👋 Hello, this is Valentina with the free edition of the Optivem Journal. I help Engineering Leaders & Senior Software Developers apply TDD in Legacy Code.
Your team automated testing.
So why does every release still wait for QA?
You invested in E2E test automation to get faster releases and fewer bugs.
Instead, what you got is a test suite that breaks with every UI change, a team that doesn’t trust it, and a manual regression pass that still sits between “done” and “released.”
Now AI is helping your developers write code faster, and the queue in front of QA is only getting longer.
This isn’t a people problem, and more automation of the same kind won’t fix it. It comes down to how the tests are designed.
What You’ll Learn
Why E2E automation rarely replaces manual QA — and the three design decisions behind it
What changes when tests are written in business language — your product owner can read them, QA can trust them, and UI changes stop breaking them
How to start small — with one critical use case, without stopping delivery or rewriting everything
How to get it funded — by presenting it to your CEO in terms of release speed, cost of bugs and time spent on repeat work
Who Should Join
This is for you if:
You lead an engineering team (as engineering manager, head of engineering or CTO)
Releases are slowed down by manual testing
Your team tried test automation and it didn’t deliver what was promised
Event Details
📅 Date & Time: Wed, Oct 7, 2026 5:30PM
📍 Where: Live online
💰 Cost: Free
🔗 Register here: Why Your E2E Tests Didn’t Replace Manual QA
Meet Your Coach
Valentina Jemuović is a technical coach and the founder of Optivem. She coaches engineering teams in ATDD and TDD, helping them deliver software faster with fewer bugs. She works in Java, .NET and TypeScript, and shares her work with ~30K followers on LinkedIn.
Coding Got Faster — Releases Are Still Slow
If you want to eliminate manual regression testing and get faster delivery with fewer bugs…
📌 Register here: Why Your E2E Tests Didn’t Replace Manual QA
You can have so many E2E tests and still not trust the suite enough to skip manual regression testing.