As of September ’23 René has been active in the field of testing for a quarter of a century without ever experiencing a dull moment. Having been active in various roles in between such as Academy Coach, Unit Manager and Oracle Alliance Manager, his passion has always remained software testing, having done projects and assignments ranging from politically sensitive as a Test Manager to creating test scripts using Oracle ATS or Selenium.

Since 2021 René is known as the Testimist, a test positivo describing himself as Enterprise Automation and Management Specialist, combining ubiquitous testing principles with Test Automation and Robotic Process Automation into integrated automation solutions for customers. On the one hand this means analysing, preparing, developing and setting up test automation, on the other hand getting the attention of non-IT oriented disciplines on testing and quality topics (…while making and executing tests still remains the most fun thing to do…)

Talking about Test Automation and the Architecture of it all has brought René on several international stages and at testing guilds or Centre of Excellences at various large Dutch and global customers.