Tal Barmeir and Guy Arieli are serial entrepreneurs. They founded Experitest, which they sold to Digital.ai, and their new testing business, BlinqIO, has produced an AI test engineer that they demonstrated at last month’s QA Financial Forum London.
“AI is changing the test world forever,” said Barmeir, because fully automated test engineers can fully replicate the work of human test automation engineers.
This may mean a solution to the problem most financial firms face in recruiting and retaining skilled staff.
“How does our platform work? Give it scenarios, it will give you code and maintain it,” Barmeir said.
“You trigger as many AI test engineers as you want.”
However, answering the question everyone is about AI right now, she added: “We never fully take the human out of the loop; The best part is that you control it, and the human-in-the-loop approves the work at all times.”

Barmeir and Arieli spoke last month at the London conference of the QA Financial Forum, a global series of conference and networking meetings for software risk managers, which took place on September 11 in the heart of the British capital.
The agenda was designed to meet the needs of software testers working for banks and other financial firms working in regulated, complex markets.
The full-day event, held at the America Square Conference Center in the heart of the City, brought together more than 100 expert speakers and delegates from leading firms including JP Morgan Chase, LSEG, STOXX, Nationwide, Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC and a range of others, who shared their insights and experience on topics such as networking testing, data management and the unstoppable rise of artificial intelligence.
Also discussed were timely issues such as enterprise benchmarks for compliance, DORA and regulation, as well as green software, sustainability in testing and overall ESG principles in the QA space.
Please check our special post-conference flipbook by clicking here.
NEXT MONTH IN SINGAPORE

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN FOR THE QA FINANCIAL FORUM SINGAPORE 2024
Test automation, data and software risk management in the era of AI
The QA Financial Forum launches in Singapore on November 6th, 2024, at the Tanglin club.
An invited audience of DevOps, testing and quality engineering leaders from financial firms will hear presentations from expert speakers.
Delegate places are free for employees of banks, insurance companies, capital market firms and trading venues.
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