Sebastian Małyska

PQB President, ISTQB Secretary, Engineer in Test in IBM, SmartCoders and Modino.io

Join my presentation on: The Quality Journey Through Web Protocols: From REST to the AI Frontier

As software architectures evolve, the way we communicate between systems becomes increasingly complex. For a Quality Expert, “testing the API” is no longer a one-size-fits-all task.
 
 
 
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Who is Sebastian Małyska?

PQB President, ISTQB Secretary, Engineer in Test in IBM, SmartCoders and Modino.io

A software quality enthusiast with over 20 years of experience proving that “it works on my machine” is not a testing strategy. Has worked as a manual tester, automation engineer, QA Lead, and QA Manager, basically wherever quality (or patience) was missing.
 
Speaker at national and international conferences and a program committee member who enjoys talking about QA almost as much as reporting other people’s bugs. Codes mainly in Python, because life is too short for bad code and even worse languages. President of the Polish Quality Board, Secretary of the ISTQB® Board, member of the IREB® community, and co-founder of ŁuczniczQA in Bydgoszcz. On a daily basis, fights for better quality, fewer critical defects, and more common sense in IT projects.

What will Sebastian Małyska be discussing?

The Quality Journey Through Web Protocols: From REST to the AI Frontier

As software architectures evolve, the way we communicate between systems becomes increasingly complex. For a Quality Expert, “testing the API” is no longer a one-size-fits-all task.

It requires a deep understanding of unique architectural styles, from the ubiquity of REST and the rigid standards of SOAP to the real-time demands of WebSockets and Webhooks.

In this session, Sebastian Małyska—drawing on 20 years of QA leadership—strips away the buzzwords to provide a practical roadmap for testing modern communication.

We will explore:

  • The “Big Five”: Actionable strategies for REST, SOAP, GraphQL, WebSockets, and Webhooks.
  • The AI-API Gap: Why 89% of developers use AI, but only 24% are ready to test APIs for AI agents.
  • The Model Context Protocol (MCP): A first look at the emerging standard that will redefine how we test AI-to-API integrations.