Melih Çekingen is a QA engineer at Medsien, a US-based healthcare technology company, where he built the quality assurance function from the ground up establishing scalable test automation with Playwright, AI-driven workflows, and CI/CD pipelines for the digital health platform. His software QA career began in 2019, following a decade as a Test Engineering Officer in the Turkish Navy, where he worked on safety-critical embedded systems under MIL-STD and NATO AQAP standards. He later contributed to large-scale testing efforts at Huawei before moving into healthcare technology.

An ISTQB® Advanced Level Test Manager and Certified Tester AI Testing (CT-AI) professional, Melih focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence and software testing particularly multi-agent systems and AI-assisted automation. He was a keynote speaker at TestIstanbul 2025 and returns in 2026 as a panelist. Outside of work, he is the founder of the Run With Your Dog community and a founding member of the Turkish Canicross Federation, blending his passion for endurance sports with running alongside his dogs.