A Virtual Event For
Software Quality Engineers

9:00 am

OPENING REMARKS

Gil Sever, CEO & Co-Founder, Applitools

Joe Colantonio, Founder, TestGuild

9:15 am

OPENING KEYNOTE: Making Great Waves: 8 Software Testing Convictions

Andrew Knight, Developer Advocate and Director of Test Automation University, Applitools

As software professionals, we can sometimes find inspiration in unexpected places, including the art world. In fact, testing, itself, is art as much as it is engineering. In this talk, we will cover eight auspicious ideas inspired by ukiyo-e printing that can advance excellence in the craft of software testing. Come learn how to develop a great testing strategy using all eight points. You will gain a blueprint for testing success that will help you create your own masterpieces, as well as a deep appreciation for the meaning of true quality.

9:55 am

Hamlet on My Quality Strategy

Alejandro Sanchez Giraldo, Principal Quality Engineer, Farmbot

To be, or not to be had the fundamental question of whether we do something or not, it transcends the question to our ability to understand when we need to take action and when not to. This session is all about that, when we need E2E environments vs. when we mock. When we do our visual validation vs. when we validate using APIs.

10:35 am

Coffee Break

10:50 am

Testing Code Without Running It

Basarat Ali Syed, Self-Employed

The key objective of type safety (like testing) is to catch bugs before they make their way into production. In this talk, Basarat looks at the basics of early error detection with simple TypeScript. Following up with a whirlwind tour of TypeScript syntax that gets you comfortable with 80% of the syntactic features.

11:30 am

Lunch Break

12:00 pm

Expert Panel: Future of Automation: Does UX Matter in Testing?

Anusha Srinivasan, Quality Practice Lead, Nine

Lalit Parkale, Sr. Product Owner, Commonwealth Bank

Gowtham Byregowda, Chapter Lead, ING Australia

Shweta Sharma, Director of Quality Engineering Services, Axelerant Technologies

Joe Colantonio moderates this lively Q&A panel where Anusha Srinivasan, Lalit Parkale, Gowtham Byregowda, and Shweta Sharma share their thoughts on innovations and blocks in user experience in testing at their respective companies.

12:40 pm

Automated Testing for a Web Application Developed using Adobe AEM: How, When and What to Test?

Saraswathy Velappan, Senior Automation Test Analyst, National Australia Bank

Automated testing for a web application developed using Adobe AEM is not easy knowing the challenges with content sync, personalisation, dynamic content etc. In this talk, Saraswathy is going to explore the common challenges while maintaining an automated test suite, how to tackle these challenges, and what to test to ensure good coverage and more confidence in your releases.

1:20 pm

Automating the Real-User Scenarios across Multi-Apps, and Multi-Devices

Shama Ugale, Sr. QA Consultant, Xnsio

2:00 pm

Coffee Break

2:15 pm

Your Future in Testing

Matt O’Connor, Quality Assurance Manager, LAB Groups

Get more out of being a tester. This presentation will distill the lessons Matt learned from a career in testing into 30 minutes full of takeaways that you can act on right away to become a more effective and persuasive tester.

2:55 pm

Quality Engineering: Do Less, Do More & Stay Relevant!!

Raja Selvaraj, QE Head – Distribution Platform, Qwikcilver Solutions

Nibu Baby, Sr. Architect – Distribution Platform, Qwikcilver Solutions

In their Quality Engineering journey, Raja and Nibu had an epiphany like many and decided to undergo transformations to keep up with product growth, scalability, and time to market. The paradox of available automation tools and technology innovations can be overwhelming, as it is easy to be enthralled by the options and hardly consider other factors. In this session, Raja and Nibu will be sharing their transformation and the significance of staying relevant to embrace the Future of Testing.

3:35 pm

CLOSING REMARKS

Joe Colantonio, Founder, TestGuild