Quality Engineering meetup #13

PLEASE NOTE THE ADDRESS CHANGE! We're now at DEUTSCHE BANK BERLIN!

In collaboration with Deutsche Bank, Qase is presenting the thirteenth Meetup on Quality Engineering in Berlin.
We’re bringing you three deep-dive talks: all designed to challenge the way you think about quality, testing, and collaboration.
As always, expect great conversations, snacks, and drinks. See you there!

AGENDA

1. Olga Bokova @ Deutsche Bank:
Testing the Nanoseconds: A Decade of High-Frequency Trading QA Evolution

High-frequency trading systems operate at the edge of technology, where latency is measured in nanoseconds and every delay can translate directly into financial impact. In this environment, traditional QA approaches quickly break down, e.g. functional correctness alone is no longer enough.

In this talk, Olga will share a real-world journey of how QA evolved over the past decade within high-performance trading systems. We’ll explore the challenges of testing ultra-low latency platforms, handling massive market data streams, and ensuring deterministic behaviour in highly distributed environments. Olga will walk us through how fragmented testing approaches led to inefficiency, duplication, and scalability issues, and how they transitioned toward a unified, domain-level testing framework built around simulation and controlled environments.

You’ll learn how treating testing infrastructure as an engineering product helped us reduce complexity, increase reliability, and enable performance testing at realistic market scale. Along the way, Olga will share practical lessons, trade-offs, and what they chose to abandon (not just what we built).

2. Neha-B Yadav @ Deutsche Bank: Secure AI, Smarter Testing: How QA Teams Can Shift Left Efficiently

Now as ever, staying effective and efficient requires more than just strong testing fundamentals, but also intelligent orchestration of tools, data, and automation. Neha will focus in