Fireside Chat- The journey to testing maturity & how to scale your QA ops

Panelists

Anand Subbaraman

SVP - Product, BrowserStack

Anand is a veteran in tech industry with 20+ years of experience. He has created and transformed industry leading cloud products that have been ranked as the leader by Gartner and Forrester.

Maaret Pyhäjärvi

Principal test engineer, Vaishala

Maaert is a results-oriented software development professional with a focus on testing. In her career of 15+ years, she has helped multiple organisations with strategic quality management.

Sowmya Sridharamurthy

Manager - SDET, Lytho

Sowmya is a seasoned product quality leader with 14+ years. She has played instrumental role in scaling and transforming QA ops of multiple organisations in her career.

David Burns ( Moderator )

Head of Open Source, BrowserStack

David Burns is a core contributor to Selenium, chairperson for the W3C working group and editor of the W3C WebDriver specification. He has also authored multiple books.

About the event

A mature QA organization is a key enabler in gaining a competitive edge. But building a world-class QA organization to support fast releases without compromising quality can be extremely challenging.

Short-term needs like urgent or unanticipated deliverables, staffing, tooling, etc., often take precedence, deprioritizing and delaying long-term objectives and best practice implementation

In this fireside chat, we’ll discuss with panellists Anand Subbaraman, Maaret Pyhäjärvi , and Sowmya Sridharamurthy how to navigate these growing pains in a QA org. Our panelists bring a wealth of experience and have nurtured QA teams to success through multiple challenges.

What you’ll learn

How to grow a QA team from zero to full automation, and best practices to implement
How to partner effectively with developers and business teams for organizational success
Understand ‘The test maturity curve’ – and how you can level up from your current state

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