Benchmarking software quality and the return from investment in new technologies for DevOps and continuous testing.
See the agenda for this unique event on June 17th and 18th and register today to reserve your place (free for financial firms).
Here’s our CEO’s, Matthew Crabbe, preview of what you can expect:
Join us on June 17th and 18th for this unique online event, bringing expert speakers from leading financial firms and technology companies directly to you – wherever you need to be!
Since 2016, the QA Financial Forums have been running around the world – in London, New York, Chicago, Paris and Milan – bringing together leaders in software quality assurance at banks, insurance companies, exchanges and leading technology businesses.
We all know that banks are now technology businesses, not banks. But what’s even more important is that the technology works.
Just as the financial crisis of 2008-2009 crystallised the role of financial risk managers, the CQO is today coming of age. Benchmarking software quality is critical, and that’s also part of our business (more on that later).
Our conferences have been focused on gathering 100 or so of those leaders together, with an emphasis on sharing technical experience and networking in an intimate, Chatham House Rule environment. Our venues have been carefully chosen for their convenience; close to financial centres in the City of London and Midtown Manhattan.
But right now, meeting in person is off the table. So we have created a global online event that we can open up to anyone working in financial technology, and I’d like to tell you a little more about it. First of all, we’ll be maintaining the ethos of our in-person Forums. The best speakers, with delegate access for senior employees of financial firms. You can register as a delegate entirely free. All we ask is that you maintain our Chatham House Rule, and treat the presentations as background information.
Now let me tell you a little more about our great agenda and speaker line-up for June 17th and 18th. First of all the event takes place over two days so we can schedule live presentations in the European afternoon and the North American morning. Our audience and our speakers are based on both sides of the Atlantic.
Our event is supported by technology companies whose services are central to software development, test automation and quality assurance: Applause, Delphix, Deque, Quali, Software Improvement Group, Sixsentix and Tricentis.
We’re using a customised online event management platform that allows delegates to enjoy a fully interactive online conference. Once you’ve registered to attend, you’ll be able to:
- View our expert presentations – live – form your desktop or mobile device
- Ask questions – live
- Arrange 1:1 meetings with our technology partners
- Visit our information desk at any time for technical assistance
Once you have registered, we’ll make sure you get the best from the event. So do register right away.
Our great speakers are at the heart of what our events offer. So here goes.
We’ll kick off on June 17th with a session managed by our director in charge of QA Vector® Research Justyn Trenner, who will be in conversation with Jordan Daniel, digital assurance lead at the Bank of England. They’ll be discussing the core topic of how firms can benchmark the investment they make software quality. We’ll also be telling you more about the analytics service we are launching to create those benchmarks.
Up next, Maya Ber Lerner, CTO of Quali and Aviram Shotten, CIO of Qualitest will focus on the critical importance of test data and test environment management in the transition to continuous testing. How do firms connect the objective of quality with the up front investment in infrastructure?
Sri Atluri, global head of enterprise quality engineering at BNY Mellon, has also led software quality transformation at the NYSE, JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America. He’s been a star speaker at our New York conference in the past and he’s agreed to present on June 17th his vision of the future of full-stack quality engineering.
Crowd-testing is a methodology increasingly used by financial firms. Baran Korkmazel from Applause will talk about how it works with Dewet Diener, VP of engineering at Curve, the Fintech which connects customers cards and finances to a single app.
Mike Schober and Bala Mukund of Charles Schwab will tell you how to re-shape your DevOps culture.
If I had to choose a presentation that made the most impact on our live delegate audience, on the day, it was a couple of years back in New York when Mike Schober and Bala Mukund of Charles Schwab described how they had implemented automated testing for the launch of Schwab’s robo investment platform. Now they are leading charge across the entire wealth platform at the leading US retail brokerage. They’ll tell you how to re-shape your DevOps culture.
What exactly should you expect from a test automation tool? Robert Sherwood of Tricentis provide a detailed answer to the question in a presentation with Kiran Raju, QA Management Consultant at Brooks Macdonald, the investment management platform.
Next: a panel of experts who will discuss how their quality assurance pricess have changed, and what they have learned, as a result of the COVID-19 emergency. We have Robin Allport from Compare the Market, Avik Ganguly, from London Stock Exchange Group together with Wendy Ng from Experian.
We end the first day of the QA Financial Digital Forum with Demetrio Migliorati, director of innovation and head of Blockchain at Italy’s Banca Mediolanum. Demetrio will discuss the key challenges in testing Blockchain platforms and smart contracts, not just in the banking sector but also in the Fintech ecosystem and the insurance sector.
On June 18th, we kick off with a very interesting session in which Manish Tripathi, and Kyle Downey from Morgan Stanley will describe how their team has introduced new test standards for trading algorithms, in response to increased scrutiny by regulators of investment banking apps. Their project has helped describe those – previously undescribable – apps.
Software Improvement Group (SIG) has developed a methodology deeply rooted in fundamental risk management practices that aligns business and IT to ensure strategic objectives are met. In this session, SIG CEO Luc Brandts and principal consultant Jasper Geurts will explain three actionable steps that you can take to apply this methodology within your own teams – immediately! You can see my preview video interview with Luc just below.
We return to the important topic of how regulation impacts on software development with Milan Kuveljic, head of quality engineering at the leading banking disrupter, N26. The key objective is how to embed the compliance culture along with the changes you need to move to continuous testing and delivery. Agile compliance, if you like. Milan is yet another example of a speaker who has been highly rated by our live delegate audiences.
Is it possible to automate testing for sensitive AI technologies such as chatbots? Can we eradicate potentially ruinous potential faults, such as ethnic bias, before they go live? Matthias Rasking, Managing Director for Sixsentix Deutschland will show you how to start. No surprise that test data management holds the key. You can see my preview interview with Matthias just below.
USAA is often cited as a technology leader among US insurance companies. Bryan Osterkamp, technical architect for testing at USAA will highlight two key challenges his team has been facing over the past 12 months in moving further along the curve of DevOps and test automation. First, USAA’s development teams have had to learn new skills and manage new software risks. Second, like all financial firms, USAA has been learning how to embed regulatory compliance into the automated SDLC.
Remote working is the new normal, but it poses some major issues for financial firms in terms of data security and data availability for testing. Steve Karam and Ilker Taskaya of Delphix, the data management specialist, will present an actionable roadmap for reducing data risk across application environments while improving development velocity.
Accessibility testing has become a priority for financial firms recently, not least because the American with Disabilities Act requires that firms treat their websites as they would public spaces – they have to be accessible. Matthew Luken, UX Design Director at US Bank will highlight the successes and challenges he and his team face in their DevOps practices. The talk will also cover revenue and cost containment linked to accessibility.
And that’s not all … we still have one or two speakers awaiting final confirmation. So it’s sure to be a packed and very informative QA Financial Digital Forum.
Bring your questions and comments – the more we can involve you, the better. Here’s the link to the full agenda and delegate registration once again.
I look forward to seeing you on the day.
Matthew Crabbe, CEO, QA Media
