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News on companies that sell tools and services for managing software testing and quality engineering.

Keith Sexe of Bank Midwest

Newgen wins Bank Midwest contract amid QA push into US

The multi-year QA deal with 140-year-old family-owned Bank Midwest is the second new US banking client Newgen signs up in...

SmartBear CEO Frank Roe: ‘we need a revolution in software quality’

Industry veteran Frank Roe explains why he believes the software testing space is at "a breaking point"...
CEO Faisal Husain

Synechron pushes further into Europe with new Belgrade hub

The newest hub of Synechron, which primarily focuses on driving digital strategies in the financial services space, follows a range...
David Phillips has joined SmartBear

SmartBear signs up David Phillips in key role as finserv focus intensifies

The appointment comes as the software testing firm recently rolled out a number of new solutions amid an increased focus...
Huw Davies, the current chief executive officer of Ozone API

OBL teams up with UK startup to expand banks’ API testing ground

Speaking exclusively to QA Financial, Ozone API CEO Huw Davies explains the model bank acts as a reference implementation of...
Applitools CTO Adam Carmi at the QA Financial Forum London

Applitools CTO: ‘most test automation projects fail to scale’

Autonomous testing can change the QA game, according to Adam Carmi, a co-founder and the CTO of software testing giant...
Asia's largest banking hub, Singapore

Testing delivers best ROI from AI, says Tricentis APAC exec

Most DevOps practitioners say testing is the most valuable area for AI investment, according to Damien Wong of Tricentis...
Shotten (left) and Kivell at the QA Financial Forum London last month

Leveraging AI for testing within the insurance industry

At the recent QA Financial Forum London, Lee Kivell of Vitality and Aviram Shotten, CTO for EMEA at Qualitest, shared...
Mit Saru, senior director at STOXX, at the QA Financial Forum London

STOXX: building an engineering capability from scratch

Mit Saru has been tasked with building a platform engineering capability from scratch for Deutsche-Börse data and index subsidiary STOXX...
Lisa Chamberlain, head of testing services at de Novo Solutions

Welsh startup launches TaaS platform for the finserv sector

De Novo Solutions, said its new platform is aimed at testing and monitoring software infrastructure across financial firms...
Tal Barmeir sat down with QA Financial

Rise of AI does not mean human testers will be replaced, says Tal Barmeir

The BlinqIO co-founder downplays fears that the rapid rise of artificial intelligence means human testers will become redundant anytime soon...
Toronto-based Monica Hovsepian

OpenText finserv lead: DX a ‘secret weapon’ for banks

The financial services space should accelerate development and testing, argues Monica Hovsepian of OpenText...