Speaker / Coach / Leader

Martijn Goossens holds over 20 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

Upcoming conferences

  • Targeting Quality 2025 - Keynote, workshop
  • SAST 2025 - Keynote
  • HUSTEF 2025 - Headline speaker, workshop
  • Tokyo Test Fest 2025 - Keynote
  • This year's calendar is full, though I'm still available for speaking opportunities next year.

Past international conferences

  • A4Q Global Testing Summit 2025 - Online
  • Live2Test 2025 by TesterYou - Keynote Online
  • Tokyo Test Fest 2024 - Best speaker ratings
  • HUSTEF 2022/2023 - Review committee 2024, Program committee 2025
  • Agile Testing Days - US 2023 & Conf-in-conf 2023, Potsdam 2024
  • TestCon 2024 - Keynote, track talk, panel discussion
  • Targeting Quality 2024 by KWSQA
  • Nordic Testing Days 2023
  • UCAAT 2023
  • Test Automation Summit - Boston 2023, Washington DC 2024

Workshop experience

  • Event Storming workshops
  • Behavior Driven Design (BDD) workshops
  • Specification by Example (SBE) workshops
  • Internal knowledge sharing sessions

Latest talks

  • Be a better test friend - Keynote
  • Putting the Q in DevEx - The role of QA in the latest DevEx trend
  • Maximum quality with minimum testers
  • Become a performance test master - The less-technical side
  • QA Maturity Scan - How would your project score?
  • Find the tester in your team - Interactive LEGO workshop
  • Shift Left using BDD right - workshop

Earlier topics

  • Transforming a FinTech startup to fit in a multinational corporation
  • Shift left using Example Mapping and 3 amigo sessions
  • Performance Testing Mastery - Analyzing results like a pro
  • Growing Automation Coverage as a happy, healthy tree
  • Test automation pyramid for microservices
  • DevOps success factors for large corporations

Ask Me Anything

With over 20 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 - a personal passion

Contact

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