About us
Welcome to the San Francisco Chapter of The Test Tribe.
The Test Tribe is the World’s Largest Software Testing Community turned EdTech Startup. Started in 2018 with a mission to give Testing Craft the glory it deserves while we co-create Smarter, prouder, and confident Testers.
We take pride in solving upskilling and growth for global Testing professionals through our unique offerings like Expert Courses, Membership, Cohorts, Offline Mixers, online Community spaces, and a lot of global Events.
At San Francisco, we do and plan to continously do meetups and other community activities for Testers.
Our offerings enable Software Testers globally to collaborate, learn, and grow together. With around 800+ Software Testing Events like Conferences, Hackathons, Meetups, Webinars, etc., and with other Community initiatives, we have reached a global footprint of over 150K+ Testers from 130+ Countries. We intend to provide life-altering growth to every single Testing professional on the planet through community and technology.
Upcoming events
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How Quality Engineering Roles Are Changing - 10th SF Bay Area Meetup
San Jose, 1631 N First St, San Jose, CA 95112, USA, San Francisco, CA, USQuality Engineering is expanding beyond test execution.
As automation handles more repetitive testing work, QEs are increasingly contributing earlier in design and development and later in CI/CD and production. AI adds another layer to that shift, both by automating parts of the testing workflow and by introducing new questions around how AI-assisted tools and AI-powered systems should be evaluated.
Join The Test Tribe’s 10th SF Bay Area Meetup for a discussion on how the Quality Engineering role is evolving, and where QEs can contribute as AI, DevOps, and continuous delivery become a larger part of the software development lifecycle.
- Event Details
Date: September 2, 2026
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT
Venue: 1631 N First St, San Jose, CA- What's on the Agenda?
How Quality Engineering Roles Are Changing
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Speaker: Alexander Stoykovych (Principal Software Engineering Lead)As automation takes on more repetitive activities such as test-script creation, test-data generation, and test maintenance, the role of a Quality Engineer can move toward broader engineering and risk-focused work.
In this session, Alexander Stoykovych will explore how Quality Engineering is becoming more integrated into the development lifecycle and DevOps practices.
The session will look at how QEs can contribute across feature design, pull-request reviews, CI/CD pipelines, ephemeral environments, and production telemetry, rather than being involved only after implementation is complete.Alexander will also discuss how the scope of quality can extend beyond functional correctness to areas such as UX, APIs, AI and algorithmic behaviour, privacy, security, fairness, production performance, and business risk.
The session will also consider where human judgement remains important as AI is used for activities such as test creation, test-data generation, and maintenance.- How This Meetup Solves Your Problem
If your QE role is still defined mainly around test execution and automation maintenance, it can be difficult to understand where the role should expand as engineering practices change.
This session will explore:
* How AI and automation can change the day-to-day responsibilities of Quality Engineers
* Where QEs can contribute through risk assessment and exploratory testing
* How quality can be considered earlier during design, development, code reviews, and CI/CD- Why Show Up on September 2?
This meetup is an opportunity to discuss how the QE role is changing without reducing the conversation to tools or automation alone.
You will be able to hear Alexander’s perspective, ask questions, compare approaches with other practitioners, and discuss how different teams are defining Quality Engineering today.
You will also meet QA professionals, Quality Engineers, SDETs, developers, and engineering leaders from the SF Bay Area community.- Become a Speaker at The Test Tribe Events
Wish to share your insights with the community at a future event?
Submit your talk idea [here]((https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8xebmOBD2WYXwGKWj7GteY-tMLaj-aZzQk88MAsE0LUiMUQ/viewform?utm_source=luma), and if it resonates with the perspective we are trying to build at our events, our team will connect with you.- About The Test Tribe
The Test Tribe is the world's largest software testing community, empowering testers globally since 2018. With 925+ events and 170K+ members across 130+ countries, we bring software professionals together to learn, grow, and connect through meetups, conferences, cohorts, masterclasses, and more.
By RSVPing, you agree to our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and consent to be contacted by The Test Tribe and our event partners.2 attendees- Network event
Agentic Workflows and Performance Testing in the Age of AI | 5th NA Huddle
·OnlineOnline27 attendees from 14 groups5th North America Huddle - Agentic Workflows and Performance Testing in the Age of AI
Building with AI is moving beyond using copilots to generate code. Teams are beginning to use agentic workflows across requirements, architecture, implementation, testing, and delivery.
At the same time, AI-powered applications introduce performance challenges that are harder to predict with conventional test scripts alone. Variable latency, changing execution paths, and more dynamic system behaviour can make it difficult to understand where performance problems are coming from.
The Test Tribe’s North America Virtual Huddle brings together QA professionals, software engineers, architects, DevOps engineers, performance engineers, and AI practitioners for two sessions looking at these challenges from different parts of the software delivery lifecycle.
Event Details
- Date: September 3, 2026
- Time: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET
- Platform: Zoom. Joining details will be shared closer to the event.
Agenda
All timings are in ET
- 12:00 PM – 12:15 PM: Welcome and introductions
- 12:15 PM – 1:00 PM: Session 1 – Building with Agentic Workflows: From Idea to Launch by James Koch
- 1:00 PM – 1:10 PM: Solution Spotlight / Community Break
- 1:10 PM – 1:55 PM: Session 2 – The Day the Bot Broke the Backend: Performance Testing in the Age of AI by Gargi Majumder
- 1:55 PM – 2:00 PM: Closing
Session 1: Building with Agentic Workflows: From Idea to Launch
Speaker: James Koch
Quality Engineering Solutions ArchitectAI agents can support much more than code generation. The harder question is how to use them within a structured engineering workflow without losing the planning, review, and quality controls that teams still need.
In this session, James Koch will break down the workflow he used to build and launch a blog application end-to-end.
He will show how GitHub Copilot agents can support different stages of the process, including drafting requirements, generating implementation plans, validating architecture decisions, and accelerating delivery while retaining engineering quality gates.
The session will also cover the practical side of introducing AI into engineering workflows, including where human review remains important and how structured prompts, planning templates, and documentation workflows can help teams work more consistently.Session 2: The Day the Bot Broke the Backend: Performance Testing in the Age of AI
Speaker: Gargi Majumder
Performance Engineering & NFR SpecialistPerformance testing becomes more difficult when application behaviour is less predictable.
AI-driven systems may introduce variable latency, dynamic workflows, changing code paths, and additional dependencies that make it harder for traditional performance tests to explain what is happening inside the system.
Through the story of “Alex,” a performance engineer responding to an AI-driven production incident, Gargi Majumder will explore the Black Box Performance Gap and what it means for performance engineering teams.The session will examine how AI can also be used as a white-box collaborator, helping teams analyse code changes, generate test data, and surface system telemetry that may otherwise be difficult to investigate.
Rather than treating AI as a replacement for performance engineering, the session looks at how it can support deeper analysis and help teams design performance strategies for AI-powered applications.How This Huddle Solves Your Problem
The two sessions focus on different stages of the engineering lifecycle, but both address the same broader challenge: introducing AI without losing engineering discipline.
You will explore:
- How agentic workflows can support requirements, architecture, development, and testing
- Where human review and quality gates still matter when AI agents are involved
- How structured prompts and documentation can make AI-assisted workflows more repeatable
- Why AI-powered applications can create new performance-testing challenges
- How AI can support performance analysis through code inspection, test-data generation, and telemetry
Why Show Up on September 3?
This Huddle is an opportunity to hear two practitioners explain how they are approaching AI from different engineering perspectives.
You will be able to compare agentic development workflows with the challenges of testing and analysing AI-powered systems, ask questions during the sessions, and discuss where these approaches may or may not fit within your own team.
You will also connect with QA professionals, engineers, architects, DevOps practitioners, performance engineers, and AI practitioners from across North America who are working through similar questions.Become a Speaker at The Test Tribe Events
Wish to share your insights with the community at a future event?
Submit your talk idea here, and if it resonates with the perspective we are trying to build at our events, our team will connect with you.About The Test Tribe
The Test Tribe is the world's largest software testing community, empowering testers globally since 2018. With 925+ events and 170K+ members across 130+ countries, we bring software professionals together to learn, grow, and connect through meetups, conferences, cohorts, masterclasses, and more.
By RSVPing, you agree to our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and consent to be contacted by The Test Tribe and our event partners.
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