1.00pm - 1.15pm Welcome Participants 1.15pm – 1.20pm Welcome Note 1.20pm – 2.00pm Keynote 2.00pm – 2.40pm Tech Talk 1 2.40pm – 3.20pm Tech Talk 2

Sandra De Zoysa - Forum Board Lead - Quality Forum Vice Chairperson - SLASSCOM

How to Optimize and stabilize your flaky tests; Improve Test Readability, Maintainability, Reusability, Extensibility; Choose the best design for your framework; Speed up your tests, based on Mr. Angelov’s best-selling book “Design Patterns for High-Quality Automated Tests: High-Quality Test Attributes and Best Practices”

Speakers

Anton Angelov

Co-founder / CTO of Automate The Planet Ltd,

Keynote Speaker
Anton has 10 years of experience in the field of automated testing. He designs and writes scalable test automation solutions and tools. He consults and trains companies regarding their automated testing efforts. Part of his job is to lead a team of passionate engineers helping companies succeed with their test automation using the company's BELLATRIX tooling. Nominated four times for best QA in Bulgaria 2017, 2018 (won), 2019 and 2020. He is most famous with his blogging at Automate The Planet and many given conference talks.

Although the expectation of automated testing was faster test execution and improved ROI, the immense efforts in writing automated tests have eventually resulted flaky and Become tests that are difficult to maintain. Zone 24x7 is currently exploring new dimensions of automated testing based on AI and ML. The session will share the research experience of Zone24x7 and discuss the benefits and drawbacks of automated testing based on AI and ML.

Speakers

Menaka De Silva

Quality Assurance Lead at Zone24x7 (Private) Ltd

Menaka possesses over 10 years of experience in the IT industry and in the area of automated testing. Her expertise spans across GUI and API test automation using selenium-based technologies, behavior driven development testing frameworks and other end to end testing technologies. She is currently working as a Quality Assurance Lead at Zone24x7 (Private) Limited Sri Lanka, leading a team of automation engineers to leverage high quality and efficient delivery. She is also proactively engaged in the autonomous testing research arm under Zone24x7.

Continuous performance testing and monitoring is the best way to ensure application performance with quicker development cycles. This presentation will outline how you can get performance guidance and metrics throughout development, making sure apps perform well from inception to production and beyond. You’ll also learn How to automate performance testing and which tools you need to successfully create a continuous performance validation strategy

Speakers

Ranil Weerasinghe

Head of Quality Assurance – Cambio Software Engineering at Cambio Software Engineering Private Ltd

Ranil has over 12+ years industry experience in Quality Engineering specialized in performance engineering. Ranil currently holds the position of Head of Quality at Cambio Software Engineering responsible for Automation and Performance. Prior to Cambio he has worked in Virtusa and Pearson Lanka.

Tharindu Peiris

Associate Tech Lead- Quality/Tech Engineering and Internal tools at Cambio Software Engineering (Pte) Ltd

This Presentation will cover the importance of ML in testing and how the different aspects of ML functionalities are applied – with real examples, statistics and applications

Speakers

Madhuka Perera

Associate Manager - Quality Engineering at Sysco Labs

Madhuka is a result Oriented Quality Analyst with more than 8 years of experience in Software Quality Analysis, Team Management and Handling Quality Strategies for large scale software systems.
Exposed to all aspects of the Development Life Cycle through successful project deliveries against demanding stakeholder expectations. He is committed for quality deliverable's ensuring successful ramp up of software projects. He is a Certified ScrumMaster with a proven track record for Teaching and Coaching Scrum Values and Practices to "Lead Change" within many Development Teams.

3.30pm – 4.10pm Tech Talk 3 4.10pm - 4.40pm Tech Talk 4 4.40pm – 5.10pm Tech Talk 5 5.10pm - 5.15pm Vote of Thanks

Industry change has had an impact on software quality assurance engineering field and Lean and DevOps techniques has helped to redefine the role of an SQA engineer to meet the future demands. Suren will discuss the Challenges current software development teams face due to new industry demands, the profound paradigm shift software development industry is undergoing from Process Centric Thinking to Value Centric Thinking, quality Assurance Process Vs Value Assurance Process, Key Lean and DevOps Principles we can use to redefine our software development Process, attributes of SQA engineer with Value Centric Mindset

Speakers

Suren Rodrigo

Senior Software Product Engineering Consultant at 99X

Suren is a Senior Software Product Engineering Consultant with a keen interest in creating and delivering business value by utilizing technology and teamwork. With over 15 years of experience in designing and developing software solutions, he has an extensive exposure to all the major software development stacks such as .NET, Java EE, LAMP, MEAN, JavaScript SPA.
For the past 8 years he has managed agile software product engineering teams towards delivering successful products. He thrives in applying software engineering principles, architectural concepts, tools and processes to create products that reflect quality and deliver real business value.

This session will discuss the best practices that will help expand client businesses, giving clients the best ROI while engaging and expanding the organizations to new heights while keeping a close eye on quality, cost and satisfaction for both clients and employees. Specific case studies on Managing Fortune 500 clients & servicing multi geographical clients with development teams distributed in different countries, will also be discussed at this session

Speakers

Niroshen Landerz

Director - Client Services of Auxenta Digital Labs (PVT) LTD