Joep Schuurkes
Expert Test Engineer at Kiesraad
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJoep Schuurkes is an Expert Test Engineer with 11 years of experience helping teams and organizations take small, pragmatic steps toward radically better software delivery. He blends hands-on test automation and architecture guidance with coaching and leadership—having led test strategy, frameworks, and cross-team projects at Mendix and served as Senior Quality Engineer at Omnipresent. Currently at Kiesraad he contributes to election-results software and maintains an active interest in the broader context of agile practice through writing and organizing the Friends of Good Software Conference. Joep’s background in philosophy and music hints at a reflective, creative approach to problem solving and communication, and he’s known for incremental improvements that make quality emergent rather than enforced.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Grieks-Wetenschappen, Grieks-Wetenschappen at Sint-JozefcollegeMaster's Philosophy, Master's Philosophy at Ghent UniversityBachelor's degree Music Instrument: Guitar, Bachelor's degree Music Instrument: Guitar at Lemmensinstituut Leuven (Belgium)
Dutch, English, French, German
Github Skills (53)
unit-testing10
woocommerce10
hugo10
pytest10
testing10
wordpress10
plugin10
documentation10
test-automation10
ecommerce9
functional-testing9
python9
mendix9
php9
api-testing9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
j19sch/frogsconf
May 2021 - Mar 2026
FroGS conf site
Contributions:2 reviews, 21 PRs, 102 pushes in 4 years 11 months
frogsconf
j19sch/context-of-agile
Feb 2021 - Dec 2025
context-of-agile.org site
Contributions:4 PRs, 47 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 11 months
agile
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