries covering retail, gaming and financial services at companies including John Lewis, Eat, Microsoft and HSBC.
You can learn more at his blog https://tomdriven.dev.

Antony Yammine

QA Operational Manager – Murex, Cyprus

With 8 years of experience in the software industry, I am a Senior Quality Assurance Manager at Murex, a company providing leading digital technology solutions for capital markets. I work to up the regression testing game, starting with respective methodologies, and aiming at a steady introduction of new features that do not alter both the progress and quality of the platform. I also handle specific clients’ test cases and coverage gaps through design, plans, and ad-hoc manual test campaigns. At Murex, I was privileged to take different jobs and titles. There is where I started as a Release Management Specialist, moving to Product Owner, and Scrum master within the Scaled Agile Framework reaching where and what I am today. But if we want to talk about the original person that I am, I am a Professional Basketball player who fans the essence of architectonics, which I went for a degree in. I was a Mechanical Engineer before I took the software journey!