Date: 09 September - 14 August 2026
Location: Pullman Tbilisi Axis Towers See the map
The Exactpro team is excited to once again be part of Software Tester’s Day, taking place on 9 September and organised by GeoSTQB, the official ISTQB® Member Board in Georgia, in partnership with ISTQB and with the support of local and global companies.
This year, the event will bring together the software testing community for a day dedicated to innovation, practical knowledge and professional exchange. The programme will focus on emerging trends, real-world experience from leading companies and hands-on learning opportunities for software testing professionals at every level, from Junior Testers to Team Leads and Project Managers.
The event will also continue its annual tradition of presenting software testing market analysis, sharing insights into the industry’s current state and future prospects in Georgia.
A Five-Tier Framework for Engineering Value in the AI Era
Merium Hazem Anwar Labib Bishara
Middle Software Tester, Exactpro
Merihan Hazem Anwar Labib Bishara
Middle Software Tester, Exactpro
AI hasn't changed the fundamentals of software engineering, it has changed the speed of execution. Features that once took a sprint now take an hour, pull request volume has doubled, and review time is up 91%. Researchers have called it a new credit card for technical debt.
Merium Hazem Anwar Labib Bishara and Merihan Hazem Anwar Labib Bishara will take the stage to explore the Five-Tier Contribution Value Framework, a model for identifying where real engineering value sits once execution stops being the bottleneck: from feature implementation and testing, through design and guardrails, to system-wide coherence.
Aimed at developers, testers and engineering leads, the session offers a way to assess where your own contribution – and your team's – actually creates value in AI-assisted development, and where to focus as AI keeps compressing delivery timelines.
Watch the highlights from Software Tester’s Day 2025
About Exactpro
Exactpro is an independent provider of AI-enabled software testing services for financial sector organisations. Our clients are exchanges, post-trade platform operators, and banks across 20 countries. Our area of expertise comprises protocol-based testing of matching engines, market data, market surveillance, clearing and settlement systems, payments APIs. We help our clients to decrease time to market, maintain regulatory compliance, improve scalability, latency and operational resiliency. Exactpro is involved in a variety of transformation programmes related to large-scale cloud and DLT implementations at systemically important organisations.
Our approaches leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to help harness the power of exploratory data analysis and big data analytics to assist in the generation of test ideas and the interpretation of test results, supported by advanced execution capabilities of the th2 frameworks suite.
Founded in 2009, the Exactpro Group is headquartered in the UK and operates delivery centres in Georgia, Sri Lanka, Armenia, and the UK and representative offices in the US, Canada and Italy, and as well as a global distributed network of consultants.
Are you interested in gaining a deeper understanding of your system, reducing costs, accelerating time to market, while maintaining operational resiliency and regulatory compliance? Visit us at exactpro.com.
Merium Hazem Anwar Labib Bishara
Middle Software Tester, Exactpro
Merihan Hazem Anwar Labib Bishara
Middle Software Tester, Exactpro
We are Middle Software Testers passionate about continuous learning, professional growth and expanding our expertise. With several years of experience in software testing and working at Exactpro, we continue to develop our technical skills and explore new opportunities as the industry continues to evolve.
Alongside our professional work, we are pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the International Black Sea University in Tbilisi, Georgia. Our research interests lie at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Probabilistic Logic, with a focus on bridging theoretical insights and practical applications.