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Thu, Jul 16, 4:30 PM**📢 Wichtiges Update für das Sprachcafé in Manifesto!** 📢 2. Etage wo es geschlossen ist. Alle Teilnehmende **müssen** etwas bestellen. Wenn nicht, werden wir uns in Neukölln treffen. **Ein Getränk bei der Soot Bar** (unten bei den WCs) **oder Essen woanders** zu kaufen, damit wir dort bleiben dürfen. Danke fürs Mitmachen! 😊
Quality Engineering meetup #13
Thu, Jul 16, 4:00 PM**PLEASE NOTE THE ADDRESS CHANGE! We're now at DEUTSCHE BANK BERLIN!** *In collaboration with* *Deutsche Bank*, *[Qase](https://qase.io) 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 this talk on three key dimensions: how to stay effective with the help of AI-driven test workflows, how to remain relevant with modern engineering practices and enterprise tooling, and how to continuously upskill in an ecosystem of automation, AI agents, and integrated test platforms. Neha will share her approach with shifting testing left, proactive defect prevention, early test design, and proper continuous integration. The session will highlight techniques such as test-driven development, early collaboration between QA and engineering, and integrating validation into CI/CD pipelines to reduce downstream risks. **3\. Vitaly Sharovatov @ Qase: Leading Cost\-Cutting Initiatives by Improving Quality** More and more companies are cutting costs and doing layoffs, and QA is often among the first to be cut. Yet it is precisely QA folks who can help cut costs while improving quality. In this talk, Vitaly suggests ways we all can lead cost cutting discussions to make things right and either reduce or prevent layoffs. Partner with Customer Support to identify which escaped defects cost the most in ticket handling and escalations. Partner with Sales to identify which bugs put renewals and expansions at risk. Add Finance for SLA credits and refunds, and Engineering for incident response and hotfix effort. Add it all up, and you get external failure costs. After that, quantify internal failure costs like rework, retesting, queues, and waste. We will turn these numbers into a cost cutting proposal that managers understand: reduce the priciest external failure costs first, then reduce internal failure costs, by improving the way we build quality in. You will leave with a simple template for collecting the numbers with other departments, doing the calculations, and proposing specific process changes. Let's be the people who cut failure costs, not the people who get cut!
Spree-Side Sunday Social With Board Games & Talk!! 🎲🃏☕️
Sun, Jul 12, 12:30 PM**Spree-Side Sunday Social With Coffee, Board Games & Talk** We are heading back to Exclusive Coffee on Brückenstraße this Sunday for an afternoon of great coffee, easy conversation, and fun board games. We had a wonderful time last week, and we are looking forward to catching up with everyone again! * **Riverside Vibes:** Relax and recharge with us in a beautiful, airy space right on the Spree, complete with stunning waterfront views. * **Zero Stress:** Whether you are a regular or it's your first time, our goal is simply to chat and play some light games in a friendly, no-pressure environment. * **Stay Cool:** You can count on the venue to remain comfortable and spacious. Most importantly, please RSVP responsibly. Last time, we had a large waitlist and many people who RSVPed didn't show up. This unfortunately prevented others from joining. To ensure everyone has a fair chance, please only sign up if you are truly able to attend. If your plans change, we kindly ask that you update your status as soon as possible so someone else can take your spot. ☺️
Spiritualität: die unaussprechbaren Dinge
Sun, Jul 19, 1:00 PMAls erstes Treffen habe ich als Themenvorschlag das Phänomen, dass es allerhand Dinge gibt, die man zwar formulieren und aussprechen kann, jedoch nicht die intendierte Wirkung kommunikativ erzielen kann. Es gibt also eine Art unaussprechbarer Erfahrungen und Erkenntnisse - so zumindest der Themenvorschlag. Wir mögen uns sehr gern darüber zusammen unterhalten. Ich würde gern einen Ort im Volksparks Wilmersdorf zum Treffen ins Auge fassen, also direkt südlich Ubahn Bayerischer Platz. Ich habe mich dazu entschieden es so zu handhaben, nur denjenigen Personen, die in der RVSP stehen, am Sonntag per MSG den genauen Treffpunkt im Park mitzuteilen. Zu mir und meiner Art der Spiritualität, dies ist so dass ich nahezu rein introspektiv den Bezug dazu ziehe, ich arbeite sehr selten Lektüre dazu durch, und wenn, dann handelt es sich um darin beschriebene Praktiken - vor allem des Denkens und Wahrnehmens. Ich möchte genauso gern hier mitteilen, dass ich das Event deshalb nun anbiete, weil ich nach allerhand Zeit einmal wieder in mir zu einer Offenheit gelangt bin, dass natürlich jeder und jede eingeladen ist. Keine Exklusion und keine Inklusion sozusagen. Eines noch über mich: ich praktiziere keine "Kommunikationsformen" von spiritueller Direktheit bis hin zu Umgangsformen argumentativer Unfreundlichkeit. Darauf bitte ich zu verzichten - vielen Dank. Ich biete also in diesem Sinne keinen Debattier-Raum an, und möchte niemanden überzeugen oder bekehren ;-) Im Park setzen wir uns vielleicht an einen der Wiesenhänge - ich gebe zu, dass ich wegen meines Rückenproblems nicht problemlos auf dem Boden sitzen kann, aber ich werde es mir versuchen einzurichten. Ich werde zudem einen Platz für uns vorauswählen, der nahe Schatten und Bänken ist, und nahe eines öffentlichen "Erfrischungsraums". Seid gern so nett und schreibt etwas im Gruppenchat des Events, einfach als Prozess des Kennenlernens und "Lebendigseins", und sich Näherkommens. (Und installiert euch ggf. die App aufs Handy, damit ihr meine Updates schnell lesen könnt)
Saturday Afternoon Creative Coffee, Boardgames, and Talk
Sat, Jul 18, 12:00 PM➡️ Join us on Telegram: [https://t.me/+1k8nWt2bM7FlZTFi](https://t.me/+1k8nWt2bM7FlZTFi) **Relax. Connect. Create. ☕** After a full week of work, meetings, study sessions and life in fast-forward, it’s time to slow down. Join us this Saturday afternoon in Berlin for a relaxed coffee hang-out where this week's agenda is good company & warm drinks. You're also invited to bring some boardgames, drawing/coloring materials (I will bring an adult coloring book) **What’s the plan?** We’ll meet in a cosy spot, draw, chat about everything and nothing, swap stories and simply enjoy the moment. No pressure. No formalities. Just a bunch of friendly people sharing a Saturday coffee. **Who’s welcome?** Everyone! Whether you’re a Berliner born and raised, newly arrived in the city, from Germany or abroad, if you like meeting open-minded folks and spending some relaxed time—come join us. **When & how?** Saturday afternoon. Detailed time and place in our Telegram group. Hop in, say hello, and we’ll share the final details. **Why join?** \*Because you deserve a break. * Because you enjoy being creative. \*Because you enjoy boardgames * Because meeting new people sparks fresh energy. \*Because coffee tastes even better when shared. * Because Saturday afternoons were made for this. Respect and Safety: There is always at least one organizer present at every meetup. If you ever feel unsafe or bothered by someone’s behavior, you can reach out to an organizer privately. Your identity will remain confidential, your concern will be taken seriously, and no inappropriate behavior is tolerated — anyone making others feel uncomfortable will be removed from the group immediately. We hope to see you there. Bring yourself, your smile, drawing materials, your stories—or just your comfy self. Let’s make Saturday a little more laid-back, a little more social and a lot more nice. See you soon! —Your Saturday Creative Coffee Crew ☕
Tuesday Boardgames in the Mitte (Formely in the Castle)
Tue, Jul 14, 5:00 PMHello peeps, welcome to the private meetup for board games in Berlin. Look forward to a relaxed boardgames event in a community centre. We will be playing inside the community centre. If you are looking for a group or games, just join us in the front. The entrance fee is 3 euros for the rent of the community centre rooms and cleanup of the rooms. We look to play in the Nachbarschaftszentrum „Bürger für Bürger“ near Bernauer Strasse U-Bahnhof. We usually play all types of games for example social deduction, casual, euro games, and strategy games. If you are new, is no worries, I will help you connect to a group. We start games every 15 mins so do not worry if you are late. We mostly play in the English language as it is the language most people are comfortable with. We usually bring games with us but you are welcome to bring your own. Due to corona rules in Berlin (for more info: https://www.berlin.de/corona/en/measures/), please make sure to follow the rules on the page. The meetup is strictly for a maximum of persons as stated in the meetup so please register on the meetup event before. Please follow the rules and hygiene concept from the community centre. Please do not bring outside drinks. Please smoke or gather in the night not outside the community centre as we look to be accomodating to the neighbours. If you have any questions, please let me know.
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