PROGRAMME IN IST

Larry Maccherone, DevSecOps Transformation, Transformation.dev, USA

This talk delivers a framework to launch or recharge your shift left security effort to truly empower development. It was created and used to scale the Dev(Sec)Ops transformation program across 600 highly diverse development teams at Comcast.

Manju Janarthanan, Automation Tester, Propic Pty Ltd, Australia

My talk is about “The raise of Low Code / No Code Automation Tools”. This session covers Need for Automation Testing, Automation strategies for Salesforce domain ends with comparing pros and cons of major players who offer Low code testing tools. A live working demo is included & covers a generic Salesforce Use case automation using one such tool.

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Vijaya Yalamarthi, Senior Director, Quality Engineering, S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), India

High-performing Agile teams create high-quality solutions for their customers. Meaningful metrics can create positive team collaboration and help to drive efficiencies – these are ‘Good’ metrics. Few metrics take a lot of effort to generate but don’t align with the team’s overall objectives. These are ‘bad’ metrics. Another category of metrics can be considered as ‘Ugly’ metrics which may negatively impact the team culture and restrict team collaboration and productivity. In this session, the speaker shares her experience and insights on how leaders can enable Quality and Culture through apt metrics, creating and maintaining different kinds of Quality and Agile metrics, best practices in maintaining and reporting the metrics, how we can use ‘good’ metrics to drive business value.

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Prabhas Abhayakumar, Vice President, Societe Generale Global Solution Centre, India

As the adoption of agile in software develoment has increased in the past decade, we have also seen the accelerated adoption of continuous development, continuous testing and continuous deployment. This new approach in software development has made the overall development process more dynamic by giving the developers the ability to introduce new changes in the applications and prevent bugs or breakdowns from impeding the scalability of applications.

We will talk about how test-driven development (TDD) and behavior-driven development (BDD), as test-first approaches has helped developers to produce bug free software. While we look at the difference between the two approaches, we will also explore how each one is different from the other, drawbacks and benefits of each approach. We will finally look at how these practices have improved the overall efficiency of the development team.

Harihara Ganesh D, Program Manager, VISA, India and Somashekhar B, Program Manager, VISA, India

Welcome to our talk where we discuss ‘Winning Team’s framework’ that focusses on unearthing cultural elements @ team level. The Agile Value delivery model focuses on the Value delivered sprint on sprint over the productivity thus influencing Organizations to adopt this model. How can you realize culture elements at work that is aligned with Core Values and that are driver for delivering better business outcome? You can start with “Wall of wow” to extend recognition to your peers or launch “Appreciation day” to appreciate your employees. Culture club driven by WOW boards and Appreciation day are building block for creating collaborative culture @ workplace. Through appreciation & recognition, people feel valued and this build a great relationship among the team members.

Harish Srigiriraju, Principal Engineer, Verizon

For a personal cloud product or any other products which is focused on user generated content, there are unique challenges faced. This presentation will explore the challenges in manual and automated testing. Additionally, we will explore what are few solutions and recommendations for testing such products.

Felix Lawi, Quality Director, ANZ, AKQA, Australia

Just like in manual testing, silo can occur in test automation practice. Is your development team able to maintain your automation tests? Does your PO / BA understand the scope of your automation tests? Or is it only the QA team who owns and understands the automation tests? In this talk, I will share some of the tips to avoid this anti-pattern to achieve best value in your test automation.

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Hanumant Shedge, General Manager, _VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solution), India and Neeraj Sinha, Senior Manager, _VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solution), India

Agile/DevOps Transformation – a journey and change in mindset. Phased approach to move in DevOps; Overcome challenges and finding probable solutions, Transformation case study.

Dipali Kulshrestha, Vice President, Natwest Group, India

DevOps describes a culture and set of processes that brings the development and operations teams together to complete software development. It allows organizations to create products at a faster pace and DevOps is rapidly gaining popularity. In this session, I’ll take you through to create and automate (Continuous integration and Continuous Delivery) or CICD pipelines in a Serverless way….. by leveraging AWS services like CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy and CodePipeline.

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Panel Moderator:

• Chandrakumar Natarajan, Founder & CEO, WiselyWise, Singapore

Panellist:

• Manju Janarthanan, Automation Tester, Propic Pty Ltd, Australia
• Vijaya Yalamarthi, Senior Director, Quality Engineering, S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), India
• Prabhas Abhayakumar, Vice President, Societe Generale Global Solution Centre, India
• Harihara Ganesh D, Program Manager, VISA, India
• Somashekhar B, Program Manager, VISA, India
• Felix Lawi, Quality Director, ANZ, AKQA, Australia
• Hanumant Shedge, General Manager, _VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solution), India
• Neeraj Sinha, Senior Manager, _VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solution), India
• Dipali Kulshrestha, Vice President, Natwest Group, India
• Larry Maccherone, Devsecops Transformation, Transformation.Dev, USA