Gitte Ottosen

Expert Test Consultant – Key2Quality, Denmark

Gitte Ottosen is a test manager and agile/quality coach with a strong focus on a value driven approach to software development. She has more than 25 years of experience in IT, primarily within test, test management and process improvement, in both traditional and agile contexts. The last fifteen years she has primarily worked within an agile context, focusing on supporting a quality mindset across teams and organizations, and improving the processes for some of the largest international companies in Denmark. As a self-confessed test and agile evangelist who preaches the need for a strong quality and value driven focus, Gitte is a strong advocate for a context-driven approach, a role requiring profound professional insight, passion, and persistence— qualities that Gitte holds in abundance. Gitte is a dedicated trainer within the areas of agile and test and is a regular speaker at international conferences. She holds several certificates within testing as well as agile; ISTQB Expert Level Test Management – Full, Certified agile tester (CAT), TMap Test Engineer, TMAP Organizing Built-in Quality at Scale, Certified SCRUM Master, SAFe Program Consultant.

Phil Royston

CEO – Tesena, Czech Republic

Phil is an experienced Test Manager and Test Consultant with 20 years of experience. He has helped a number of major organizations in their IT and digital transformations. He is the co-founder of Tesena and supports the company and its staff in changing the testing world.

Graham Freeburn

Principal Testing Consultant – Shared Services Connected , UK

Graham has nearly 40 years’ experience in IT services starting as a developer and working in a variety of roles but has specialised in testing for most of his career. A recognised industry expert and international speaker, he co-founded and chaired the Scottish Testing Group (STG) for over 12 years. In 2016 was presented with the European Testing Excellence Award in recognition of his contribution to the wider testing community.
For the last 20 years he was worked cross a wide range of industry verticals in strategic consultancy, training and test programme management to ensure testing meets the client and project’s needs and context. He is a firm believer in testing as a skill-based discipline and is a leading advocate in use of mindmaps to support test strategies, planning and exploratory testing.

Cecilie Haugstvedt

Test Lead – SOCO, Norway

Cecilie is an accessibility enthusiast working as a test consultant. She loves working in agile teams and has a special interest in making applications accessible for all.

Prashant Hegde

Engineering Manager QA – MoEngage, India

Prashant Hegde is a passionate testing leader. He is experienced in building and leading high-performing teams. Prashant heads the QA team at MoEngage, a leading insights-led customer engagement platform. Prashant enjoys sharing his experiences by contributing to software testing communities worldwide. Prashant is an avid blogger and a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

Contact Prashant onTwitter: @Praz_hegde, on LinkedIn, via his Blog or Website.

Brendan Connolly

Director of Quality Engineering – Carpe Data, USA

Brendan is a Test Automation University instructor and recipient of the EuroStar Rising Star Award. He is currently the Direct of Quality Engineering at Carpe Data, an insure-tech company providing next generation data solutions to insurance carriers. He is focused on creating and executing testing strategies and building healthy teams that enable quality outcomes. For more information, including links to his articles, podcast appearances and conference talks visit his blog https://brendanconnolly.net

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 Panel Session

9 out of 10 Testers Find These Things Most Annoying…

14:00-15:00 Friday 16th June

Samer Naqvi

Senior SDET Consultant – Global Logic, UK

I am a Test Architect with over 16 years of work experience in QA. Currently I am working as a Practice Lead for a customer via Global Logic. My aim is to continuously develop and enable teams with best practices and industry standards on latest tools, basically helping people test better. I specialise in helping enterprises optimise their QA strategies to make testing a value-add, not a liability.

I am a very passionate Women in Tech advocate and have spoken in many college/organisations and conferences to bring awareness and encourage the next generation of girls to embrace technology.