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Presentation Synopsis: When reviewing Testing over 100 projects, we unpack the most common mistakes and improvements we can make as Test Managers and Testers.

Presenter Bio: Stuart Masters leads PwC’s Testing as a Service practice and is an experienced program/project Test Manager. With over 22 years of program delivery experience, Stuart has had success in leading test assurance over a multitude of Federal and State Government programs and private companies across all sectors in Australia. He has also been a program test manager for some of the largest and most complex ICT programs in Australia, the US and Europe.

Stuart has a deep understanding of Program Test Management delivery and assurance, testing best practices, key challenges in the software delivery lifecycle and quality management in program delivery across multiple industry and technology segments. He has led quality assurance and testing for the opening of two major hospitals and led testing for a new international passport.  He has developed test strategies and plans for a significant number of clients and leads PwC’s test Assurance engagements.Stuart has provided insights and advice to clients globally across Health, Education, Defence, Financial Services and IT Infrastructure sectors which has helped him to establish an outstanding professional track record.

As the IT industry keeps on growing day by day there are also some modernization techniques introduced in order to increase the delivery of software development.

TestOps is a discipline that helps managing and scaling processes, people and tests in an automation test cycle to maximise the efficiency, quality and speed of application.  Companies are investing more in TestOps to improve their processes as part of CI/CD pipeline.

This session will cover:
● The fundamentals of TestOps with its features.
● Working structure of TestOps
● Components of TestOps which help organisations to give them a kick start.
● How companies can adopt TestOps based on best practices.
● Why TestOps helps organisations to maximise their release delivery while
maintaining the high quality standards.
● Sharing some real time data, how it benefits big companies.
● Some live Tools demo (if time permits)

Raheem Mehdi is a Lead Engineer (Quality) at Xero, with 20 years of experience in quality and testing different products. Raheem implemented a quality squad from scratch and implemented an automation framework for different organisations based on their requirements. Raheem is not only a good quality player but has also worked at different levels such as Project manager, Agile coach and BI Analyst. Raheem is a certified Agile Professional along with Six Sigma Certified green belt. Raheem also loves to play with data and conduct some online sessions to explore power BI tools. Raheem loves to play cricket and table tennis in his free time and is also part of some community service activities.

Presented by H.Abdul Sathar 

Data Modernization validation has increased significance in post-Covid scenario. Clients across verticals are looking at meaningful insights from new data patterns to keep up with the digital adoption trend. The cloud-first strategy had significantly changed the data landscape for enterprises and there is an increased demand for quality engineering strategies for large-scale data processing, data privacy, and AI/ML-based data validation.

This session will cover

-   The key trends and emerging patterns in the data space.

-   How to address the quality engineering challenges arising from these trends leveraging various data validation approaches.

-   Limitations with traditional data validation approaches and how a platform-based hyper-automation quality engineering strategy addresses these limitations.

The session will also cover nuances of defining a digital data quality engineering roadmap for future digital enterprises

Abdul Sathar is a Senior Manager - Public Sector accounts (Quality Engineering & Data Services) for Infosys

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Technology, in the business landscape, is ever-evolving as business challenges have become increasingly complex. To keep up, organisations must build and deploy innovative, timely solutions.

Many emerging technologies are set to impact every aspect of a business. But there is considerable work to be done to create a comprehensive strategy and architecture to be able to turn the stored data into valuable business assets through scalable and flexible Cloud and AI solutions. In Agile, DevOps, and Testing new technologies keep maturing and it has changed the traditional way of working. Accepting these technologies can be a daunting task as every enterprise will have to deal with the innumerable technologies, and stakeholders as well as prioritize their efforts in making the changes.

There is an exhibition featuring leading service providers, consultants, and vendors from the areas of Agile, Testing, and DevOps.

This event is mainly focused on participants from South East Asia; hence the start and end times have been chosen for the convenience of participants from these Time Zones

Thank you to Unicom,  ANZTB have 10 free tickets available on a first come first served basis. If you are unsuccessful then you can also purchase a discounted ticket using code ANZTB20

Click  here for free ticket (subject to conference availability).

Technology, in the business landscape is ever-evolving as business challenges have become increasingly complex. To keep up, organisations must build and deploy innovative, timely solutions.

The focus of the conference is on finding methods and tools for business value through the adoption of Agile, DevOps and Testing and well-built software. This transformation depends on significant changes in culture, roles & responsibilities, team structure, and tools & processes.

This event is mainly focused on participants from South East Asia; hence the start and end times have been chosen for the convenience of participants from these Time Zones

Presented by Praveenkumar Prem

The sudden wave of change in the application development methodologies have created a crisis with application security. The changes caused by Digital Transformation on business, have rendered the legacy waterfall methodology irrelevant into a speed driven DevSecOps world. In the Traditional waterfall methodology, everything was predictable with quarterly/monthly/yearly releases. This allowed specialised independent security teams to embed application security.

But with Agile development practices, changes to an application happens on a daily/weekly or even multiple times a day within a Sprint. Of course, agile brings many business benefits. Agile promises to improve the customer experience - especially mobile based apps. Applications help with automating processes for quicker results. But practicing agile to achieve these benefits increases risk of introducing new vulnerabilities or complicating earlier ones.

The potential fallout of risky applications is a disaster for business. Hence the response from IT teams must be fast. Since the way application development has faced rapid changes, it’s more important to clarify the new requirements for DevSecOps for application security and roles must be clearly defined. Developers are not going to be solely responsible for security breaches. CIOs to security managers to security testers must involve in the new integrated DevSecOps framework.

Praveen is a digital enthusiast, strategist & implementer - a true practitioner. As a Europe Geo Lead /

Principal Consultant - Agile Coach , Wipro FullStride Cloud Services , Wipro Digital, Switzerland , Praveen help business realize value embracing Digital. He currently supports a leading Swiss Banking client to embrace digital & agility, helping the clients make things that matter most to their end users and ensuring the engagement is a fun.  His areas of interest include applied innovation and application of Data Analytics, DevOps, AI in Digital Assurance & Quality Engineering. He is a technology leader specializing in driving adoption of Continuous Agile Delivery at scale using SAFe, DAD, Scrum@Scale involving emerging technologies like AI, DevOps & QE practices.

Over his 21 year's career, Praveen has gained a wealth of experience by "failing, learning, growing, and succeeding" in many roles, including Software Product Engineering & Management, Software Testing, Agile & DevOps Coaching, and Organizational Change.

Praveen is ICAgile Certified Professional – Agile Coach (ICP-ACC), Certified Scrum Master, Certified SAFe® Agilist,  Azure Cloud Certified Solution Architect & Azure DevOps Certified. He has supported multiple conferences as volunteer, and a frequent speaker at International conferences.

Thank you to Unicom,  ANZTB have 10 free tickets available on a first come first served basis. If you are unsuccessful then you can also purchase a discounted ticket using code ANZTB20

Click  here for free ticket (subject to conference availability).

Technology, in the business landscape is ever-evolving as business challenges have become increasingly complex. To keep up, organisations must build and deploy innovative, timely solutions.

The focus of the conference is on finding methods and tools for business value through the adoption of Agile, DevOps and Testing and well-built software. This transformation depends on significant changes in culture, roles & responsibilities, team structure, and tools & processes.

This event is mainly focused on participants from South East Asia; hence the start and end times have been chosen for the convenience of participants from these Time Zones

ANZTB is a Professional Sponsor of this event and Associate Board Member Pushparajan Balasubramanian will be presenting.

* ANZTB have 10 free tickets available on a first come first served basis. If you are unsuccessful then you can also purchase a discounted ticket using code ANZTB20

Continuous Security Testing

As we operate within an increasingly digital environment, organizations are coming under a growing number of threats from the latest cyber-attacks. Organizations need to build resiliency to the forefront of their digital strategy to ensure they are operating at their peak to protect their businesses, customers, partners, vendors, and staff.

This session will cover what needs to be protected, how to implement continuous security testing in the CICD process, the benefits of continuous security testing, and Hands-on demo.

For more information on the Conference please visit their website World Conference Next Generation Testing 2021

Presented by Vignesh Kumar Balasubramanian

To compete and succeed in the digital age by responding quickly to market changes and opportunities with innovative business solutions, Organisations are focussing on continuous delivery of software, faster development, frequent deployments to production, and monitoring the production systems.

There needs a continuous testing mindset, but what about the tools? With a 47% market share "Azure DevOps" strongly turning into a single platform for many organizations to implement a faster and secure product delivery pipeline.

This session will cover the best practices of using Azure DevOps for continuous testing and how to implement an end-to-end continuous testing strategy that can be easily scalable.

Load testing in an integrated environment is a pain and more the dependency, more the challenges in executing the test.  Lots of time gets wasted when a third party or downstream system goes off.

One way to mitigate this problem is to work with mock services.  Mock services send pre-defined responses for the request allow the application to run without any dependencies.

WireMock  is a simulator for HTTP-based APIs.  It is a service virtualisation tool or a mock server.  It is an opensource tool for mocking services.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed container service to run and scale Kubernetes applications on the cloud or on-premises.   By using the wiremock in Amazon EKS we can build high;y scalable, reliable & robust mock service.  This enables the applications running in EKS to easily access the mock service.

Aravind Sridharamoorthy is a Test Engineering Principal in NBN with 15 years of experience in performance and automation testing. Aravind has implemented performance testing CICD framework for multiple projects in Telstra and NBN. Aravind has experience in functional test automation using Cypress and he has also implemented contract testing in NBN. Aravind is a certified “Yoga teacher” and conducts community yoga classes in Melbourne and his hobbies are swimming and playing chess.

Presented by Pushparajan Balasubramanian - ANZTB Associate Board Member

As we operate within an increasingly digital environment, organizations are coming under a growing number of threats from the latest cyber-attacks.

Organizations need to build resiliency to the forefront of their digital strategy to ensure they are operating at their peak to protect their businesses, customers, partners, vendors, and staff.

This session will cover what needs to be protected, how to implement continuous security testing in the CICD process, the benefits of continuous security testing, and Hands-on demo.

Presented by Clive Bates

Clive is a very experienced TMMi Lead assessor working for Planit Testing in the UK. He has been involved with TMMi for 9 years and has completed many assessments globally in addition to training and delivering presentations on TMMi in several countries including China, South Africa, South Korea and Portugal as well as the UK. He is a member of the TMMi Foundation Management Executive and is responsible for all TMMi Foundation Accreditation work.

In this presentation, Clive will look at a brief history of TMMi, its development and adoption around the world to become the world leading test process improvement model as listed by IEEE.

You will also be taken through the model at a high level and be shown how the different types of assessments work, benefits of using TMMI as reported by certified organizations, an introduction to the IDEAL model for planning and implementing an effective software process improvement program. Clive will cover the TMMi career path that has been recently launched and how you can develop your own TMMi skills.

Paul Gerrard - Principal of Gerrard Consulting Limited and is the host of the UK Assurance Leadership Forum.

Paul Gerrard is a consultant, teacher, author, webmaster, developer, tester, conference speaker, rowing coach and a publisher. He has conducted consulting assignments in all aspects of software testing and quality assurance, specializing in test assurance. He has presented keynote talks and tutorials at testing conferences across Europe, the United States, Australia, South Africa and occasionally won awards for them.

Educated at the universities of Oxford and Imperial College London, in 2010, Paul won the Eurostar European Testing excellence Award and in 2013, won The European Software Testing Awards (TESTA) Lifetime Achievement Award.

Paul has written several books on testing and assurance: “Risk-Based E-Business Testing,” “The Tester’s Pocketbook” and “Digital Assurance.”

Erika Chestnut, Head of Quality and Process Engineering at Thrasio.

Erika shares how she partners with organizations and quality leaders to execute a more holistic, results-driven view of quality for their businesses.

In addition, Erika will share concrete steps that she has implemented throughout her long career to help transform QA from an end of delivery review step into a significant source of value for your business. Because, as Erika strongly believes, quality isn't just a goal - it's the whole point.

Leanne Howard, ANZTB Board Member will be presenting Defects derail delivery.

Leanne has found that one of the key causes of poor quality, late delivery or even at its extreme cancellation, is DEFECTS.  Of course, there are other factors, but in this presentation, Leanne will focus just on defects. The questions Leanne will discuss are:

• What are the root causes?
• What is the effect?
• And what can we do about it?

Quality is the responsibility of the whole team, testers do not introduce defects, but they do find them.  Rather than focusing on defect detention, how can we move to defect prevention? This eliminates waste, yes defects are waste, supports building quality in and allows us to switch paradigms to one of providing confidence in the customer delivery.