Travis Hatridge

Travis is the Marketing Manager at spriteCloud. He has an MSc in Marketing and a background in content marketing. He enjoys cooking, travelling, and long walks through the forest.

“Testers around the world” interview with Facundo Paolini

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Facundo interview with Free Range Testers

https://youtu.be/HmN5-T7FBLo Our Senior Test Automation Engineer Facundo Paolini was recently interviewed by Patricio Miner from the Spanish language-based website, blog, and podcast Free Range Testers. Much like Patricio who is a Test Engineer and expat from his native Argentina, Facundo shares his experiences of becoming a tester and making the move to another country.  In …

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Press release: spriteCloud closes Amsterdam office in preparation for move

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spriteCloud closes Amsterdam office in preparation for move

spriteCloud closes its Hoofddorppleinbuurt office in preparation for a move into a new space to support its growth strategy in the Dutch market. Amsterdam, The Netherlands – August 1st, 2022 – spriteCloud B.V., an Amsterdam-based quality assurance testing and cybersecurity services provider, is announcing the closure of its office at Generaal Vetterstraat 72b as renovation …

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Press Release: James Davis, Chief Technology Officer for spriteCloud Consulting

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James Davis, Chief Technology Officer for spriteCloud Consulting

James Davis joins spriteCloud as CTO to help drive growth and innovation for QA consulting business. Amsterdam, The Netherlands – July 28, 2022 – spriteCloud B.V., an Amsterdam-based quality assurance testing and cybersecurity services provider, appoints James Davis as the Chief Technology Officer of its consulting group. As CTO, James plans to support spriteCloud’s growth …

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Press Release: spriteCloud appoints Dirkjan Kaper as Director of Testing

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Dirkjan Kaper appointed as Director of Testing for spriteCloud consulting

Dirkjan joins spriteCloud’s consulting group to help grow spriteCloud into one of the leading QA and software testing parties in the Netherlands. Amsterdam, The Netherlands – July 20, 2022 – spriteCloud B.V., an Amsterdam-based quality assurance testing and cybersecurity services provider, brings Dirkjan Kaper on board as Director of Testing for its consulting business. Dirkjan …

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Moving to the Netherlands to Work in Tech – Podcast Series

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Moving to the Netherlands to Work in Tech

In the second episode of ‘It Works on My Machine’ we are joined by our colleagues Julia, Vamsi, Feyza, Kerem, and Umut to discuss why they decided to move to the Netherlands to work at spriteCloud.   We will explore their experiences of moving, living, and working in the Netherlands and which challenges they faced. We’ve …

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Press Release: Justin Leavenworth appointed as spriteCloud Group CEO

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Justin Leavenworth appointed as Group CEO at spriteCloud

To facilitate the transition from technical leadership to organisation leadership, Justin Leavenworth was appointed Group CEO at spriteCloud. Amsterdam, The Netherlands – April 21, 2022 – spriteCloud B.V., an Amsterdam-based quality assurance testing and cybersecurity services provider, is announcing the appointment of Justin Leavenworth as Chief Executive Officer (CEO).  In 2020 spriteCloud appointed Justin Leavenworth …

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Moving to the Netherlands to Work in Tech – IWOMM EP2 PT3

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"It Works on My Machine" Episoe 2 Part 3 - Moving to the Netherlands to work in tech

In the second episode of ‘It Works on My Machine’ we are joined by our colleagues Julia, Vamsi, Feyza, Kerem, and Umut to discuss why they decided to move to the Netherlands to work at spriteCloud.  In part three of our podcast episode of “Moving to the Netherlands to work in Tech” we discuss many …

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Ben Automation Case Study

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Ben x spriteClould case study

Implementing automated testing at a leading telecom provider Ben NL, or Ben, is a Dutch virtual mobile network operated by T-Mobile Netherlands with roughly 600,000 users. Its users are mainly students and people within the 30-40-year-old age group. Ben offers its voice, text, and data services at a highly discounted rate and this is achieved …

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A year at spriteCloud with Jellert and Nafeez

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A year at spriteCloud: an interview with Jellert and Nafeez

One year ago, spriteCloud had the great fortune to hire two amazing test engineers, Jellert Wijnands and Nafeez Virani. They joined spriteCloud during a very chaotic time as the coronavirus pandemic raged around the world and created a lot of uncertainty for our industry.  Today, we are happy to celebrate Jellert Wijnands and Nafeez Virani’s …

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When Software Fails, part 1

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When Software Fails, part 1

As quality assurance and software testing experts, often our biggest competitor is the choice for organisations to not test. More accurately, some organisations believe their team of developers is adequate to test the latest features rather than hiring test engineers. As software test engineers we believe that this thought process is misguided. Developers – whose …

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spriteTalk #87: Automated Contract Testing

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Automated Contract Testing presentation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqStyQkgfvE Our Senior Test Automation Engineer, Murilo is a wizard when it comes to automation. Fortunately for spriteCloud, he is also very good at training people on automation.  During our weekly Friday afternoon drinks and technical talks, what we call our spriteTalks, Murilo introduced automated contract testing to the spriteCloud team. During the presentation, he …

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Internet of Things Security with Arrows Group

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Internet of Things Security webinar

https://vimeo.com/536360634 At the end of March, our managing director of cybersecurity services, Justin Leavenworth, took part in a webinar discussing the rise of IoT and how to combat cyber risks. For those not so familiar with the subject of the Internet of Things (IoT), these networked devices are predicted to change not only our personal …

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eCommerce Testing: best practices for higher conversions

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Best practices for testing ecommerce platforms.

Table of Contents For most retail businesses, the holiday shopping season is typically the most important period of the year to earn revenue. In some cases this is also when they get the most of their yearly revenue.  To do this though, a seamless user experience is key. When a small inconvenience in the order …

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Getting to know us: Inna, our new Test Engineer

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Getting to know us: Inna, our new Test Engineer.

Further strengthening our complement of incredible testers originally from Ukraine, is Inna. I think what makes Inna such a strong test engineer is her interest in continually developing her skills and her love of trying new things. This combined with her strong work ethic means that her addition is going to make almost any team …

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Getting to know us: Sebastiaan, our new Software Engineer Intern

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Getting to know us: Sebastiaan, Software Engineer Intern

We’ve been very fortunate at spriteCloud to hire a lot of great interns to assist in the development of our SaaS product Calliope Pro. We don’t know if it’s just Gijs’ management skills or if there is something in the water at these schools, but we suspect its Gijs and the raw talent of our …

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Getting to know us: Max, our new Test Engineer

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Max, our new Test Engineer

A few months ago we were lucky enough to have Max join spriteCloud as a Test Engineer. It’s incredible how someone so young and fresh-faced comes with a ton of digital agency side functional testing experience. Aside from Max’s experience and high level of taking ownership of projects, he is also just a great person …

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Five Best Practices for Successful Salesforce Testing

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Five Berst Practices for Salesforce Testing

Salesforce is a popular customer relationship management (CRM) application and ecosystem that has grown rapidly in market share and maturity over the last ten years or so. Salesforce’s CRM offering and its accompanying customer service, marketing automation, and application development features have made it an incredibly popular choice for enterprise-level organisations. As with any complex, …

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spriteCloud nominated for Computable Award 2020

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Noimated for the Computable Awards 2020

We are happy to announce that spriteCloud has been nominated for Computable.nl’s Service Award for 2020.  It is always an honour to be recognised for our contribution to the software development and quality assurance world, and to also be included with organistions of this calibre. Even if we don’t win the award, this nomination tells …

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