A4Q Global Testing Summit 2025
Review our thought leaders.
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(CEST)
09:00
Introduction by the A4Q Testing Summit Team
09:05
Erik van Veenendaal
Test Maturity Model integration (TMMi): Test Maturity in the Financial Domain
Leanne Howard & Tafline Ramos
Evolving from Testing to Continuous Quality Engineering
Nishan Portoyan
When AI Becomes Your Testing Colleague: Agentic AI in QA
Gitte Ottosen
Quality coaching – a true Swiss army knife
Erhardt Wunderlich
Qualität ist wichtig – aber was brauchen wir in Zukunft dafür?
10:00
Lilia Gargouri
Driving Quality in Enterprise Software:
The Power of Model-Based Automation
Maryna Didkovska
Testing by Developers in AI-enabled SDLC
Iosif Itkin
Test Oracles for AI-driven Testing:
Using AI to Develop Digital Twins
Clara Ramos González
Management is a Two-Way Street: Navigating Without Crashes
Alexander Frenzel
Das Testfall-Monster im Griff: Konzept zur Erstellung von KI-generierten Tests
11:00
Olivier Denoo
Life in Plastic
Anna Miazek
Internal Audit with TMMi:
Diagnosing the Issues or Driving Out the Demons?
Mesut Durukal
A Practical Demonstration of Human-AI Collaboration in Bug Analysis
Florin Manolescu
What is your testing mindset?
Mario Winter
Softwaretest in sequentiellen, hybriden, agilen oder “eigenen” Vorgehensmodellen: Wo stehen wir heute?
12:00
Anne Kramer
Reduce testing debt? Yes, but not like this!
Jan Sabak
Simulating DDOS attacks
Goce Simonovski
Integrating AI with A/B testing
Stephen Paul Platten
Stoicism & Software Testing
(Ancient Philosophy Meets Modern Methods)
Jürgen Beniermann
KI-generierter Code – Fluch oder Segen?
13:00
Julian Cambridge
Software Testing: Sequential vs Iterative
Hiral Dave
Industrial Revolutions – What, When, Where and How it impacts Software Development Life Cycle?
Mehmet Engin Saçan
Harnessing AI Agents with REST Assured for Next-Level Test Automation
Alexander Bremer
How the Whole Team approach from ISTQB aligns with the DevOps teams approach
Carsten Weise
Effizient Testen durch Automatisierung: Der neue TAE 2.0
14:00
Wim Decoutere
What’s your Test Design Debt? Avoid the Inevitable!
Martijn Goosens
Shifting Left using BDD
Matthias Hamburg & Adam Roman
The Future of Black-Box Testing
Richard Seidl
From Software Tester to Quality Wizard – Mastering the Art of Software Quality
Marius Dreier
Sicherheitsanalysen im Lebenszyklus der Funktionalen Sicherheit nach ISO 26262 – Synergien mit Cybersecurity nach ISO/SAE 21434
15:00
Michaël Pilaeten
The awkward truth of software quality
Fabian Streitel
Everyone wants to shift left, but our tests are just too slow!
John Kurowski
Balancing Act: The Dual Impact of AI and Automation on Sustainability
Ecaterina Irina Manole
Beyond the Code: Empowering Developers with Testing Essentials
16:00
Bogdan Rakočević
Synergizing TMMi and CI/CD: Continuous Test Process Improvement in the DevOps Lifecycle
Dmitrij Nikolajev
Codeless vs Code-Based Approaches in Test Automation: Benefits, Challenges, and Practical Applications
Marcel Veselka
AI-powered Test Automation: Building Bots in Playwright
Fran O’Hara
Leveraging LLMs for Agile Test Management
Matthias Hamburg
Die Zukunft des Black-Box-Tests
17:00
Rik Marselis
Celebrating 30 years of TMAP
Jeroen Mengerink & Michiel Keij
Living architecture: A quality view
Elena Treshcheva
AI Testing Explainability: Enhancing ‘AI for Testing’ with ‘AI for Mapping’
Arnika Hryszko
Quality is Not a Department, It’s a Responsibility – Shift Left in Team Practice
18:00
Sammy Kolluru
Shaping the Future of Software Testing Innovation and its Impact
Jean-François Riverin
Software Bioengineer: Crafting and Cultivating Living Software
Bruno Legeard
AI Agents in Testing: The Future is Here, But Can We Trust It?
Siddhant Sunil Wadhwani
The Era of Intelligent Testing – Transforming Testers into Skilled SDETs
19:00
Ecaterina Irina Manole
Ctrl + Alt + Adapt: Debugging Change Resistance in QA with PQ strategies
Valentina Biankini with Tihana Horvat Milković
I did it my Agile way
Brynley Scully
Testing AI for Bias: Because Even Robots Can Be Racist, Sexist and Full of Prejudice
Prapasri Kajorndech, Kunlanan Peetijade & Natkritta Chokhiranchat
KBTG: Leading-Edge of Testing: KBTG Quality’s AI
20:00
René Rohner
Keyword-Driven Testing with Robot Framework and Playwright
Mariam Abdellatif
The Ugly Truth about Selenium; Risks, Challenges and Unrealistic Expectations
Joel Oliveira
Yes, AI will take YOUR job!
21:00
Conclusion by the A4Q Testing Summit Team
Our Partners
This testing summit is organized in order to spread the importance of software quality to the world. This wouldn’t be possible without the support of our sponsors – We say thank you!.
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The Alliance 4 Qualification has the mission to create globally leading content and certification schemes in a independent environment. It was founded by different organizations with the aim to work independent from a specific exam provider or a specific training provider with a long term focus on lifelong learning.
A4Q is a new independent place to strengthen quality in the field of training and certification.
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ISTQB® is the leading global certification scheme in the field of software testing.
As of Dec 2021, ISTQB® has administered over 1.1 million exams and issued more than 806k certifications in over 130 countries. With its extensive network of Accredited Training Providers, Member Boards, and Exam Providers, ISTQB® is one of the biggest and most established vendor-neutral professional certification schemes in the world.
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Global Association for Software Quality , abbreviated GASQ, is an international exam provider and a leading association in the software quality industry.
GASQ is currently represented on over 60 national markets by more than 250 cooperation partners. Thanks to globally recognized expertise and leading certification shemes, GASQ yearly certifies over 20.000 people in Europe, Asia, North and South America, Australia and Africa in 10 different languages.
The International Software Quality Institute (iSQI) Group, with offices in Potsdam (Germany), Amsterdam (The Netherlands), London (UK) and Boston (USA), is a leading provider of certification examinations all over the world.
For 15 years, iSQI plays a significant role in certifying the know-how of IT professionals in over 100 countries on 6 continents in 10 languages. With over 30,000 certifications per year, iSQI paves the way for successful career development.
SkillsClub is the biggest club on earth in the field of Software Quality. SkillsClub is a networking community.
We are a professional organization that provides a global community for certified people with events, high-quality content, workshops, mentorship, and much more. We aim to inspire, support, and help everyone develop technical skills and excel in their careers.
The GTB (German Testing Board) is a union of committed subject matter experts and as a member of ISTQB stands for the practice-oriented qualification of software testers and systems.