maaretp - Maaret Pyhäjärvi

Maaret Pyhäjärvi

Practitioner. Change Agent. Tester of products and organizations.

Exploratory Tester. (Polyglot) Programmer.

Speaker. Author. Mentor. Conference Designer. She/Her.

Maaret Pyhäjärvi

About Me

Director, Consulting at CGI.
Testing Specialist. Polyglot Programmer.
Teaching/Consulting/Doing.
Serial volunteer.

Delivered 550 sessions at events in 28 countries

Finland

Sweden

Norway

Denmark

Latvia

Estonia

Switzerland

Hungary

France

Belgium

Croatia

Moldova

Portugal

Poland

Romania

Serbia

Germany

Spain

United Kingdom

Bulgaria

India

Australia

Turkey

New Zealand

Sri Lanka

Malaysia

Slovakia

Awards

EuroSTAR Testing Excellence Award 2020

Agile Testing Days MIATPP Award 2016

ICT 100 influencers list 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024

Tester Worth Appreciating 2022 by Ohjelmistotestaus ry

Books

Exploratory Testing book

Ensemble Programming Guidebook

Strong Style Pair Programming book

Upcoming Talks

May 5th 2025AI in Quality Assurance (panel) at Software Quality Forum at Munchen, Germany
May 14th 2025 [Training] Apply AI of Today on Your Testing (Finnish session) at TIVIA Infuture, Helsinki, Finland
June 19th 2025 Lessons Learned from Landing a Job Offer with GenAI at BCS SIGiST Summer Conference 2025
September 23rd 2025 [Training] Apply AI of Today on Your Testing (Finnish session) at TIVIA Infuture, Helsinki, Finland

Participating

Feb 22nd 2025 Friends of Good Software Open Space Conference, Online
March 5th 2025 Software Testing After Work Lahti, Lahti, Finland
March 6th 2025 Power Women in Tech at Microsoft, Espoo, Finland

Causes

Selenium PLC - Project Leadership Committee

Software Testing Finland ry, non-profit

TIVIA ry

Exploratory Testing Academy

Techvoices - diversity in conference speaking

Awesome Testers

Mimmit Koodaa

My Contents

Past Talks

I have spoken in 28 countries, delivering 53 keynotes and 550 talks by end of 2024.

Contributions

I have a collection of books, blogs, articles and podcasts I have contributed over the years. And some awards.

Speaking and Teaching

I teach many topics on talk, course and workshop formats, and tailor for specific needs. I teach courses hands-on, doing the work.

Maaret Pyhäjärvi

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