News and PR
This category page contains blog posts, interviews, and press release that speak about recent news in the software testing world and news from spriteCloud as well. If we are attending a particular event, celebrating a milestone, or have important news about a new service offering, this is the place you will find it.
For example, we’ve recently launched a cybersecurity and penetration testing arm, which is doing quite well. The press release announcing the addition of penetration testing series can be found here.
You are here because you are interested in software testing, which means you might find like our interview series called ‘Testing Titans,’ where we talk with knowledgeable or influential software testing and quality assurance practitioners. Read the first of the interview series with Bas Dijkstra, a test automation consultant and trainer.
In July of 2019, spriteCloud celebrated its 10-year anniversary. The accompanying blog post is a fun way to see spriteCloud’s growth from 2009 to 2019. It’s also great looking at pictures of spriteys, past and present.
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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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 …
Press Release: James Davis, Chief Technology Officer for spriteCloud Consulting Read More »
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 …
Press Release: spriteCloud appoints Dirkjan Kaper as Director of Testing Read More »
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 …
Press Release: Justin Leavenworth appointed as spriteCloud Group CEO Read More »
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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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 this second part of the episode, we will explore our colleague’s experiences with getting a social security number …
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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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https://youtu.be/emPDXFoaPy8 In this latest post in our “Getting to know us” series we got the opportunity to talk with Travis Hatridge, the marketing manager here at spriteCloud. As spriteCloud’s service and product offerings are focused on software testing, DevOps, and test automation, we typically shine a light on our technical staff. This time, however, we …
Getting to know us: Three years at spriteCloud with Travis Read More »
In this first pilot episode of the podcast, we talk with spriteCloud’s Chief Operations Officer, Martin Cunnington, and Quality Assurance Engineer, Roel Wijker, about Accessibility Testing. It might surprise you to know that between 15-20% of people (approximately 1 billion people) have a disability of some form. Accessibility Testing helps developers ensure that their application …
Accessibility Testing with Martin and Roel – IWOMM EP1 Read More »
A year ago, we were fortunate to have Max Kunkels join our team of testers. Max started working at spriteCloud during an uncertain time for our industry due to the pandemic. This got us especially curious to know how his first year went as he was meeting colleagues and clients through a screen rather than …
A year at spriteCloud with Max Read More »
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 …
A year at spriteCloud with Jellert and Nafeez Read More »
If you know spriteCloud, you know about our great reputation when it comes to providing expert software testing solutions to clients of all sizes. You might also know what our website looked like and how it was pretty outdated. ‘Was’ being the key word there. After several years putting marketing aside to focus on other …
Introducing, the new spriteCloud website design Read More »
Effective today, the 1st of May, our test engineers Bozena and Inna will now be leading our team of test engineers as Line Managers. Congratulations to both of them! spriteCloud has the greatest confidence in your abilities to not only continue providing our clients with the highest level of software testing but to also lead …
New spriteCloud Line Managers Read More »
Our long-time business development manager Baruch has recently been promoted to our Director of Consulting Services. After joining five years ago and learning a lot in quality assurance and project sales, this promotion suits his projected career path. This change of role means more responsibility regarding service delivery, quality of work and identifying new service …
Baruch Annink promoted to Director of Consulting Services Read More »
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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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 …
Getting to know us: Inna, our new Test Engineer Read More »
In this latest “Getting to Know Us” post we talk to one of our new QA engineers, Bozena. Bozena is a woman of many interests and talents. This makes her a joy to work with and a fun person to have on during our weekly Friday afternoon tech talks and social drinks. She also takes …
Getting to know us: Bozena, our new QA Engineer Read More »
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 …
Getting to know us: Max, our new Test Engineer Read More »
