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Test Automation Days 2026

Test Automation Days 2026 celebrated its 15th anniversary as an international conference in Hilversum, Netherlands. The theme, 'The Impact of Test Automation,' focused on how automation can drive change in modern software development — improving quality, accelerating delivery, and strengthening collaboration. Over two days, attendees experienced hands-on boo…

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39Speakers
2Sponsors
38On the bill · sessions
32Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at Test, in alphabetical order.
Alessandro Rapisarda
Principal Solution Engineer, Test Cloud · UiPath
Anaïs van Asselt
Senior QA · Choco
Anne-Marie Charett
Keynote Speaker
Anne-Marie Charrett
Principal Automation Testing · Testing Times
Anupam Krishnamurthy
Freelance Test Solution Architect · AnuKrit
Ard Kramer
Chairman of the day
Arnoud Gorter
Test Specialist & Competence Lead · Ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid
Ashish Ghosh
Keynote Speaker · ING Bank
Christian Baumann
Principal Test Architect · MaibornWolff GmbH
Christoph Stock
Manager Product Development · UBS Hainer GmbH
Craig Risi
Head of Engineering · Old Mutual
David Ingraham
Senior SDET · Matium
Emiel Smetsers
Manager · PerformanceArchitecten – We are Cerios
Ester Greenwood
Test Engineer · Sopra Steria
Fabian Streitel
Team Lead · CQSE GmbH
Filip Hric
Community manager · Replay.io
Gerard van Engelen
DevOps Engineer · Openpeople
Gina Chelton
Senior Test Engineer · Autotrader
Hugh McCamphill
Senior Quality Manager · ESW
Irja Straus
Team Lead Software Testing Electronic Components · Jungheinrich Croatia
Jakob Jan Kamminga
Test Consultant · QA Company
João Proença
Staff Quality Engineer · Pleo
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
SqueristFounding Partner
UiPathChief Sponsor
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Agenda

Selected from 38 sessions on the bill.
  • 09.30

    Rethinking the Automation in Testing Principles

  • 10.00

    API Hacking for Testers

    Masterclass E1 – Joost
  • 10.00

    Automate Smarter, Not Harder

    Masterclass C1 – Showroom
  • 10.00

    Build a Continuous QA Strategy around your CI/CD Pipeline

    Masterclass D1 – On Air
  • 10.00

    Death to Failing Tests: A Hands-On Debugging Bootcamp

    Masterclass A1 – Mies
  • 10.00

    Testing in Production with Grafana Synthetics: See It Before They Do

    Masterclass B1 – Hans
  • 10.10

    Test Automation That Matters: Real-World Lessons from the Battlelines at ING

  • 11.20

    Beyond Buyer’s Remorse: Navigating Tester’s Remorse and Learning from Failure

    Parallel session E1 – Hans
  • 11.20

    Decoding Synthetic Monitoring: A Journey from E2E UI Tests to Service-Level Probes

    Parallel session F1 – Joost
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 32 companies show up — and 2 bet on three roles at once?

32 companies. two are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
2All threespeak · spons · exh
0Sponsoringsponsor only
30Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Squerist·UiPath

Speakers by seniority

10% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • Director / Head of410%
  • Manager / Lead1538%
  • Engineer · IC1128%
  • Other roles923%

Of 39 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01SqueristSp·F2V
  2. 02UiPathSp·C2V
  3. 03PerformanceArchitecten – We are Cerios2V
  4. 04Sopra Steria2V
  5. 05AnuKrit1V
  6. 06Autotrader1V
  7. 07Cerios1V
  8. 08CGI1V
  9. 09Choco1V
  10. 10CQSE1V
  11. 11De Agile Testers, België1V
  12. 12Eficode1V
  13. 13ESW1V
  14. 14G+D Netcetera1V
Sponsors by tier
chief sponsor1
50% of 2
founding partner1
50% of 2
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