Speaker / Coach / Leader

Martijn Goossens holds over 18 years of experience in the QA field. He started as an Agile QA automation engineer and has fulfilled various leadership roles for the past 7 years. Currently, he is an Agile quality consultant at Xebia. Martijn is ISTQB and TMAP certified and is a frequent participant in QA meetups and conferences. In recent years, he found the international conference stages where he is keen to share his experience in the trenches.

Speaking track record

Early years and related activities

  • Event Storming workshops
  • Behavior Driven Design (BDD) workshops
  • Specification by Example (SBE) workshops
  • Internal knowledge sharing
  • Valtech Kick-off - Kiev

Recent conferences

  • HUSTEF 2022/2023, Review committee 2024, Program committee 2025
  • Agile Testing Days (US 2023 & Conf-in-conf 2023, Potsdam 2024)
  • Nordic Testing Days 2023
  • UCAAT 2023
  • Test Automation Summit Boston 2023, Washington DC 2024
  • Targeting Quality 2024 by KWSQA
  • TestCon 2024 (Keynote, track talk, panel discussion)
  • Tokyo Test Fest 2024 (Best speaker ratings)

Upcoming conferences

  • Live2Test 2025 by TesterYou Keynote
  • A4Q Global Testing Summit 2025
  • More speaking engagements will be revealed soon

Past talks

  • Transforming a FinTech startup to fit in a multinational corporation
  • How to use Example Mapping and 3 amigo sessions to shift left
  • Shift left using example mapping and 3 amigo sessions (workshop)
  • Performance Testing is all about Analyzing the Results. Here's how you become a Master.
  • Growing Your Automation Coverage as a Happy Healthy Tree
  • The test automation pyramid for micro services

New talks

  • QA maturity scan - How would your project do?
  • Maximum quality with minimum testers
  • Become a performance test master - the less-technical side of things
  • Be a better test friend (Keynote)
  • Success factors for DevOps releases in large corporations
  • Find the tester in your team (LEGO workshop)

Ask Me Anything

With over 18 years in QA and Agile, Martijn loves to bring his experiences to the crowds. If you are looking for a speaker on one of the following topics, please reach out.

  • The state of testing and QA
  • Holistic Quality Mindset and high-performing teams
  • QA and IT leadership
  • Performance testing
  • The joy of analog cameras

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