RICHARD MARTIN – Practice Director, Quality Engineering, Unify Consulting
QUALITY IN THE TRENCHES OF AN AGILE TRANSFORMATION
This talk will address the role and challenges Quality faces when transforming a large Enterprise IT organization to “Agile”. What is our role, and how can we shape the future and make Quality a foundational block of the transformation and resulting ongoing enterprise?
EVAN MASTERS – Customer Success Manager, Critical Logic
AUTOMATED TESTING IN AGILE USING KEYWORDS: UNLOCKING THE POWER OF EFFICIENCY AND SPEED
Agile methodologies have transformed the software development industry, but with the increasing demand for speed and quality, traditional manual testing is no longer sufficient. This is where automated testing comes in, and by leveraging the power of keywords, testers can create a robust and reliable automated testing framework that will take their Agile processes to the next level. In this talk, we explore the best practices and benefits of using keywords in automated testing. We’ll dive deep into how keywords can help you achieve faster and more efficient test case creation, easy maintenance, and better test coverage. You’ll leave with a clear understanding of how to implement keyword-driven testing in your Agile environment and take your testing game to the next level.
ELLIOT SPARKS – Software Development Manager, Amazon
AUTOMATED TESTS AS INTEGRAL PART OF RELEASE PROCESS
In many organizations automated tests are executed once the final build candidate is ready or even manually once per release to check for regression. Let’s deep dive into the practical examples of how we can implement running automation tests on every full build. He integrated automated tests as part of the regular CI/CD pipeline to ensure that every build can support minimum happy path functionality, so the Dev team can get live feedback from every squash commits and have a consistent baseline of the core happy path tests to measure any regressions.
LAURA SCHALK – SDET, Certified Scrum Master, Technical Documenter, SheerID
HOW TO HELP ENSURE USER EXPERIENCE STAYS CONSISTENT THROUGH AUTOMATION
Release your products with confidence by reducing the need for extensive manual testing to ensure your UX remains intact and unbroken.
SUMALATHA DHANIREDDY – Lead Test Engineer, GlobalLogic
PERFORMANCE TESTING OF MICRO SERVICES IN EVENT DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE.
Event driven architecture has gained popularity in recent years. By using events as a means of communication between microservices in an asynchronous way, EDA makes building highly scalable, loosely coupled, and fault tolerant enterprise applications easy. Even though EDA offers many benefits, its performance and scalability must be ensured under different scenarios. The asynchronous and distributed nature of event-driven architecture (EDA) makes performance testing challenging.
We will explore the challenges testers may encounter and outline best practices for conducting effective performance testing in an event-driven architecture.
CHANDRASEKAR SANKARANARAYANAN – Staff SDET, Alation
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MICRO SERVICES: QA CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES FOR AGILE TEAMS MIGRATING TO A CLOUD-NATIVE AND DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE
As Agile development practices gain popularity and cloud-native architectures become the go-to solution for modern applications, software development teams face new and unique challenges during migration. The topic delves into the challenges faced by Agile teams that are migrating a monolith to a cloud-native and distributed architecture and outlines the strategies that the QA engineers can adopt to counter these challenges.
ENGIN UZUNCAOVA – Senior Engineering Manager, Remitly
AUTOMATION USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING
Recent advancements in technology have boosted the feasibility and practical use of AI and ML models. We see this everywhere and software development is no exception. From code generation to understanding large code bases and data sets (e.g. traces, test results), it’s hard to miss how AI and ML are becoming more central in our day-to-day software development activities. The growing pace of development, increasing volume of code, and daunting complexity in code-related insights will only accelerate this transition. What are the unique opportunities in software testing? How can we create AI and ML solutions tailored to such opportunities? Finally, what does the future look like for software testing professionals?
NISHADHI NIKALANDAWATTE – Sr. Delivery Principal, Slalom
BUILD A ROBUST QUALITY ROADMAP
Creating a robust Quality Roadmap has become a challenge as lately many organizations have moved away from having dedicated Quality Engineering teams. In this topic, she will be talking about using a Quality Engineering Maturity modal to build a robust quality roadmap for an organization. This model will help you understand where your organization is in terms of maturity of quality, asses where you need to be in this maturity model and how can an organization use this to build a robust quality roadmap.
