Egyptian Teams Dominate ITIDA Software Testing Competition with AI-Powered Innovation
Information Technology Industry Development Agency has concluded its latest software testing competition, showcasing a new generation of AI-powered innovation in software quality engineering, with Egyptian teams securing all top positions across both student and professional categories.
The competition was held alongside the fourth edition of “Software Testing Day,” organized by the Software Engineering Competence Center, and attracted 128 teams from Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Jordan, reflecting growing international interest in AI-driven software testing and quality assurance technologies.
This year’s edition focused heavily on artificial intelligence applications in automated testing, API validation, and intelligent software quality engineering, highlighting a major shift toward AI-native testing environments capable of improving efficiency, scalability, and decision-making throughout the software development lifecycle.
Out of the participating teams, 18 advanced to the final stage, including five student teams and 13 professional teams, demonstrating a high level of technical expertise and innovation among participants.
Egyptian Student Teams Showcase AI-Native Testing Innovation
Among the standout student projects was QualiaUI, an AI-powered user interface testing platform that enables testers to generate and execute automated test cases using natural language commands. The solution significantly reduces manual effort while accelerating UI testing cycles by translating plain-language prompts into executable testing actions.
Another winning project, Testly, introduced an AI-driven API testing automation platform capable of generating and executing test sequences directly from user stories and APIs. The system validates API behavior and produces structured testing reports for developers and quality assurance teams.
The third winning student team, M.H.M, developed AgentJury, an advanced AI system utilizing multiple large language model “judges” to evaluate AI applications across different software releases. The platform analyzes robustness, regression risks, and potential failures while automatically generating defect reports and detecting hallucinations, jailbreak vulnerabilities, and regressions without requiring manual redesign of testing scenarios.
Professional Teams Deliver Enterprise-Scale AI QA Solutions
In the professional category, QA Catalyst developed a comprehensive AI-powered platform designed to manage the quality assurance process from requirements gathering through execution and sprint reviews. The system aims to reduce manual workload while enhancing testing visibility, coverage, and decision-making throughout the testing lifecycle.
Meanwhile, Ostrich Team introduced a scalable end-to-end framework for automated API test generation and scripting using multiple large language models, specifically designed for enterprise deployment environments.
Another winning solution, QBot, functions as an AI-powered QA assistant capable of accelerating manual testing activities and streamlining the entire Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC). The platform automatically generates test plans, test cases, traceability matrices, bug reports, execution outputs, and usability testing assets while maintaining strong data security and confidentiality standards.
Ahmed Elzaher, CEO of ITIDA, said during the closing ceremony that artificial intelligence is fundamentally reshaping how software quality is defined and managed.
“We are witnessing a clear transformation in the way Egyptian engineers are leveraging artificial intelligence — not only to automate testing processes, but to completely rethink software quality through more intelligent, scalable, and adaptive approaches,” Elzaher stated.
He added that the competition reflects the rapid evolution of Egypt’s digital talent ecosystem, noting that although teams participated from across the Arab world, Africa, and Asia, all finalists and winners came from Egypt, underscoring the country’s growing capabilities in advanced software engineering and AI-driven innovation.
International Jury Reflects Global Standards
The competition was evaluated by a 12-member international judging panel representing some of the world’s leading software quality organizations and technology institutions, including the International Software Testing Qualifications Board, Sogeti, and Global Association for Software Quality.
The panel included Joel Oliveira, Chair of Governance at ISTQB and Head of Quality Assurance at Celfocus Portugal; Dr. Lovlesh Behary, Chair of the ISTQB Marketing Working Group and Chair of the Mauritius Software Testing Qualifications Board; Marcus Seifert, Chief Technology Officer at Sogeti Germany; and Werner Henschelchn, CEO of GASQ Germany.
The initiative, delivered through SECC under the leadership of Dr. Haitham Hamza, forms part of Egypt’s broader strategy to strengthen digital capabilities, expand AI integration in software engineering, and position the country as a competitive regional and global hub for IT and software services.
