Nordic Testing Days 2026: Full Schedule

08:30 EEST

Registration And Morning Coffee

Wednesday June 3, 2026 08:30 - 09:00 EEST

D-Saal

Wednesday June 3, 2026 08:30 - 09:00 EEST
D-Saal Kultuurikatel

Break

09:00 EEST

Ai-Powered E2E Mobile Testing With Appium And Mobile Mcp

Wednesday June 3, 2026 09:00 - 17:00 EEST

Puupakusaal

Writing mobile tests with Appium can be challenging. Many of us have dealt with unstable selectors, differences between Android and iOS, or slow progress. What if we could use artificial intelligence with Appium? And what exactly is Mobile MCP?Tutorial OverviewThis tutorial is for anyone interested in starting mobile testing with a modern approach. We’ll use Python throughout. Together, we will...
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Speakers

Dawid Pacia

QA Consultant, PathcingIT

QA and Test Automation Manager as well as mentor and trainer. Tech freak following all the newest technologies (and implementing them on his own). Fan of the Agile approach to project management and products. Supporting companies in transformations toward better quality. Actively... Read More →

Wednesday June 3, 2026 09:00 - 17:00 EEST
Puupakusaal Kultuurikatel

Tutorial

Difficulty Like a fish in the sea

09:00 EEST

Beyond Assert(True): Hands-On Testing For LLMs And AI Agents

Wednesday June 3, 2026 09:00 - 17:00 EEST

Terrassi

Traditional software is deterministic: the same input yields the same output. Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI Agents have shattered this rule, introducing an inherently probabilistic paradigm. How do we ensure quality when the ground truth is shifting? This tutorial bridges the gap between traditional QA and AI evaluation. We will move beyond simple prompt testing into validating complex...
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Speakers

Tiago Gomes

Lead QA Consultant, Thoughtworks

Tiago Gomes is a passionate technology leader and Lead Consultant at Thoughtworks, dedicated to advancing the industry through hands-on project work and mentorship. With expertise in Software Testing and Project Management, he collaborates with clients to understand their challenges... Read More →

Daniel Carvalho

Senior QA Engineer, Hostfully

Daniel Carvalho is a Senior QA Engineer focused on building scalable, data driven quality systems through automation and modern testing strategies. He specializes in Risk Based Testing, Critical Flow Testing, API testing, and quality metrics that enable faster, better informed decisions... Read More →

Wednesday June 3, 2026 09:00 - 17:00 EEST
Terrassi Kultuurikatel

Tutorial

Difficulty Like a fish in the sea

09:00 EEST

How to Lead Testing at the Organizational Level?

Wednesday June 3, 2026 09:00 - 17:00 EEST

D-Saal

Test leadership is required at organizational and operational levels in many organizations. In this tutorial, we explain the fundamentals of test leadership and have practical exercises to understand it. We discuss what leadership means in different scenarios, where effective test leadership is needed, and where leadership is all too often missing.Testing leadership is always needed, even if...
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Speakers

Kari Kakkonen

Author and CEO, Dragons Out

Mr. Kari Kakkonen has worked in software testing for almost 30 years. He is the co-author of ‘ACT 2 LEAD Software Testing Leadership Handbook’ and co-winner of the ICT Influencer of the Year 2025 in Finland.

Kari is the 2021 EuroSTAR Testing Excellence Award winner, the Tester of the Year in Finland Award 2021 winner, and the DASA Exemplary DevOps Instructor Award 2023 winner. He is the author and CEO of Dragons Out Oy, which created a fantasy book to teach children software testing... Read More →

Marko Rytkönen

Quality Coach, Hidden Trail

Over the past three decades, Marko has held various roles in the world of software testing - from testing, test management, and leading testing at an organizational level to leading a global testing consultancy business. He has worked in global product companies with known brands... Read More →

Wednesday June 3, 2026 09:00 - 17:00 EEST
D-Saal Kultuurikatel

Tutorial

Difficulty Deep dive

09:00 EEST

MCP Playwright & Playwright Agents Workshop

Wednesday June 3, 2026 09:00 - 17:00 EEST

Stalker

This full-day, hands-on tutorial dives into test automation using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and AI agents. Participants will first master the MCP architecture, the standardized foundation for AI-driven applications.The core of the tutorial focuses on Playwright's AI Agents (Planner, Generator, Healer). You will learn to leverage these agents to:Intelligently discover and map application...
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Speakers

Srinivasan Sekar

Director of Engineering, Lambdatest

Srinivasan Sekar is a Director of Engineering at LambdaTest. He loves contributing to Open Source. He is an Appium Member and Contributor to various open-source repositories like Selenium, Webdriver.io, taiko, etc. He worked extensively on testing various Microservices, EvenDriven... Read More →

Sai Krishna

Director of Engineering, TestMu AI

I am a Director of Engineering at LambdaTest with a decade of experience in testing mobile applications and building automation frameworks. As an active contributor to Appium and a member of the Appium organization, I am deeply involved in the open-source community. I am passionate... Read More →

Wednesday June 3, 2026 09:00 - 17:00 EEST
Stalker Kultuurikatel

Tutorial

Difficulty Deep dive

08:15 EEST

Registration And Morning Coffee

Thursday June 4, 2026 08:15 - 09:00 EEST

BlackBox

Thursday June 4, 2026 08:15 - 09:00 EEST
BlackBox Kultuurikatel

Break

09:00 EEST

KEYNOTE: The Irreplaceable 40%

Thursday June 4, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 EEST

BlackBox

Artificial Intelligence is increasingly used to write test code. Today it is estimated that 60% of new test code is written by AI tools and this number will only continue to rise. Surprisingly, however, the testing is now the critical component needed is to ‘test’ the 40% that AI is unable to test itself, that is where the future of testers.That 40% is not busy work. This is not your typical...
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Speakers

Jonathon Wright

Chief AI Officer, Testers.AI

Jonathon Wright is a strategic thought leader and distinguished technology evangelist. He specializes in emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, and automation, and has more than 25 years of international commercial experience within global organizations. As the Chief AI Officer... Read More →

Jonathon Wright Keynote AIConfidenceEngineering pdf

Thursday June 4, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 EEST
BlackBox Kultuurikatel

Keynote

Difficulty Like a fish in the sea

10:00 EEST

Coffee Break

Thursday June 4, 2026 10:00 - 10:30 EEST

Puupakusaal

Thursday June 4, 2026 10:00 - 10:30 EEST
Puupakusaal Kultuurikatel

Break

10:00 EEST

Coffee Break

Thursday June 4, 2026 10:00 - 10:30 EEST

D-Saal

Thursday June 4, 2026 10:00 - 10:30 EEST
D-Saal Kultuurikatel

Break

10:00 EEST

Coffee Break

Thursday June 4, 2026 10:00 - 10:30 EEST

Terrassi

Thursday June 4, 2026 10:00 - 10:30 EEST
Terrassi Kultuurikatel

Break

10:00 EEST

Coffee Break

Thursday June 4, 2026 10:00 - 10:30 EEST

BlackBox

Thursday June 4, 2026 10:00 - 10:30 EEST
BlackBox Kultuurikatel

Break

10:00 EEST

Coffee Break

Thursday June 4, 2026 10:00 - 10:30 EEST

Stalker

Thursday June 4, 2026 10:00 - 10:30 EEST
Stalker Kultuurikatel

Break

10:30 EEST

Building Quality Into LLM Powered Solutions

Thursday June 4, 2026 10:30 - 11:10 EEST

BlackBox

As organizations rush to adopt Large Language Models (LLMs), many discover that building reliable, trustworthy applications is far from straightforward. Unlike traditional software, LLM outputs are non-deterministic, context-dependent, and vulnerable to issues like bias, hallucinations, and prompt injection. Ensuring quality requires more than testing—it demands a holistic...
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Speakers

Craig Risi

Head of Engineering, Old Mutual

Craig is a software enthusiast with over 20 years of experience across development, testing, and leadership, yet still claims to learn something new every day. Equal parts tech nerd and people person, he’s passionate about designing systems that prioritize quality in a fast-evolving... Read More →

Craig Risi Building Quality into LLM powered application.pptx pdf

Thursday June 4, 2026 10:30 - 11:10 EEST
BlackBox Kultuurikatel

Track

Difficulty Getting your toes wet

10:30 EEST

Partner Track: Beyond Traditional Boundaries: The Rise of the General QA Engineer

Thursday June 4, 2026 10:30 - 11:10 EEST

D-Saal

The general QA engineer role is on the rise as software projects become larger and more complex. General QA engineers have a broad set of skills to test complex systems end-to-end, going beyond the traditional QA role focused on component testing. They bring new perspectives by not being tied to one specific domain. This helps them test software more holistically across traditional boundaries.Key...
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Speakers

Sergii Rusinchuk

Director of Quality Assurance, QualityOne

Sergii has 10+ years in Software Testing and over 6 years in QA leadership roles. For the past 3 years, he has been leading multi-team quality and delivery as ‘Director of QA’ and ‘Head of QA and Test Consulting’ — building data-driven strategies, implementing KPI/OKR frameworks... Read More →

QualityOne Presentation pdf

Thursday June 4, 2026 10:30 - 11:10 EEST
D-Saal Kultuurikatel

Track

Difficulty Getting your toes wet
about Sergii has 10+ years in Software Testing and over 6 years in QA leadership roles. For the past 3 years, he has been leading multi-team quality and delivery as ‘Director of QA’ and ‘Head of QA and Test Consulting’ — building data-driven strategies, implementing KPI/OKR frameworks, and scaling automation to ensure reliable, on-time releases. He partners closely with Product and Engineering to turn quality insights into roadmap decisions and measurable business outcomes.

10:30 EEST

Vibe-Coding For Testers: Building Custom Testing Tools Without Pinging Your Engineering Team

Thursday June 4, 2026 10:30 - 12:30 EEST

Stalker

Testers often need custom tools - data generators, mock services, internal dashboards, or CI helpers - but building them traditionally requires significant development effort and prioritization. With modern AI-assisted coding, we can now prototype and build these tools themselves, minimizing both engineering and maintenance efforts. In this session, I’ll show real examples of using...
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Speakers

Pavel Fleisher

Quality Engineering Lead, MeetingPackage

Pavel Fleisher is a Quality Engineering Lead at MeetingPackage, with nearly a decade of experience in quality engineering across both product and consultancy companies. He specializes in test automation and software development, focusing on delivering automation solutions, defining... Read More →

Pavel Fleisher Vibe Coding for Testers.pptx pdf

Thursday June 4, 2026 10:30 - 12:30 EEST
Stalker Kultuurikatel

Workshop 2h

Difficulty Getting your toes wet

10:30 EEST

Breaking Things On Purpose: Getting Started With K6 Load Testing

Thursday June 4, 2026 10:30 - 15:30 EEST

Puupakusaal

Performance issues often surface only when it’s too late - after deployment, when real users start to feel the impact. Load testing helps prevent that, but many teams still see it as a complex or time-consuming task. This workshop aims to show how accessible and powerful it can be using k6, an open-source, developer-friendly tool designed for modern performance testing.The session starts with a...
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Speakers

Razvan Vancea

Principal QA Engineer, Zitec

Razvan Vancea is a Principal QA Engineer, Trainer, and Content Creator with over 10 years of experience in test automation and leadership. Through his YouTube channel - Learn with RV - and blog, Razvan shares his expertise, contributing to the global testing community

Razvan Vancea Breaking things on purpose Getting started with k6 Load Testing pdf

Thursday June 4, 2026 10:30 - 15:30 EEST
Puupakusaal Kultuurikatel

Workshop 4h

Difficulty Getting your toes wet

10:30 EEST

Your Personal Leadership Pitstop

Thursday June 4, 2026 10:30 - 15:30 EEST

Terrassi

How do you define yourself as a leader? How do you see your leadership? In this personal pitstop we will go over what being a leader means to you. At work, at home, or at your hobby, your leadership skills matter. They play a huge role in how you perceive the world around you, and how others perceive you. As a leadership coach, I’ve picked up a lot of knowledge on how to help and train...
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Speakers

Linda van de Vooren

Consultant, Bartosz ICT

In daily life I am an amateur (baritone!) saxophonist, and an experienced software tester. Living in the center of Netherlands, you can find me exploring nature, visiting at a concert or the theater. I enjoy working in complex environments, and do not shy away from a challenge, wether... Read More →

Linda van de Vooren Your Personal leadership pitstop.pptx pdf

Thursday June 4, 2026 10:30 - 15:30 EEST
Terrassi Kultuurikatel

Workshop 4h

Difficulty Getting your toes wet

11:10 EEST

Koalas, Branches & Pull Requests - A Tester’s Guide To Pull Request Reviews

Thursday June 4, 2026 11:10 - 11:50 EEST

BlackBox

Pull requests, aka merge requests, are a goldmine of information that many testers are missing out on. Although pull requests are often seen as a tool mainly for developers, they offer testers an equal opportunity to provide feedback. When joining the review process testers can contribute to the software quality before changes are added to the codebase. They can use their unique perspective...
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Speakers

Andrea Jensen

Tester & QA Manager, Kaleris

Andrea started her first gig in tech in 2011 by coincidence and decided to stay. She is a Quality Advocate and professional Question Asker. Today, Andrea is working as a tester and team lead in the maritime industry.

Andrea Jensen Koalas, Branches & Pull Requests.pptx pdf

Thursday June 4, 2026 11:10 - 11:50 EEST
BlackBox Kultuurikatel

Track

Difficulty Getting your toes wet

11:10 EEST

Partner Track: Don’t be Left Behind in Times of AI, the Growing Importance of Critical Thinking Skills

Thursday June 4, 2026 11:10 - 11:50 EEST

D-Saal

Explore how critical thinking, curiosity, empathy, and human judgment are becoming even more important as AI continues to reshape software testing, education, and the workplace. Through engaging real-world examples and reflections on history, ethics, and technology, the session highlights why humans remain essential in guiding, questioning, and improving AI-driven systems. Attendees will gain...
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Speakers

Kyle Siemens

CEO & Founder, Brightest

Kyle Alexander Siemens is the CEO and Founder of Brightest GmbH, a global examination body based in Berlin, Germany, that supports international certification standards for IT professionals (including ISTQB, TMMi, iSAQB, IFPUG, and AI United). As an industry leader and speaker, he... Read More →

Julia Marques

Certification & Partner Manager, Brightest

Julia Marques is the Certification & Partner Manager at Brightest, a leading global provider of IT certification exams (including ISTQB®, iSAQB®, IFPUG®, and United Certifications). Based in Berlin, she manages the exam portfolio and strategic partnerships across multiple international... Read More →

Remining Human Kyle Siemens (NTD Estonia) pdf

Thursday June 4, 2026 11:10 - 11:50 EEST
D-Saal Kultuurikatel

Track

Difficulty Getting your toes wet

11:50 EEST

How To Survive In The Ai Jungle: Rethinking Test Strategies For An Ai Era

Thursday June 4, 2026 11:50 - 12:30 EEST

BlackBox

Intro:Artificial Intelligence challenges almost every assumption the testing discipline is built on. Traditional testing depends on fixed inputs and predictable logic, but AI systems are adaptive, probabilistic, and context-dependent. That means our classical test cases are no longer stable reference points.In this 20-minute talk, Nicole van Gijn explores what testing looks like when your system...
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Speakers

Nicole van Gijn

Thought leader AI Quality, QA company

Nicole van Gijn is Thought leader AI Quality, where she researches how to enhance software quality and test automation for AI applications. She developed the AI Quality Grid, a framework for testing AI-driven systems, and explores how classical QA principles evolve towards risk-based... Read More →

Nicole van Gijn How To Survive In The AI Jungle.pptx pdf

Thursday June 4, 2026 11:50 - 12:30 EEST
BlackBox Kultuurikatel

Track

Difficulty Getting your toes wet, Like a fish in the sea

12:30 EEST

Lunch

Thursday June 4, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 EEST

Puupakusaal

Thursday June 4, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 EEST
Puupakusaal Kultuurikatel

Break

12:30 EEST

Lunch

Thursday June 4, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 EEST

D-Saal

Thursday June 4, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 EEST
D-Saal Kultuurikatel

Break

12:30 EEST

Lunch

Thursday June 4, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 EEST

BlackBox

Thursday June 4, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 EEST
BlackBox Kultuurikatel

Break

12:30 EEST

Lunch

Thursday June 4, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 EEST

Terrassi

Thursday June 4, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 EEST
Terrassi Kultuurikatel

Break

12:30 EEST

Lunch

Thursday June 4, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 EEST

Stalker

Thursday June 4, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 EEST
Stalker Kultuurikatel

Break

13:30 EEST

Demystifying Continuous Deployment: From Weekly Tension To Daily Confidence

Thursday June 4, 2026 13:30 - 14:10 EEST

BlackBox

Deploying to production shouldn't require a meeting, three approvals, and a prayer. Yet most teams treat every release like launching a rocket - mission control on standby, everyone watching the countdown, but no one wanting to press the red button. At Sokos Hotels, our web booking system handles thousands of reservations daily, processing millions monthly across 50 hotels all over Finland and...
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Speakers

Quan Dao

Sr. Delivery Lead, SOK

Quan Dao is a strategic Delivery Leader and international speaker with a decade of experience in quality-driven software delivery. Currently at SOK, Finland's largest retailer, he works at the intersection of delivery strategy, technical practice, and people leadership - helping organisations... Read More →

Minh Dao Quan Demystify Continuous Deployment.pptx pdf

Thursday June 4, 2026 13:30 - 14:10 EEST
BlackBox Kultuurikatel

Track

Difficulty Getting your toes wet, Like a fish in the sea

13:30 EEST

Every Day Security Testing

Thursday June 4, 2026 13:30 - 15:30 EEST

Stalker

Security testing sounds like it might be best left to the “experts”, whoever they are, but I will share how we can include it in our day-to-day testing. From exploratory testing to API and automated testing, there are things that we can and should be doing.Through this workshop we will learn about the scope of security testing, find out about the automated tools available and then spend some...
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Speakers

Richard Adams

Senior Test Analyst, Cumberland Building Society

Enthusiastic about quality with over 14 years in software and 10 in testing, I am a passionate individual who loves bringing quality to teams and helping build better software. I have worked in roles from QA Games Tester to Developer to Quality Coach and led on driving quality and... Read More →

Richard Adams Every Day Security Testing pdf

Thursday June 4, 2026 13:30 - 15:30 EEST
Stalker Kultuurikatel

Workshop 2h

Difficulty Getting your toes wet

14:10 EEST

I'll Let You Be The Judge? Testing Non-Deterministic Ai Systems

Thursday June 4, 2026 14:10 - 14:50 EEST

BlackBox

The problem: it is too hard to understand and improve GenAI quality, and yet organizations are moving ahead regardless. For AI engineers it’s hard to:Increase accuracy due to lack of repeatable & representative testingUnderstand reliability: know how, why, or when an agent will fail. This leads to poor reliability and accuracy, which:Increases operational costs and can increase reputational...
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Speakers

Adam Sandman

CEO, Inflectra

Adam Sandman was a programmer from the age of 10 and has been working in the IT industry for the past 25 years in areas such as architecture, agile development, testing and project management. Currently Adam is the Founder and CEO of Inflectra Corporation, where he is interested in... Read More →

Adam Sandman I'll let You Be The Judge Testing Non Deterministic AI Systems.pptx pdf

I'll let You Be The Judge Testing Non Deterministic AI Systems Supporting Material.docx pdf

Thursday June 4, 2026 14:10 - 14:50 EEST
BlackBox Kultuurikatel

Track

Difficulty Getting your toes wet, Deep dive

14:50 EEST

Yes To Growth: How Adopting A Growth Mindset Can Change Your Life

Thursday June 4, 2026 14:50 - 15:30 EEST

BlackBox

Most of us unknowingly carry limiting beliefs about our abilities, often in the very areas where we have the most room to grow! A talented developer won't apply for a senior role because they think “I'm just not a natural leader”, never considering that leadership can be learned. Or a designer brushes off feedback believing, "Either you have an eye for design or you don't." Sound...
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Speakers

Jonas Hulthén

Software Engineer, Nordnet

Howdy friend!
I'm a Software Engineer at Nordnet and an international speaker passionate about continuous learning and growth. I've delivered talks at Agile Testing Days 2025 and Oracle APEX Nordic Days, and I try to live like I teach. Constantly embracing new challenges and stepping outside my... Read More →

Growth Mindset NTD (2).pptx pdf

Thursday June 4, 2026 14:50 - 15:30 EEST
BlackBox Kultuurikatel

Track

Difficulty Getting your toes wet

15:30 EEST

Coffee Break

Thursday June 4, 2026 15:30 - 16:00 EEST

BlackBox

Thursday June 4, 2026 15:30 - 16:00 EEST
BlackBox Kultuurikatel

Break

15:30 EEST

Coffee Break

Thursday June 4, 2026 15:30 - 16:00 EEST

Puupakusaal

Thursday June 4, 2026 15:30 - 16:00 EEST
Puupakusaal Kultuurikatel

Break

15:30 EEST

Coffee Break

Thursday June 4, 2026 15:30 - 16:00 EEST

Terrassi

Thursday June 4, 2026 15:30 - 16:00 EEST
Terrassi Kultuurikatel

Break

15:30 EEST

Coffee Break

Thursday June 4, 2026 15:30 - 16:00 EEST

Stalker

Thursday June 4, 2026 15:30 - 16:00 EEST
Stalker Kultuurikatel

Break

15:30 EEST

Coffee Break

Thursday June 4, 2026 15:30 - 16:00 EEST

D-Saal

Thursday June 4, 2026 15:30 - 16:00 EEST
D-Saal Kultuurikatel

Break

16:00 EEST

KEYNOTE: What to Do When Your Industry Won’t Stop Changing

Thursday June 4, 2026 16:00 - 17:00 EEST

BlackBox

Every few years, software testing gets a new existential threat. Outsourcing was going to end QA careers. So was automation. Now it's AI. The doomsday headlines feel new each time, but the pattern stays the same. You’re met with the same anxiety and the same conversations with peers wondering if QA careers have a future. The problem is that we treat disruption as destruction, when in reality...
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Speakers

Kristel Kruustük

Founder, Testlio

Kristel Kruustük is the Founder and Board Director of Testlio, a leading managed crowdsourced testing company that helps global brands deliver exceptional digital experiences. She grew up in a small town near Tallinn, Estonia, where she discovered her passion for software testing... Read More →

What to do when your industry won’t stop changing pdf

Thursday June 4, 2026 16:00 - 17:00 EEST
BlackBox Kultuurikatel

Keynote

17:15 EEST

Dinner & Party

Thursday June 4, 2026 17:15 - 23:00 EEST

BlackBox

Thursday June 4, 2026 17:15 - 23:00 EEST
BlackBox Kultuurikatel

Activities

19:00 EEST

Lighting Talks

Thursday June 4, 2026 19:00 - 20:00 EEST

Stalker

Thursday June 4, 2026 19:00 - 20:00 EEST
Stalker Kultuurikatel

Activities

19:00 EEST

Boardgames

Thursday June 4, 2026 19:00 - 23:00 EEST

Puupakusaal

Thursday June 4, 2026 19:00 - 23:00 EEST
Puupakusaal Kultuurikatel

Activities

20:00 EEST

Powerpoint Karaoke

Thursday June 4, 2026 20:00 - 21:00 EEST

Stalker

Thursday June 4, 2026 20:00 - 21:00 EEST
Stalker Kultuurikatel

Activities

09:00 EEST

Discussion Panel - "Testing in the age of AI"

Friday June 5, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 EEST

BlackBox

Join us for an exciting panel discussion with industry experts as they share perspectives on the state of Quality.

Speakers

Srinivasan Sekar

Director of Engineering, Lambdatest

Dawid Pacia

QA Consultant, PathcingIT

Tiago Gomes

Lead QA Consultant, Thoughtworks

Linda van de Vooren

Consultant, Bartosz ICT

Sai Krishna

Director of Engineering, TestMu AI

Friday June 5, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 EEST
BlackBox Kultuurikatel

Keynote

10:00 EEST

Coffee Break

Friday June 5, 2026 10:00 - 10:30 EEST

BlackBox

Friday June 5, 2026 10:00 - 10:30 EEST
BlackBox Kultuurikatel

Break

10:00 EEST

Coffee Break

Friday June 5, 2026 10:00 - 10:30 EEST

Puupakusaal

Friday June 5, 2026 10:00 - 10:30 EEST
Puupakusaal Kultuurikatel

Break

10:00 EEST

Coffee Break

Friday June 5, 2026 10:00 - 10:30 EEST

D-Saal

Friday June 5, 2026 10:00 - 10:30 EEST
D-Saal Kultuurikatel

Break

10:00 EEST

Coffee Break

Friday June 5, 2026 10:00 - 10:30 EEST

Stalker

Friday June 5, 2026 10:00 - 10:30 EEST
Stalker Kultuurikatel

Break

10:00 EEST

Coffee Break

Friday June 5, 2026 10:00 - 10:30 EEST

Terrassi

Friday June 5, 2026 10:00 - 10:30 EEST
Terrassi Kultuurikatel

Break

10:30 EEST

Reinventing The Wheel

Friday June 5, 2026 10:30 - 11:10 EEST

BlackBox

Back in 2016 at trivago, we were building a new Selenium-based test framework with Cucumber, but the standard reporting tool wasn't quite fitting our needs. It showed lots of information, but finding the key details about which scenarios failed and why meant digging through charts and stats that weren't really helpful for our workflow. During a company hackathon, I decided to build something more...
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Speakers

Benjamin Bischoff

Test Automation Engineer, trivago N.V.

After 15 years of being a software developer and trainer, Benjamin transitioned to test automation in 2016. Currently, he works as a Test Automation Engineer at trivago N.V. in Düsseldorf, Germany. There, he focuses on backend and frontend test technologies and pipelines. Benjamin... Read More →

Benjamin Bischoff Reinventing the wheel pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 10:30 - 11:10 EEST
BlackBox Kultuurikatel

Track

Difficulty Getting your toes wet

10:30 EEST

Experience Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Friday June 5, 2026 10:30 - 12:30 EEST

D-Saal

People who practice test-driven development (TDD) often describe it as a powerful approach. And while they make a convincing case, nothing beats experiencing it for yourself. So that's exactly what we'll do in this workshop.We'll start with a brief explanation of TDD's red-green-refactor cycle. Red: write a test for the next bit of functionality you want to add. Green: write the code needed to...
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Speakers

Joep Schuurkes

Staff Test Engineer, Kiesraad

Joep wandered into software testing in 2006. After a decade of both exploratory testing and test automation, his focus shifted to a bigger question. How can teams and organizations build and deliver good software? To answer that question, he has been exploring topics such as technical... Read More →

Joep Schuurkes Experience test driven development (TDD) pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 10:30 - 12:30 EEST
D-Saal Kultuurikatel

Workshop 2h

Difficulty Getting your toes wet

10:30 EEST

Lights, Camera, Test! Let'S Put The Fun In Non-Functional Testing!

Friday June 5, 2026 10:30 - 12:30 EEST

Stalker

ISO 25010, not the topic that ignites the fire in our test-hearts, right? Non-functional testing and quality characteristics are often seen as a hassle and don’t get the attention they deserve. So, what can we do to make non-functional testing fun? Let’s do something completely different!How about we make a short film script about a quality characteristic of our choice? Let's...
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Speakers

Willem Keesman

Practice lead, Sopra Steria

Willem is an enthusiastic practice lead at Sopra Steria and brings 12 years of testing experience to the table. He has worked in several domains varying from government to fintech. Besides being active in the field, he loves to connect with fellow testers at congresses. Willem was... Read More →

Arnoud Gorter

Competence lead, CJIB

Arnoud is working as a compentence lead for the CJIB. He has been active in the testing field for over 15 years. He spoke together with Willem at AutomationSTAR ’24 and ’25 as well as smaller congresses. He also develops learning paths for testers and leads test improvement... Read More →

Willem Keesman Lights, Camera, Test! Let’s Put the Fun in Non Functionals.pptx pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 10:30 - 12:30 EEST
Stalker Kultuurikatel

Workshop 2h

Difficulty Getting your toes wet

10:30 EEST

The 70% Problem: Reclaiming Testing’s Intellectual Core With Agentic Quality Engineering

Friday June 5, 2026 10:30 - 15:30 EEST

Terrassi

The software testing profession has been around for approximately 70 years, yet nothing has fundamentally transformed it to deliver on what it was always capable of. The majority of our industry has delivered "glorified clerical work" in the name of testing. Industry reports show that almost 70% of testing capacity is spent on testing-related activities, while only 30% is devoted to actual testing...
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Speakers

Lalitkumar Bhamare

Quality Engineering Thought Leader - EMEA, Accenture

Dragan Spiridonov

Founder |Agentic Quality Engineer | Quality Engineering Consultant | Serbian Agentics Foundation, Quantum Quality Engineering

Dragan Spiridonov brings 30 years of IT experience—from computer repair and sysadmin in 1996 to leading QA/QE functions for the past 12 years. After 8 years building QA/QE from the ground up at Alchemy, he founded Quantum Quality Engineering in October 2025, a Serbian consultancy... Read More →

Lalitkumar Bhamare The 70% Problem.pptx pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 10:30 - 15:30 EEST
Terrassi Kultuurikatel

Workshop 4h

Difficulty Getting your toes wet

10:30 EEST

Using OpenTelemetry Data (Traces, Metrics And Logs) In Tests

Friday June 5, 2026 10:30 - 15:30 EEST

Puupakusaal

Observability and testing are treated as kind of separate practices in software engineering. Usually in organziation there are testing teams that focus on tests and site reliability teams that monitor applications in production.Testers find bugs before software is released and after the release, when bug occurs, we get that information from SRE teams. What if we could shift the process of...
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Speakers

Michał Pilarski

Software Engineer, GISKI

During his career, Michal has been always connected with geospatial data and GIS geoprocessing.
He likes to find and overcome challenges in Testing Big Data with geometry attributes.
He has experience in preparing the testing strategies for ETL systems that extract, transform and l... Read More →

Mateusz Adamczak

Software Engineer, Dynatrace

With around 10 years of experience in Software Industry, Mateusz covered most of the available functions – tester, developer, devops engineer, and also a scrum master for a little while. This gives him an excellent overview of the software production process that he likes to sh... Read More →

Mateusz Adamczak Using OpenTelemetry data in tests pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 10:30 - 15:30 EEST
Puupakusaal Kultuurikatel

Workshop 4h

Difficulty Getting your toes wet

11:10 EEST

Testing Agentic Ai Applications: Beyond Traditional QA

Friday June 5, 2026 11:10 - 11:50 EEST

BlackBox

Traditional software testing assumes deterministic behaviour: predictable inputs produce expected outputs. Agentic AI systems shatter this assumption. These autonomous agents make independent decisions, learn from interactions, and exhibit emergent behaviours that render traditional unit and integration testing insufficient.This talk examines critical testing challenges through three real-world...
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Speakers

Srinivasan Sekar

Director of Engineering, Lambdatest

Sai Krishna

Director of Engineering, TestMu AI

Sai Krishna Testing Agentic AI Applications pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 11:10 - 11:50 EEST
BlackBox Kultuurikatel

Track

Difficulty Getting your toes wet

11:50 EEST

Running A Thousand End-To-End Cypress Tests Every Day

Friday June 5, 2026 11:50 - 12:30 EEST

BlackBox

In this talk, I show how we run a lot of full end-to-end Cypress web application tests every day. In addition to running the full data set, we do separate feature test runs based on test tags. We also allow everyone from all teams to trigger the tests right from GitHub Actions UI. This lets every group quickly test their feature before merging into the main branch. For pull requests, we employ...
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Speakers

Gleb Bahmutov

Sr Director of Engineering, Mercari US

Gleb Bahmutov is a JavaScript ninja, image processing expert, and software quality fanatic. During the day Gleb is making the engineers more productive at Mercari US in his position as the Senior Director of Engineering. At night he is fighting software bugs and blogs about it at... Read More →

Gleb 1000 e2e pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 11:50 - 12:30 EEST
BlackBox Kultuurikatel

Track

Difficulty Getting your toes wet, Like a fish in the sea

12:30 EEST

Lunch

Friday June 5, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 EEST

Puupakusaal

Friday June 5, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 EEST
Puupakusaal Kultuurikatel

Break

12:30 EEST

Lunch

Friday June 5, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 EEST

Stalker

Friday June 5, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 EEST
Stalker Kultuurikatel

Break

12:30 EEST

Lunch

Friday June 5, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 EEST

D-Saal

Friday June 5, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 EEST
D-Saal Kultuurikatel

Break

12:30 EEST

Lunch

Friday June 5, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 EEST

BlackBox

Friday June 5, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 EEST
BlackBox Kultuurikatel

Break

12:30 EEST

Lunch

Friday June 5, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 EEST

Terrassi

Friday June 5, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 EEST
Terrassi Kultuurikatel

Break

13:30 EEST

ViTO (Visual Test Oracle): How to use GenAI to slash your code and Test Maintenance By 50%

Friday June 5, 2026 13:30 - 14:10 EEST

D-Saal

Problem ContextBrittle selectors: We spend hours fixing fragile XPaths and CSS selectors just to verify if a button is visible or a chart is correctRelease changes: Automation code that is stable "now" suddenly becomes flaky after the release. The reason is the ever-changing platform. And automation is not always able to cope with itCode volume: Code analysis in our company showed us...
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Speakers

Rahul Singh

Staff Software Engineer - AI Solution, Blue Yonder

Rahul is a techy with 16 years of experience - 10 yrs with testing and automation, and gradually moved to software development. With a strong focus on problem-solving and innovation, his focus has been on "tangible" solutions. Most lately, his works involve "meaningful" implementation... Read More →

Rahul Singh ViTO (Visual Test Oracle).pptx pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 13:30 - 14:10 EEST
D-Saal Kultuurikatel

Track

Difficulty Getting your toes wet, Like a fish in the sea

13:30 EEST

When Life Gives You Lemons… Are You Counting Them Or Making Lemonade?

Friday June 5, 2026 13:30 - 14:10 EEST

BlackBox

Teams often rely on test cases executed, bugs reported, and pass rates to measure success. These numbers might look impressive, but do they truly reflect software quality? Vanity metrics can mislead teams, encourage the wrong behaviours, and create a false sense of progress.This talk introduces a 7-step framework to move beyond superficial KPIs and focus on metrics that drive real value. Inspired...
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Speakers

Chris Armstrong

Manager, Developer Relations, SmartBear

Chris (he/him) is a strategic and context-informed quality engineering leader with nearly two decades of experience helping organisations improve their quality practices. Specialising in strategic test leadership, Chris excels at cross-functional leadership, working across QA, Development... Read More →

Chris Armstrong When Life Gives You Lemons… Are You Counting Them or Making Lemonade.pptx pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 13:30 - 14:10 EEST
BlackBox Kultuurikatel

Track

Difficulty Getting your toes wet, Like a fish in the sea

13:30 EEST

REST API Automation With Python 101

Friday June 5, 2026 13:30 - 15:30 EEST

Stalker

API testing is a core part of modern testing and delivery pipelines, yet it is often misunderstood or introduced too late. This session provides a practical introduction to REST API automation using Python, focusing on what to test, how to structure tests, and how API tests fit into a modern testing infrastructure.The workshop starts with a short overview of API testing fundamentals and common use...
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Speakers

Oleg Nikiforov

Engineering Team Lead, Capgemini Engineering

A SDET/QA professional with 14 years of experience working across quality engineering, test automation, and DevOps. Focused on building automation infrastructure from scratch and scaling it for complex systems. Experienced in API, UI, and mobile test automation, with a practical approach... Read More →

Oleg Nikiforov REST API Automation With Python 101.pptx pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 13:30 - 15:30 EEST
Stalker Kultuurikatel

Workshop 2h

Difficulty Getting your toes wet

14:10 EEST

A Missing Input Validation May Be Used for Denial of Service Attacks

Friday June 5, 2026 14:10 - 14:50 EEST

D-Saal

The security impact of missing input validation is usually underestimated.The presentation explains and gives examples of how missing logical limits may lead to denial of service attacks on the application that seems quite secure - no injection or execution vulnerabilities needed.As the presenter is a co-lead of the OWASP ASVS project, related security requirements are also pointed out.Not a...
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Speakers

Elar Lang

Lecturer and Penetration tester, Clarified Security

Elar Lang is a web application security specialist and enthusiast who has been working for more than 14 years in different aspects of web application security. A full-time security tester, training architect, and web application security developer educator (close to 3000 hours of... Read More →

Friday June 5, 2026 14:10 - 14:50 EEST
D-Saal Kultuurikatel

Track

Difficulty Like a fish in the sea

14:10 EEST

Lessons Learned From Ai-Powered Visual Reasoning Feedback

Friday June 5, 2026 14:10 - 14:50 EEST

BlackBox

Visual testing is supposed to protect QA teams from the familiar “it looks wrong” bug, yet traditional pixel-diff approaches only show that something changed, not whether that change actually matters. As modern interfaces grow more dynamic and design systems become more complex, teams need smarter ways to detect meaningful visual regressions. This talk presents a practical approach to...
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Speakers

Risko Ruus

Principal QA Engineer, Rush Street Interactive

I am a software quality enthusiast with over 20 years of experience in various companies and software projects. I enjoy both developing software and testing it (including test automation). Example applications I have worked on include Nokia smartphones, Skype, and mobile betting... Read More →

Risko Ruus Lessons Learned from AI Powered Visual Reasoning Feedback (repaired).pptx pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 14:10 - 14:50 EEST
BlackBox Kultuurikatel

Track

Difficulty Like a fish in the sea

14:50 EEST

From Chaos To Confidence: Building Rock-Solid Stability In Mobile E2E Testing

Friday June 5, 2026 14:50 - 15:30 EEST

BlackBox

99.59%.That’s not uptime, not code coverage - it’s our yearly stability rate for mobile end-to-end test runs. It sounds almost impossible, especially if you’ve ever managed a growing Slack thread titled #iHateMobile.For three years, we fought the usual suspects of mobile automation: Appium timeouts, vanishing selectors, and flaky infrastructure. This talk condenses that journey into a...
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Speakers

Dawid Pacia

QA Consultant, PathcingIT

Dawid Pacia From Chaos to Confidence pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 14:50 - 15:30 EEST
BlackBox Kultuurikatel

Track

Difficulty Getting your toes wet, Deep dive

14:50 EEST

Testing Cloud Applications Without Breaking The Bank: Testcontainers And Localstack

Friday June 5, 2026 14:50 - 15:30 EEST

D-Saal

How do you test an application that relies heavily on cloud services? Do you have a specific strategy for testing it, or do you simply run your tests regardless of the infrastructure costs?Nowadays, many applications rely on different cloud services, such as databases, message queues, and file storage offered by cloud providers. Those cloud services bring considerable infrastructure costs and...
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Speakers

Fernando Teixeira

Lead QA Engineer, Verivox

I am a Lead QA Engineer with 9+ years of experience developing test automation solutions and test strategies for different projects. I specialized in backend, microservices testing, and DevOps throughout my career, focusing on designing, implementing, and optimizing testing strategies... Read More →

Fernando Teixeira Testing Cloud Applications Without Breaking the Bank.pptx pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 14:50 - 15:30 EEST
D-Saal Kultuurikatel

Track

Difficulty Getting your toes wet, Deep dive