when I started in a senior position in testing, it was clear that as a test manager, you 'managed the tests'. As the way we've worked in continues to change, that had impacted the kind of leadership needed within the discipline now. Mike Talks will take you through how his role and changed and evolved and how being a senior tester today has changed with the times."

Basically the talk looks at the evolution into agile.

Mike Talks has worked in IT for over 25 years. By necessity, his role and skillset have had to evolve and change over that period as the technologies and ways of working have changed. Mike was a contributor and reviewer for Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispins More Agile Testing. Mike is currently based in Wellington, NZ.

Development teams invest more than 50% creating and maintaining test data, also most of the test script failures are due test data inconsistency or unavailability, Graphql is API query language tool that can be use to optimise and streamline the test data creation process for manual and automation testing by sourcing test data from multiple sources and expose them thru graphql API endpoints

Rafael is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience in the testing industry, he is self motivated and always looking for new challenges and areas of improvements, he has been able to deliver cost effective solutions to a wide range of industries especially for the financial sector.

As the financial services sector is undoubtedly the most data-intensive sector in the global economy, the influence of Big Data on the sector is tough to overestimate. Due to the increasing and changing customer expectations, business intelligence and data analytics having become a crucial element architectural optimization for banks. There’s a strong requirement for real-time models leveraging the data driven decisions making concept. In this talk, I’ll discuss the prudent approach for a multi-dimensional data exploitation and how Real-time and batch data can be analysed simultaneously at scale- allowing embedded analytic processing into the applications. This in turn enables programmatic decisions based on real-time analysis. We’ll discuss practical use cases for leveraging a real-time data integration pipeline to avoid all problems of classic Extract-Transform-Load tools, which are data processing latency, functional miscomprehension and metadata heterogeneity. The audience will infer the value of leveraging real time architectural approach towards enhancing the value-driven insights,reporting, quality and availability.

Vinnie is an indigenous leader with a rich background in IT leadership and a firm believer of Disruptive innovation in today’s competitive landscape.
With over fifteen years of experience, she has been working with partners and customers internationally towards bringing some of the best Data & AI offerings to the market.
With a strong passion for technology, she has been guiding business & technical decision makers towards enabling organizations’ Digital Transformation journeys.
Currently working as the Director, Enterprise Data & Analytics Architecture with Scotia bank , she is driving the realization of enterprise’s global business vision through an innovation driven architectural strategy and a well integrated real time approach for the bank.

The 45 minutes presentation will talk through the various testing approaches like unit, component, api testing etc. Every software system cannot be tested using a single common approach. It requires deeper understanding of the business solution as well as the software architecture. In this presentation, I will be drawing an example of my own implementation in a complicated system which helped in faster and high quality software delivery. With this anyone should be able to design the best automated testing solution for any software product.

Haritha has several years of experience in the field of software consultation and delivery. She has leveraged her skills of analysis, building automation frameworks and testing to solve quality challenges across business categories like retail, manufacturing and life sciences.Haritha also conducts workshops and presentations on topics like Artificial Intelligence in testing, DevOps and agile practices, for which she keeps a tab on the latest tech blogs and webinars

Automation will accelerate the shift in required workforce skills we have seen over the past 15 years. Our research finds that the strongest growth in demand will be for technological skills, the smallest category today, which will rise by 55 percent and by 2030 will represent 17 percent of hours worked, up from 11 percent in 2016. This surge will affect demand for basic digital skills as well as advanced technological skills such as programming. Demand for social and emotional skills such as leadership and managing others will rise by 24 percent, to 22 percent of hours worked. Demand for higher cognitive skills will grow moderately overall, but will rise sharply for some of these skills, especially creativity.

I’ll build a short PPT on our company’s experience and lessons learned from working with various companies to build such a workforce and Roadmap for building a successful and digitally enabled future workforce.

Saad is INSEAD MBA who has 15+ years of experience in helping companies execute rapid transformations that have delivered over $1 billion in bottom line savings

Several major breakthroughs in machine learning language modelling have created more general purpose reusable tools for NLP: Attention & Transformer networks.

John Hawkins holds a PhD in applied machine learning and has spent the last 16 years using machine learning to solve problems in biomedical research, banking, adtech, media, and manufacturing. He is broadly interested in forecasting, bayesian methods and natural language processing.

Key takeaways from this session:
1.What is API Testing
2. Benefits of API Testing
3. Why we chose Cypress ?
4. How we built Cypress Framework for our clients for both UI & API
5. Walk through of Framework we developed
6. Demo of How to build your Tests using Cypress using a third party app.
7.How Cypress API Framework helped our clients.

Parag Wani is a consultant working with Planit Testing. Parag has 15+ years of experience in QA, Development and Infrastructure testing across various industries ranging from Ecommerce, Retail, Telecom, Human Resource, Banking, Media & Cloud Computing.

When is the last time that you dusted off your organization’s Test Automation Strategy? Do you even have a strategy?

In this presentation I will show you:
Why is a Test Automation Strategy so important
How you might understand your current test automation culture
How to identify the problems you want to solve
Why defining your guiding principles is the next step
Building a strategy is the easy part
Why it is all about a mindset change
How to sustain your new strategy.

Jaco has many years of IT and QA experience in the financial industry, and actively supports the Agile and Devops approaches to good quality outcomes.

In Modern Enterprise Architecture; CI/CD is implicitly expected in any solution you deploy on premise or on cloud . In this session i will demonstrate my hands-on work on configuration of scaffold tool to deploy solution on cloud or any on premise servers without any hassle. It will improve efficiency of any CI/CD organization process in a big way. Stay tuned...

Murat Yazar is a Software Test Leader at Turkish Airlines, where Murat leads Test Automation and DevOps Teams. Murat also manages Continuous Testing transformation and test data management for automation projects in his company.
Previously, Murat worked as a Senior Software Test Engineer after a short working life in Global Support Team at Nortel Netas. During his term of office, he took part in many international projects
He graduated with a degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Ege University. Then he completed his master degree in the Department of Electronic Communication at Yıldız Technical University.
As an airline staff, he likes to travel to the most interesting points of the world. In addition to traveling, he enjoys spending time with his childs.

Lean and Agile are two words that surface in recent years. LEAN and AGILE are not exactly the same approach. The LEAN and AGILE principles are a basis that can be applied to different methods (e.g. Scrum and Kanban).


Lean helps to minimize risk and waste while maximizing customers value. While Agile make processes more flexible and capable of adapting to change quickly to build a product incrementally, step-by-step, delivering it in smaller pieces.


Some ways to keep your tests lean: Tests must be valuable and reliable, Create Flow, tests should be as fast as possible, empower the team, eliminate waste, build integrity in and also seek perfection.


Lean and agile benefits: Reducing development and maintenance costs, total control, visibility and manageability of the development cycle, Less uncertainty, better quality of the final product, continuous improvement.

Abiodun Osoba has over 20 years experience in telecommunications, banking, retail, wholesale, technology, startups and software industries. She is the CEO of The Agile Advisor Africa, Canada & Agile for MEA and has over 16 years of experience working in Agile environments. Provided executive Agile coaching in 10 countries (trained over 200 staff in Agile fundamentals, Scrum & Kanban) and successfully led digital programs in 6 countries.
Starting as a technical contributor, then moved on to the roles of a Business Analyst, Project/Program Manager and now as an Enterprise Agile Coach/Executive Coach/Organization Coach and a Leadership Team coach for several client organizations. Abiodun is dedicated to innovation and operational excellence and facilitates the continuous improvement culture so important to The Agile Advisor. Abiodun has written over 50 articles on Agile Advice. She is an Agile Facilitator/Trainer. CSM, CSPO, SA, CAL1, Certified Agile Coach.
Abiodun is a graduate of the University of Abuja, Nigeria, Rotman School of Management - University of Toronto, MIT Sloan School of Management, Harvard Business School. She is actively involved in the Agile community and is an organizer of several meet ups in Canada, UAE, Egypt, Nigeria & UK.

when I started in a senior position in testing, it was clear that as a test manager, you 'managed the tests'. As the way we've worked in continues to change, that had impacted the kind of leadership needed within the discipline now. Mike Talks will take you through how his role and changed and evolved and how being a senior tester today has changed with the times."

Basically the talk looks at the evolution into agile.

Mike Talks has worked in IT for over 25 years. By necessity, his role and skillset have had to evolve and change over that period as the technologies and ways of working have changed. Mike was a contributor and reviewer for Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispins More Agile Testing. Mike is currently based in Wellington, NZ.

The role of webscraping in data science, webscraping tools in python, examples of webscraping projects, the role of Selenium in webscraping

Format of the talk: 45 minute presentation with real life examples

Shaun is a data scientist with a background in pure mathematics. He specialises in building machine learning models using python. He is currently working as a data scientist at Australian Redcross Lifeblood and has had previous roles as a data science consultant at Entellect and a data science associate instructor at General Assembly.

Key Takeaways:
1) Functional tests don't have to be done on UI/System level
2) The product architecture may have a bigger impact on the test automation effectiveness than test automation tools
3) A practical example of migrating from Selenium-driven automated test to Subcutaneous tests and analysis of the coverage/speed/stability impact of the change

With more than 10 years in IT, I had a chance to work in different areas, such as development, testing and management. I had a chance to work with PHP, Java, Python and .Net platforms with different application from microservices to monolithic and monstrous desktop UI applications.
With such a wide background I decided to focus on things that help to deliver high-quality software, starting from inception and all the way to operation.
Currently, I am holding the position of Senior Software Engineer, but I prefer to consider myself a full-stack engineer.
My major areas of interests: - Effective test automation approaches
- Test automation framework architecture
- Data analysis
- DevOps
My passions are quality and efficiency. Agile fan and XP practitioner.

The content cover of cloud development best practice with full test automation driven strategy includes ci/cd, DevOps, Kubernetes, logging, and other integrations

I have more than 12 years of experience in software industry. This includes the software design, architecting and simplifying a complex enterprise solutions, document, implement, test and debug of the software product life cycle.
"Inversion is often at the core of great art. At any given time there is a status quo in society and the artists and innovators who stand out are often the ones who overturn the standard in a compelling way."
RELEVANT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Interpersonal skills
• Communication
• Positive attitude
• Team player
• Time management
• Flexibility

Organizational ability
• Leadership
• Teamwork
• Work quality
• Adaptive

Technical Skills
• Language: Java, Java Script, JSP/ JSTL, Linux Shell Script, CSS, SOAP, RESTv • Core: Java, Swing, Servlet, Multi-Threading, Thread Local, Socket, Jasper Report, CSV Report
• Framework: Spring, Hibernate/ JPA, Activiti Workflow, Elastic Search, Lucene, JDO, Quartz, Rabbit MQ, Selenium, Mockito, iBatis, jQuery, ZK, Primefaces, JSF, Cdi, Jersey, Mapstruct, Enhydra Shark, Axis, Cxf
• Design Pattern: Factory, Singleton, Strategy, Builder, Filter/ Criteria, Composite, Facade, Command, Observer, Template, Visitor, Lazy Load, Chain of Responsibility, MVC, DAO
• Application Server: Apache Tomcat, Apache Web Server, JBoss, Weblogic, IBM Bluemix (Liberty)
• Tools & platform: Eclipse, NetBeans, Apache Maven, Apache Ant, VMWare, VisualVM, JMeter, Subversion, Git, Mercurial, SourceTree, Postman, Dynatrace, Docker, Bamboo, Jenkins, Sonarqube, Bitbucket pipelines, Jira
• Operating System: Windows, Mac Book Pro, Ubuntu, RedHat, Fedora, Centos
• Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle
• Methodology: Scrum, Agile

Hands on experience on Agile ways of working in 21st century. As many organisations are embarking on agile journeys of agile transformations, it has become a buzzword lately. Let's dig deeper and understand what agile is , what we are transforming towards and the difference between agile and scrum.

Varun believes in “being agile” rather than “doing agile” side of things in organizations. For him ‘Agile or Scrum or Kanban or any framework whatsoever.’ is not the goal, rather "Delighting customers, Zero Defects, Quick ROI, Better team work, Excellent Quality & Shortest ‘Time to Market’" are some of the goals.

Varun focuses specifically on:
• Creating Business Value for the Customer
• Results over Rituals(Specifically Scrum Rituals)
• Outcome over Output
• Making work and blockers visible(so that work can be managed and blockers can be resolved).
• Optimising Entire Value delivery chain
• Encouraging good engineering practices
• Identifying and eliminating Waste from the Value delivery chain
• Servant leadership
• Business Driven Development(where Business / Customer is at the centre of everything we do)
• “Are we building the right thing” over “Are we building the things right”.
• Questioning Status Quo wherever required.

He has total 14 yrs exp(in Financial and IT Industry) including 8 yrs working as Scrum Master / Agile Coach ensuring end to end delivery of software applications and products while encouraging Inspection, adaptation & continuous improvement culture (agile culture).
He possess expertise in Scrum, Lean & Kanban agile frameworks and facilitating "Stand-ups", retrospectives, Sprint Planning and Scrum of Scrums. Has the ability to negotiate with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Varun also has sound knowledge in TDD, BDD, Effective User stories, Lean, Xp, KanBan, CI/CD etc.
M happy to share the good news with you. I was featured as a guest in "Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast" recently.

Varun recently featured in SCRUM MASTER TOOLBOX PODCAST
https://scrum-master-toolbox.org/tag/varun-maheshwari/
Certified Scrum Master

Key Takeaways :

How a team adopt automation test and how the automation test evolution in an agile team.

1. When and why Agile team feels need automation test
2. Start to do Automation test
3. First evolution – introduce QA specialist to do automation test
4. Second evolution – introduce test framework to catch up development progress
5. Third evolution – extend test framework to increase coverage
6. Our current automation approach

Ma Nan is a senior software engineer in Test in Autodesk on Autodesk big data platform(ADP). She has 10+ years of automation testing experience. In different periods, she had to built and maintained different kinds of automation frameworks such as UFT, Selenium, and AWS. She had led her team to deliver more than 15 automation projects.

While software architects have broken their monoliths into event-driven service architectures, many DevOps architects are still building monolithic inspired release pipelines. This results in complex pipeline code, tight integration of process and tools, lengthy diagnostics sessions to fix broken pipelines and puts strains on the underlying resources that build, deploy, test and validate.

In this session we introduce a new approach: Event-driven Continuous Delivery and Operation Automation for modern DevOps! This approach decouples the declaration of processes for delivery and remediation from tooling. It uses an “everything as code” approach which includes deployment, testing, quality gate, observability, promotion and remediation definitions.

One open source tool which implements this new approach is Keptn which was heavily inspired by Google’s SRE practice around SLIs & SLOs. Join us, see Keptn in action and get inspired on what the future of DevOps tooling can look like

Andreas Grabner (@grabnerandi) has 20+ years of experience as a software developer, tester and architect and is an advocate for high-performing cloud scale applications. He is a regular contributor to the DevOps community, a frequent speaker at technology conferences and regularly publishes articles on blog.dynatrace.com. In his spare time he is hitting the salsa dancefloors of the world.

Twitter Handle : @grabnerandi
LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/grabnerandi/

The audience gets a newer perspective on what exactly the quality is in a software context and every member of the agile team gets to know what is their role in maintaining the overall quality.

Deepak is a Software Quality Enthusiast with more than 13 years of experience in test engineering. He manages a QE team in Red Hat and likes to solve testing related problems at a psychological level.

Key Takeaways:

The biggest issue when it comes to Selenium tests is attempting to interact with the page elements when they are not ready. Trying to click an element before it is available, trying to select a value from a drop down when it is not yet populated, checking an element attribute before it is available - these are some of the most common reasons for failures when it comes to Selenium tests.

Such issues can be avoided by using the WebDriverWait Java class to redesign the way you interact with your page. In this talk i will show you how to get from click to click and wait, from select a drop down value to wait and select, and so on.

I will show you how to replace your standard Selenium commands, like click, with customized waits that you can write to adapt to your test environment conditions. I will show you how to rethink your page interactions from a waiting perspective. And, as an added bonus, how you can replace some of the assertions you write with corresponding wait methods.

Corina is a Senior Automation Engineer, with focus on testing by means of Java, Selenium, TestNG, Spring, Maven, and other cool frameworks and tools. Previous endeavours from her 12+ years testing career include working on navigation devices, in the online gaming industry, in the aviation software and automotive industries.

Apart from work, Corina is a testing blogger (https://imalittletester.com/) and a GitHub contributor (https://github.com/iamalittletester). She is the creator of a wait based library for Selenium testing (https://github.com/iamalittletester/thewaiter) and creator of “The Little Tester” comic series (https://imalittletester.com/category/comics/). She also tweets at @imalittletester.

To continuously deliver IT systems at speed with a focus on business value, DevOps teams integrate quality engineering in their way of working.
Our new book supports teams in implementing quality in their DevOps culture, with practical examples, useful knowledge and some theoretical background. For example, it describes how to benefit from a CI/CD pipeline.

Key takeaways from your session:
-Continuous testing in DevOps is implemented in the pipeline, complemented by some exploratory testing
-Measuring business-oriented indicators on quality and risks supplies information that stakeholders use to establish their confidence
-Based on information from testing in the test environment and monitoring the live environment, AI will predict the future quality and based on this quality forecast defects can already be fixed before any user observes them

Rik Marselis is principal quality consultant at Sogeti in the Netherlands. He is a well-appreciated presenter, trainer, author, consultant and coach who supported many organizations and people in improving their quality engineering practice by providing useful tools & checklists, practical support and having in-depth discussions.
Rik is an accredited trainer for TMAP, ISTQB and TPI certification training courses, but also, he has created and delivered many bespoke workshops and training courses. For example, on Intelligent Machines and DevOps testing.
Rik is a fellow of Sogeti’s R&D network SogetiLabs. The R&D activities result in presentations, books, white-papers, articles, podcasts and blogs about IT in general and quality engineering in particular. On 17 March 2020 his latest book “Quality for DevOps teams” was presented.

I will talk about Production Failures handle process and what kind of metrics did we gather? What is the benefit of this failure process and metrics.

I have been working in Testing since 2013. I earned my bachelor's degree in Math from Hacettepe University, Ankara.
I have ISTQB Foundation and ISTQB Agile Tester certificates.
I worked on NATO - Air Command Control System Project for ATOS as a Test Engineer.
I worked on Telecommunication Projects for Innova as a Test Consultant
Now I have been working at Udemy, as Senior Software Engineer in Test and I have been responsible for the External QA Team in Ukraine. Also I have been implementing different processes for the Teams.

when I started in a senior position in testing, it was clear that as a test manager, you 'managed the tests'. As the way we've worked in continues to change, that had impacted the kind of leadership needed within the discipline now. Mike Talks will take you through how his role and changed and evolved and how being a senior tester today has changed with the times."

Basically the talk looks at the evolution into agile.

Mike Talks has worked in IT for over 25 years. By necessity, his role and skillset have had to evolve and change over that period as the technologies and ways of working have changed. Mike was a contributor and reviewer for Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispins More Agile Testing. Mike is currently based in Wellington, NZ.

The right level of inbuilt collaboration possibilities in Microsoft Teams can get you better outcomes. Join the session to know more

Nishant is focussed on colleagues needs to get them work better, faster more efficiently, with higher level of collaboration, to help them delight customers with the released time and energy. He specializes in delivering large and very large software projects & programs. He can often be found consulting Leadership teams in usage of new technologies.

Using Observability to Improve Quality
The realm of Observability (metrics, logging and tracing) have to date been reserved for the sole use of development and operations, providing tons of value to everyone except quality... During the session, we will explore how the use of Observability can surface underlying performance problems during the development and quality lifecycle, even if all the tests are green.

Experienced Software and DevOps consultant and team leader with extensive programming and business knowledge, delivers value- add through simple, scalable solutions.

Key takeaways from this session:
Learn about FinOps and how to save about 50% of your cloud bill

Dieter worked on FinOps since 2013, he started at Google, went to Netflix and then Intuit, and is now at Roku

In this era of digital transformation, the rate of change is always continuing to increase with the days passing by. This has put an unrelenting pace on the QA teams. With all the phases involved in quality how do we finish faster is the most challenging question and what have we done to address and adopt to this next generation Industry needs in QA.

This talk will focus on how we leveraged Agile, Automation and Artificial Intelligence to solve the next generation Industry needs in QA.

1. Transformation to Agile.
2. AI Assisted automated Test Planning and Test Buddy.
3. Smart Test execution Orchestration Engine.

As a Senior Manager in QA Test, I lead the Agile DevOps transformation of our QA Journey in BT
right from strategizing the new ways of working, organizing and empowering a self-modelled team who runs multi-platform projects across the organisation operationalising the Modern QA. My team is responsible for whole of QA across Shift Left, Continuous testing, Automation Engineering Performance Modelling and ensure the right qualitative product goes into production.
I am really proud of leading a great team who have won prestigious recognition's globally like European Software testing 2018, India Testing Awards consecutively for four years.
I am with BT for 10+ years and lead various transformation journey including the major shift left transformation, engineering automation and performance for modern QA in different parts of the business.

An enthusiastic automation analyst with over 5 years of extensive experience on designing and developing automation test strategies for different range of applications on various technologies. I have played a key part in delivering automation frameworks with plug and play capabilities so that the teams are enabled to write scripts from Day 1. I am also responsible for enhancing the automation test architecture by implementing containerization into test in our device farm. A very strong supporter of Agile and BDD ways of working and enabled almost 50 running squads into BDD ways of working.
Aspiring to build the current Automation estate to an Autonomous Test estate.

Key takeaways from this session:
You'll learn the usage of tools that can simulate AWS resources, Localstack or similar, to get rid of AWS dependencies and focus on testing the software developed. Why this should be a Company wide strategy and how I'm using it, with real use cases.

Miro Barsocchi works in the quality assurance for web applications, software, mobile and previously, SIM and USIM. He is involved and was, in testing activity for the frontend, and backend at Expedia Group. Passionate about automation (Selenium WebDriver, Nightwatchjs, CasperJS, JMeter, SoapUI) and always open to new methods and technologies. In the last years, he has attended as a speaker, to a various number of conferences in Rome, London, Dusseldorf, Amsterdam and Milan.
Speaker at the radio, actor, surfer, snowboarder, barman and electronic engineer during the spare time.

Mobile application development is evolving and changing how people are organizing their daily activities.
These mobile applications driven by latest technologies provide end users a digital way to organize their life in segments such as: banking, health, sports, food, social life, basically everything.
Developing mobile applications requires a robust testing process which will prevent defects and deliver the best value and quality to the users.
Automation in mobile applications testing is solving particular challenges in the testing process.
In this talk, Milan will share his experience in automation for mobile testing. He will explain::
∙ How one can start
∙ How to design automation framework for mobile testing
∙ Key attributes to consider when defining automation principles
∙ What tools can be used and how to learn and improve over time
∙ Challenges in automation for mobile testing and how to overcome them
Participants will walk away with ideas and best practices on how to improve the quality of mobile applications and reduce time to market by implementing automation in testing.

Milan is the Head of Quality Engineering at N26, the mobile bank.
In his role, he is working with engineering teams on building the highest quality software by following good practices in testing and quality engineering.
In the last decade he has gained practical experience in software testing in particular, agile testing, automation in testing and tooling, which he is sharing with engineering teams to improve the quality and process of building software.
He enjoys speaking publicly at the conferences and meet-ups where he shares his knowledge and experience.

How we can Evolve from Test-Driven Development to Value-Driven Development.

Development teams are often encouraged to focus on the quality of the product and process. The common practice is to increase the velocity of their development cycles. Development teams usually start to figure out how technology works with the intent to deliver ever more output. Unfortunately, teams rarely have the opportunity to connect with real end-user and understand what users value. This hampers the ability to create actual value for their users and thus limits opportunities for the business.

The complete opposite approach is practiced by development teams that are encouraged to focus on the value for the user. These teams have the opportunity to start figuring out how users work, make sure they see the bigger picture and strive to increase the value they create for users in a sustainable way. Development teams need to be supported to change their mindset from inside-out to outside-in thinking and to figure out what their users really value.

Key Takeaways:
We need to listen to the stories of real users regularly and understand what solutions they will value.
We need to see the bigger picture and discover the most valuable next step (or MVP) continuously.
Testers can help to collect key usage examples (SbE) and structure them in a (BDD) format that all can relate to.
This will boost the development team's ability to apply test-driven principles and create user value in a sustainable way.

Test professional with 20 years of experience in Quality Assurance, Test- and Release Management, Agile / DevOps, Test Automation & CI/CD. I help companies to deliver products that matter, focus on quality and value consistently and raising innovative capabilities while doing so. The right product in the right way.
Hands-on QA and Test expert, Agile & DevOps coach. Experienced in User Story Mapping (USM), Specification by Example (SbE), Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Test Automation, CI/CD, Scaled Agile (SAFe) frameworks and LEAN principles. Value Driven Development (VDD) author and international speaker.
Motto: Trying-out over thinking-out accelerates the ability to learn. Failure is good, fail fast is even better, and if it is difficult, practice more often, until it becomes easy. Teams that learn to begin with the end-user in mind and explore options systematically will develop and deliver more value at a higher pace.

Key takeaways from your session:
- Test scaling problems
- Parallel test execution - general concept
- Introduction to AWS Lambda and Serverless Framework
- How to create a test execution environment based on AWS Lambda - deployment of Browser, Libraries and Function code
- Runner and Handler - how to trigger and manage hundreds of concurrent tests?

Senior QA Engineer at Ro. Interested in a wide range of QA related subjects - from test architecture to server setups. DevOps and automation enthusiast. Conference speaker.

Organizations have adopted Agile, Scrum, DevOps, CI/CD practices widely in order to increase their adaptivity. While doing so, they learn that it is impossible to speed up the IT deliverance without a trust in quality. Lean and SAFe have Built in Quality as a core principle, but what does that mean for teams and organizations? In this presentation Derk-Jan will share the challenges he encounters at various organizations. How do teams work and collaborate in order to release valuable increments, and what are approaches to increase the quality awareness? We will discuss the role of tester on team level but also investigate how quality is organized scaled settings where teams need to collaborate on a single increment. How can you organize quality on release level, what types of releases can we distinguish and who is responsible? What do we see in practice and how should it work? In order to have quality built in, we need more than just good tests. But a strategy also. Implementing this on various levels is challenging and has impact on the way we develop our software.

Take Aways:
. Understand Built in quality is a multi-level challenge that is gaining importance.
. Get a feeling what roles are needed in order to organize testing in scaled agile organizations.
. How to define quality feedback loops and the impact for the development and business

Derk-Jan de Grood works for Squerist as Agile coach and senior Test Manager. As consultant he helps originations with their Agile Transformation and embedding quality. He wrote several successful books on Software testing and Agile Transformations and he frequently writes for the major magazines. In 2014 he won the EuroSTAR testing excellence award.

He is an experienced trainer, workshop host and a regular speaker at conferences. He spoke on Testing Uruguay, the Seoul Testing Conference, EXPO:QA, and the Agile Testing Days and STAR conferences in Europe and America. On his own blog he shares his knowledge and experience for everyone to benefit.

How to successfully conduct test automation process improvement (TAPI) for continuous development, consisting of iterative software development, continuous testing, and delivery, is the challenge faced by many software organizations. In this paper, we present an experience report on TAPI in one DevOps team in F-Secure (a Finnish software company). The team builds Windows application software and exists in F-Secure’s TAPI culture. The team self-reports high satisfaction and maturity in test automation for continuous development. To study their TAPI, we reviewed a collection of experience notes, team reflection reports and telemetry result reports. Then several meetings were held to discuss the details. We found that based on the understanding of the team, test automation maturity for continuous development is defined as a set of indicators, e.g., the increasing speed to release, improving the productivity of the team, high test efficiency. Second, the team indicated that a set of critical success factors have a major impact on successfully carrying out its TAPI, e.g., incremental approach, the whole team effort, test tool choice and architecture, telemetry. Third, we compare the TAPI practices in the observed team with the practices described in prior literature. The team believes that the existing test automation maturity approaches should include the identified practices like the whole team effort to build a more comprehensive test automation improvement model for the software Industry