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7:00 - 7:50
Breakfast
East Ballroom (2nd Floor)
8:00 - 9:00
How to become a Rockstar in Tech
This talk will discuss different strategies Raj has used in his life to build his career from a shy, introverted kid earning a minimal salary into a global developer/tester, speaker, author, senior manager and tech career and leadership coach
Raj Subrameyer
East Ballroom
(2nd Floor)
9:15 - 10:15
Testers & Testing in ChatGPT-AI world
In this session, we would like to focus on evolution of manual testing in AI era.
DasaradhaRam Gadde
Cartoon Room
(3rd Floor)
Word Smatter
"Exploring Semantics, Testers, and Problems" - Introducing, demystifying, and using semantics to better understand testers and testing.
Damian Synadinos
Great Hall 1 & 2
(1st Floor)
Transition from Testing to Leadership
We'll talk about technical skills and knowledge, as well as "often harder to learn" soft skills that will separate you from others and start you on the path to being a great leader.
Jeff Van Fleet
John Townsend
Great Hall 3
(1st Floor)
Spicy Opinions with the Automation Panda
Andy Knight – the "Automation Panda" – will share some of his spiciest (but still respectful) opinions, and y'all in the audience will get a chance to discuss them. Let's have some fun while also sharing discourse in constructive ways!
Andrew Knight
Interfaith Room
(3rd Floor)
12 things your Architect and PM wish you'd stop doing on the project
12 things you're likely doing wrong and how to fix them
Heath Murphy
Arin Heinselman
Student Alumni Room
(2nd Floor)
Example Mapping: The New Three Amigos
Example Mapping is a collaboration technique used by teams to help refine requirements.
Thomas Haver
West Ballroom
(2nd Floor)
10:30 - 11:30
API Testing Made Easy
Learn how to write automated tests for your API's with Cypress
Jordan Powell
Cartoon Room
(3rd Floor)
Test Strategy: The Best Friend You Never Knew
With a Test Strategy in hand, you will be ready to overcome any obstacle thrown at your team and do it without missing a beat.
Matthew Eakin
Great Hall 1 & 2
(1st Floor)
All-Star Panel Discussion
We will have a high-level discussion with our conference speakers discussing anything about the IT industry and its impact in our businesses and professional lives. Speakers will be taking your questions which could include AI & ChatGPT, how to utilize new technologies for professional growth, organizational changes and challenges, and any other questions you might have.
Your favorite QA or the Highway speakers
Great Hall 3
(1st Floor)
Breaking Down Silos - Bridging Collaborative Testing Practices In Your Organization
Share the journey of a tester as he reviews practical strategies he has learned to break down communication silos and form a collaborative and productive environment
Ben Oconis
Interfaith Room
(3rd Floor)
Comparing the four popular opensource automation tools
In this session, we are making an attempt to clearly demo the differences between automation tools Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Test Cafe. Attendees will have an understanding on how these tools work and which works the best when.
Krishna Bandarupalli
Student Alumni Room
(2nd Floor)
Automation - We're Doing it Wrong
There are many mis-conceptions and perceptions around automation as it pertains to software testing, so in this talk, we will discuss those and set the record straight on what automation is and, more importantly, what it is NOT.
Melissa Tondi
West Ballroom
(2nd Floor)
11:30 - 12:45
Lunch
East Ballroom (2nd Floor)
12:45 - 1:45
Predictive QA and Multiverse Orchestration
Do you use predictive analysis in QA? If you could predict the QA impact of every change to the release scope, how would you manage QA utilization?
Sylvia Sesostris
Latharao Uppugonduri
Cartoon Room
(3rd Floor)
Establishing your Quality Roadmap through Quarterly Service Delivery Reviews
How to establish your Quality Roadmap and identify impact through a Quarterly Service Delivery Reviews.
Jeff Sing
Great Hall 1 & 2
(1st Floor)
What Effective Test Automation is... and Why it's NOT Testing!
Stop creating unnecessary risk in your organization by perpetuating myths about what effective test automation is. This talk get’s real about what test automation is (and why it’s not testing) and provides practical techniques for improving both your approach to automation AND testing!
Lee Barnes
Great Hall 3
(1st Floor)
ChatGPT as a Testing Tool
What can and can't ChatGPT do. Can it be appropriately used to assist with testing?
Robert Fornal
Interfaith Room
(3rd Floor)
Testing Between the Buckets
Let's stop obsessing over how to bucket our testing activities and focus on more on using all the tools we have available to find problems before they impact our users.
Caleb Crandall
Student Alumni Room
(2nd Floor)
Managing the Test Data Nightmare
Test data can be a nightmare to manage unless you have the right strategies in place.
Andrew Knight
West Ballroom
(2nd Floor)
1:55 - 2:55
From Novice to Expert: How M&T Bank Supercharged Their Mobile Testing
This session will cover how M&T Bank's team was able to use those tools to test end-user combinations in order to align the test coverage with the userbase. Hear how their team’s revamped mobile testing program helped recreate defects that would otherwise be impossible on corporate machines.
Thomas Haver
Cartoon Room
(3rd Floor)
Don't Just Fix It, Learn From It - The Importance of Incident Management when Something Breaks
Implement a Incident Management process in order to provide better quality in the future
Rick Clymer
Great Hall 1 & 2
(1st Floor)
Why Working with Product is Hard
Working with Product is hard, but it isn't why you think; please let me explain!
Holly Bielawa
Great Hall 3
(1st Floor)
Generative A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) and the Future of product development
Join us in the urgent conversation around the use of generative A.I. and the future of product quality and user experience.
Jacob Haning
Andy Warns
Interfaith Room
(3rd Floor)
Testing at MACH Speed
A discussion on the best practices around testing e-commerce migrations to MACH based architectures
David Leslie
Student Alumni Room
(2nd Floor)
Exploring AI Applications for Testing
We will explore multiple problems we face in Testing and Automation, and which existing AI tools exist to help augment or solve them.
Carlos Kidman
West Ballroom
(2nd Floor)
2:55 - 3:05
Snacks & Refreshments
Traditions Room (2nd Floor)
3:05 - 4:05
Oh! The *Humanity*
Installing an "Agile" process rarely works, and there's a reason for that that no one is talking about.
Jon Fazzaro
Cartoon Room
(3rd Floor)
World Quality Report
Ravi will present the key findings from the World Quality Report
Ravindra Lakkavalli
Great Hall 1 & 2
(1st Floor)
Extra-functional Testing: Improve How you Observe the System During Functional Testing
Learn how to improve your ability to observe the system while you are performing functional testing in order to provide feedback about the so-called “non-functional” properties.
Federico Toledo
Great Hall 3
(1st Floor)
From Detection to Prevention: A How-to Guide
Join us for a presentation and discover on how to reduce cost of quality, achieve speed, and move the needle from detection to prevention!
Mark Harris
Praveen Ganapathiraju
Interfaith Room
(3rd Floor)
Understanding the Continuous Testing Metrics That Matter
Measuring and tracking the right KPIs and ensuring they’re widely available across your teams are keys to success and driving a culture of quality. In this session, we’ll cover why it’s so important to track quality metrics and which of those metrics are the most useful.
Sarah Geisinger
Student Alumni Room
(2nd Floor)
Chihuahua load tests!
Because, bigger isn't always better in modern performance. Especially nowadays.
Leandro Melendez
West Ballroom
(2nd Floor)
4:15 - 5:15
Actionable Automation Awesomeness in Testing
Wondering how to take your automation skills to the next level? Look no further! As the host of Test Guild Automation podcast, I have interviewed over 500 top-notch test engineers in the industry, and I'm excited to share what I've learned with you.
Joe Colantonio
East Ballroom
(2nd Floor)