The QA Financial Forum New York 2021

QA Financial Forum New York 2021

11th March 2021
08:00am - 05:00pm EDT

QA Financial Forum New York 2021

Software Risk Management and Technologies for Continuous App Delivery

The fifth annual QA Financial Forum New York; now established as the leading US conference for software quality assurance leaders working in banking, insurance and asset management.

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The QA Financial Forum is a unique conference for Heads of QA, testing, software engineering, DevOps, operational risk, and IT risk management. The Forum discusses the key issues facing banks, trading platforms and insurance companies as they seek to implement new technologies in software automation. A key focus is how financial firms benchmark software quality, especially as regulators increase their scrutiny of IT risk management.

The Forum will cover:

AI and machine learning: software is writing software, but how do we test the results?
UX, voice and mobile: what customers want, and how leading retailers are delivering it

The Cloud: software testing as a service and the management of test environments
DevSecOps, IT risk, security and penetration testing in the SDLC

Accessibility Testing and ADA Compliance
The choices between open-source and off-the-shelf testing tools

Contact Details

Sponsorship opportunities — lawrence@qa-financial.com
Speaking opportunities — jasmin.cuppone@qa-financial.com
Attending as a delegate — kirstine@qa-financial.com

Agenda

Thursday - March 11

08:00 am

Arrival, Refreshments, and Networking

08:45 am

Welcome address and introduction to QA Vector Analytics

Speaker: Matthew Crabbe, CEO and Founder – QA Media

09:00 am

The path towards automation: reducing your time to market while ensuring quality

In the context of automated testing and continuous app delivery this session will provide insights on how financial companies are achieving Agile at scale and how automation is used in order to achieve reduction in time to market to drive the maturity of testing practices throughout the SDLC.

09:30 am

Conversational assistants & AI

This session will explore how AI is being applied at the leading edge of voice technologies. Who has succeeded in implementing voice technologies and how have companies ensured those technologies to work effectively? This talk will also explore what technologies customers will be asking for in 2021, and how robust those technologies will have to be.

10:00 am

Session reserved for Gold Sponsor

10:30 am

Coffee & networking break

11:00 am

Towards global benchmarks for software quality and security: can companies and regulators agree shared standards for code quality?

Financial firms and regulators are increasingly concerned with IT risk management and measuring the "goodness" of software. Is it possible to develop standards that can be applied universally? What is best practice in embedding security and penetration testing in the SDLC? In particular, this session will discuss the potential and limitations of a DevSecOps framework, and identify which controls firms should be putting into place to position themselves to develop a mature and robust security framework.

(Panel discussion)

11:30 am

Session reserved for Gold Sponsor

12:00 pm

Moving to the Cloud: software testing as a service and the management of test environments

This session will focus on how to migrate monolith applications to the Cloud with the confidence of testing as a service. It will also discuss how testing brings confidence in the continuous delivery of the software and ultimately on testers' responsibilities.

12:30 pm

Session reserved for Gold Sponsor

01:00 pm

Lunch & networking break

02:00 pm

Let the user journey be your guide: AI and automation for end-to-end business process testing

DevOps and Agile are keys to better quality assurance and testing. But customer experience should ultimately define success. Our experts will discuss their firms’ approach to deliver better software, faster, and how they benchmark their progress in continuous testing. In particular, how can AI help identify software risk and enable a more holistic view of business process testing? How does microservices technology affect your approach to QA? Ultimately: is it possible to have a single, firm-wide, benchmark for quality?

(Panel discussion)

02:30 pm

Accelerating continuous testing, innovation, quality and speed

With the ever-growing speed with which software must go to market and the number of platforms it must support, it’s imperative to have a solid test framework allowing faster test development. “Shift left testing” has created a strong push in test implementation and helped to overcome challenges faced in the software test life cycle. This presentation provides the opportunity to learn from a product engineering team, how to achieve business agility with continuous testing and innovation. It will focus on how the benefits of faster time to market, reduced effort, higher coverage and quality have been realised. The speaker will also outline plans to continue to mature in terms of investment and adoption of automation technologies and processes.

03:00 pm

Testing architecture for global platform

What does it mean to build a global platform? This session will provide an overview of testing layers, you’ll learn the main problems that can occur when you are designing and maintaining tests and frameworks for the same backend microservices and client applications serving products across different regions. How do you deal with test data, test execution and CI/CD and testability will be covered during this talk.

03:30 pm

DevOps as a quality engine: QA for “Open Insurance”

This talk will explain how insurance companies began their transition to DevOps by completely restructuring its approach to quality assurance - a "lift and shift" strategy would simply not be enough in the era of Open Insurance, based on APIs. This presentation will cover insurances’ approach to test-driven development, benchmarking of code quality, and the company's decisions on quality assurance tools as it moves forward in the public Cloud. Finally: how control and compliance are maintained in a maximum automation environment.

04:00 pm

Coffee & networking break

04:30 pm

The 5-star app experience: testing apps for the best in UX and performance

For financial firms, market share is increasingly driven by app quality. And as user devices and APIs proliferate in the era of open banking, the challenge of testing is growing almost daily. Our panellists will discuss functional, performance and load testing as well as the decisions they have made on emulated testing in the Cloud. What is that customers are demanding right now and - critically - what will they be demanding from their apps in 12 months time?

(Panel discussion)

05:00 pm

Test data management and virtualization of services

Financial firms need to make important decisions about investing in test environments. How are synthetic data evaluated against data masking? Can companies develop a more efficient corporate-level view of how data is managed? This session will also discuss the benefits of test service virtualization and how a RoI can be defined.

05:30 pm

Cocktail reception

Founded in 2009, Exactpro specializes in open access quality assurance services and related software development with focus on test automation for securities data distribution, trading systems, risk management, market surveillance and post-trade infrastructures. In May 2015 - January 2018, Exactpro was part of the Technology Services division of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). In January 2018, the founders of Exactpro completed a management buyout from LSEG. Exactpro operates in the UK and US, with significant functions in Russia. It currently employs over 550 specialists. The Exactpro team has in-depth understanding of the technologies and business logic behind matching engines, smart order routing, algorithmic trading, order management, market data dissemination, straight-through processing, clearing and settlement for equities, fixed income, FX, listed and OTC derivatives. We have considerable experience working in ultra-low latency systems and FIX-based solutions. Our customers include investment banks, brokers, buy-side, technology vendors, and execution venues. Our motto is Build Software to Test Software. To achieve effective test automation with wide coverage and focus on cost efficiency, maintainability and sustainability, Exactpro has developed a bespoke suite of test tools. It is one of the areas where we have seen success in the recent years.

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Silver Sponsors

Deque Systems is a leading provider of web and mobile accessibility software and services. Our mission is digital equality, and the Deque team consists of leaders and innovators in accessibility and testing tools development. We strive to provide practical accessibility solutions that reflect real-world development environments, and we work with a broad range of clients to not only fix their inaccessible content but to integrate accessibility into their existing design and development processes through the use of automation and training. Not sure about your site’s accessibility?

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Bronze Sponsors

Perfecto is a cloud-based platform for web, mobile and IoT software testing, empowering enterprises with the tools needed to deliver better digital experiences. Perfecto’s users can automate continuous testing throughout the DevOps cycle, using a test lab comprised of real browsers, smart phones and devices under real end-user conditions. More than 3,000 customers, including the top global enterprises across the banking, retail, telecommunications, hospitality and media industries rely on Perfecto to help meet user expectations, boost brand reputations, and establish loyal customers. For more information about Perfecto, visit www.perfecto.io and join our community.

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Delphix’s mission is to empower businesses to accelerate innovation through data. In a world where every company is becoming a data company, only the Delphix Dynamic Data Platform enables enterprise data to be securely delivered to every stakeholder across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments at the pace required to enable rapid development of applications and solutions. By giving teams self-service access to secure, personal data environments, Delphix accelerates the application development, analytics, and AI initiatives that help businesses stay ahead of the competition, while also minimizing data risk. For more information visit www.delphix.com

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QA Financial Forum New York 2021

11th March 2021
08:00am - 05:00pm EDT

QA Financial Forum New York 2021

Software Risk Management and Technologies for Continuous App Delivery

The Forum will cover:

Contact Details

Agenda

Thursday - March 11

Arrival, Refreshments, and Networking

Welcome address and introduction to QA Vector Analytics

The path towards automation: reducing your time to market while ensuring quality

Conversational assistants & AI

Session reserved for Gold Sponsor

Coffee & networking break

Towards global benchmarks for software quality and security: can companies and regulators agree shared standards for code quality?

Session reserved for Gold Sponsor

Moving to the Cloud: software testing as a service and the management of test environments

Session reserved for Gold Sponsor

Lunch & networking break

Let the user journey be your guide: AI and automation for end-to-end business process testing

Accelerating continuous testing, innovation, quality and speed

Testing architecture for global platform

DevOps as a quality engine: QA for “Open Insurance”

Coffee & networking break

The 5-star app experience: testing apps for the best in UX and performance

Test data management and virtualization of services

Cocktail reception

Silver Sponsors

Bronze Sponsors

Directions

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QA Financial Forum New York 2021

11th March 2021 08:00am - 05:00pm EDT

QA Financial Forum New York 2021

Software Risk Management and Technologies for Continuous App Delivery

The Forum will cover:

Contact Details

Agenda

Thursday - March 11

Arrival, Refreshments, and Networking

Welcome address and introduction to QA Vector Analytics

The path towards automation: reducing your time to market while ensuring quality

Conversational assistants & AI

Session reserved for Gold Sponsor

Coffee & networking break

Towards global benchmarks for software quality and security: can companies and regulators agree shared standards for code quality?

Session reserved for Gold Sponsor

Moving to the Cloud: software testing as a service and the management of test environments

Session reserved for Gold Sponsor

Lunch & networking break

Let the user journey be your guide: AI and automation for end-to-end business process testing

Accelerating continuous testing, innovation, quality and speed

Testing architecture for global platform

DevOps as a quality engine: QA for “Open Insurance”

Coffee & networking break

The 5-star app experience: testing apps for the best in UX and performance

Test data management and virtualization of services

Cocktail reception

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

Bronze Sponsors

Directions

Stay Connected With Our Newsletter

Our Sponsor Partners

11th March 2021
08:00am - 05:00pm EDT