Quality Engineering Meetup #1

In collaboration with Semrush and with three very sophisticated talks on our stage, Qase is presenting the first Meetup on Quality Engineering in Barcelona.

Please note, that to enter the building, you'll need to show an official ID (passport, NIE/DNI, etc.) to security. Be sure to provide your full name when signing up.

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The doors open at 6:00 pm, the first talk starts at 6:30 pm, and the meetup lasts until 9:30 pm.

1. Júlia Cantavella, Lead Product Manager @ Qase: Mind over Model: User Psychology in GenAI Products

Great UX for GenAI products starts with understanding how people think, not how models work. Users bring expectations, assumptions, and emotional reactions that shape whether an AI-powered experience feels trustworthy or frustrating. In this talk, Júlia explores how people interpret AI-assisted interactions, why they tend to project human qualities onto systems, and how cognitive biases—like anchoring, confirmation bias, and the Dunning–Kruger effect—influence their perception of accuracy and intelligence.

We’ll also dig into practical UX approaches that help teams anticipate these biases and design clearer, more supportive experiences.

2. Valeryia Zimnitskaya, QA Lead @ SEMRUSH: When Design meets QA: building a bug-resilient UI/UX together

When design and QA teams stop working in silos, something remarkable happens: bugs decrease, releases run more smoothly, and everyone—from teams to users to businesses—ends up happier.

This talk explores what real collaboration between design and QA looks like in practice. We’ll look at how bringing testing considerations into the earliest design stages can prevent problems before they start, and how design reviews can naturally evolve into part of a shared quality process instead of a separate checkpoint. You’ll hear how visual regression testing and emerging AI tools can act as safety nets for the user interface, catching unexpected changes before they reach production. And throughout, we’ll focus on the habits, communication styles, and practical techniques that help design and testing teams stay aligned—not just to ship faster, but to build better together.

3. Alexandr Ilin: How To Use Criticality Tiers for Higher Quality

Every outage feels like a crisis. Product owners fear KPIs are at risk, engineers scramble for fixes, DevOps jump on alerts, and QA teams get hit with a wave of questions, test failures, and urgent retests. Yet in many companies, no one can clearly say how critical a failing service actually is to the business. Aleksandr will show how adopting criticality tiers gives Quality Engineering teams simple, structured way to understand true impact, set the right expectations, define meaningful SLAs, and focus quality efforts where they matter most.

4. beer, snacks, discussions :)