Quality Engineering Meetup #1

In collaboration with Rarible, Qase is presenting the first Meetup on Quality Engineering in Lisbon.

We’re bringing you three deep-dive talks — all designed to challenge the way you think about quality, testing, and collaboration.

Please expect great conversations, snacks, and drinks. See you there!

AGENDA
1. Pavel Malykh, Head of QA @ Rarible: Production Is Part of QA: Metrics, Money, and Missed Bugs
What if your tests pass but users can’t buy anything? Pavel Malykh shares how his journey through high-load systems and the crypto world led him to see monitoring as an essential part of QA. This talk explores how shifting both left and right — into requirements and production — makes QA more effective, more influential, and more connected to real business impact.

2. Yaroslav Astafyev, Founder @ bout.ai, CTO @ omg.one: QA Starter Kit
Choosing the right QA strategy is critical for a startup’s success, but too often it is treated as an afterthought. In this talk, Yaroslav shares practical insights from years of building and scaling companies. He will break down how to select the right QA approaches depending on your product, stage, and business priorities — helping you avoid common mistakes and set up quality practices that actually fit your context.

3. Vitaly Sharovatov, developer advocate @ Qase: QA Myths Busting: A Practical Guide to Higher Quality
Our industry is filled with myths: from “quality can be measured” to “more testing means higher quality” and from “QA slows down work” to “testers are responsible for quality”. Vitaly believed them all too once, then he started questioning these beliefs when he saw how product quality improved when they reduced code coverage from 70% to 40% — he realised that quality metrics are only proxy metrics and their correlation should be revisited regularly.
Together with Vitaly we will see what dangers all these myths pose to both teams and products, and how they should be debunked and overcome.