SUMIT PAL – Independent Consultant

DATA TESTING AND VALIDATION IN DATA ENGINEERING

• Testing is still completely underrated in the data world. Still, almost all data developers shy away from testing.
• Data teams don’t implement tests in the right places and data issues are caught by end-users
• Data Tests not implemented in the right places

This session will show the audience the WHY, WHERE, and HOW to do data testing and validation before working on any data-driven project using AI and ML-infused emerging concepts and tools.

DARSHAN DAVE – Founder, Principal, Reify Strategies

DIGITAL TWIN AND INTELLIGENT WAREHOUSE: CHRONICLES FROM ACCEPTANCE TESTING OF NEXT GENERATION MANUFACTURING WAREHOUSE.

Digital twins and intelligent machines are fast replacing traditional systems, especially in manufacturing and distribution warehouses. Transformer-type intelligent industrial robots that can shape-change as per the task. A web of smart and autonomous elevators, conveyors, sorters, loaders, and other equipment that can move truckloads in seconds. A space as large as a few city blocks are layered in the mesh of lasers, reflectors, and RFID signals where robots are at work and play and humans are restricted to safety zones. Chronicling the learnings and lessons from testing this complex playground and achieving a successful readiness and go live.

GEORGE HAMBLEN – Project Manager II, TD

KOOL KIDS ON THE BLOCKCHAIN: CREATING SYNTHETIC DATA FOR AI AND MACHINE LEARNING TESTING

The next generation of QA problems to solve is here AI and ML. AI and Machine learning have a unique set of challenges when it comes to fit-for-purpose data. How do you create the large amount of data required? How do you tweak the data so it’s meaningful for AI / ML consumption? This seminar will look into how to synthetically create data using GenRocket. The seminar will provide guidelines for how to approach AI / ML Testing. We will walk through a use case for a well-known financial services company.

KRISTIN JACKVONY – Principal Engineer III- Software Testing, Paylocity

DESIGNING AN EFFECTIVE MOBILE AUTOMATION STRATEGY

Mobile test automation is challenging. There is a greater danger of test flakiness than we find with web automation, and decisions need to be made about devices to test and tools to use. Because of this, it’s important to design an effective automation strategy before embarking on an automation project. In this presentation, Kristin will discuss the key factors that teams should consider when designing a mobile automation strategy, from who should be involved to how the tests should run.

JEET SHANGARI – Enterprise Consultant, JAS Systems

CLOUD-BASED TESTING: BENEFITS, CHALLENGES, TYPES, AND TIPS

Cloud-based quality assurance (QA) is gradually substituting on-premises QA because it helps save time and money on software testing, streamline processes, and provide access to a wide pool of devices. However, cloud-based QA comes with its own unique set of challenges.

ANAMIKA MUKHOPADHYAY – Associate Principle Engineer, Nagarro

INCLUSIVE QA – EMPOWERING BY ENABLING ACCESS

Are you open to include team members with disabilities (like blindness) and diverse neurological perspectives (like autism), yet hesitant to proceed? Are concerns about commitment, testing deliverables, ownership, and quality of work, holding you back? Beyond this, let’s also acknowledge that ROI (Return on Investment) still remains a significant factor at the end of the day. As custodians of our businesses, despite our altruistic intentions to contribute to society, considerations of profitability remain essential. But have we considered a financially viable approach to include and empower diverse individuals?

Our talk aims to elucidate on the transformative power of enabling a workforce of differently abled colleagues. Specifically, we will share our experience of hiring, training, and placing both blind and autistic individuals into software-testing roles in projects.

We believe that the digital realm should be accessible to everyone, and our goal is to encourage employers and candidates alike to make this vision a reality. We will share stories where autistic and non-sighted individuals have recognized their potential in shaping the accessible digital landscape and have done high quality testing in projects. We are so inspired and proud of the work done by these colleagues that we want to share it with the world outside and demonstrate how the inclusion of these individuals in our teams guaranteed comprehensive quality and accessibility assurance, for our digital solutions and deliveries.

We’ll talk about our customized pathway for autistic individuals, involving 4 months of hands-on training, real-world software assignments, ISTQB certification and then successful project placements, thus unlocking their remarkable potential.

Having direct engagement in these endeavors, both as trainer for individuals with autism and as a leader overseeing the Accessibility Practice including non-sighted testers, we are poised to share our firsthand insights. This encompasses our experiences, strategies, implementation, outcomes, success rate, and lessons learnt.

STEVE M. BARRETO – Senior Solutions Architect, Keysight Technologies

SOFTWARE QUALITY AND TESTING BASED ON END USER EXPERIENCE (EUX)

The words “quality” and “testing” are broad and loosely used words when developers and testers are testing an application or a business process flow. We can attain approval in functional and performance testing but if it doesn’t gain a positive end-user adoption then what was gained? This session will dive into the different aspects of testing what quality really means when looked at from different angles and the adoption of testing it from an End User’s perspective.