The leading networking and information event on the subject of software quality assurance returns to New York for its 8th year. Join us to discuss the latest in software risk management and technologies for quality engineering and DevOps. Featuring speakers from leading banks, insurers and trading firms.
The QA Financial Forum New York
May 24th 2023 at the Harvard Club
The leading networking and information event on the subject of software quality assurance returns to New York next spring.
Free to attend for delegates from financial firms, our audience will hear from experts and pioneers in new QA technologies from banks, insurance companies, exchanges and trading venues.
There will also be presentations on cutting-edge tools for accelerating DevOps and continuous testing from the world's most innovative software technology vendors.
As always, our QA Financial Forum is a discreet meeting place, where ideas are shared confidentially. We allow the maximum time for questions and discussion breaks.
The Forum will cover:
Stephen is the Cyber Risk Engineer for Sompo Pro. He joined Sompo Pro in October 2022 and brings over 15 years of cybersecurity consulting experience. In his role, Stephen is responsible for setting the technical guidelines for assessing cybersecurity controls from applicants, assisting in the development of cyber products offerings, and the research of cybersecurity controls for emerging technologies. Prior to joining Sompo, Stephen was a Director of Advisory Services at Arete Advisors and helped companies secure their perimeter, test their operational procedures, and investigate unauthorized access. He has advised clients through ransom negotiations to recover decryption keys and investigate ransomware infections, unauthorized access to and data theft from AWS cloud accounts, and assessed organizations cyber security programs. Stephen also serves as an advisory board member for the Ithaca College Cyber Security Certificate program. His previous employment includes startups specializing in cyber security and artificial intelligence, Deloitte, PwC, and EY. He holds a Masters of Business Administration from Fordham University and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems from Bentley University.
Ramkumar Ayyadurai is the Quality Assurance and Test Engineering Director for Equities at Citi. At Citi, his team is responsible for providing Quality Assurance and Engineering services for over 100+ applications globally. Ram is currently leading a multiyear Global QA transformation strategy around migrating away from archaic QA practices to a “Best in class” Test Engineering focused organization. His team is leading the charge around Enterprise Test Automation Framework, Virtualization, DevOps, Containerization, Cloud adoption within Quality Assurance/Test Engineering space. Ram has over 18 years of IT experience and majority of his career in Investment banking across banks including JP Morgan chase (UK), Merrill Lynch (US), Credit Suisse (US). Prior to Citi, Ram led the Quality Assurance function at Credit Suisse – Investment Banking division. During his tenure at Credit Suisse, he has established Industry award winning QA Engineering practices across Equities, Fixed Income, FX, Risk and Trading technologies IT.
Joel Montvelisky is a Co-Founder and Chief Solution Architect at PractiTest. Joel has been in testing and QA since 1997, working as a tester, QA Manager and Director, and Consultant for companies in Israel, the US, and the EU. Joel is a Forbes council member, and a blogger and is constantly imparting webinars on a number of testing and Quality Related topics. In addition, Joel is the founder and Chair of the OnlineTestConf, the co-founder of the State of Testing survey and report, and a Director at the Association of Software Testing.
Visionary and goal-oriented IT Test Architect (QA Process and Tools) with demonstrated experience in Implementation of Test Tools enterprise wide for adoption including training Global SAP FSRI implementation Test Manager. Currently responsible for managing the Test Process to align with NYL SDLC and Test Tools for Test Management, Automation and Performance Testing.
Adam Satterfield is Sr Director of Engineering Enablement at Global Payments and has been in the software testing industry for 20 years. He has a wide industrial background, having worked in the military, SaaS, telecoms, mobile, healthcare and finance. Adam enjoys leading and mentoring quality assurance teams as well as teaching testers how to find their inner testing star. He has spoken at multiple conferences internationally and in the US and authored blog posts related to automation, DevSecOps and testing leadership. Currently, Adam is working at Global Payments to lead Test Engineering and DevSecOps to drive best practices across multiple projects and modernization initiatives. He is also working on innovations within test engineering, Cloud CI/CD and AI/ML.
