Tatyana Arbouzova
CEO, Innovate QA
About
Tatyana Arbouzova is an engineering and business leader with a strong background in Quality Engineering across multiple industries, including Big Tech, Healthcare, and Entertainment. She has held leadership roles at world-class companies such as Microsoft, VMware, Disney, and The Pokémon Company International, where she focused on building quality-driven cultures and scaling teams to deliver high-impact products. With decades of experience, Tatyana has helped organizations transform their quality practices so teams can deliver software efficiently, confidently, and with measurable business outcomes. Today, Tatyana advises software companies on adopting AI to optimize quality practices and improve how software is delivered at scale. She is also a passionate community builder and the founder of Innovate QA, a thriving Seattle-based community and conference for quality professionals. Through Innovate QA, she brings together engineering and quality leaders to share real-world insights, challenge outdated practices, and shape the future of quality engineering. Tatyana is known for her ability to build high-performing teams, design robust quality systems, and foster professional communities. She is deeply committed to mentoring others, supporting career growth, and helping leaders navigate change in an increasingly AI-driven engineering landscape.
The Day Testing Died — And Quality Evolved
Description
Twenty years ago, my job was to break software. I was trained to think in edge cases, failure paths, and regression suites. If something slipped into production, it meant I missed something. Back then, quality meant testing. Then the world changed. Agile arrived. DevOps arrived. Continuous delivery arrived. And I realized something uncomfortable: quality was never about the test cases. It was about the system behind them. And now AI has changed the ground again. Today, code is written by machines. Tests are generated by copilots. Reviews are assisted by algorithms. So if machines can write the tests… Who is responsible for trust? That question is why we must evolve — from testers, to quality champions, to AI validation designers.