About community

QA community in Serbia:

We organize engaging and valuable events for the QA community:

• Offline QA meetups in Russian and English, bringing together 80 to 120 participants. [More details here]
• QA Kafana — casual café meetups where we discuss topics on testing or working in QA over coffee and good food. [More details here]
• QA Speaking Club — conversational sessions to prepare for interviews and working in English. [More details here]
• Master classes and workshops to deepen knowledge and enhance skills. [More details here]

Join our community!

• Our goal is to unite both local and relocated QA enthusiasts who are passionate about sharing their expertise and expanding their professional networks.

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Our events

Offline QA Meetups

Meetup №9 - Serbian QA Hub & Exante

Meetup Highlights - 16.05.2026:

• 3 Speakers, 9 Organizers & Volunteers, 57 Participants
• Sticker pack, Food and drinks, Networking and After-party
• Collaboration with Exante (stickers, food and place)

Topics:

1. “Backend Test Automation at a Large Broker” by Aidos Kenessov
2. “Best practices in automated testing and their price” by Valerii Bamburov
3. “What Changes for QA in AI Systems” by Daria Firsova

Links:

Click to check presentations, Youtube playlist with recorded topics, photos from Anton Klochkov and photos from Alina Trunov

Meetup №8 - Serbian QA Hub & Plata

Meetup Highlights - 28.11.2025:

• 4 Speakers, 6 Organizers, 51 Participants
• Sticker pack & fortune telling cubes & shopper bag, Food and drinks, Networking and After-party
• Collaboration with Plata (stickers, food)

Topics:

1. “Cursor+Playwright MCP: How to Generate E2E Autotests via LLM” by Andrey Smirennikov
2. “Test Automation Framework as a Living Product: From Architecture to Evolution” by Daria Popova and Gennadii Chursov
3. “A Simple Way to Start Using Kafka in Automated Tests” by Roman Mikhailov

Links:

Click to check presentations, Youtube playlist with recorded topics, photos from Alexandra Dreit; photos (part 1) and photos (part 2) from Aleksei Kukhaev

Meetup №7 - Serbian QA Hub & Semrush

Meetup Highlights - 06.09.2025:

• 4 Speakers, 7 Organizers, 78 Participants
• Sticker pack & fortune telling cubes & shopper bag, Food and drinks, Networking and After-party
• Collaboration with Semrush (stickers, food) and CDT Hub (food, drinks, place)

Topics:

1. “Cross-Cultural Debugging Serbian and Russian Approaches to IT” by Anastasia Engelhardt
2. “QA Without a Team: Build or Run Away” by Daria Firsova
3. “Test evolution: Scaling QA in a Growing Dev Org” by Andrei Militsenko
4. “Can AI Run the Whole QA Process” by Anastasia Vershinina

Links:

Click to check presentations, Youtube playlist with recorded topics, photos from Alina Trunova and photos from Aleksei Kukhaev

Meetup №6 - Serbian QA Hub & QA Guru & CDT Hub

Offline and online Meetup Highlights - 23.05.2025:

• 2 Speakers, 8 Organizers, 63 Participants (7 for online broadcast)
• Sticker pack & fortune telling cubes & shopper bag & phone stands, Food and drinks, Thematic Table Talks, Networking and After-party
• Collaboration with QA Guru (stickers, food) and CDT Hub (food, drinks, place)

Topics:

1. "Authentication testing: Make sure only the right people can enter, stay, and act safely inside the system!” by Slavica Mastilović Sulica
2. "Small Steps, Big: Impact How QA Can Improve Processes” by Sergei Faliuta

Links:

Click to check presentations, Youtube playlist with recorded topics, photos from Alina Trunova, photos (part 1) and photos (part 2) from Aleksei Kukhaev

Meetup №5 - Serbian QA Hub & JetBrains

Meetup Highlights - 14.02.2025:

• 4 Speakers, 7 Organizers, 58 Participants
• Sticker pack & pens & fortune telling cubes & shopper bag, Food and drinks, Competition on Instagram, Networking and After-party
• Collaboration with JetBrains (food, drinks and place)

Topics:

1. "Test Automation for IDEs: A JetBrains Rider Example” Artem Chuguev
2. "QA in Robotics: The Unknown Side of Testing” Igor Plavutskii
3. "QA Growth Challenges: Losing Your Mind First” Danil Birukov-Romanov with Anna

Links:

Click to check presentations, Youtube playlist with recorded topics, photos from Michael

Meetup №4 - Serbian QA Hub & Mercury Development & CDT Hub

Meetup Highlights - 06.12.2024:

• 3 Speakers, 7 Organizers, 84 Participants
• Sticker pack & pens & fortune telling cubes, Food and drinks, Competition on Instagram, Networking and After-party
• Collaboration with Mercury Development (food and drinks) and CDT Hub (place)

Topics:

1. "Misconceptions about Mobile Testing That Hinder QA” by Vladislav Kazachek
2. “Integrations Testing as Code” by Sergei Timokhin
3. “QA and SM roles - all in one person” by Nemanja Bradić

Links:

Click to check presentations, Youtube playlist with recorded topics, photos from Alina, photos from Anton (his instagram), photos from Nikita (his instagram)

QA Speaking Club

Regular club for QA specialists, where we discuss different topics related to QA and practice English.