yvrTesting - Billion dollar bug - Quality leadership lessons from costly fails

NOTE: Different day of the week!!! Due to scheduling necessities we've moved this one to a Thursday.

Talk about a bonus present for your summer. Normally on pause for the summer, we got an offer we couldn't refuse. Christine Pinto, a yvr Alumn is back in town for a couple of weeks and offered to speak.

Since speaking for us in 2017 Christin has been on a moonshot career trajectory. She moved back to Germany, became an Ambassador for Ministry of Testing and has spoken at 8 conferences in the last year alone. Last year she co-founded and is CTPO for her own company with the groundbreaking product Epic Test Quest - a Test Management tool that will shake up the traditional view of test management.

She's agreed to come and talk about Testing Leadership and some of the lessons she's learned along the way.

The billion dollar bug - Quality leadership lessons from costly failures

CrowdStrike’s $5.4B outage. Sonos’s $500M meltdown. And an AI rollout that quietly failed to replace humans. These weren’t technical glitches, they were leadership failures.

In this talk, Christine Pinto, former QA engineer turned CTPO, shares the strategic quality leadership lessons behind today’s most costly engineering mistakes. Drawing from real-world crises, from grounded planes to collapsing innovation pipelines, she’ll guide you through the four transformations that every engineering leader must make:

1. Mythology – The false speed-vs-quality tradeoff that still dominates executive decisions
2. Mathematics – The compounding costs of poor quality, from trust erosion to talent drain
3. Mechanisms – Strategic tools that elevate quality from QA ticket to boardroom priority
4. Metamorphosis – How great companies rebuilt systems, trust, and competitive edge after crisis

Christine's Bio:
Christine Pinto is a Berlin-born testing leader and started her journey nearly 20 years ago, back when breaking things was her superpower and it still is. Today she’s the Co-founder and CTPO of Epic Test Quest, where she’s building tools that make testing faster, smarter, and actually fun.

Over the years, Christine has tested everything from fashion apps to government systems, led teams across time zones, and helped testers navigate the rise of AI without losing their critical edge. She’s especially passionate about blending human intuition with automation and making sure testers stay in the driver’s seat as tech evolves.

Whether she’s breaking things on purpose or helping testers break through in their careers, Christine brings clarity, courage, and a little chaos to every stage she steps on..

Venue - Sophos offices - NOTE - the meetup is now on the 15th floor