Where is QA or the Highway 2026 held?

QA or the Highway 2026 was held at The Ohio Union in Columbus, United States.

Who sponsors QA or the Highway 2026?

ConferenceGrid lists 10 sponsors, including Context QA, Leapwork, Abstracta, BrowserStack and Checkpoint Technologies.

Testing / Qa

QA or the Highway 2026

Name: QA or the Highway 2026
Start: 2026-06-12
End: 2026-06-12
Location: The Ohio Union

This edition has ended

QA or the Highway 2026 ran on Jun 12, 2026 at The Ohio Union in Columbus, United States. It is a Testing / Qa conference that expected about 400 attendees. ConferenceGrid lists 35 speakers, 10 sponsors and 29 sessions. Dates for the next edition are not announced yet.

Last verified May 6, 2026

QA or the Highway is the Midwest's largest software quality conference, held annually in Columbus, Ohio. The event brings together QA leads, SDETs, engineering managers, and industry thought leaders to share hard-won insights, real-world solutions, and practical lessons that attendees can apply immediately. The conference focuses on community, peer learning,…

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35Speakers

10Sponsors

29Sessions

30Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at QA, in alphabetical order.

Aaron Evans

Software tester & QA strategy consultant · One Shore

Alexa Beach

Sr. Quality Assurance Analyst · Sweetwater

Andrew Knight

Applitools

Ashley René Casey

Founder · Presence Over Pixels

Barbara Deaton

Sr. Software Manager · SAS Institute

Chris Harbert

CEO of Testery, International Speaker, & Podcast Host · Testery

David Leslie

Lead Software Engineer in Test · FlightSafety International

David Vano

Chief Revenue Officer · Parasoft Corporation

Emma Clouse

Quality Assurance Manager · Sweetwater Sound

Federico Toledo

Co-founder and Chief Quality Officer · Abstracta

Igor Dorovskikh

CEO and Founder · Engenious

Jeff Van Fleet

President & CEO · Lighthouse Technologies

Jenna Charlton

Developer Advocate · BrowserStack

Jenny Bramble

Empathetic Engineering Leader and Quality Advocate

Joel Wilson

Quality Engineering Leader · Ramsey Solutions

Kevin Roe

Senior SDET · Ramsey Solutions

Krishna Bandarupalli

QA Team Lead · Encova Insurance

Kyle Jenkins

Improving

Lee Barnes

Chief Quality Officer · Forte Group

Matthew Eakin

Matthew-Hope Eland

Wizard at Leading EDJE · Leading EDJE

Melissa Tondi

Principal Consultant · Disrupt Testing

Agenda

Selected from 29 sessions.

TBA
AI Testing Isn't One Thing (And Treating It Like It Is Will Bite You)
Your team shipped an AI feature. Congrats. Now someone asks: how do we test this? You write a test. The output changes. You run it again. Different output. You consider a career in…
TBA
Awesome Web Testing with Playwright and AI
Everybody gets frustrated when web apps are broken, but testing them thoroughly doesn't need to be a chore. Playwright together with AI makes testing web apps fun! Playwright offer…
TBA
Being Nimble - The next step in Agile Testing Optimization
We’ll examine how playbooks drive collaboration by ensuring the right stakeholders engage at the right moments throughout the SDLC by turning “who’s in the room” from a variable in…
TBA
Collaborate on Your LEGO(R) Vision
LEGO(R) sets are fun to build, but who has ever attempted to build a complete set without looking at the instructions? In this meeting, attendees will form teams and attempt to bui…
TBA
Decision Records: Understanding Why Those Decisions Were Made!
Ever stared at a complex system and thought, "Wait, why was that decision made?!" We’ve all been there – lost in a maze of logic, struggling to track down the root cause of a probl…
TBA
Deploying and Testing Ephemeral Environments
Merging code that hasn't been fully tested is one of the biggest reasons teams experience missed release dates and flaky test suites. Why? Merging code often means other developers…
TBA
Ensuring Software Quality in the world of AI Developers
Like it or not, AI agents can now turn a loosely written paragraph of requirements into a pull request that looks production-ready in minutes. That’s impressive - and horrifying. W…
TBA
From API Contracts to UI Confidence: AI-Driven Quality in CI/CD
In modern distributed architectures, the most disruptive defects are often the ones that live in the gaps between services. Contract violations - schema drift, breaking API changes…
TBA
From Quality Metrics to Quality Mindset: Building Teams That Own Outcomes
Software teams often rely on metrics, dashboards, and defined processes to guide quality efforts. While these tools provide important visibility, they don’t automatically create ow…

Quick answers

When is QA or the Highway 2026?: QA or the Highway 2026 ran on Jun 12, 2026 at The Ohio Union in Columbus, United States.
Where is QA or the Highway 2026 held?: QA or the Highway 2026 was held at The Ohio Union in Columbus, United States.
Who is speaking at QA or the Highway 2026?: ConferenceGrid lists 35 speakers, including Aaron Evans (Software tester & QA strategy consultant, One Shore), Alexa Beach (Sr. Quality Assurance Analyst, Sweetwater) and Andrew Knight (Applitools).
Who sponsors QA or the Highway 2026?: ConferenceGrid lists 10 sponsors, including Context QA, Leapwork, Abstracta, BrowserStack and Checkpoint Technologies.

Company intelligence

What does it mean when 30 companies show up, and 4 bet on three roles at once?

30 companies. four are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room

4All threespeak · spons · exh

6Sponsoringsponsor only

20Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Lighthouse Technologies·Parasoft·Abstracta·BrowserStack

Speakers by seniority

34% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

C-suite823%
Founder / Owner13%
VP-level13%
Director / Head of26%
Manager / Lead720%
Engineer · IC720%
Other roles926%

Of 35 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies

#	Company	Roles	Speakers
1	Lighthouse Technologies	Sponsor · Gold	2
2	Parasoft	Sponsor · Gold	2
3	Abstracta	Sponsor · Gold	1
4	BrowserStack	Sponsor · Gold	1
5	Checkpoint Technologies	Sponsor · Gold	-
6	ContextQA	Sponsor · Platinum	-
7	Engenious University	Sponsor · Gold	-
8	Leapwork	Sponsor · Platinum	-
9	Qt Group	Sponsor · Silver	-
10	TestMu AI	Sponsor · Gold	-
11	Improving		2
12	Ramsey Solutions		2
13	Applitools		1
14	DBI Inc (DSW)		1

Sponsors by tier

platinum2

20% of 10

gold7

70% of 10

silver1

10% of 10

At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

Inflectra×2 peers
SmartBear×2 peers
TestRail×2 peers
Testsigma×2 peers
Xray×2 peers

Related events · by shared sponsors

Conference	Date	City	Shared sponsors
EuroSTAR Conference 2027	May 11, 2027	Copenhagen	2

QA or the Highway 2026

AI Testing Isn't One Thing (And Treating It Like It Is Will Bite You)

Awesome Web Testing with Playwright and AI

Being Nimble - The next step in Agile Testing Optimization

Collaborate on Your LEGO(R) Vision

Decision Records: Understanding Why Those Decisions Were Made!

Deploying and Testing Ephemeral Environments

Ensuring Software Quality in the world of AI Developers

From API Contracts to UI Confidence: AI-Driven Quality in CI/CD

From Quality Metrics to Quality Mindset: Building Teams That Own Outcomes

30 companies. four are betting more than once.