// Career Highlights

A timeline of assignments where I'm most proud of the impact. Each entry represents a different challenge and a different lesson learned. The common thread: building test automation that lasts beyond my engagement.

2026 – present

De Alliantie

Housing Corporation TypeScript Playwright

Built an automated pipeline from OpenAPI specification to production-ready test code: Zod schema contracts, a typed API client, and a full service layer, all auto-generated. Coaching two test automators in SPARTA, making sure the framework outlives my engagement.

2025

Robeco

Asset Management SPARTA Playwright

Delivered ~200 data-driven UI and API tests in just two months using the SPARTA framework. Proof that a well-structured framework doesn't slow you down. It speeds you up.

2025 – present

It&Care

Healthcare IT DigiV Event-Driven

Designed a test framework for an event-driven DigiV architecture, a fundamentally different challenge from traditional request-response testing. Built CI/CD pipelines for automated chain testing across the full message flow.

2024 – present

TenneT

Energy Grid Oracle PL/SQL Playwright

Replaced a legacy FitNesse test suite with a type-safe Playwright framework. The real innovation: code generation for Oracle PL/SQL database testing, ensuring cross-environment consistency without manual mapping.

2024 – 2025

AZL

Pension Administration SPARTA Data-Driven

Pension calculation regression testing used to take one month with 4–5 people. After implementing SPARTA: 1.5 hours, fully automated. The framework was operational within two weeks of starting. Architecture-first pays off.

2024 – 2025

Global Automotive Group

Automotive Outsystems JOSF

Discovered a unique workaround for Outsystems 10 and 11 integration testing that made JOSF the only tool capable of proper end-to-end testing on that platform. Sometimes the breakthrough is finding what nobody else looked for.

2022 – 2023

ZorgMatch

Healthcare Staffing C# Scrum Master

Started as test automator, ended up rebuilding quality from the ground up: fixed mocking anti-patterns in unit tests, rebuilt the SIT framework, introduced AutoFixture for proper test data. Also took on the Scrum Master role when the team needed it.

2021

FPS / Rotterdam Harbour

Logistics Playwright Code Coverage

Inherited a codebase at 2.6% code coverage. Left it above 50%. Also discovered Playwright here and was so impressed that I rewrote the entire Selenium project to Playwright in my own time. That conviction hasn't changed since.

2018 – 2022

Bakker Barendrecht

Food & Logistics Test Pyramid Team Lead

Replaced the ice cream cone anti-pattern with a proper test pyramid. Introduced Oracle Express for isolated database integration tests. Grew from individual contributor to Team Lead of 8 people. The reward: daily production releases backed by a CI/CD pipeline the team trusted.

2013 – 2018

Achmea

Insurance C# / Selenium Award

Where it all started. Evolved from infrastructure tester to component tester to test automator. Built my first real automation frameworks in C# with Selenium. The highlight: winning the "Deelnemer Portaal van de Toekomst" award for the team's portal innovation.