Twenty years ago Janna Loeffler, Director Quality Engineering, The Walt Disney Company started her career writing test scripts. Today, AI writes them faster, runs them more often, and doesn’t complain about flaky environments. So what’s left for her? Turns out, quite a lot.
This talk is about the pivot from “person who tests things” to “person who makes sure it’s safe to ship things,” a shift I call Safe Delivery Enablement. It’s less about mourning the test script and more about claiming the more interesting job that’s opening up in its place: the one where humans decide what “good enough to release” actually means, and AI just does what it’s told.
Come for the mild existential crisis, stay for the practical playbook on where quality engineers add value now that the robots do the typing.
Janna is a quality engineering leader with over 20 years of experience helping organizations build trust into how they ship software. Her work spans hands-on quality engineering practice, team leadership, and community involvement, with a particular focus on how the discipline is being reshaped by AI. She’s a vocal advocate for shifting quality engineering’s center of gravity away from traditional test scripting and toward building organizational confidence in what gets shipped.
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