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📢 New blog alert.

Most QA teams test for what they expect to happen.

The best ones test for what shouldn't happen — but might.

That's the difference between traditional QA and chaos engineering. 🔥

In our latest blog, we break down:

→ What chaos engineering actually is (beyond the buzzword)
→ Why resilience testing matters in an era of distributed systems and AI agents
→ How QA teams can start chaos experiments without breaking production
→ The principles, the tools, and the mindset shift

If you're tired of finding out about failures from your customers — this one's for you.

🔗 Read on contextqa.com/blog — link in bio

We're heading to Columbus. 🛣️

ContextQA will be at QA or the Highway 2026 — the Midwest's largest software quality conference.

📅 June 12, 2026
📍 The Ohio Union, Columbus, OH
👥 400+ QA professionals · 32 sessions

And we're proud that our own Tatyana Arbouzova — Head of DevRel Marketing at ContextQA and CEO of InnovateQA — is taking the keynote stage.

If you're a QA engineer, SDET, or quality leader in the Midwest — this is the room to be in.

🎟️ Tickets → https://www.qaorthehwy.com/

Tonight in Pune. 🍽️

ContextQA's private Executive Dinner — Exploring the Future of Quality Engineering with AI.

📅 May 29 · 7:00 PM onwards
📍 Pune, India

An invite-only gathering of senior QA and engineering leaders.

✅ Agentic AI in testing
✅ Scaling QA with AI
✅ Leading quality in the age of AI

A few seats still open. Last call.

🔗 https://luma.com/8q8du50v

New episode — live now. 🎙️

You bought the AI tools. Your developers feel more productive. So why aren't you shipping any faster?

Episode 3 of The Agentic Quality Podcast features Nishadhi Nikalandawatte, Director of Market Solutions at Slalom, in conversation with host Tatyana Arbouzova.

Her honest take: AI doesn't make broken processes faster. It makes the breakage visible.

Inside this episode:

✅ Where AI actually moves the needle — onboarding, incident response, defect clustering
✅ The 18,000-row defect story every QE leader needs to hear
✅ Why this is an organizational problem, not a technology one
✅ What changes in two years and what doesn't

AI is a powerful accelerant — but you have to have something worth accelerating.

🎧 Watch now → https://youtu.be/MyKWtTULQ6Q

⚙️ Testing Thursday — Topic #30

Are you rewarding bugs found — or bugs prevented?

Every QA team is measured on bugs found. Celebrated for catching them. Ranked by how many.

Almost nobody is measured on the bugs that never had to be caught in the first place.

But a high bug count isn't a sign of strong QA. It's often a sign of:
→ Broken upstream signals
→ Unclear requirements
→ A shift-left that never actually shifted

Detection is reactive — it scales linearly with headcount.
Prevention is leverage — it compounds with every process improvement.

The teams that win don't celebrate the firefighters. They celebrate the ones who made sure the fire never started.

— Mukund Wangikar, COO, ContextQA

What does your QA scoreboard actually reward? 👇

2 days to go. 🍽️

ContextQA's private Executive Dinner in Pune — Exploring the Future of Quality Engineering with AI.

📅 Thursday, May 29
🕖 7:00 PM onwards
📍 Pune, India

An invite-only gathering of senior QA and engineering leaders. We'll be exploring:

✅ Agentic AI in testing
✅ Scaling QA with AI
✅ Leading quality in the age of AI

Closed-door. Off-record. By invitation.

🔗 Request your seat → https://luma.com/8q8du50v

AI is no longer a tool. It's becoming the interface.

Most teams haven't caught up to what that means.

For years, software has been something you operate. Increasingly, it's something you collaborate with — systems that hold context, take ownership of workflows, and make decisions you can stand behind.

That shift is what we're building for at ContextQA.

Three principles guide how we design intelligent systems for the enterprise:

→ Thinking Systems
AI that works with context, not just commands. The right answer depends on understanding the right question.

→ Autonomous Workflows
Multi-agent systems built for ex*****on. Beyond chat. Beyond suggestions. Systems that complete the work.

→ Reliable Decisions
Grounded AI with explainable outputs. Built for environments where every decision has to hold up to review.

The enterprises that lead the next few years won't be the ones with the most AI. They'll be the ones whose AI they actually trust.

That's what we're building.

🔗 Book a demo → contextqa.com

🍽️ An evening with engineering and quality leaders.

ContextQA is hosting a private Executive Dinner during Innovate QA — an intimate conversation on how AI is transforming software testing and QA.

📅 Thursday, June 4
🕕 18:00 – 21:00 GMT-7
📍 Bellevue, WA

Senior QA leaders, engineering directors, and AI platform owners will be at the table. We'll dive into:

✅ Leveraging agentic AI in testing
✅ Using AI to streamline and scale test creation, maintenance, and analysis
✅ What "quality leadership" looks like in the age of AI

Closed-door. Off-record. Real conversations over great food in a private dining setting.

Space is limited — this is invite-only.

If you're exploring how AI can elevate your QA function, we'd love to have you at the table.

🔗 Request your seat → https://luma.com/g5vn4cb1

Hosted by Tatyana Arbouzova.

🍽️ Join us in Pune for an exclusive executive dinner on the **Future of Quality Engineering with AI.**

We’re bringing together engineering and QA leaders for an evening of insightful conversations around:

• Agentic AI in testing
• Scaling QA with AI
• Leading quality in the age of AI

📅 May 29 | 🕖 7 PM onwards
📍 Pune, India

🔗 Register here: https://luma.com/8q8du50v