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Agents & Empathy: Build Smarter Tools, Test Like Humans

What happens when you give your AI agent access to any tool it needs — and when you turn user empathy into a quality engine that never stops? At this meetup we explore two sides of the same coin: how to extend AI agent capabilities through Model Context Protocol (MCP), and how to combine authentic manual testing — where you truly feel the user's experience — with smart automation that turns discoveries into action. Whether you want to build your own MCP server or bring a culture of quality to your team, you'll leave with concrete ideas and tools you can apply starting Monday. Presentations: 🔧 Extend Your Agent's Toolbox — What Are MCPs and How to Build Your Own 🧪 Test Like a User. Automate the Rest.

📅 23 aprilie 202618:15📍 Adobe Systems Romania

Calea Șerban Vodă 206-218, 040215 București, U center 2, floor 7

Who's presenting?

Speakers

Letitia Antohe
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Letitia Antohe

Senior Quality Engineer at Adobe

Letitia Antohe is a Senior Quality Engineer at Adobe with over 20 years of experience building and testing software at scale. Based in Romania, she works on Adobe Express and has a deep focus on end-to-end test strategy, exploratory testing, and quality engineering tooling. With a background in computer science and networking, a taste of Product Management, she appreciates the human touch and the empathy that make a team and a product spark.   Letitia is passionate about user experience,  making quality engineering smarter and  bringing structure to ambiguous, fast-moving release cycles.  When she's not testing, she's thinking about how AI can help teams ship with more confidence, try out a new board game, gardening and most importantly spending quality time with the family.

Ana Dobrescu
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Ana Dobrescu

Software Quality Engineer at Adobe

Ana is a Senior Quality Engineer at Adobe, where she’s spent the last two and a half years. Her earlier work was in banking—testing products and integration flows—so moving to Adobe Express meant a shift to an in-house product and a different rhythm from outsourced testing teams. After two years on Express, she’s clearer than ever that strong products come from people working closely together, not from process alone. Away from work, she likes exploring new places with her family and is keen on making new experiences.

Andra Marin
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Andra Marin

Software Quality Engineer at Adobe

Andra is a Software Quality Engineer with nearly 18 years in the testing world, spanning manual testing, automation, and performance. She currently works as part of a feature team, helping deliver features that meet the company's quality standards and empower users to embrace their creativity. Over the years, she's worn many hats — from writing Selenium scripts and JMeter tests to leading QA efforts and shaping acceptance criteria alongside development teams. A curious person by nature, Andra's interests stretch well beyond quality: arts, photography, and sci-fi books all compete for her attention. She's an introvert who lets her work do the talking and values clarity over filler.

Andrei Mihai
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Andrei Mihai

ML Services Engineer at Adobe

Andrei Mihai is an ML Services Engineer at Adobe, where he drives DevOps and MLOps initiatives. With almost 20 years of experience in Software Development, he has worked extensively with Java, Python, Kubernetes, Linux, and GitOps. He enjoys continuously expanding his knowledge, understanding the bigger picture, and exploring how technologies interconnect to build efficient and scalable solutions. His passion for technology goes beyond professional work; he is always eager to experiment with new tools, explore emerging tech (like Quantum Computing), and to discuss innovative ideas and real-world applications.

Schedule

The Testing Plan

🕐 18:15-18:30

Welcome & Gather

🕐 18:30-19:15

Extend your agent’s toolbox. What are MCPs and how to build your own.

Andra Marin
Andra Marin
Andrei Mihai
Andrei Mihai

AI assistants are only as powerful as the set of tools they have access to. Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol for connecting your agent to external systems, databases, APIs, internal tools, or custom scripts — without being locked into a single ecosystem or client (e.g., Cursor, Claude, Codex). In this presentation we clarify what MCP is, in which scenarios it brings value, the risks that can arise, and when an MCP is not necessarily the best solution. We then walk through the essential steps to design and deliver your own MCP server, so your team can extend the agent's toolbox in a controlled way. Whether you're a tester, developer, or manager, you'll leave with a clear understanding of the MCP ecosystem and, perhaps, your first ideas for your own tool.

🕐 19:15-20:00

Test Like a User. Automate the Rest

Letitia Antohe
Letitia Antohe
Ana Dobrescu
Ana Dobrescu

How a weekly ritual of sitting down and actually using your product — combined with AI-powered issue logging — became a quality engine that never sleeps. They say you can't feel a user's pain from a dashboard. You have to sit down, open the product, and try to make something — and when something breaks, that's not just a bug. That's a story worth telling, and a quality worth fighting for. Great software isn't built by one — it's built by teams that all care about the experience. When Engineers, PMs, and Designers use the product alongside QEs, they don't just find bugs; they develop empathy for users. Team Testing events make shared ownership real and feeling a user's frustration is irreplaceable. But turning that feeling into a well-formed Jira ticket? That's where automation steps in, so testers spend time discovering problems, not transcribing them. It's been 3 years. 1,200+ insights. 1 dedicated team.

🕐 20:15-21:00

Networking & follow-up discussions

We continue the stories about testing in quality company.

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Adobe Systems Romania

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Adobe Systems Romania

Calea Șerban Vodă 206-218, 040215 București, U center 2, floor 7

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