Recap: 7th Berlin QA Meetup – Lessons from Trade Republic, JetBrains, and InDrive

The recent meetup showcased dynamic discussions and insights into innovative QA practices with three engaging talks. Vasiliy Bolgar from Trade Republic explained how the company manages 500 deployments a day without traditional QA engineers by integrating quality into their platform through autotests, CI/CD pipelines, and automated rollbacks, shifting the focus from bug counts to Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) to combat deployment anxiety. Denis Mashutin from JetBrains introduced "shuffle checks" in regression testing, which innovatively broke routine and caught critical issues earlier without additional tools or headcount. Arsenyi Batyrov from InDrive shared how they scaled dogfooding into an effective QA process across diverse environments without developers' direct involvement, leveraging ChatGPT and Python for automation, and emphasized the importance of understanding real user environments over focusing solely on metrics and edge cases. The talks highlighted how strategic changes in QA processes can lead to substantial improvements and sparked vibrant debates among attendees.

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