Melissa Tondi, Quality Engineering Leader, Guild Education 
Many Agile testers feel like we never have enough time to fully test in a given sprint, cycle or other timeframe. We plan for the best case scenario, but, undoubtedly, something happens with our best-laid plans that cause us to feel like we “just didn’t test enough.” In this session, we will talk about the five areas that may be causing inefficiencies in your overall approach – to include test planning and duplication of testing to the left of QE. Melissa will discuss these five areas and you’ll have a chance to share yours with the outcome to be practical solutions that can be implemented quickly. Once we have the plan to reduce or eliminate the inefficiencies, we’ll talk about areas you may be able to spend more time in or add to your overall testing strategy – effectively adding more time to do what you do best!
Aneesh Bendre, Lead Software QA Engineer, Ouster
Developing cutting edge smart devices involves a mix of hardware and software technology. Implementing DevOps for the device’s software often proves to be non trivial because it is tied closely to the hardware that it runs on. Also, knowing when to implement the DevOps process is critical as you want to avoid re-doing the infrastructure when the underlying hardware or software architecture changes.
Moreover, DevOps teams need to consider the availability and accessibility of the infrastructure since engineering teams are working remotely now, more than ever. Should you use the existing infrastructure (on-premise) or build out a new one? Will you have “the hardware” available for validation at all times or should you consider using a hardware emulator instead? Should you leverage cloud services or opt for a hybrid solution? The cloud is an attractive approach to get going and fairly easy to scale. But, it can become an expensive recurring cost over time and is typically a one way street. Any new DevOps planning needs to have a remote-first mindset in the current environment, even post the pandemic.
In this presentation, we will discuss DevOps deployment in the context of early-stage embedded product development. How to keep the DevOps implementation agile, scalable and in sync with the development cycle of the overall project.
Priya Patra, Program Manager, Capgemini
Non-functional requirements define the quality characteristics of a solution. It can transform a user story from good to great. We shall leverage Story cubes in this fun activity to get those creative juices flowing to uncover the most missed non-functional requirements.
Nivarti Jayaram, Chief Data Officer, Societe Generale
While building the right culture & mindset are paramount for transforming teams and organizations to DevOps, it’s important to understand that Tools are also an integral part in successful adoption of DevOps within an enterprise. In this session, we will look at the current tooling landscape for DevOps adoption and the factors that we will need to consider while choosing them for our own context. We will also cover the tradeoffs that we may have to make while choosing the tools.
Srinivas Jandhyala, Practice Head, APM & SRE, HCL Technologies
Site Reliability Engineering is one of the emerging technique and technology to create scalable and reliable software. Often it is a looked as an Operations teams activity to ascertain the reliability. In this talk we will elaborate on some of the principles of SRE, how these can be applied and automated across testing SDLC to provide proactive assurance and highly reliable software.
Sumit Mundhada, Senior Manager Test Automation, Vodafone
AI and Machine Learning are here to help software testing deliver better results. Artificial intelligence (AI) in test automation is the latest trend and it has many benefits. This talk will unfold the use cases and the future trends for AI and ML with respect to software testing. We will also touch base on how ML algorithms & AI can help in quality testing and overall return of investment.
Sudeep Chatterjee, Head Of QA And Testing, London Stock Exchange
DevOps is a goal for many organisations to achieve the vision of reducing end to end product development cycle time and to deliver value to business and customers faster. With advanced development practices and tools, organisations have successfully achieved CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Development) but CT (Continuous Testing) remains elusive. In this talk, I would explain how low code test automation solutions can help reach the CI/CD/CT objectives.
Panel Moderator:
Colin Deady, Agile Lead, PPS
Panellists:
Sudeep Chatterjee, Head Of QA And Testing, London Stock Exchange
Sumit Mundhada, Senior Manager Test Automation, Vodafone
Srinivas Jandhyala, Practice Leader of APM, AIOPS & Reliability Engineered Assurance, HCL technologies
Aneesh Bendre, Lead Software QA Engineer, Ouster
Nivarti Jayaram, Chief Data Officer, Societe Generale
Rosalind Radcliffe, Distinguished Engineer, Chief Architect for DevOps for Enterprise Systems, IBM
Large enterprises need to provide high quality software while still moving at a rapidly increasing pace, in order to accomplish this, an overall view of software quality needs to be considered. This session will discuss how to bring this culture of quality and how to bring automation and continuous testing practices to the Enterprise including IBM.
Nikhil Barthwal, Senior Software Engineer, Facebook
Traditional CI/CD systems haven’t been designed for cloud native environments and need to evolve. Tekton is a flexible, Kubernetes native open source CI/CD framework that enables automating deployments across multiple platforms—including Kubernetes, serverless, and VMs—by abstracting away the underlying details. It provides a set of shared, open-source components for building CI/CD systems and is one of the founding projects of the CD Foundation (CDF). Within the CDF’s open, vendor-neutral structure, Tekton’s goal is to provide industry specifications for CI/CD pipelines, workflows and other building blocks.
This talk explains the CI/CD challenges in a cloud native landscape shows how Tekton project addresses these challenges. It goes into details on what Tekton resources are, how to install the pipelines and how to run them for building, testing and deploying containerized applications on their clusters.
BMK Lakshminarayanan, Value Stream Architect, Bank of New Zealand
As we step into the eleventh year of the term “DevOps”, it is now mainstream in most organizations. It makes into the Strategy & Board meetings, CIO presentations, press releases and success parties.
As most of the organizations just scratching the surface, there is a lot to take on when it comes to any transformation initiatives. Primarily focusing on – Speed & Stability. Organizations have realized that – hundreds of deployments do not matter, but matters what – the “Value” to the customer.
In this presentation, BMK will share his study on most of the Enterprises’ states, reflecting on how the pressure is more on “IT” to deliver value faster. However, the rest of the organization operations and processes are still slow, e.g., funding the initiatives, Architecture, governance, etc.
BMK’s talk will cover and help you to explore:
Pushparajan Balasubramanian, Senior Quality Assurance Analyst, Trustwave
As we operate within an increasingly digital environment, organizations are coming under a growing number of threats from latest cyber-attacks. Organizations are needing to bring cyber-security and build resiliency to the forefront of their digital strategy to ensure they are operating at their peak and to protect their businesses, customers, partners, vendors, and staff. This session will cover what needs to be protected, how to implement continuous security testing in the CICD process, Security Testing Tools, Hands-on demo using an opensource tool and benefits of continuous security testing.
Padma Satyamurthy, Transformation Leader, Walmart Global Technologies
In this talk, I will share my experience on what scaling is all about, what challenges or roadblocks organizations hit in the journey and some practical ways to overcome them and finally, what would be the benefits not only organizations will enjoy, but also pass it on to their customers.
Jawahar Govindaraj, VP, Head of Low Code and No code automation, SCADEA Solutions
The main focus of the talk is, how to low-code and no-code technology can help the banking industry to achieve its business values quickly. Also will share the best practices of choosing and implementing the right tool, Framework, ROI with a case study in the digital banking industry.
Jette Pedersen, Senior Software QA Engineer, Schibsted
Within my 20+ years experience of enterprise IT development, I have changed my role from developer to a traditional tester to becoming a QA coach. For this talk I will be sharing my personal story about the changes I have gone through in my working life. Starting as a Cobol developer and then becoming a fulltime traditional tester was a big step, but moving from a traditional tester to a QA coach turned out to be even bigger.
I will take you through the phases, from initial organizational conversations about the changes that were needed, to accepting the direction and finding new gaps/needs to deliver.
This might seem as an unmanageable thing to do – but it can be done!
Are you facing new challenges in your company? Maybe you can learn something from my experiences.
Panel Moderator:
Colin Deady, Agile Lead, PPS
Panellists:
Jette Pedersen, Senior Software QA Engineer, Schibsted
Jawahar Govindaraj, VP, Head of Low Code and No code automation, SCADEA Solutions
Pushparajan Balasubramanian, Senior Quality Assurance Analyst, Trustwave
Premkumar P, Global Head of the Performance Engineering & Service Virtualization Practice, HCL Technologies
Padma Satyamurthy, Transformation Leader, Walmart Global Technologies
BMK Lakshminarayanan, Value Stream Architect, Bank Of New Zealand