Honoring #IconsOfQuality: Maaret Pyhäjärvi, Vaisala

BrowserStack celebrates the passion of testers by honoring industry leaders like Maaret Pyhäjärvi, Principle Test Engineer at Vaisala. She shares her knowledge and experience through trainings, courses, workshops, and speaking engagements. As a test engineer, she focuses on continuous improvement across teams, working with multiple teams on selected products, and testing within one team. Exciting trends in software development include engineering productivity, ensemble programming, AI in testing, and AI as the target of testing. Maaret is currently working on passion projects such as writing books on ensemble programming and exploratory testing, teaching at Exploratory Testing Academy, contributing to the Selenium community, and helping the Finnish IT sector. She's reading Collaborating with the Enemy by Adam Kahane and No More Feedback: Cultivate Consciousness at Work by Carol Sanford. Her favorite software testing quotes include those from Cem Kaner, Alistair Cockburn, and herself. For women interested in entering the QA space, she advises to just get started and seek guidance from mentors. A fun fact about her is that she became a tester after studying Greek language when Greek Microsoft Office needed testing in Finland. If she could go back in time, she wishes she knew that software development is a social activity and that continuous learning and exploration are key to success in the field.