Monika Golec

Test Lead SAP S/4 Transformation

Biography.

Monika Golec
Test Manager | SAP S/4 Transformation Test Lead | Bug Whisperer 🐞 | Testing Coach & Trainer 🎤 | AI & Automation Enthusiast 🤖
With over a decade of hands-on leadership in software quality and transformational change, Monika Golec is a dynamic force in enterprise testing and delivery. She currently leads testing efforts for SAP S/4HANA transformation programmes, helping organisations navigate the complex journey of large-scale change with confidence and agility.
Monika’s unique blend of roles sets her apart:
As a Test Manager and SAP S/4 Transformation Test Lead, she orchestrates strategy and execution across end-to-end testing landscapes—balancing risk, business value and technical depth.
As a Bug Whisperer, she brings a playful but serious mindset to defect discovery and prevention—ensuring that what slips through stays minimal.
As a Testing Coach & Trainer, she mentors teams to think beyond scripts—building capability, resilience and a culture of quality.
As an AI & Automation Enthusiast, she embraces cutting-edge practices to accelerate delivery, reduce cost and raise confidence in the digital age.
Her mission? “Breaking software so users don’t have to. Saving the world one test at a time.”
When she isn’t leading test strategies or busting bugs, Monika enjoys sharing her experience with peer communities, speaking at conferences, and sparking conversations about the future of quality assurance, automation and transformation in business.

Talk.

Finding Balance Between Coverage and Efficiency

Testing can feel like walking a tightrope between the light and the dark sides — between complete visibility and raw speed. On one side lies exhaustive coverage and perfect control; on the other, ruthless efficiency and delivery pressure.
The Light Side: complete visibility (high coverage, low efficiency) The Dark Side: raw speed (high efficiency, low coverage)
In this talk, we’ll explore how to find balance between these forces in modern testing. Drawing parallels from the Jedi philosophy, we’ll see how uncertainty isn’t an enemy to be eliminated, but a truth to be mastered.
Through real examples from SAP testing and automation at scale, we’ll discuss practical ways to balance coverage, cost, and confidence — and why chasing perfection may lead you to the dark side.
You’ll leave with new ways to visualize trade-offs, communicate uncertainty, and design testing approaches that flow — not fight — with reality.
“Perfect testing is like perfect knowledge of the Force — theoretically elegant, practically impossible.”

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