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World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 10, 2026 • Session details

Self-service Quality: QA Without QA

Ondřej Gróf

What happens when you eliminate QA gatekeepers? Discover how Canva achieved an unprecedented 22:1 developer-to-QA ratio by empowering engineering teams with AI-driven, self-service testing.

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Transforming software quality from assurance to enablement

How modern development teams can independently own quality and testing activities with the right enablement.

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Drawing QA inspiration from supermarket self-checkouts

Shifting testing responsibility directly to developers removes operational bottlenecks without arbitrarily increasing headcount.

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Scaling developer support with the quality assistance model

Moving from restrictive industry standards to an expansive developer-to-QA ratio by distributing platform ownership.

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Core QA activities owned by development teams

Facilitating early alignment through project kickoffs, active feature demonstrations, test parties, and unified bug triage.

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Accelerating product delivery securely with artificial intelligence

Addressing the unique enterprise challenges of testing non-deterministic features while maintaining uncompromising release velocity.

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The infinite QA evolution loop powered by AI

Iterating rapidly from routine manual tasks to automated prompt libraries and anthropic skills implementation.

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Leveraging multi-agent systems for autonomous software testing

Deploying specialized machine agents to successfully orchestrate dynamic testing routines like script configuration and system log analysis.

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Elevating the QA engineering role for complex challenges

Repositioning QA engineering away from manual testing toward architecting robust AI integrations for larger organizational objectives.

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