Michael Rijsdijk is a managing partner and hands-on test automation engineer with 10+ years of experience building custom test frameworks and driving testing strategy for major Dutch organizations. He blends people management with deep technical craft—implementing Java, TypeScript, Selenium, WebdriverIO, Cypress and Appium solutions across sectors like transport, forensic labs, healthcare and media. At Verista he led automation initiatives and created reusable, minimal-configuration frameworks that streamlined testing for multiple applications and teams. Comfortable both in leadership and "with his feet in the automation clay," he has a background in web development (PHP, MySQL, Drupal) enabling pragmatic end-to-end testing perspectives. Based in Voorschoten, he is known for turning complex acceptance criteria into maintainable regression suites and packaging UI components into reusable NodeJS libraries.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Deeltijd Pabo, Deeltijd Pabo at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
Web development, Web development at Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam
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