October 6-8, 2026Next up
HUSTEF 2026
Budapest, Hungary
One Agent to Watch Them All: Building an AI Test Monitor. A full-day, hands-on tutorial framed in a Lord of the Rings narrative.
Functional Architect · AI in SDLC
Paula Bassagañas
I lead the Enterprise Development Platform and the adoption of AI across the software development lifecycle at Boehringer Ingelheim, for around 2,000 developers. I also founded Testing Fantasy, where people learn testing through stories and quests instead of slides.
The question I care about is the one testing taught me years ago: not how fast we can build, but how we keep trusting what we build.
Experience with
- Testing Fantasy
- Boehringer Ingelheim
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Lidl
- Roche
Open to connect
- Years in software & quality
- 11+Years in software & quality
- Average session rating
- 4.5/5Average session rating
- Delegates who rated them
- 125Delegates who rated them
On stage in
- Vienna
- Barcelona
- Edinburgh
- Potsdam
- Amsterdam
- Athens
- Oslo
- Budapest
- Valencia
- Antwerp
Upcoming
Where to find me next
Hands-on tutorials and talks on test automation, AI and quality engineering. Come and say hello, or invite me to your conference.
October 27-28, 2026
VLC Testing 2026
Valencia, Spain
Testus Patronus: No es magia, es IA con contexto. Main stage, day one of Spain's largest software testing festival.
November 4-5, 2026
AutomationSTAR 2026
Antwerp, Belgium
One Agent to Watch Them All. Tutorial B on the morning of 4 November.
Journey
Roles, talks and tutorials
11 years across diagnostics, retail payments and pharma, from validating laboratory systems to leading a developer platform and AI in the SDLC. All of it alongside the conference stage and the university classroom.
July 2026 - PresentRole
Founder
Testing Fantasy
Testing Fantasy is a world-class learning experience for adults, built on one idea: curiosity is the only real glue between learning and long-term memory. Every workshop is a story and a quest, and every chapter teaches a real skill: test design, risk thinking, automation, AI in the SDLC. I design the worlds and the quests, build the material, and deliver the workshops for teams, conferences and public cohorts.
- Founder
- Learning Design
- Workshops
- Test Design
- Risk Thinking
- AI in the SDLC
- Teaching
June 2026Speaking
EuroSTAR 2026
One Agent to Watch Them All: Building an AI Test Monitor
Opening tutorial of the conference in Oslo: building an autonomous agent with Model Context Protocols that watches CI/CD pipelines, reads build outcomes and failing commits, and surfaces root causes on its own.
8.24/10Excellent41 respondents
“Best tutorial this year! Great opening energy, and you adapted to the room perfectly. I'm definitely leveraging your Sauron Tower analogy to explain AI.”
- Conference
- Tutorial
- AI Agents
- MCP
- CI/CD
Kicking off EuroSTAR 2026 with a bang with Paula Bassagañas Òdena. One agent to rule them all. A great take on how powerful agents can be in pipelines and really well explained using concepts from Lord of the Rings.
May 2026Speaking
WeTest.Athens 2026
Testus Patronus: No Magic, Just AI with Your Company Context
Half-day workshop on building a RAG assistant that understands your own product context and documentation, delivered to a packed room of more than 130 attendees.
“A packed room, lots of discussions, and huge interest around AI. From practical AI applications in testing to the importance of using company-specific context effectively, Paula guided attendees through real-world approaches that move beyond hype and into actionable solutions.”
- Conference
- Workshop
- Generative AI
- RAG
Special thanks to Paula Bassagañas Òdena for all the insights and the really cool idea discussions. Amazing workshop and great job overall.
April 2026 - PresentRole
Functional Architect
Boehringer Ingelheim
Functional Architect for the Enterprise Development Platform and AI in the software development lifecycle, serving an IT organisation of around 2,000 internal developers. I led the company-wide GitHub Copilot rollout and its chargeback model, and now drive agentic development practices, the SDLC AI Marketplace and the MCP registry that gives AI agents governed access to tools.
- Enterprise Architecture
- AI in the SDLC
- Developer Platform
- GitHub Copilot
- Agentic Development
- MCP Registry
- Governance
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Feedback
What people say
Ratings from conference delegates, and words from colleagues and students I have worked with and taught.
- Average rating across rated sessions
- 4.5/5Average rating across rated sessions
- Conference delegates who scored them
- 125Conference delegates who scored them
- Award-listed tutorials
- 4Award-listed tutorials
A huge thank you to all the amazing speakers for sharing their expertise. I have to give a special shout-out to Paula Bassagañas Òdena. Your tutorial was outstanding and a personal highlight of the conference!
LLeonid Klimenko
SDET · TeamViewer
I want to add a special thank you to Paula Bassagañas Òdena for a great and so well prepared tutorial on building our own RAG.
OOleksandra Kalmykova
Staff Software Engineer, Test · FDJ United
Paula Bassagañas Òdena's tutorial, One Agent to Rule Them All, proved that The Lord of the Rings makes perfect sense if you view it as a massive, poorly managed, traumatizing IT project.
Read the articleSSergiusz Golec
Wrote an article built on the tutorial
Attending a tutorial by Paula Bassagañas Òdena is a no-regret move! Her knowledge combined with her enthusiasm and storytelling capabilities makes every tutorial a true joy filled with practical learnings you can start applying immediately!
SSonja Nešić
Staff Engineer · bol
Full house at Paula's master class! An interesting perspective on how to create a RAG in order to help testers cope with the huge amount of information.
AAlmudena Vivanco
Principal Performance Engineer · SCRM Lidl International Hub
Best tutorial this year! Great opening energy, and you adapted to the room perfectly. I'm definitely leveraging your Sauron Tower analogy to explain AI.
CConference delegate
Tutorial feedback · EuroSTAR 2026
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Testing Fantasy
Join the guild
A learning experience for adults, built on one idea: only what surprises us stays with us. Testing Fantasy teaches testing through stories and quests, forged over years of hands-on tutorials at EuroSTAR, Agile Testing Days, AutomationSTAR, WeTest and HUSTEF.
Stories and quests, not slides
Every workshop is a world to walk through. Curiosity is what makes the lesson stick.
Skills that transfer on Monday
Test design, risk thinking, automation and AI in the SDLC, each taught through a chapter of the story.
For teams, conferences and cohorts
Bring a quest to your team, book one for your conference, or join a public cohort.
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On stage and in the lab
Conferences, classrooms and the diagnostics systems behind the testing work.
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Contact
Let’s talk
Looking for a speaker, a hands-on tutorial for your conference, or a workshop for your team? Happy to talk about developer platforms, AI in software development, quality, or how people actually learn.
Based in
Biberach an der Riss, Germany
Workshops
testingfantasy.com