Sri Atluri, global head of quality engineering at BNY Mellon, is arguably Wall Street’s leading evangelist for role software quality can play in digital transformation. Atluri, who will be a keynote speaker at the QA Financial forum New York on November 13th, has himself played a leading role in change at some of the Street’s largest firms. Prior to joining Bank of New York Mellon, Atluri headed quality engineering at the NYSE and had previously headed QE at Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, JP Morgan Asset Management and BNP Paribas.
At the QA Financial forum, Alturi will describe how he advocates quality engineering as an eco-system in which all technical changes have definable impact on the bottom-line. He will explain how the performance of engineers, developers – and even CIOs – in driving automation and CI/CD forward can be benchmarked, and how that transparency in itself becomes a key driver of change .
“I started out as C++ programmer at Bell Labs and I got into QE accidentally when a colleague needed help with a test automation program,” he recalled. “We managed to automate just about the entire project in two days and that changed my career path – seeing that potential.”Since then, Atluri’s career has brought him close to sometimes cataclysmic change. At BNP Paribas, for example, he was in charge of testing algos in the eye of the storm created by Bernie Madoff’s fraud. At BoA Merilll Lynch he played a leading role in building the firm’s game-changing Quartz trading and position management platform. And at the NYSE he was at the prime mover in the adoption of new technologies, such as containerization, AI and RPA – that have helped testing keep pace with developments in high frequency, low-impact, trading markets.
Bringing us right up to date, Atluri’s presentation at the QA Financial Forum will cover the latest in test tooling at BNY Mellon, including chaos engineering, and also how his dashboards benchmarket quality across the firm’s 15 operating divisions. “I measure productivity,” he said. “I set the bar high and it’s also my job to ensure that teams can reach that bar.”
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