Programme Committee

Nele

van Asch

Nele van Asch AE Belgium

Anais

Van Asselt

Anais Van Asselt Choco

Bart

Knaack

Bart Knaack ABN AMRO Bank

Linda

Van de Vooren

Linda Van de Vooren Bartosz

Tanja

Vos

Tanja Vos Open Universiteit

Nele Van Asch – Belgium

Meet Nele Van Asch, a learnings and development expert with a love for both software testing, and the art of sharing (and listening to) a good dad joke. With a decade of experience in the field of software testing, Nele gained experience in various companies throughout different roles. She has encountered and conquered diverse testing challenges, gaining insights that are shared with others looking to take their first steps into the world of testing.

Anais van Asselt – Germany

Anaïs is a quality coach and test automation enthusiast. With over 10 years of experience in web and backend test automation across diverse organizations, Anaïs collaborates with developers, applying a context-driven approach in pursuit of sustainable automation. Her passion for sustainability, both in test automation and in the broader sense, led her to move to Berlin in 2022 to join Choco, a startup on a mission to reduce global food waste. As one of two quality engineers at Choco, she supports product teams in embedding quality within the SDLC by fostering a quality-first mindset, standardising test automation, and integrating QA solutions into CI/CD pipelines.

Bart Knaack – Netherlands

Bart Knaack is an IT consultant at ABN AMRO Bank. Bart has more than twenty years of experience in testing and test management. He’s contributed to testing projects and processes in roles of test manager, test data management team lead, and process improvement agent. Bart has coached testers, built up test teams and developed processes in test, test support and overall quality management and improvement. Bart is a frequent speaker at conferences, universities, and colleges. At EuroSTAR 2009, Bart co-founded the TestLab with James Lydnsay.

Linda van de Vooren – Netherlands

Linda enjoys working in complex environments, and doesn’t shy away from a challenge, whether it be complexity through technical difficulties or because of a political environment (or both!). She’s experienced in test management, team coaching, and agile practices. She has done assignments in many different branches, and in a variety of roles (most enjoying: test manager, scrum master, team coach, product owner). She is a (keynote) speaker and enjoys giving training and mentoring to fellow testers (in any level of testing experience). In her free time she is a gamer and enjoys reading. Linda is also an amateur (baritone) saxophonist who plays in two woodwind orchestras and she volunteers as the chairperson of the board for the music association belonging to one of those woodwind orchestras. She lives in the centre of Netherlands, where you can find her exploring nature or doing cultural activities.

Tanja Vos – Spain

Tanja is a professor at the Open University (Netherlands) and an associate professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain). For over 25 years, she has been teaching and researching software testing. She has worked with many companies on automated testing projects in an industrial setting. Professor Vos has successfully secured funding, and she coordinated and participated in numerous European projects on software testing. Her work culminated in testar, an open-source, scriptless GUI testing solution that differs from traditional test automation. The aim is a paradigm shift from script writing to developing intelligent agents that learn to test. Her research group, working on this shift towards smarter testing, is an international group spanning the two universities she is affiliated with in The Netherlands and Spain. Tanja is the vice dean for research, where she is dedicated to empowering the relatively young beta faculty’s reputation in research. Moreover, is she the chair of the Dutch association for software engineering research (VERSEN) and the Dutch IPN EDI Working Group on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.