Bas Dijkstra
Test Automation Trainer And Consultant
Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBas Dijkstra is a test automation trainer and consultant with a decade of hands-on experience helping teams adopt pragmatic tooling and practices across web and mobile testing. Based in Utrecht, he builds and delivers bespoke training, workshops and conference talks while also contributing open-source examples—such as a Java REST Assured workshop that provides practical, exercise-driven API testing patterns. His background includes developing C# and Python SDKs for a commercial test platform and freelance work in service virtualization, giving him both product and consulting perspectives. Collected from roles at startups and consultancies, his approach emphasizes making automation genuinely valuable to teams rather than just technically impressive.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Computer Science, M.Sc. Computer Science at University of TwenteAtheneum, Atheneum at Atlas College, locatie Copernicus, Hoorn
Dutch, English, Italian, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
javas10
junit10
java10
api-testing10
serializable8
deserialization8
serialization8
serializer8
oauth7
basic-authentication7
json7
authentication7
netcore6
pact6
pact-net6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
basdijkstra/rest-assured-workshop
Feb 2018 - Nov 2022
Free and open source REST Assured workshop
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 47 commits, 4 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Bas added Java-based code examples and slides to a REST Assured workshop repository. These examples showcase various REST Assured functionalities, including request/response specifications, data-driven testing, authentication, and serialization/deserialization. The user also provided solutions to exercises demonstrating REST API testing. The user's work centered on providing example and exercise code with tests, and included upgrades to dependency versions to enhance the workshop's usability.
mavenworkshopassuredrestrest-api
basdijkstra/introduction-to-contract-testing
Jun 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:22 commits, 2 PRs, 42 pushes in 9 months
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