Ghent Metropolitan Area
Pragmatic tester on a quest for continuous improvement. In the Software Testing business since 2000, on various projects. Involved with agile development and testing since 2007. Working my way towards becoming an expert exploratory tester. Winner of the 2018 EuroSTAR Testing Excellence Award Winner of the Eurostar Best Paper Awards at 2007, 2009, 2013 and 2016 Founding member of DEWT and BREWT (the Dutch and Belgian peer workshop on Testing, respectively) Programme Chair for Eurostar 2012 in Amsterdam, speaker and keynote speaker at several international conferences (EuroStar, StarEast, PNSQC, Agile Testing Days,...) Specialties: Software Testing, Exploratory Testing, Agile Testing, Test Management, Coaching, Training.
Helping people and teams on the road to smarter testing. Tester, Test Manager, Trainer, Coach and Presenter. Taught and explained testing and exploratory strategies to testers and developers worldwide. Keynote speaker at EuroStar, StarEast, Expo:QA, Testing Cup among others. Presenter at many other international conferences. Programme Chair for Eurostar 2012. Winner of 4 Eurostar Best Conference Paper awards and highest scoring conference presentations (Eurostar 2013, Eurostar 2016).
Various responsibilities as a tester in an agile healthcare environment: - Contributed to Agfa's hospital scheduling solution, IMPAX Scheduling - Taught and explained testing and exploratory strategies to testers and developers worldwide. - Contributed to Agfa's Business Intelligence solution - Created unit and component tests