Portfolio
Awarded for work on Finnish ICT as builder, trainer and advancing openness
I was on QA Therapy podcast, discussing exploratory testing. https://anchor.fm/qa-therapy-podcast/episodes/S2-E13-Exploratory-Testing-e1umt2j
Keynoted at Sanae Beer.Ex in Bratislava, Slovakia. https://www.slideshare.net/maaretp/keynote-at-sanae-beerex-the-automationists-gambit
Keynote at LambdaTest TestMu Conference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATE32ERlBqg
Joined Selenium PLC (Project Leadership Committee) https://www.selenium.dev/project/structure/#plc
Mentored Shivani Gaba for her first talk at Belgrade Testing Days 2018. She later delivered the same talk with TestBash Essential 2019 and Agile Testing Days USA 2019, all with title 'Moving from G...
Organised 5th and final European Testing Conference at Amsterdam, the Netherlands. https://europeantestingconference.eu/2020/
Organised 4th edition of European Testing Conference at Valencia, Spain. https://europeantestingconference.eu/2019/
Organized 3rd edition of European Testing Conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. https://europeantestingconference.eu/2018/
Organised 2nd edition of European Testing Conference in Finland. https://europeantestingconference.eu/2017/
Founded a testing conference 'European Testing Conference' and run its inaugural year in Romania. We felt we needed a conference on *testing* not testers. https://europeantestingconference.eu/2016/
Founded Ohjelmistotestaus ry (Software Testing Finland -association) to advance testing (not testers) as agenda on the Finnish market with focus on things From Finland or For Finland.
Joined Tivia ry, Tivia Infuture Oy and Tietotekniikan tutkimussäätiö boards for 2022-2024 season. https://tivia.fi
Taking over a mentoring program I had volunteered on since start of it in 2015, and renaming it to TechVoices as the previous name infringes someone's copyright in USA even though it was registered...
Mentored my youngest mentee to him delivering a talk at EuroPython 2021. The speaker is 7 years old at time of delivering the talk. https://ep2021.europython.eu/talks/6PEer4r-computational-complexi...
Mentored my 1st TechVoices (SpeakEasy) mentee to her delivering a talk at Better Software & DevOps Conference East 2015 on 'Detection Theory Applied To Finding and Fixing Defects', by Ru Cindrea.
Teaching ensemble exploratory testing at TinyTestbash.
I was interviewed for a Finnish popular IT magazine TIVI on their article on test-driven development as one of the experts. The article is paywalled. https://www.tivi.fi/uutiset/ohjelmiston-laatua-...
On episode of Data Democratization Podcast on 'Data Challenges in Software Testing with Maaret Pyhäjärvi'. This podcast had such positive energy for me, and an appearance was an absolute pleasure. ...
I was mentioned on a LambdaTest list article on women in testing. https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/7-influential-women-in-test-to-follow-today/
Someone started a page of me on Finnish Wikipedia under "Finnish Programmers" https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maaret_Pyhäjärvi
3rd year on ICT 100 most influential in Finland list for 2021. https://www.tivi.fi/uutiset/tassa-ovat-100-it-vaikuttajaa/3123b065-3934-4c13-b5e5-39e732cd5484
Published research paper at ICST workshop on the work on test automation at my team after intensive collaboration to find the key things to what we considered particularly successful and useful tes...
Exploratory Testing Foundations is a basic course to exploratory testing (incl. test automation). One fairly simple application, unintentional bugs to discover, and details of applying different co...
Lecturer for course T-76.613 Software Testing and Quality Assurance at Helsinki University of Technology.
Teaching assistant for a course 'Tik-76.613 Software Testing and Quality Assurance' at Helsinki University of Technology.
Teaching course at Aalto Applied Sciences University. The course CS-E4960 Software Testing and Quality Assurance started with another teacher whom I replaced halfway through the course.
Founded a magazine 'Testaus ja Laatu' and placed my name in alphabetical order into the list of people that would help me run the magazine forward. The magazine lived from that initial spark until ...
Made it on a list of 30 automation leaders to follow. https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/30-test-automation-leaders-you-should-follow-twitter
Wrote my 1st post on ensemble (mob) programming having experienced it for a day in San Diego with the Hunter Mob and with my own team in Helsinki. https://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2015/01/a-tes...
Facilitated ensemble testing at XP 2015 Conference in a workshop on Collaborative Exploratory and Unit Testing.
Published 1st version of Ensemble (Mob) Programming Guidebook as a printout for participants at workshop on Collaborative Exploratory and Unit Testing at Test Masters Academy, New York. https://ens...
Interview by Valerie Silverthorne on 1st experiences of "tried ensemble (mob) testing and living to tell about it" with Maaret Pyhäjärvi. Stated “I’m not certain if I enjoy this style of working in...
Proposed an ensemble testing session at CITCON open space conference in Helsinki, Finland. https://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2015/09/mob-testing-leave-some-of-your-ego-at.html
Facilitated a public demo ensemble testing session at Agile 2015 -conference in Washington DC, USA as part of my talk on Exploring with Intent. https://www.slideshare.net/maaretp/agile2015-explore-...
Published an article in the Agile Thoughts Magazine, June 2021 edition as the main featured author on "Experiencing 5x Transformation from Infrequent to Continuous Delivery" https://www.agile-thoug...
Wrote an article on Contemporary Exploratory Testing and published with testproject.io https://blog.testproject.io/2021/04/20/contemporary-exploratory-testing/?fbclid=IwAR2_vlrUTmUCm9YTGb-F5ldebPRI...
Published an article on Social Software Testing Approaches: #PairTesting #EnsembleTesting #BugBash https://bbst.courses/blog/social-software-testing-approaches/
Was included as TiVi 100 ICT Influencers in Finland 2019 on the list's 17th annual edition. https://www.tivi.fi/uutiset/tassa-ovat-100-it-vaikuttajaa-2019/52dbb753-664a-4898-bf55-a8bf2fb47f47
Was included as TiVi 100 ICT Influencers in Finland 2020 on the list's 18th annual edition. https://www.tivi.fi/uutiset/tassa-ovat-100-it-vaikuttajaa/63a4f0d1-0480-4ba1-9b33-a7e3bce5ff92
Introduced a more inclusive term 'ensemble programming' / 'ensemble testing' / 'ensembling' to describe a collaborative way of working together previously known as 'mob programming' from proposal c...
Most Influential Testing Professional Person (MIATPP)
EuroSTAR Testing Excellence Award https://www.vaisala.com/en/blog/2020-12/vaisalas-principal-test-engineer-maaret-pyhajarvi-receives-prestigious-eurostar-testing-excellence-award
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/learn-not-to-be-afraid-doing-things-differently-maaret/id1231387865?i=1000435108093