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We will be talking about how automation has evolved over a period of time to become more of a value generating stream. This includes evolving team dynamics and permeation of quality gates into different practices. We would also see how some programs achieved higher efficiencies with small bite size tweaks to their existing skill demography. To conclude, we will try to understand the trends influencing automation practice and how can quality be embedded into automation

Speaker Profile

With more than 12 years of work experience in Automation and Quality for B2B products in areas across Supply chain management, Finance and Health care utilising technology. Automation Evangelist. QA transformation agent for Automation adoption. Still learning

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The 2 key areas of focus in this entire topic are:
- SAFe
- Shift left

Let’s start with shift left
• Whenever we talk shifting to left, the 1st guiding principle that drives this discussion is “Cost of Quality”
o CoQ increases exponentially as we find software issues later in the life cycle

Now let’s talk SAFe
• SAFe is nothing but being Agile at Scale, at Enterprise level
o Why do we need to talk at enterprise level? Because that is the reality. Organizations are across geographies, Solutions are across products and platforms, agile teams are spread across everywhere. How do we really bring all of these together to build solutions and add to it, with high quality?

Speaker Profile

A strong, highly ethical leader with emphasis on value-based leadership - 19 years of experience in Business Consulting, Operational Excellence, Business Strategy & Delivery.
PGDM in Finance from IIM-Calcutta & a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering
Wide exposure to areas of Business Consulting, end to end Delivery Management in a Matrix org, Transformation, Client Side Implementations, Business Strategy, Pre-Sales
Delivery Management
- Managing delivery of all new products sharing the same platform with cross-functional dependencies involving around 350-400 people in various functions, mainly in BFSI domain

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The talk would cover -
- Journey from Monolithic to Microservice
- Microservices design for business capabilities
- Guidelines for adopting microservices in the Enterprise
- Ecosystem for Microservices Implementation and Operation
- Conclusion

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AI & ML are fostering Digital transformation across various industries in solving the business problems. Talk covers demystifying AI & ML, the changes that these technologies are bringing to software testing. Is the advent of AI & ML an opportunity or threat to the QA community. Mindset & Skill set changes required by QA fraternity to adapt to the changes. Will demonstrate with a case study and ending with key takeaways.

Speaker Profile

Veeresh Erched is a technology leader with around 18 years of Experience spanning across various domains from ERP, Credit card payment systems, NMS(Network Management systems) & Travel Technology. He combines his passion towards technology and leveraging strengths of his teams to deliver customer centric solutions. Currently in the role of Senior Director Engineering at Amadeus heads one of the mission critical platforms which is the heart of Amadeus business. He contributes to the industry literature either as a speaker(UNICOM, ATATGR, DigitalAroundtheworld, Zinnov) or via publications. He is a mentor at NASSCOM’s W2RT program and Mentor at NUMA’s startup accelerator program. He holds M.Tech from Bits Pilani

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There are times where write to databases and notifications has to be done as a single unit of work / transaction. Downstreams depend on the notifications to initiate additional workflows in external domains. If the notification is failed it might cause business impact for the downstream systems or leave the system in inconsistent state. We will address how can we handle such situations in this speech.,

Speaker Profile

Balasubramanian Engineering leader have been part of several transformation projects that require low latency / high availability and scale projects. Having been involved in various roles from Lead engineer, Architect and Engineering manager. Developed and delivered distributed systems that are highly available, observable and resilient. A sought of person in the organization to deliver systems that are to be delivered on time with quality.

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The technology world has benefitted significantly from the application of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery(CI/CD). However, the term Continuous is not absolute. The cadence to which Continuous refers to has been shrinking from months, to weeks to days to hours to mins. The shrinking cadence does not come for free however: there is a lot of effort and resources involved in meeting the quality expectation of each delivery. In this presentation we will discuss the considerations and tradeoffs for an optimal cadence for CI/CD.

Speaker Profile

Neeraj Kumar Singh is a Principal Engineer at Intel with more than 15 years of system software and platform design experience. His areas of expertise are hardware software co-design, system/platform architecture, and system software design & development. In addition to many other papers and presentations. Neeraj is the lead author of three books:
1) System on Chip Interfaces for Low Power Design
2) Industrial System Engineering for Drones: A Guide with Best Practices for Designing, and
3) Essential Computer Science: A Programmer’s Guide to Foundational Concepts

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Containers are isolated workload environments in a virtualized operating system. They speed up workload processes and application delivery because they can be spun up quickly. They also provide a solution for application-portability challenges because they are not tied to software on physical machines. Docker is a popular tool used for this. Kubernetes is the most popular configuration tool for managing Docker containers.

Microservices are single-function applications comprise small, self-contained units working together through APIs that are not dependent on a specific language. A microservices architecture is faster and more agile than a traditional application architecture

Containers are isolated environments, they can be used to deploy microservices quickly, regardless of the code language used to create each microservice.

Speaker Profile

Responsible for development & delivery of their Automation Strategy and work with strategic automation partners (UIPath, BluePrism, AutomationAnywhere and Pega) stakeholders and internal customers to deliver process simplification and business optimization through the use of automation technologies.

Responsible for the thought leadership on industry evolution, identifying new applications for automation technologies and for building and implementing solutions which transform the operational capabilities of the business.

Successfully started and implemented RPA Strategies & Solutions for the leading Telecom Giant (UK), Network & Enterprise Security Company, American Global Telecommunications, Personalized Radio and UK Based Consumer Good Company. Have shown savings from 19% to 42% on their yearly budget.

Responsible to setup Labs & Innovations and delivered solutions pertaining to Image Processing, ChatBots, ML, NLP techniques.

Leading multiple programmes of activity across varied and complex lines of business

Successful planning and delivery of large and complex automation programmes, delivering significant business transformation benefits. Knowledge and experience of managing business change in complex multi line of business organisations. Experience of managing and challenging senior stakeholders and large strategic partners. Experience of working in a large transformation programme, delivering to tight timescales and within budget.

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Microservices and the Serverless Architecture (known as serverless computing) have changed the direction we think about web applications and partitioning logic. It describes a way for enterprises to build and run applications, infrastructure management and remove architecture responsibilities from the regular workload, including provisioning, scaling, and maintenance. Dr. Vamsi Mohan is going to speak on "Serverless architectures and patterns". He talks about various Serverless architecture best practices, and patterns in the World Test Engineering Summit.

Speaker Profile

Dr. Vamsi Mohan Vandrangi is a Principal Solution Architect in Tech Mahindra, catering digital transformations to the fortune global 500 enterprises. He is awarded with the Next100 CIOs award for the year 2020. He is a Top – 50 global thought leader and influencer for RPA, Data center technologies and Cyber Security. He is an industry speaker in multiple national and international conferences.

He holds a Master’s degree in management from IIM Ahmedabad and a Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering. He is a guide, researcher, and scholar, published 40+ national and international journals on Digital Transformations, Cyber Security, and Security Data Models. He has successfully driven several Industry-academia initiatives with various universities, tier-I, and tier-II technology institutions in Germany and India.

Dr. Vamsi hold several patents in secure data transmissions and cyber security. He is a Technology acumen across a wide range of digital technologies, including DevOps, Cloud, Cyber Security, Blockchain, RPA, AI/ML, and Cognitive engineering.

Prior to his current role at Tech Mahindra, Dr. Vamsi Mohan served in various senior engineering leadership roles driving Technology CoEs, Digital Innovation Centers in EMEA, and APAC regions.

His experience spans across enterprise architecture, platform engineering, and technology solutions focusing on future-proofing business through digital transformations and delivering customer fit solutions.

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When people talk about testing microservices, they are concerned about whether the microservice is passed or failed. But in actuality, testing is more than just checking the pass or fail. The microservice architecture brought many complexities along with its advantages. In my point of view, the biggest of these complexities is debugging and tracing. As microservices uses the distributed architecture, it is very finding the root cause of the problems. Communication is asynchronous and message execution order not guaranteed, so we cannot sure which transaction causes a problem. To identify which transaction is causing the problem, use the correlation ID in logging. This helps us hugely when we have to visualize and understand what has happened with this transaction across different microservices.

Speaker Profile

•Overall, 20 + years of experience that includes 7+ years of entrepreneur experience.
•Currently working with Infogain in Solutions as Technical Program Manager - Testing.
•I am also playing a Solution Architect Role for different testing solution. Implementing Technology Road Maps for Infogain IPs that enable Continuous Delivery for Bi Model IT.
•Strong End to End Solution, Delivery Management Experience on large and complex engagements teams spread across multiple geographies. Extensive experience in designing and implementing Quality Assurance and testing solutions at project and enterprise level.
•Clients that I have worked with are HP, Pearson, Mitchell, Canadian Natural Resources Ltd (CNRL), NetApp, HPI, HPE, FedEx, TD Bank, RBS Bank.

SPECIALTIES Test Automation, DevOps, setting up CI/CD pipes and helping build digital engineering platforms using Cloud Foundries
Leadership Pre-sales Solution Proposal Creation Mentorship Delivery Management Solution Architecture, Project Sizing, Estimation and Planning Solution Shaping.

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Automation Tool options available and their selection process. The success of test automation depends on identifying the right tool for the project.

Speaker Profile

Anil has over 27 years of experience out which 23 + years in the Software industry, 20 + years in Program Management, Test Automation & Artificial Intelligence
Designed Anil Automation In English (AAIE) which automates test with zero effort and with high speed.
Designed AutoRobotics that automates test with least effort on multiple languages like French, German, Dutch, and English etc.
Designed Anil AI Bot for managing remote machine from mobile and many automation framework

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Quality Engineering teams are becoming increasingly sophisticated in the way they operate now a days. The technical arsenal of new age testing teams is much more diverse with an increased focus on promoting engineering mindset. While this fast pace transformation seems fascinating to most, it poses some unique challenges for the leadership team especially when someone has just onboarded the leadership wagon.
In this session, I’ll discuss some unique challenges I’ve faced and dealt with during my journey and how they have helped me transform into a more considerate yet competitive leader.

Speaker Profile

With years of strong technical experience across Testing, Release Management and Solution Engineering I have been a key contributor in many transformational journeys across multiple facets of engineering. I currently play the role of Engineering Manager at BrowserStack - world’s largest software testing platform, powering over two million tests everyday across 14 global data centres, I’m responsible for ensuring the quality, scale and increase automation, overseeing and providing guidance to QA team, increasing the teams performance and sprint velocity. My areas of specialisation ranges across Testing CoE Test Automation, Accessibility Testing, Security Testing, Agile Testing Cloud Testing etc.

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Digital security & monitoring session will cover the process of detecting threats and data breaches. You will obtain insights in Network security monitoring & Endpoint security technologies which provide security visibility enabling organisations to detect attacks in their infancy and respond to them before they cause damage and disruption.

Speaker Profile

Rakhi Mitra provides thought leadership to drive standardisation across teams and processes to eliminate redundancy , reduce internal operating costs and enhance business productivity. She is highly driven technology leader with extensive experience in defining strategies to deliver value-driven technology solutions.

Prior to this she worked as Architect - DevOps of HealthSuite Insights ( a Data Science Platform & AI ) in the advance healthcare area of data science development environment of the world’s largest medical device company and a global leader in health technology, Philips.

She also possesses multi-faceted experience & contributed in various capacities at Standard Bank, South Africa and Insurance Bureau of Canada in the areas of Banking & Insurance business IT consulting. She is PGDBA in Operations Management and B.E. in Information Technology. She is certified SAFe® 4 DevOps Practitioner.

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Organizations invest huge time and resources to build test automation. In an ever-changing VUCA world, maintaining and deriving business value out of automation is a huge challenge. In this session, the speakers are going to share their own experiences in levering the power of analytics to build intelligence to make quick and smart decisions and provide transparency to stakeholders to build trust in the quality and effectiveness of automation. Broader topics covered in this session -

Multi-dimensional analytics to continuously measure the business value out of automation
Intelligent detection of the deteriorated automated tests
Creating digestible data nuggets based on analytics to power the smart decisions
Generating hidden insights by using alternative data to ensure the effectiveness of the testing

Speaker Profile

Vijaya Yalamarthi is Head of Quality Engineering function for S&P Global's Market Intelligence division in India. She leads 250+ members of QA across 3 locations in India and she has over 15 years of experience in QA and led massive QA transformation initiatives in terms of practices, automation and building Devops capabilities at scale.

Hari Kishan Kurapati is Test Architect Leading the Automation, Continuous Testing and Data science teams for S&P Global Market Intelligence division. He is a technology leader with 15 years of expertise in Quality Engineering creating innovative solutions in areas like Test Automation, Continuous Testing, DevOps & Web Technologies by designing and building end to end solutions to support 150+ teams and 350+ resources.

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In this session, I would like to share our experience how Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has helped us to build a highly efficient and successful global DevSecOps team. Below listed are some of the major challenges we had in addition to supporting multiple product stacks and varying skillset requirement.
· Maintain Product Security, Subscription and New Feature Compliance
· Frequent Product Upgrades & Migration – Seamless, Availability
· Various Deployment Requirements – Standalone, Clustered, DMZ
· Application Integration and Consistency
· Easy to Repeat and Scalable model
· Support more Services with less resources
Our answer to this growing problem was usage of SAFe ‘Scaled Agile Framework’ & ‘IaC - Infrastructure as Code’.
In detailed presentation we would like to share our learnings, best practices with participants and also include metrics showing the hours and effort saved.

Speaker Profile

Engineering leader with 20+ years of experience in Product Development, DevOps, QA and SRE with well-balanced technical and leadership skills on virtualization, storage, and cloud domain. Active participation and continuous support in Virtualization and Storage technology communities through tech forum participation, technical papers and Webinars. 8 USPTO patent GRANT on vSphere product line, Cloud and Virtualization technologies.

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In this engaging talk, intended for senior test professionals and test architects, we will cover detailed aspects of navigating the testing pyramid and smart ways to optimize your investment in test expertise and tooling. We will cover the detailed aspects of building a comprehensive agile testing strategy, uncover some surprising nuggets and discover some new takeaways for your test engineering practice.

Speaker Profile

Narayann is a software engineering and product leader with over 20 years of software development, management , Agile coaching and product experience. He has worked on software product development,,with industry leaders such as IBM, Oracle and HP, and is currently an Agile Coach with JP Morgan Chase. He has managed, built and coached teams and leadership and comes with a unique blend of experience and perspective on the present and future of the software and product development industry.

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QA is now becoming inseparable part of software development due to the rise of practices like DevOps and continuous testing. Also, the role of the QA practitioner is transforming from finding and reporting defects, to becoming the orchestrator of quality. QA is key to digital transformation, and a mindset and culture that the entire company needs to adopt.

Speaker Profile

Head- Customer Success , DevOps , Project and Program Management Competencies in Sonata
Proficient in Delivery Excellence ; Program, Account & Delivery Management

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DevOps is not just about agile delivery, working effectively, shorter release cycles or cost optimization. A big part of DevOps is also about driving business innovation and acceleration.
In my session, I am going to specifically talk about how DevOps is helping organisations to transform business through innovation.

Speaker Profile

Over 25 years of industry experience in managing Large and Complex Program Ownership and Delivery, Product Management | P&L Management | Strategic Planning | Delivery Operations | Revenue Generation | Marketing Initiatives | Key Account Management | Talent Development | Process and Business Consulting | Agile and Lean Development | Building capabilities and offerings for Digital Transformation in technology practices like Digital, Cloud, Data, AI-ML, IOT and RPA technologies

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During this session I am going to talk about how at my organization we are leveraging A/I and D.S techniques for effective test automation as part of test engineering.

Speaker Profile

A test engineering leader with a passion for creating world class test organizations through razor sharp customer focus, constant innovation, adoption of cutting edge test engineering practices and streamlined program management.

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Model testing involves checks on model behavior. These are primarily three steps process:
Pre-train tests which can be run without trained.
Post-train tests check if the learned logic is expected.
Last, we evaluate our model to ensure performance does not degrade, whether due to new data or updated implementation. Here, we assess model performance on accuracy and AUC.

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Key takeaways from the talk:
Understand the concept and notions of Quality through whole team testing
Understand Software Testability and how to build it in products
Understand Quality Conscious Software Delivery framework and implementation tips
Learn effective risk analysis and how to optimize processes to support it.
Master testing strategy throughout the project lifecycle
Learn the art of Quality Evangelism and communication

Speaker Profile

Lalit is currently working with XING SE as a Senior Software Test Engineer. He is an international keynote speaker, the Co-Founder and Chief Editor of the popular software testing magazine "Tea-time with Testers". Lalit is also working as VP of Education with the Association for Software Testing, USA. He is the co-creator of world's leading State of Software Testing report.
Lalit is the creator of the Quality Conscious Software Delivery framework which is proven to be effective for succeeding with Whole Team Quality. His particular specialties are his Testing Skills, Test Management, Coaching Testers and Devs, and providing testing-related consultation to project teams.
Lalit spent 3 years with Barclays Investment Bank as Sr. Test Analyst and lead their L&D CoP (for testing) which was primarily responsible for rolling out the latest testing practices in Barclays (RST and CDT based), as part of Innov8 (an organization-wide program). He has also worked as founder and director of the Technology Excellence Group for Testers, at TCS-Cisco. Has worked as a consultant on demand for various project teams across Barclays group especially to implement RST/CDT in testing projects, along with other things.
He is a Lead Instructor with AST (Association for Software Testing, USA) for its BBST Foundations classes & also taught a Rapid Software Testing full-day class at Barclays. Lalit regularly assists James Bach in his Rapid Testing Intensive Online training. He is an active member of local testing groups and has been spoken at a number of international testing conferences and expert panels.
Lalit thinks that his connection with the global testing community & his volunteer experiences help him contribute back to the organizations he works for. That has helped him to contribute to building an intellectual testing culture at his workplace. He is a skilled Tester, Test Manager, Trainer, Coach, and Consultant on demand, all packed in one single profile. His creative talent (that reflects from activities he does) is an additional skill that helps him sell/communicate ideas in an effective way.

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I would like to give a 30 min presentation that covers the automation strategy used for two different types of software products in my group. One is a pure back-end system which is not exposed to the end-customer and the other is a customer-facing web application.

First one is a multi-tenant Data Hub running on Oracle which has about 7 TB of data. The engineering team uses Unix, Informatica and Oracle PL/SQL to maintain this hub. The hub is the heart of the platform and supplies data to several different downstream applications. I have been leading an automation initiative that revolves around this hub. The automation platform can carry out Regression, Smoke as well as Functional testing of the Data hub.

The second example would be that of our Enterprise Reporting system. This system hosts a bunch of BI reports for various OEMs on a web portal. The reports themselves are built on Angular & Pentaho with Greenplum & SQL Server being the back-end databases. The automation testing here involves the UI elements of the portal, the report KPIs as well as features like Email subscription, print, role based login etc.

Speaker Profile

Engineering leader in DW/BI/Analytics space with over 16 years of experience in all stages of software development lifecycle. Demonstrated ability to effectively execute data warehouse projects from inception through deployment working with cross-functional organizational teams, vendors, top management and global teams. Strong technical background with full system lifecycle, DW architecture and data modeling experience. Expertise in Master Data Management, Data Quality and Data Profiling. Certified in Informatica,Cognos, Teradata & SAFe Agile. Experience in various industry domains such as Banking, Mortgage, Retail, Healthcare, Marketing & Advertising etc.

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Agile demands moving towards in-sprint automation. Is it practically possible with such small SCRUM team with very few focusing on testing part of user stories

Speaker Profile

Passionate in solving software test engineers challenge having spent 30 plus years in this field. Have shared real time experience with software engineering community in various global conferences.

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The whole nine yards of Cloud Assurance
As Cloud becomes pivotal to digital transformation, the demand for a modern and comprehensive QA strategy has become all the more critical. In this session, we will discuss some of the key aspects of Cloud Assurance in specific.
• What is Cloud Assurance and how is it any different from traditional QA?
• What are the various use cases and challenges addressed by Cloud Assurance?
• Does it need any change in the tooling strategy and technology adoption by QA teams?
• How cloud adoption can expedite the QA Transformation itself?
In addition, let us dissect few industry leading case studies to explore the unique solutions and best practices implemented by QA teams.

Speaker Profile

19+ years of work experience in Software Quality comprising of business development, high end consulting, program management and delivery across multiple technologies and business domains.
Saksham has driven DevOps and Digital transformation for large organizations with complex technology landscape enabling lifecycle automation, enterprise wide TDM implementation and modern days environment solutions for testing. Strong advocate of leveraging of analytics and cognitive automation capabilities to create intelligent automation solutions that elevates QA’s role to the key collaborator and contributor into a technology driven business value chain.
At Cognizant, Saksham is currently leading the Technology CoE's Capability Center for Advance Automation that includes conceptualizing and creating solutions & IPs for Continues Testing, BlockChain Assurance, AI Assurance and RPA.

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Organizations are attempting to scale today and adopt agile ways of working at enterprise level but miss the investment required to build agile culture. The eagerness and hurry of being agile making organisations ignore the talent within, mindset change and adaptability required at core of it.
This session will highlight all the common pitfalls so appropriate steps can be taken or focused upon

Speaker Profile

- 18 years of work experience in multiple BFSI domains (Credit Rating, Insurance, Retail and Wealth Management)
- Project Management (PMBOK) Institute PMI-ACP, PMP® and ITIL® v3 Foundation certified.
- Demonstrated Programme/Project/People Management and Leadership abilities across different sectors (Credit rating, Retail, Insurance, News & Information)
- Managed teams of various sizes across geography
- Managed BFSI domain programmes/projects across geographies and with distributed teams
- Excellent Project & Program management skills to execute end to end on time, within Budget, Required quality project deliveries across technologies(Java, .NET & Mainframes)
- Have overseas experience of UK & USA. Well verse with handling onshore-offshore model and managing stakeholders
- Ability to execute project within full SDLC to identify best Business, Organization and operational solutions.
- Proven development and enhancement skills across different project sizes (starting from 5 PDs) using project management methodologies (Waterfall/Agile)
- Proven ability in support projects to provide maintenance and incident/service requests handling
- Excellent analytical, conceptual, problem identification and problem solving skills.
- Effective leadership skills, with an ability to build, mentor, lead and motivate teams to work cohesively
- Ability to plan, execute, monitor and control projects in parallel by effective scheduling/allocation, Risk Management, stakeholder management
- Ability to present different metrics and forecast data during periodic reporting/status meetings
- Involved in proposing and presenting new cost effective approaches/processes to clients and taking it through with senior management and Client.
- Proposed and delivered multiple continuous improvement plan
- Participated in CMMI evaluation for org & Org has been awarded maturity level 5