Heleen Van Grootven
Testing Engineer
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After a decade in communications, I switched to testing—turns out that I really like figuring out how things work and how they fit together. Always open to learning more and meeting new people!
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A major issue hits the production environment. While we want to know what happens next, we need to ask what should've happened before?
On the 15th of January 2026 myself and Ujjwal Kumar Singh joined a call and pressed record. We were curious to see what would happen. A few weeks later I’d done the same with Neil Taylor and Clare ...
In this week's episode of This Week in Quality, we talked about grief. Grief may be a strange topic to talk about in technology, but I think it's an important one. Much of the industry is shifting....
A thoughtful, vulnerable episode about grief, identity, AI, writing, and the emotional cost of trying to influence quality in organisations that don’t always listen.
This is the first time we've had six people with cameras on on the TWiQ stage. Woop! Woop! 🎉Good humans being open and honest about things. Thank you, Judy, for leading the way. 🤩
Today's This Week in Quality had the hosts with their cameras on for the very first time! ... And since I could see them, I was extremely convinced that they could see me as well. Cue lots of emoti...
Spent some time listening to the Call for Insights with Simon Tomes and Heleen Van Grootven. She talked about "Finding joy in your role" and how embracing her ADHD made her job more enjoyable. I ga...
One of the big things about ADHD is time blindness.
Heleen Van Grootven explains how time blindness impacts her approach to working. This is a snippet from her excellent Call for Insights: Finding ...
Recently, I had the great pleasure of doing a Call for Insights with Simon Tomes, where I got to talk about having ADHD and some of the ways I was able to structure my work around my brain. Here's...
With SQEC now fully live, the community swaps stories about new roles, flaky tests, accessibility audits, and why shared language, pairing, and “being the duck” can make quality work easier.
This is one of the questions asked by Heleen Van Grootven for the :
AMA about transition from Manual to Automation TesterThis is the issue many of us face in their day to day life. I met couple of ...
The way software development works is uniquely suited to neurodivergence
