Who's taking the stage.

Avanti Sharma returns as Master of Ceremonies for the Luxembourg Software Testing Event 2026, following her first appearance in this role in 2025.

A young technology leader, speaker and changemaker based in Luxembourg, Avanti is particularly active in the fields of artificial intelligence, digital education, STEM and innovation. Her growing involvement in AI brings an additional dimension to this year’s edition, complementing the event’s focus on software testing, quality and emerging technologies.

Beyond guiding the audience throughout the day, Avanti brings her energy, curiosity and fresh perspective to the LSTE, helping create a dynamic link between speakers, sessions and participants.

She is also Director of Artificial Intelligence & Growth at Workshop4Me and Founder of Lëtz Make SDGs Happen, and is actively involved in Luxembourg’s technology and innovation ecosystem.

Opening Opens the day at 13:30

Olivier Denoo served as President of the ISTQB® from May 2019 to April 2023 and is now its Vice-President.

He is also President of the Comité Français des tests logiciels (CFTL), the French ISTQB® board and official IREB, IQBBA and TMMi representative in France. The Comité Français des tests logiciels (CFTL) organises the JFTL, the largest software testing conference in Europe, with more than 1,200 attendees.

Olivier is Vice-President of ps_testware SAS, the French subsidiary of the ps_testware group, a QA consultancy.

An international speaker for nearly 30 years, he has spoken at numerous conferences on software testing and software quality. He actively contributes to the development of new certification schemes such as IQBBA (business analysis) and IREB (requirements engineering), and is the co-author of several books and articles on software testing.

Keynote Fast & Furious – The Tester in 5 Years: AI Perspectives

Eric Riou du Cosquer has worked on IT projects as a developer, tester and test manager, and now operates on large IT projects to make sure QA and test activities are professionally managed and implemented at every level, by every stakeholder.

He is a TMMi accredited assessor and trainer, ISTQB Full Advanced Level certified, a former General Secretary of the ISTQB and a past president of the French ISTQB national board. His work focuses on audit, consulting and training to strengthen requirements engineering and testing processes.

Keynote AI for Business Analysts: From Requirements to Better Solutions

Dominique Righetto, also known by the alias righettod, is a passionate Application Security specialist based in Luxembourg. Highly involved in knowledge sharing and the cybersecurity community, he has been contributing for many years to open-source projects and initiatives dedicated to improving software security.

He currently works at Thales Cybersecurity Services as a Subject Matter Expert in Application Security. Since 2011, he has also been actively involved with OWASP, contributing to several projects and currently leading the OWASP Secure Headers Project.

Alongside his professional activities, Dominique is involved in vulnerability research, open-source development, teaching, and cybersecurity conferences, with a strong focus on practical and accessible application security.

Keynote The Devil Is in the Payloads: The Grueling Journey of Implementing a File Transfer Feature

Christophe Cressend is CEO and Co-Founder of Agilitest, a company specialising in functional test automation.

He founded Agilitest with CTO and Co-Founder Pierre Huber with a clear objective: make functional test automation simple and intuitive enough for every member of a development team, while ensuring that automated tests remain stable and robust as applications evolve.

Agilitest provides an intuitive test automation platform designed for both technical and non-technical users. Its approach enables teams to create, maintain and execute automated functional tests across web, desktop, mobile and web-service technologies, while maintaining a clear and continuous view of software quality.

As Agile practices and DevOps integration continue to reshape software delivery, Christophe focuses on making test automation more accessible, reliable and sustainable. His current work also explores the role of artificial intelligence in testing, with an emphasis on AI-powered, human-controlled and deterministic test automation.

Keynote From User Stories to AI-Generated Automated Tests: Keeping Business Users in Control, 14:30

Workshop 3 From User Story to Automated Test with Agilitest, 16:00, with Maxime Goanvic

Domenico Bianculli is an Associate Professor and Chief Scientist in software engineering at the University of Luxembourg, where he heads the Software Verification and Validation research group at the Interdisciplinary Centre for ICT Security, Reliability, and Trust (SnT).

He received his PhD from the Faculty of Informatics of the University of Lugano, Switzerland, under the supervision of Prof. Carlo Ghezzi.

His research focuses on software engineering, with particular emphasis on the specification, verification and validation of software systems. His current interests include run-time verification, specification languages, log analysis, program analysis and regulatory compliance.

Keynote Mining What Your Users Really Do for Better Software Testing, 15:00, with Seung Yeob Shin and Ritabrata Banerjee

Seung Yeob Shin is a Research Scientist at the University of Luxembourg, where he has worked since 2016, first as a Research Associate.

Before turning to research, he spent more than five years as a Software Engineer at Samsung Electronics in South Korea.

Keynote Mining What Your Users Really Do for Better Software Testing, 15:00, with Domenico Bianculli and Ritabrata Banerjee

Ouamar Nedil is the Support and Performance Engineering Director at OctoPerf, an enterprise-grade performance and load testing platform. With more than a decade of experience in performance testing, he works across product, engineering and customer support, and is closely involved in OctoPerf’s AI-assisted testing work, including its MCP server.

Workshop AI & Performance Testing: an end-to-end performance testing campaign in natural language, from scripting to analysis

Cristiano Cunha is a Solution Architect at Xray.

Workshop 2 AI Meets Test Management: Unlock Faster, Smarter QA with Xray, 14:25

Maxime Goanvic is a Solution Consultant and Trainer at Agilitest, specialising in software quality, functional test automation and QA strategy.

He supports QA, Product and development teams in designing, deploying and maintaining robust, readable and sustainable test automation strategies. His work focuses on helping organisations reduce test debt, improve coverage and build test environments that remain maintainable over time.

With a background in computer engineering and experience working with QA teams, developers and IT departments across different organisational contexts, Maxime combines technical expertise with a strong understanding of business needs. He helps teams implement accessible automation approaches that can be understood and used by both technical and non-technical profiles.

At Agilitest, he works with organisations to structure their functional testing practices across web, desktop, mobile, API and enterprise environments, combining tooling, QA best practices and team enablement.

He also delivers training and regularly shares his experience on test automation, QA strategy, test industrialisation and the adoption of maintainable automation practices.

Workshop 3 From User Story to Automated Test: A Live Demonstration of AI Generation, Human Recording, Manual Correction and Self-Healing with Agilitest, 16:00, with Christophe Cressend

Ritabrata Banerjee is Project Lead for Technical Delivery and Client Engagement at Q-Leap, where he has worked on Q-Guard, the company’s test automation solution, since 2023. Reporting to the CEO, he drives product initiatives from solution design to client proofs of concept and production rollout.

With 14 years of experience in cloud-native platforms and enterprise systems, he previously worked as Tech Lead at Satisco, as Lab DevOps Engineer at Amazon Web Services and, for six years, as IT Analyst at Tata Consultancy Services. His expertise spans AWS and Azure, microservices, DevOps and event-driven architectures.

At LSTE 2025 he co-led the Demo Room session “Experience No-Code Test Automation in Action: Create Your First Automated Test with Q-Guard”.

Keynote Mining What Your Users Really Do for Better Software Testing, 15:00, with Domenico Bianculli and Seung Yeob Shin

Julien Desmulier has more than ten years of experience in software testing, with particularly deep expertise in the telecommunications, aviation and finance sectors. As an ISTQB certified trainer, he coaches and trains development and test teams at Q-Leap’s clients to improve their quality assurance processes.

His skills cover both the strategic side of quality assurance within organisations and the technical side of test automation and performance testing.

Workshop 4 Same Starting Point for Testers and AI: Q-Guard Knows How Your Application Is Really Used, 16:40

Sylvain Perez is CEO of Q-Leap, the Luxembourg software quality company that organises LSTE, and CTO and Product Manager of Q-BOT.

He joined Q-Leap in 2014 as Senior Solution Architect and has led the company since 2016. Before that, he spent more than fifteen years building enterprise software as an engineer and solution architect, notably at Société Générale, Sword Group, RBC Investor Services and Arhs Cube.

Alongside Q-Leap, he is co-founder of Hippocrate, which develops Sigmund, a practice-management application for mental health professionals in Luxembourg, and a founding board member of LinkFacts.

At LSTE 2025 he opened the event and co-led the hands-on lab “Automating Mobile 2FA in Secured Environments with Q-Bot”.

Workshop 5 Breaking the 2FA Testing Barrier with Q-Bot, 15:05, with Nikola Krstic and João Português

Nikola Krstic is a technical tester at Q-Leap. He has worked for several years in demanding environments, particularly in the banking sector, and his hands-on experience feeds directly into the development of Q-Bot.

Workshop 5 Breaking the 2FA Testing Barrier with Q-Bot, 15:05, with Sylvain Perez and João Português

After several years at Q-Leap, João Português joined the Testing Factory of POST Luxembourg. He still contributes to the development of Q-Bot, bringing his expertise in test environments and automation.

Workshop 5 Breaking the 2FA Testing Barrier with Q-Bot, 15:05, with Sylvain Perez and Nikola Krstic

Gerd Fladrich has more than 20 years of experience in quality engineering, test management and enterprise ALM.

He helps organisations in banking, insurance, the public sector and other regulated industries set up efficient software delivery processes, with a strong focus on quality, traceability, compliance and transparency.

He has extensive experience with OpenText ADM Octane, Jira/Xray and Azure DevOps, agile delivery, DevOps integration, requirements management, test governance and enterprise-wide quality transformation.

Keynote Beyond Jira: Where Testing Meets Continuous Delivery, 16:30

Workshop 6 Test Management in the Age of AI: From Basics to MCP, 17:30

Keynote I Told the AI to Write My Tests. It Did. Now What?, 17:30, with Alessandro Merola

Keynote I Told the AI to Write My Tests. It Did. Now What?, 17:30, with Emiliana Pali

Atreyam (Leo) Sharma is Co-Founder and Vice President (Technology) at Workshop4Me, where he brings his engineering background to youth technology education and innovative learning approaches.

He is active in Luxembourg’s AI and digital ecosystem: at Nexus Luxembourg 2026 he moderated the panel “Applied AI: Turning Intelligence into Real-World Impact”, and at the United Nations Digital Cooperation Day 2026 in New York he took part in a roundtable on local action for digital inclusion, representing Lëtz Make SDGs Happen and Workshop4Me.

In 2026 he was named one of the Faces of Luxembourg by LuXembourg – Let’s Make It Happen, together with Avanti Sharma, whom he already supported on stage at LSTE 2025.

Closing Closes the day at 18:20