Testing Competence in the AI Era:

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How to Structure the Make-or-Buy Decision in Software Testing Without Giving Up Control

The next release has a deadline, and testing capacity is tight. And now that AI is helping write code, a new question comes into play: how do quality assurance and evidence documentation keep pace when software gets built faster? The pressure doesn’t come from development alone. In regulated environments, every release also has to be documented and justified.

That turns software testing into a sourcing question. Build your own testing capability, bring in external specialists, or combine both deliberately? A comparison of salaries and day rates isn’t enough to answer that. What matters is maintenance overhead, utilization, onboarding, knowledge transfer, and the ability to justify release decisions with confidence.

Matthias Lutz, Business Development Consultant at sepp.med, shows in 20 minutes how you can structure your make-or-buy decision along concrete criteria.

What you’ll learn in this webinar

• Why comparing salaries and day rates falls short as a decision basis, and which criteria belong in the same calculation
• What costs building in-house capability ties up permanently, from maintaining test automation to knowledge that exists only in individual people’s heads
• What conditions external testing support needs in order to work, and where its limits lie
• How to keep apart three tasks that regularly get conflated in the AI context: securing AI-generated code, using AI within the testing process, and quality-assuring AI-based products
• When combining an in-house team with external specialists performs better economically than either approach on its own

Who is this webinar for?

Budget-holding executives with sourcing and make-or-buy responsibility for software testing, particularly in regulated environments

Your speaker

Matthias Lutz, Business Development Consultant at sepp.med

When does it start?

Date: October 15, 2026, 11:00 AM (CEST)
Duration: 20 minutes + Q&A

Participation is free. Register now and walk away with a solid basis for your next budget round.

Your trainers

Matthias Lutz

Matthias Lutz studied Food & Beverage Technology at Geisenheim University and International Business at the University of Economics in Prague.

He has over 15 years of experience in digitalization, most recently eight years at Siemens Digital Industries Software, where he led teams for solution consulting and architecture as Presales Director. Prior to that, he drove the global rollout of industrial IoT solutions in 16 countries as Business Development Manager at Siemens.

In 2025, he joined sepp.med as a Senior Business Development Consultant. There, he combines his expertise in digitalization strategies, cloud, and SaaS solutions with the company’s broad range of services—from regulatory software consulting and test automation to the development of customized solutions for medtech, automotive, and other regulated industries.

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