Cape Town Software Testing Meetup - 18 June '26

​Arrival 5pm - 6pm.

​Proudly sponsored by Browserstack.

ABOUT
It’s time once again for the software testing community to come together, exchange ideas, and explore the latest innovations shaping the testing and quality assurance industry.

​WHY ATTEND AND WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

• ​Chaos Engineering in Production: Discover how intentional disruption and resilience testing can strengthen modern applications against unexpected failures, outages and production instability.

• ​AI-Native Testing Strategies: Learn how organisations are moving beyond traditional automation into AI-native testing approaches, including practical lessons, enablement strategies and implementation guardrails.

• ​Testing Complex Systems: Explore why modern software failures happen in the gaps between systems, environments and integrations — and how QA teams can improve release confidence across complex architectures.

• ​Real-World Industry Insights: Gain practical perspectives from QA leaders and industry experts working with cloud services, APIs, legacy platforms and constantly evolving customer journeys.

• ​Modern QA Leadership and Collaboration: Understand how testing teams, engineers and business stakeholders can work together to adapt quality engineering practices for increasingly interconnected systems.

​AGENDA

• ​17:00 - 18:00: Networking, drinks and snacks

• ​18:00: Welcome

• ​18:15 - 18:45: Mayday! Monkeys on the loose in production!

  • ​Hennie Francis - AWS Technical Account Manager, Silicon Overdrive
    
    Key takeaways:
    - Failure is inevitable. Preparation is optional.
    - Resilience beats perfection.
    - Break it safely before production breaks you.
    - Visibility without resilience is just front-row seats to failure.
    - Test the chaos. Trust the recovery.

• ​18:50 - 19:20: From Automation-Centric to AI-Native Testing: Lessons from the Field

  • ​Willem Mouton - QA Engineering and Testing Practice Lead, Shoprite Tech
    
    Key takeaways:
    - What Do We Mean by AI‑Native Testing?
    - Reality Check: Where Were We Really?
    - Decisions That Mattered (and Why)
    - Enablement: Training, Setup, and Guardrails
    - Where We Are Today (and What Changed Most)
    - If We Started Again Tomorrow…
    
    BREAK

• ​19h40-20:40: Panel discussion | Testing in the Age of Complex Systems

  • ​Leon Lodewyks - Chief Technology Officer

  • ​Willem Mouton - QA Engineering and Testing Practice Lead

  • ​Jéhan Coetzee - Head of Technology and Innovation

  • ​Hennie Francis - AWS Technical Account Manager

  • ​𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀:
    How do we build release confidence when modern software is made up of APIs, integrations, cloud services, legacy dependencies, third-party platforms and constantly changing customer journeys?

    • ​Join us for a practical discussion with industry guests as we unpack the realities of testing complex systems and what QA teams need to do differently.

​WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• ​QA Engineers & SDETs

• ​Automation and Performance Engineers

• ​Test leads, QA managers, and Heads of Quality

• ​Software Testers

​Reserve your spot today!

DIRECTIONS
William Dabbs Street is just off Old Paarl Road.
The Shoprite Group Home Office Studio is on your left-hand side.