You can attend the Workshops only if you have ticket for Tester's Day 2025 event

Information about Workshops

This workshop covers how to go beyond vibe-coding with Cursor by streamlining your test automation workflow. You’ll explore project migration, custom Cursor rules, visual planning with diagrams, and building your own MCP server.

You will take away practical tips and tools to personalize Cursor, boost your productivity, and use it as a powerful, automation-focused IDE tailored to your workflow.

 

• Presenter:  Filip Hric - DevRel Specialist, Consultant & Test Automation      Expert 
• Start Time and duration:  10:00-13:30 
• Prerequisites:   Basic experience with web testing frameworks and Git          (branching, stashing), a laptop with Cursor installed,   Recommended: superwhisper for live dictation
• Audience:   Junior,Middle,Senior QA Automation Engineers
• Language:   English  

This workshop is designed to boost both the efficiency and effectiveness of your testing efforts. You’ll learn how to define a clear quality vision, develop a solid test strategy, and translate it into a practical test approach. Finally, you'll discover how to track progress and impact using meaningful KPIs, OKRs, and reporting techniques.

 

• Presenter:  Michaël Pilaeten - Learning & Development Manager at AE ; chair of the ISTQB Advanced work group
• Start Time and duration:  10:00-13:30 
• Prerequisites:  No prerequisites, Laptops are not required
• Audience:  QA Team Leads, QA Managers, QA Analyst, QA Chapter Heads,    Senior QA Engineers
• Language:   English 

This workshop dives into advanced techniques to elevate your API test automation skills. Whether you're a QA engineer or developer, you'll gain practical insights and real-world strategies to boost quality and productivity.

What you'll learn:

• Advanced test scenarios: data-driven testing, parameterization, dynamic responses
• Test data management: reusable data sources, generation & manipulation
• Mocking & virtualization: for both development and testing phases

 

• Presenter:  Joel Oliveira - Head Of Quality Assurance at Celfocus | Governance Chair at ISTQB | General Assembly President at PSTQB
• Start Time and duration:  10:00-13:30 
• Prerequisites:   Basic understanding of API testing ; Pre installed Postman app (latest desktop version) ; ReadyAPI (free trial)
• Audience:  Not defined
• Language:   English

This interactive workshop brings together 30–35 participants working in corporate settings to explore the intersection of work, care, and gender roles in Georgia. Participants will gain insights into prevailing stereotypes and societal perceptions around care work and employment, with a particular focus on the disproportionate burden faced by working women.

The session will also feature international best practices on how workplaces can be transformed into inclusive environments that support employees with caregiving responsibilities. Following the presentations, participants will engage in a brainstorming session to co-create innovative workplace solutions. The workshop will conclude with the presentation of the most promising idea selected by a jury.

 

• Presenters:

Natia Mestvirishvili - Data Analyst, UN Women Georgia

Ida Bakhturidze - human rights defender, gender expert, and advocate for feminist education with over 12 years of experience in advancing women’s rights, equality, and democratic governance

• Start Time and duration: 10:00-13:30
• Prerequisites: No prerequisites
• Audience:  Any participants who are employed in the private sector and operate within corporate settings.
• Language: Georgian

How to plan a small- to medium-sized web project when AI plays an active role in its implementation; How to write effective prompts to achieve specific outcomes; how to automatically generate tests in the Laravel ecosystem; and how to introduce functional testing principles with AI support. We’ll work on topics such as improving code coverage and handling edge cases.

 

• Presenter: Zura Sekhniashvili - Founder Of Artisio
• Start Time and duration: 10:00-12:00
• Prerequisites: Laravel Herd ; Cursor
• Audience: QA Manual, QA Automation , Passionate about web development and coding
• Language: Georgian

Have you ever used GenAI to onboard or level up your QA team ?

We will show you , how this is possible with A4Q AI based tools.

In this workshop you will have the opportunity to see how ISTQB CTFL GENAI exam preparation tool and Practical Tester AI app can boost not only the effectiveness to prepare you for exam, but also how to simplify level up process, evaluate Manual Testers competency during interviews and onboard QA Interns.

During the second part of our workshop , we will introduce upskilling programs at SoftFan - QA growth focused trainings,  challenges that QA team leads or Heads are facing while working in Agile environment and how to achieve full ownership of quality by increasing not only management but technical competency within QA Leadership roles.

 

• Presenters: 

  Mariam goginava - Managing Director of QA Programs & Partnerships @ SoftFan
  
  Werner Henschelchen - CEO of GASQ

  Abbas AHMAD - CEO of Certilog FZCO

  Alex Gijashvili - CEO of Axen

• Start Time and duration:  15:00-18:30 
• Prerequisites: No prerequisites, Laptops are not required
• Audience:   QA Managers, Team Leads, HR/Learning & Training Coordinators, and anyone involved in hiring process, onboarding, or upskilling testers.
• Language:   English/Georgian 

Automated tests help verify that your software behaves as expected, but they can sometimes be misleading. How confident are you in the quality of your tests? As the Roman poet Juvenal said: “Who will guard the guards themselves?”

This tutorial explores why code coverage isn’t enough and introduces mutation testing to provide deeper insight into test quality. Through hands-on exercises, you’ll learn how to interpret mutation testing results and use them to improve both your tests and application code.

We’ll finish with practical guidance on implementing mutation testing and understanding when it’s most effective.

 

• Presenter:  Bas Dijkstra - test automation consultant and trainer
• Start Time and duration:  15:00-18:30 
• Prerequisites: 

  We will share 'Instructions for preparation' by email.

  Laptop with Java JDK 21, Maven, and IntelliJ IDE installed. 

  Windows 11, MacOS , Linux 

  Detailed setup instructions will be provided via email.

• Audience:   Anyone involved in test automation who wants deeper insights beyond code coverage metrics; QA Automation Engineers
• Language:   English 

In today's rapidly evolving DevOps and DevSecOps processes, security testing is often sidelined or pushed to the final stage, which increases risks and delays releases. But what if you could automatically detect security risks with every code change and fix them proactively, before problems arise?

In this practical workshop, you will transcend the boundaries of traditional testing and master the DevSecOps philosophy. To achieve this, we will utilize N8N's visual platform and build automated workflows that make security testing an integral part of the CI/CD pipeline. Additionally, we'll have theoretical discussions about what DevSecOps does and how the role of test automation engineers is evolving within this system.

You will learn how to:

* Integrate automated security scanning into every GitHub Pull Request.

* Identify vulnerabilities in code (such as SQL Injection or XSS) and automatically notify the team about them.

* Leverage artificial intelligence to analyze scanning results and reduce false positives.

Throughout the workshop, we will build and run real workflows, allowing you to see firsthand how security automation works in DevOps processes. We'll also discuss security standards such as ISO 27001 and SOC 2, and their significance in the modern technical world.

 

• Presenter:   David Mumladze - Senior DevOps/SRE Engineer
• Start Time and duration:  15:00-17:00 
• Prerequisites:  Active GitHub account, laptops.
• Audience:  This workshop is ideal for testers who work in or plan to work in DevOps environments and want to deepen their knowledge in security testing automation. It's perfect for those who want to master globally recognized security standards. Prior knowledge of N8N or cybersecurity is not required.
• Language:   Georgian

Code what’s “visible”.

At the workshop - Visual Testing in Practice - participants will be introduced to tools such as Applitools, BackstopJS, VRT for documentation, and Playwright-Screenshot-Comparator, which will help them automatically detect visual changes in the UI. The workshop will have four mentors, and participants will be divided into groups based on prerequisites. If you meet at least one of the prerequisites or are interested in visual testing beyond just markup, then this workshop is for you.

 

• Presenters: 

  Alina Tkabladze – Test Automation Engineer & Chapter Lead, TBC (Digital Business Team)

  Luka Tsinaridze – Test Automation Engineer, TBC (Enterprise systems and services Team)

  Ilia Bolotashvili – Test Automation Engineer, TBC (Mobile Bank Team)

  Shota Kvetenadze – Test Automation Engineer, TBC (Unsecured Credit Products Team)

• Start Time and duration:  15:00-17:30 
• Prerequisites in detail:   

  🛠 Programs to be installed in advance, categorized by topic:

  1️⃣ If the participant has experience in JavaScript:

  Node.js

  Playwright (JavaScript)

  IntelliJ IDEA

  👉 Used for comparing screenshots in a Web application (BackstopJS)

  
  2️⃣ If the participant works on mobile testing (Android):

  Android Studio

  Android SDK and AVD Manager

  👉 This topic will help you practice screenshot comparison on mobile interfaces

  
  3️⃣ If the participant has experience in Java:

  Java 11+

  Maven

  IntelliJ IDEA

  Playwright for Java

  👉 Used for visual testing using Playwright + Java

  
  4️⃣ If the participant is currently at the Advanced level and is interested in VRT (Visual Regression Testing):

  Java 11+ and Maven

  Playwright

  Docker 

  👉 An advanced section will be available (e.g., visual testing of documents)

   

• Programs/Editors that you will need:

  * VS Code ან IntelliJ IDEA (One of these two)

  * Android Studio 

  * Github account - Created in advance 

  👉 Programing Language and Libraries -Kotlin + Grade

 

• Audience:  Middle+ Manual and Automation testers; For Juniors, we provide help
• Language:   Georgian

This workshop is designed for testers who are preparing for the ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) v4.0 exam and want to strengthen their knowledge of core black-box test techniques:
   Equivalence Partitioning
   Boundary Value Analysis
   Decision Table Testing
   State Transition Testing

We’ll focus on both theory and hands-on practice, so participants can confidently apply these techniques in real projects and feel well-prepared for the CTFL v4.0 exam.

 

• Presenter:   Darejan Usanetashvili -  Senior Software Testing Engineer at IntraNote
• Start Time and duration:  15:00-18:00 
• Prerequisites:  Laptop, Participants should read Chapter 4.2 of the CTFL v4.0 syllabus in advance
• Audience:  Testers who are preparing to pass CTFL exam
• Language:   Georgian