About us
Welcome to the Innovate QA Meetup Group! Our group is dedicated to exploring cutting-edge topics in Test Automation, Engineering Leadership, Quality Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Information Technology, Innovations in Software Testing, Web, IoT and Mobile Technology, and best QA and Software Engineering Practices. Join us for informative discussions, networking opportunities, and hands-on workshops with industry experts. Let's collaborate and innovate together in the world of software testing and quality assurance!
Upcoming events
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The Role of API Testing in Agentic AI: Practical Perspectives
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Subscribe to the Innovate QA NewsletterSpeaker: Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni | LinkedIn
Topic: The API Worked, the Agent Still Failed: The Role of API Testing in Agentic AI Testing, Practical Perspectives
Agenda:
🕘 9:00–9:05 AM PST — Welcome
🕘 9:05–9:55 AM PST — Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni | LinkedIn — The API Worked, the Agent Still Failed: The Role of API Testing in Agentic AI Testing, Practical Perspectives
🕘 9:55–10:00 AM PST — Q&A & ClosingSummary :
AI agents can fail even when the underlying APIs appear to work correctly. A wrong tool call, a retry that duplicates an action, a timeout treated as success, or a handover that loses context can lead to unexpected outcomes that remain hidden if we only evaluate the agent's final response.In this session, Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni will explore how existing API testing practices can be applied to testing agentic AI systems. Using a hypothetical banking example, he will demonstrate how agent behaviour interacts with APIs and how different tests can identify failures before release.
The session will cover contract and schema validation for agent tools, permission and scope testing, retry and timeout handling, idempotency, lost acknowledgements, error-path testing, and verification of API call sequences.
Attendees will leave with a practical set of API-level tests they can incorporate into their pre-release checks for AI agents.
Takeaways :
What attendees will learn:- How API testing practices can be applied to agentic AI systems.
- How to validate contracts and schemas for AI agent tools.
- How to test permission boundaries and ensure agents operate within their authorised scope.
- How to identify failures involving retries, timeouts, idempotency, and lost acknowledgements.
- How to test error handling and verify the sequence of API calls made by an agent.
- How to build a practical set of API-level tests for pre-release validation of AI agents.
🎙️ Speaker Opportunities at Our Meetups
Have expertise in QA, leadership, or tech skills you'd love to share? We're always looking for engaging speakers for our monthly meetups. This is a fantastic platform to showcase your knowledge, connect with the community, and inspire others. If you're interested submit your topic here — we’d love to hear from you!
29 attendees
Building AI Agents That Attack Your AI and Build a Test Suite
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Topic: Building AI agents that attack your AI, and turning what they find into a test suite
Agenda:
🕛 12:00–12:05 PM PST — Welcome
🕛 12:05–12:55 PM PST — Gregory Goldshteyn | LinkedIn - Building AI agents that attack your AI, and turning what they find into a test suite
🕛 12:55–1:00 PM PST — Q&A & ClosingSummary:
AI applications can be tested with traditional methods, but adversarial testing becomes much harder when the system can reason, interact across multiple turns, and use external tools.In this session, Gregory Goldshteyn will show how to build an AI attack agent that generates adversarial prompts, evaluates the target application's responses, learns from failed attempts, and continuously improves its attacks.
The session will explore how this approach can uncover issues such as prompt injection, sensitive information disclosure, and excessive agency. Gregory will also demonstrate how multi-turn attacks can gradually escalate toward a specific goal and why testing individual prompts may miss these behaviors.
The final step is turning those findings into something QA teams can use repeatedly. Gregory will show how successful attacks can become a regression corpus, how attack success rates can be measured, and how these tests can be replayed in CI whenever prompts, models, or tools change.
Takeways:
What attendees will learn:1. How to build an AI attack agent using an attacker model, target application, judge model, and feedback loop
2. How to measure attack success rates across multiple trials
3. How to turn successful jailbreaks into repeatable regression tests
4. How multi-turn attacks can expose weaknesses that single-prompt testing may miss
5. How to test AI agents that interact with external tools
6. How indirect prompt injection can cause an AI agent to take unintended actions
7. How to incorporate AI security testing into practical QA workflows and CI pipelines🎙️ Speaker Opportunities at Our Meetups
Have expertise in QA, leadership, or tech skills you'd love to share? We're always looking for engaging speakers for our monthly meetups. This is a fantastic platform to showcase your knowledge, connect with the community, and inspire others. If you're interested, submit your topic here — we'd love to hear from you!
33 attendees
Go for Gold: How to Get the Interview and Win the Offer
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Topic: Go for Gold: How to Get the Interview and Win the Offer
Agenda:
🕛 12:00–12:05 PM PST — Welcome
🕛 12:05–12:55 PM PST — Oxana Willeke | LinkedIn — Go for Gold: How to Get the Interview and Win the Offer
🕛 12:55–1:00 PM PST — Q&A & ClosingSummary :
Getting an interview and securing a job offer can be challenging in today's competitive job market. With AI changing recruitment and interview processes, candidates need to understand what employers are looking for and how to demonstrate their skills effectively.In this session, Oxana Willeke will share practical strategies for getting interviews and standing out throughout the hiring process.
She will explore what has changed in interviews in 2026, including the impact of AI, and explain what recruiters and hiring managers really look for when evaluating candidates.Attendees will learn how to demonstrate their skills with clear evidence and present their experience effectively to improve their chances of securing an offer.
Takeaways :
What attendees will learn:- How to get noticed and secure job interviews.
- What has changed in interview processes in 2026, including the impact of AI.
- What recruiters and hiring managers really look for when evaluating candidates.
- How to demonstrate skills and experience with clear, relevant evidence.
- How to communicate professional strengths more effectively during interviews.
- Practical strategies to stand out and improve your chances of winning a job offer.
🎙️ Speaker Opportunities at Our Meetups
Have expertise in QA, leadership, or tech skills you'd love to share? We're always looking for engaging speakers for our monthly meetups. This is a fantastic platform to showcase your knowledge, connect with the community, and inspire others. If you're interested submit your topic here — we’d love to hear from you!
18 attendees
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