The Day the Bot Broke the Backend | 8th New York QA Meetup

Traditional, static performance testing is fundamentally broken in the age of Generative AI. When applications shift to non-deterministic, AI-driven workflows, caching layers fail, latencies spike unpredictably, and traditional test scripts end up flying blind.

This session at The Test Tribe's New York Meetup tells the story of what happens when performance engineering has to evolve overnight,and what it takes to keep up.

Event Details

Date: 28th July 2026

Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT

Venue: 307 West 38th Street, Studio 1401

Session: The Day the Bot Broke the Backend: Performance Testing in the Age of AI

Speaker: Gargi Majumder (Technical Lead, TCS)

Why Show up?

Understand why traditional performance testing breaks down in non-deterministic, AI-driven systems

Learn how to use AI as a white-box collaborator rather than a black box you're testing blind

Get a practical playbook for evolving from script maintenance to modern performance architecture

Hear a real, story-driven account of a production meltdown and the lessons it forced into the open

Walk away with strategies for tracing hidden system telemetry and generating autonomous test data

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