Multi-user Testing Strategies with Playwright | Chicago Meetup

The Test Tribe 6th Chicago Meetup – Multi-user Testing Strategies with Playwright

Everyone is building faster. But are they testing smarter?
As applications grow more complex and user roles more varied, single-user testing simply isn't enough. The 6th Chicago Meetup brings together QA engineers, developers, and automation enthusiasts to explore how Playwright can be leveraged to tackle one of modern testing's most underrated challenges - multi-user scenarios.
Join us for an evening of real-world insights, practical techniques, and great conversation with Chicago's growing QA and engineering community.

Event Details

• Date: 2nd June 2026
• Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CST
• Venue: Association Forum, Chicago, Illinois
• Session: Multi-user Testing Strategies with Playwright
• Speaker: Nieky, Senior Software Architect at Slalom Build

About the Session

End-to-end (e2e) testing is increasingly important for rapid and iterative application development. However, certain features demand robust multi-user testing to ensure proper functionality across various roles and permissions.
In this session, Nieky walks through how to define scenario-based configuration matrices to dynamically create and leverage Playwright's browser contexts - simulating various devices and authentication states.

The session covers the fundamentals of browser and authentication simulation, explores multi-user interactions, and demonstrates how to handle dynamically defined user scenarios. You'll also learn techniques for streamlining and scaling your testing processes using well-structured configurations with tools like hooks and fixtures.

Key Takeaways

• Most applications and product use cases are inherently multi-user - and your tests should reflect that
• Techniques to validate more complex features are important to scaling not just a platform, but a product as well
• Multi-user features are very testable and should not be overlooked

About the Speaker

Nieky is a web enthusiast and technologist specializing in modern web development techniques and tooling. With passions for UI/UX design, systems architecture, serverless and edge runtimes, and all things TypeScript, he finds purpose in implementing intuitive, enjoyable applications and tools for general consumers and fellow developers.
As a Senior Software Architect at Slalom Build, Nieky leads teams in delivering scalable, innovative solutions across various industries. His recent work primarily focuses on mobile and consumer platform development, secure information sharing, and agentic development techniques. Outside of work, Nieky enjoys contributing to the developer community by writing technical articles, aiming to share knowledge and encourage thoughtful innovation.

Why You Should Attend

• Learn how to build robust multi-user test scenarios using Playwright
• Understand browser context and authentication simulation in practice
• Discover how to scale your testing processes with hooks, fixtures, and structured configurations
• Gain practical techniques applicable to complex, role-based applications

About The Test Tribe
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