Quality is everyone’s responsibility. At VMware, we recognize the need to be agile and responsive while balancing the need to ensure what we deliver meets business demands for functionality and performance. Discover how VMware IT transitioned to a hybrid testing model that uses a combination of centralized end-to-end testing and decentralized functional testing. By shifting left of testing, we eliminated redundancy while users evaluate products and processes, which allowed us to achieve our goal of performing testing while operating at maximum efficiency.

Enabling this transition required VMware IT to use a range of frameworks, processes and technology centered around automation, performance engineering and testing, including VMware’s test automation platform. Discover how VMware IT moved the needle to provide an agile testing practice for IT, mobility, emerging technologies, and more. We’ll highlight lessons learned and how we addressed them.

Key Takeaways:
• How VMware solved the complexities of orchestration testing between multiple systems, APIs, microservices, and SaaS applications
• Best practices for setting up optimal automation
• How we structured the team

Most web penetration tests are performed manually. Many teams outsource this kind of testing to third-party services. When done, it is usually not part of the cycle, and often, it is not executed as frequently as it should be. This leaves the risk of escaped defects. A security degradation or outage impacts user experiences and creates significant business issues. Shifting security testing to the left to perform it earlier in the DevOps cycle is therefore a best practice. This way, it is possible to collaborate on requirements, test for code vulnerabilities within existing CI/CD pipelines, and also implement other security practices in software development. In this session, Participants will:
· Live Demo
· Efficient ways to achieve shift left
· Execution Reports

Guruswamy is a Blogger, Speaker and Technical Enablement Manager in Perfecto. He oversee client relationship with technical success. He spent overall 15+ years in IT, with a focus on functional, automation and Performance testing. Guruswamy is a DevOps practitioner and has hands-on experience with multiple industry-leading automation and test management tools. He is an experienced automation architect built organisational automation framework in alignment with product quality, velocity and cost effective solutions for the Agile methodology. Also as a performance test specialist signed off many enterprise grade application by simulating real user environment and network conditions. Guruswamy can be reached at gbm@perforce.com

SCRUM team capacity enhancement required with volume of testing tasks goes up with product evolving and customer acquisition also growing as follows:

• User story new taken into scope for sprint need test design and test execution
• User story changed from last version need update and retesting
• Regression – testing impacted areas due to code change need execution of selected tests
• Unique combination setting in configuration grows with more customers using

In this fast-changing World of IT, expectations on QA are getting higher every day --- in terms of Quality and Quantity. More importantly, QA is expected to provide accurate feedback within a short span of time. To tackle these challenges, traditional testing methods may not suffice. We need to acquire something beyond them --- something beyond just test methods. For an instance, Ability to Think Big and Critically is inevitable for a tester to derive out important cases and thereby, finding critical bugs faster. This will also help the tester to envision the whole picture and find issues that are otherwise difficult to find. Another example is, Analytical Thinking which is indeed needed to create Decision Table – with which, we can significantly increase the Test Coverage for any Project. I would like to bring such important gems to the table with practical examples. I strongly believe in the quote – “If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four hours SHARPENING THE AXE”. As it says, if we keep sharpening our testing skills, then we will be able to Test any project and bring Quality in less time.

Prabhakaran Ramasamy is having 10+ years of experience in Software Testing and all of them include HealthCare. He is well versed in Manual Testing, Reviewing the Code written by Dev and finding issues that will take more time to find via UI Testing, Strong Query Writer in SQL, Web and API Automation and minimum viable knowledge on Performance Testing using JMeter. Also, handful experience on Regression Suite Development with strategical thinking. He is very passionate towards bringing the quality through applying different kinds of testing techniques and empowering testers with best practices. Testing in Healthcare Industry has shaped his testing skills a lot since it is very complex and often bringing new challenges.

Producing a Test Strategy which guides QA Teams to shape and direct software requires a clear thought process and holistic view of the ecosystem. Test strategies should evolve to continuously deliver software with right speed and quality. This is a must have skill for every software quality professional.

Sankar has 18 years of experience in Software Quality. He provides thought leadership to top notch Software QA organizations. He has experience in producing & driving test strategy in multiple areas like SaaS, Firmware, Hardware & ERP. He is currently working with MycomOSI as Director, R&D QA. In the past has worked with Crestron Electronics, Oracle & Syntel.

In his stint at Infosys over 20 years, Naresh has worked in different roles in Software Delivery, Consulting, Quality Assurance, Open Source, Tools & Technology across functions that have provided him opportunities to work on key transformation programs.

Naresh has experience in Software Development, Quality System Design, Process definition, Implementation and Consulting, Product & Platform Engineering, Software Reuse, Knowledge Management, Training, Audits and Assessments. He possesses a sound understanding of various quality models, methodologies and frameworks like CMMI, ISO, Six Sigma, MBNQA, Agile, DevSecOps & SRE.

Naresh participates on several product councils with Infosys’ global technology partners and is currently leading the effort on reimagining the tooling, digital platforms and automation landscape for the enterprise.

Ajay Pandey is a IT Leader with over two decades experience on Quality Engineering focusing on building Specialized practices, Delivery Management and Test Management

He is currently working as a Practice Head for all Engineering COE’s in Quality Engineering practice which comprises of sub practices of Data, SaaS, Performance, Test Environment, Modernization and Mainframes where he handles Delivery Assurance, Pre-Sales and Solution Development of niche skills

Prior to this, he has been with Capgemini, IBM and Infosys in various leadership roles.

Data drives decisions and major markets today. Data is the backbone of all Analytics and AI/ML solutions. Ensuring data accuracy is critical to any business decision. How do we ensure Data quality and accuracy in a Data program? What kind of test strategy/approach would be needed to ensure data completeness and accuracy? What kind of potential test automation approaches can be taken in such a program?

Bhavana has over 2 decades of experience in testing having worked from early 1999. She has been in data programs from the beginning of 2003 and has been defining test strategies and solutions for various data programs over the years. She has worked in multiple domains like Travel & Hospitality, Retail, Banking & Insurance etc and has driven quality in various ETL, BI and Big data projects. She has spearheaded testing and test automation in legacy modernization and digital transformation projects. As part of her career, she has worked for organizations like IBM and Mindtree and is currently with Thomson Reuters

Quality Engineering has progressed over the last ten years with rapid strides in test automation coupled with Agile and DevOps transformation. The next leap going forward will be in intelligent rapid automation which considers automation of many of the manual activities within the test lifecycle, which encompasses SDLC discovery, self healing ,Impact analysis and defect triaging. Learn more about Virtusa's philosophy and solutions to tackle these new challenges in this presentation

Sujatha Sivaraman: She is a Senior Director– Digital Assurance in Virtusa consulting services with over 2 decades of Industry experience with IT, BFSI and Manufacturing sectors with diverse experience in program management, Testing & Quality Assurance, DevOps, Lean agile and Six Sigma practices

Ajit Rajshekar - He is an Associate director and Test Architect with over 17 years of Quality Engineering experience, mainly in the Product Engineering domain (Healthcare) with primary focus on extreme automation and the use of cognitive intelligence (data science and ML) within testing.

This presentation emphasizes QA/Tester role in future QE teams with fast-paced continuous integration, development, and deployment lifecycle. The product objective is to conduct independent validation to align with its existing QE landscape and support the transformation journey.

QE current areas focus on Coverage, Infra Management with Open Source QE Culture, Release Management with DevOps, Deployment, and Change Management.

QE is committed to driving value with short- and long-term investments to establish Joint Innovation Cell for DevOps, Reliability, and SRE with Observability. Usability as a focus to manage business domain training, cross-skilling, and upskilling resources. The objective is to give better Quality deliverables with measurable outcomes and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).