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Test Automation Days 2026

est 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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39Voices

2Underwriters

0Exhibitors

38On the bill · sessions

32Companies · in total

§I

The Voices

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

— and 17 more, by name unsung —

§II

Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

SqueristFounding Partner

UiPathChief Sponsor

§III

The Programme

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.

№ 01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House

2All threespeak · spons · exh

0Sponsoringsponsor only

0Exhibitingexhibitor only

30Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Squerist·UiPath

№ 02Fig. 02 — The Voices, 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

№ 03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room

01SqueristSp·F2V
02UiPathSp·C2V
03PerformanceArchitecten – We are Cerios2V
04Sopra Steria2V
05AnuKrit1V
06Autotrader1V
07Cerios1V
08CGI1V
09Choco1V
10CQSE1V
11De Agile Testers, België1V
12Eficode1V
13ESW1V
14G+D Netcetera1V

№ 04Fig. 04 — By Tier

chief sponsor1

50% of 2

founding partner1

50% of 2

№ 06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters

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Rethinking the Automation in Testing Principles

API Hacking for Testers

Automate Smarter, Not Harder

Build a Continuous QA Strategy around your CI/CD Pipeline

Death to Failing Tests: A Hands-On Debugging Bootcamp

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

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

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

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

“32 companies. two are betting more than once.”