# Breaking the Bottleneck: How Handelsblatt Scaled QA Without Slowing Down

Join us to explore how Handelsblatt scaled a high-performing QA function from the ground up, with zero initial budget or team. You’ll hear directly from Stefan Buda and Leapwork’s Sune Engsig about the strategic tools, automation choices, and community-driven approaches that helped unlock this rapid testing growth.

## Executive Summary

## What you will learn

Handelsblatt is the leading media house for finance and business information in Germany. Founded in Düsseldorf in 1946, the media group stands for well-founded, independent and quality journalism. In this session, Stefan Buda will share Handelsblatt’s journey of building a scalable QA function with limited resources, no team, and no pre-existing infrastructure.

Joining him is Sune Engsig from Leapwork, and together they’ll walk you through how intelligent automation allowed Handelsblatt to scale from 0 to 3,000+ automated tests per day. Whether you're part of a lean QA team or just getting started, you’ll come away from this session with practical tactics and inspiration to modernize test automation.

✓ How Leapwork enabled Handelsblatt to build a high-impact test framework.

✓ Why community and knowledge-sharing are crucial for long-term QA success.

✓ How to scale test automation from scratch with little to no budget.

### Speakers

### Sune Engsig

Field CTO, @Leapwork

### Stefan Buda

QA Lead, @Handelsblatt

## Bring your toughest system

We'll show you how it gets validated. No generic walkthroughs. Tailored to your environment.