SHOBIKA RAMASUBBARAYALU – Senior QA Automation Developer, CBC/Radio-Canada

EMPOWERING TEST AUTOMATION: UNLEASHING THE POTENTIAL OF PLAYWRIGHT

Embark on a transformative journey in “Empowering Test Automation: Unleashing the Potential of Playwright,” where participants will delve into the profound capabilities of Playwright as a game-changing automation tool. This session offers a deep dive into Playwright’s multi-browser support, cross-browser testing functionalities, and its unique features, such as browser contexts and network interception, creating a comprehensive testing environment. Attendees will gain insights into leveraging Playwright’s programming language-agnostic nature, fostering seamless integration with JavaScript, Python, and TypeScript. With a focus on practical application, the session explores Playwright’s ability to handle complex workflows, providing participants with the knowledge and best practices to optimize their test automation strategies and elevate testing excellence within their organizations.

SHUCHI RASTOGI – Senior QA Advisor, Express Scripts

SHIFT-RIGHT TESTING STRATEGIES: STRENGTHENING SYSTEMS BEYOND DEVELOPMENT

In this fun session, we will go on a journey to understand what shift right testing is, and how we can bring this change in our teams and adopt this cultural shift. We would understand how a modern tester’s role extends beyond testing and how we can address issues like low user engagement and peak-hour performance degradation by discussing real-time case studies that adopted shift-right testing techniques.

CHRIS JUST – Lead Developer, Ethoca

SETTING UP EFFECTIVE AND SCALABLE TEST AUTOMATION ENVIRONMENTS

Setting up an effective test framework and environment for integration & e2e tests can be challenging and needs constant vigilance to keep tests stable. Although each company and environment may require some differences in how tests and environments are set up, there are usually a lot of best practices that apply to almost all of them. In this talk, he will discuss some common best practices he found to work well at many companies over his more than 2 decades of QA experience.

KARAMVEER SINGH – Solutions Engineer, Keysight

ADDRESSING THE CHALLENGES OF COMPLEX END-TO-END SYSTEM TESTING

End-to-end testing can often be a painful and difficult to scale up because it requires multiple automation and testing tools, all of which need to integrate with each other. In this presentation we’ll dive further in the challenges of end-to-end testing and we can address them

JEREMY BERRIAULT – Senior Partner, Berriault and Associates Consulting Group

LEADERSHIP WITHOUT AUTHORITY: NAVIGATING INFLUENCE AND IMPACT

In a software testing environment, people play plenty of roles in a project where they will lead others. One problem: most don’t have any authority over anyone. It is challenging to be held responsible for a team’s success, yet the team doesn’t have to listen to it because they have a manager they report to. The dialogue will explore the subtle yet powerful art of leadership without explicit titles or hierarchical power. Explore how influence becomes the driving force, shaping decisions, inspiring action, and guiding teams toward success. Understand how empowerment, rooted in trust, can create a positive and engaged work culture. We will work through the balance between providing guidance and allowing autonomy an essential aspect of today’s leadership.

Time spent here will challenge the traditional notions of leadership. Realize that impactful leadership is about more than titles and formal authority. We will focus on influence, impact, and the ability to inspire positive change using real-life examples, group dialogue and self-reflection.
Leadership without authority is not just a skill but a survival tool. Gain insights into the future of leadership and position yourself to thrive in your career, as this tool can even be used in a leadership role with direct reports.

This thought-provoking session will go beyond the ordinary, sparking inspiration and equipping you with actionable strategies that will lead to success for everyone.

PRASHANT PALIWAL – Director, RBC

HOW EFFECTIVE IS YOUR TEST AUTOMATION SCRIPTING AND INTEGRATING AUTOMATED TESTING INTO DEVOPS AND AGILE

• Why your Test Automation Suite become obsolete during next release
• My squad is focused upon testing of that squad’s deliverable, who will do SIT
• What mistakes generally happens when we do automation

IAN HOWLETT – Director, Engineering, Innosphere

AUTOMATED TESTING IN A SERVERLESS WORLD

With a growing trend in the Cloud space of managed services and serverless technologies, the standard approaches to automated testing don’t always fit the bill. This talk is intended to discuss the ways developers, test engineers, and more can utilize new technologies, tools, and practices to ensure high-quality deliverables with a new infrastructure paradigm. I will focus on AWS technologies for example, such as Lambda, ECS, Aurora Serverless, etc.