Erik van der Kamp

Author and Founder @Kazandim Solutions

Erik van der Kamp is a Senior Quality Engineering leader with over 20 years of enterprise experience building and scaling QA organizations across strategy, automation, and governance. He is the author of Much Ado About Automation: A Playwright Guide for Java.

As Founder and Principal Consultant at Kazandim Solutions, Erik partners with organizations to evolve their quality practices from reactive testing to proactive engineering. His focus areas include sustainable automation, cultural transformation, and measurable outcomes.

Keynote Speech: Much Ado About Automation: 
A Playwright Roadmap from First Test to Enterprise Architecture

“Much Ado About Automation” is a comprehensive guide to building sustainable, enterprise-grade automation from the ground up using Playwright. In this session, the author walks attendees through the book’s structure, each act represents a stage in the automation maturity journey from writing your first test to designing enterprise-level automation architecture.

Topics covered span the full spectrum of modern test automation including core Playwright concepts, framework design, and advanced testing scenarios such as mobile and API testing. It also covers test data strategies, CI/CD integration with quality gates, and AI assisted testing along with many other topics. Included is an extensive appendix that serves as an indispensable reference for Playwright and TestNG methods, cheat sheets and a troubleshooting guide.

Whether you are just starting your automation journey or leading an enterprise testing organization, this session offers a practical roadmap for building automation that survives real teams, real budgets, and real production systems.