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Employee with entrepreneurial attitude. Interview with Maaret Pyhajarvi

Maaret Pyhajarvi is a tester extraordinaire specializing in exploratory testing. She is a software specialist with soft spots for hands-on testing, helping teams grow and building successful products and businesses.
16 June 2015
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Maaret Pyhäjärvi is a tester extraordinaire specializing in exploratory testing. She is a software specialist with soft spots for hands-on testing, helping teams grow and building successful products and businesses.

She’s been working with software since 1995 in various roles and delivers talks as popular speaker in Finland as well as internationally. She works as a tester at Granlund and trains testing on the side through Altom.

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