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 Track Talk

Growing Pains ~ Lessons Learned from the Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapse of WCW

15:45-16:30 Thursday 15th June

Shey Crompton

Senior Quality Engineer, Prima Insurance, UK

I have been in the software industry for over 20 years, starting as a games tester, then moving around in project management circles, and finally settling back into testing and test leadership. When not seeking ways to build quality into all aspects of the software development lifecycle, I test my patience by building things out of wood or playing golf.

Hanna Schlander

Quality Catalyst, Devoteam Creative Tech, Sweden

Hanna Schlander is a Quality Catalyst at Devoteam Creative Tech . In her current job she works in the retail industry with a DevOps project built with Microservices. Hanna started her testing career by getting some training in testing at her first job after university, it was love at first sight! Throughout her 11 years in testing, she has worked in multiple fields such as MedTech and Telecom and in a lot of different stages of testing. Being a very curious person Hanna loves the ever-changing world of testing. When she’s not working you’ll most likely find her outside walking with her husband and dog or binge-watching some old tv-series.

Veerle Verhagen

Software Tester, Dutch Railways, Netherlands

Veerle Verhagen is a software tester from the Netherlands, currently working for Dutch Railways. She is particularly interested in agile testing, the human beings behind the software, core skills for IT professionals, and ethics in tech. When she’s not testing, she likes to put her background in education to use by creating and facilitating workshops. Ask her about: early medieval combat sports, her motorbike, her hopes to one day sail to the Channel Islands in a 6,5m sailboat.

Sanne Visser

Test Manager, Capgemini, Netherlands

Sanne Visser is a test manager at Capgemini in the Netherlands. She has more than 10 years experience in software testing. Throughout her career she has worked on a wide variety of projects from insurance systems to railway software solutions. Her main technical focus is E2E testing in complex software systems. She was chairperson of the blockchain testing community from 2018 to 2021. Sanne is a part-time stoic and loves talking to her team about learning resilience using stoicism. Her motto is “Every effort is beautiful, you are what you do everyday”.

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EuroSTAR 2023 Track Talk

That Which isn’t Good for the Hive, isn’t Good for the Bee

14:15-15:00 Thursday 15th June

Emna Ayadi

Testing Consultant – Sogeti, France

Emna Ayadi is a passionate Tester from Tunisia. She started her career in Software Testing 7 years ago and got the chance to work on different projects combined between testing and coaching roles. Currently she works at Sogeti France. She is a Ministry of Testing meetup organizer in Lille. Outside of work, travelling is her favorite pastime.

Ard Kramer

Senior 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 Half-Day Tutorial

Roll the Marbles! Learn How Good Architecture Helps us to Test Better

09:00-12:30 CEST Tuesday 13th June

Fredrik Håård

Developer – Metallapan, Sweden

Fredrik is a software developing freelancer, and in 20ish years has worked in “all of the industries” in almost every role from tech lead to tester. In his career he has worked with everything from tiny startups to huge enterprise companies and he’s currently the backend Django lead at Codepath.

Refusing to overly specialize or ever (again) accepting a management role, he combines a long and broad experience in software development with both technical and organizational skills. Recent work has focused on building teams, securing data and processes, and making sure that things go faster and/or cheaper.

Sophie Küster

Test Automation Engineer – Cronn, Germany

Sophie studied mathematics at university which did not go as planned. She finished with a diploma, nonetheless. Serendipity brought her into agile testing – and she has never looked back. She now works happily as a test automation engineer at cronn GmbH, a Bonn based IT company. After years of successfully hunting bugs, lately she’s also been working in Java backend development so she can cut out the middle person and introduce the bugs herself. In her free time, she enjoys doing ballet and SUPing (in non-lockdown times) or knitting and baking (in lockdown times). No stranger to the universe’s gut punches, she is passionate about improving awareness and communication about mental health and self-care.

Kevin Harris

QA Manager – SixWorks, UK

Kevin is a Test Manager with more than 20 years test experience (he started when he was 12!!!), with the last 15 years of that working in an Agile environment in a variety of successful, and not so successful (!) companies. Kevin has been talking at Test Conferences since 2015, where he gave his very first talk at EuroSTAR in Maastricht. Since then Kevin has spoken on a variety of topics, mostly related to Testing in an Agile environment, and has recently given keynotes in Europe and South America. Kevin spends most of his spare time running, writing, reading, watching films, avoiding tomatoes, and trying to not kill the goldfish he just got for his garden pond.

Keith Yorkston

Director – Quality Risk Management, UK

After a circuitous route into IT, Keith Yorkston has spent the last 23 years involved with software quality and risk. Cutting his teeth early in technical testing, Keith went on to work as a consultant and trainer across the world. He currently works as an independent consultant and author specializing in security and performance.

Jørgen Lund

Program Test Manager – Systematic, Denmark

After graduating with a master’s degree in Computer Science, I ventured into the world of testing. Over the past 15 years, I have served in every thinkable and unthinkable role related to testing. Today, I work as a Program Test Manager where I coach other Test Managers and Testers, implement strategic initiatives and train new employees in testing.

Dylan Lacey

Manager of Developer Relations – Sauce Labs, Australia

G’day! I’m Dylan, and I love to solve problems, help people, hold opinions, make things, and the oxford comma. Usually I do this with computers, although sometimes a kitchen and, on one memorable occasion, 120’000 bees.

I’ve been engineering software for over 13 years; My very first job as a baby engineer had me setting up a Selenium grid and bullying browsers into submission. I’ve build an Uber competitor (it failed), multiple teams (they didn’t), and a dozen or so open source projects (they’re… mixed.). Oh, and did I mention the bees?

For the past 10 years I’ve been fixing Appium problems, dispensing Selenium advice and resetting passwords at Sauce Labs. As the Manager of Developer Relations, I love working to help developers provide digital confidence to their companies and customers.