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"Patterns of Trust", by Maria Castillo, Junior QA Engineer at Devexperts

About the Talk

Quality is built by people, not just processes. In every project, trust is the invisible framework that holds everything together. Great QAs don’t just find bugs, they recognize the human patterns that shape quality: how we listen, communicate, question, and respond to uncertainty.

When we nurture these patterns, testing becomes connection, feedback becomes growth, and collaboration evolves into shared leadership

About the Speaker

Maria Castillo, or as she prefers Majo, is a Junior QA Engineer at Devexperts. A mathematician by training, former educator for nearly a decade, and specialist in customer experience, she brings a deeply human-centered perspective to quality assurance. Her background in logic, teaching, and empathy fuels her belief that curiosity, communication, and trust are at the core of every great team and every meaningful result.

"Quiet Authority: Lead From Any Seat” by Patrícia Duarte Mateus, Solution Architect and QA Advocate at TestRail

About the Talk

QA is under the lights: more responsibility, tighter timelines, AI noise, and a constant demand to “approve&deploy”. This talk is a pause button: on fear - on speed-for-speed’s-sake - and a field guide to grow, learn, and lead inside the chaos. In this session, we’ll name the modern QA pressures, practice a calm loop to slow the room without losing momentum, design a tiny “learning budget” inside sprints, rebuild trust with a simple ledger, and rehearse everyday sentences that earn respect - without a title.

About the Speaker

Patrícia Duarte Mateus (aka “A QA Portuguesa”) is a Solution Architect and QA Advocate at TestRail with 11+ years in software quality. She mentors testers and the tech-curious, publishes hands-on resources, and champions people-first delivery: clear risk framing, informal leadership, and learning habits that thrive in a fast-paced tech world.

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