How to start continuous quality in your team: Take the first step and change your mindset
17th October 2025
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Demi Van Malcot
Test engineer
Talk Description
Continuous quality can feel like a big shift, but it starts with small actions and a change in mindset. In this talk, Demi Van Malcot shares how she helped her team move from quality assurance to quality assistance by embedding quality into every stage of development.
Through practical examples, Demi shows how testers can add value in design, analysis, implementation, and beyond by being proactive, offering help, and collaborating with teammates. You’ll see how focusing on people and processes, rather than just products, helps create shared ownership of quality and a healthier team dynamic.
By the end of this session, you'll be able to:
- Explain the difference between quality assurance and quality assistance.
- Describe how to embed continuous quality throughout the software development process.
- Identify proactive ways testers can support their teams in improving quality.
- Recognise common pitfalls when practising quality assistance and how to manage them.
Before I was a software tester, I was a baker. I switched to find a job were I can keep learning and growing. Every day talking with other testers, diving into new skills, giving presentations, ...
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