22 Nov 2019, Manila
Testcon 2019
THANK YOU MANILA!
We are so grateful for the successful completion of one of our biggest events of the year, #Testcon2019, #Manila edition. The event showcased insightful talks from our speakers and a very engaging audience. We loved hosting Testcon2019 and want to thank all our speakers and delegates who were our showstoppers at the event!
See you next year at TESTCON 2020!
SPEAKERS
Antonio Barroquillo Jr
Senior DevOps Architect/Manager, Willis Towers Watson
Saravanan Kumar
Head of IT & Digital, European Investment Company
Joshua Arvin Lat
Chief Technology Officer, Complete Business Online
Christian Buenviaje
IGNITE Practice Lead - CIC Philippines, IBM
BJ Edward M. Taduran
Head of Security Engineering, PayMaya Philippines, Inc.
Kristy Abello
Testing COE Leader, Procter & Gamble
Rommel Cruz
Test Automation Manager, Accenture Inc
Jerry Durant
Chairman & Founder, 3rdLAW International
SCHEDULE
Time
Topics
Speakers
- 08:00
- Registration & Welcome
- 08:50
- Welcome & Introduction
- 09:00
- Perception/Deceptions: The Love/Hate Relationship of Test Advancement
Jerry Durant
3rdLAW International
Chairman & Founder, 3rdLAW International
Jerry is a recognized authority in software engineering and has served companies in 90 nations. Many of these engagements involve operational correction and the deployment of technological advancements. In 2017 he established 3rdLAW International as a holding company for two of his successful endeavors, Certifiable Technologies Inc. and The International Institute of Outsource Management (IIOM). Prior to establishing these enterprises, he served as Division Director – Software Test Engineering for AT&T.
Jerry holds degrees in Accounting (AS), Management (BS), Computer Science (MS) and AI/Robotic Engineering-Logistics (PhD – Columbia University). He is also certified as a test engineer, quality analyst, system professional, scrum master and agile practitioner.
Testing is a necessary evil and despite mastery of the discipline the service continually falls short of management expectations. In spite of producing results test engineers become characterized as the bearers of bad news and in many cases as a hindrance to timely value delivery.
This session will delve in the views of management towards the role and functional value of testing. In parallel an understanding will be revealed as to why this has taken place and what can be done to alter the perceptions that regularly occur. Rather than concentrating on selling the adoption of change a means to establishing ownership will be shared.
The topic is ideally suited for management and for those test professionals that are responsible for advancing the role of test engineering.
- 09:40
- Technical Test Automation Challenges: Patterns and Solution
Rommel Cruz
Accenture Inc
Test Automation Manager, Accenture Inc
Rommel is a test automation manager in Accenture. Started testing role at 2005 focused more on system testing, test automation and performance testing. Currently leads the Test Automation CoE of Accenture in the Philippines. This test automation CoE is focused on pushing test automation across different projects, creating solutions for test automation for new clients, and innovating.
With Agile and DevOps more embraced by organizations, test automation is a necessity to quickly achieve quality. But if test automation is not properly performed, it can quickly backfire and all efforts to create the automated scripts will be wasted. Aside from management factors, there are technical stuff that needs to be looked into as well.
We will have a view of these technical test automation challenges, what are the patterns and recommended solution.
- 10:20
- Refreshments Break
- 10:50
- Test Automation Implementation for Large Enterprises
Kristy Abello
Procter & Gamble
Testing COE Leader, Procter & Gamble
Kristy Abello, CISA, CISSP, PMP
— Leads the P&G Testing COE, with global footprint across all of P&G’s IT groups. The testing COE has presence in Manila, Costa Rica, Cincinnati and Schwalbach.
— Responsible for Testing Standards and Methodologies, and governing compliance to these standards.
— Responsible to Enterprise Test Tools selection, vetting, operations, and ongoing trainings.
— Responsible for vetting new tools to address emerging Testing needs for P&G, such as Mobile, Performance, Big Data Testing
— Owning an initiative for Testing Transformation which aims to automate P&G’s Regression Test Suites for major applications.
Kristy has spent 12.5 years in P&G, with experience in Application Development, Project Management, and Internal Auditing.
She has current certifications as a Project Management Professional (PMP), International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
She graduated Magna cum Laude in Business Administration from the University of the Philippines, Diliman.
Most large organizations want to implement test automation to reduce Testing Cycle Time, reduce Testing effort, reduce Incidents in Production, and speed up time to market for changes and releases. However, Test Automation for large-scale enterprises has its specific challenges:
1. How to ensure consistency of test automation so that scripts are reusable and searchable
2. How to ensure quality of test automation even with a multi-supplier and multi-geography set-up
3. How to ensure an architecturally sound Test Automation Tool Landscape without slowing down the speed of execution
4. How to ensure effective change management to transition traditional manual testing teams to a more updated testing framework
Kristy Abello will provide perspective on P&G’s Test Automation journey, sharing stories of how P&G was able to transition from manual testing into automated testing.
- 11:30
- Maximizing Value and Minimizing risk through Automated Delivery
Saravanan Kumar
European Investment Company
Head of IT & Digital, European Investment Company
Saravanan Kumar (SK) is a technology leader specializing in incubating and inducting new capabilities into enterprise. Has rich experience in transforming large financials organization with new technology and practices. Global transformation leader and CxO advisor.
SK has Bachelor degree in Electrical and Electronics, Masters in Human Resource Management. Certification includes MCPs, CSQA, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), ITIL, etc.,
In his current role as Global Head of Automation for Aon he is responsible for AIOps, DevOps, XaaS and RPA/AI Platform Services.
Speaker in Key industry forums
RPA Asia Summit, Singapore – Enabling judgment based RPA with AI
AI & RPA For BFSI summit, Sydney – Using unstructured data for AI & BOTS
Cognitive Congress, Bangalore – Uberising RPA & Automation Platform
GITEX, Dubai – Embarking on digital crash diet.
BFSI Summit, UK – Automation platform
AI.Singapore – Data & AI Platforms
In the dynamic digital era, business is looking for increased agility. For delivering agility, DevOps is seen as a transformation lever. In practice, DevOps has two key components. 1. Software engineering practices (Dev & Test) and 2. Ops & automation (infra, tools integration and pipelines). For enterprise to deliver 4X to 10X agility they need an integrated approach to deliver results.
In this session, we shall discuss about Platform based approach for Maximizing value and minimizing risk. How do we integrate the above said components and accelerate adoptions and share our +7 yrs of experience (challenges & solutions) to integrated adoption problem.
- 12:10
- API and Microservice Trends and How to effectively Test in a Digital Transformation Environment
Christian Buenviaje
IBM
IGNITE Practice Lead – CIC Philippines, IBM
Christian has 17 years of testing experience that ranges from enterprise applications, Mobile, and IoT. Christian’s last 5 years’ experience is with capability building, growth and delivery excellence for digital development and testing. Christian is currently a Project Manager for a leading Financial Service in the Philippines and Practice Leader for Testing at IBM Philippines.
API is growing in the Philippines because of the digital transformation from the financial sector. Testing teams or testing practitioners should equip themselves to effectively test API from functional, performance, and security perspective. It is also important that the automated test cases for API be integrated into DevOps pipeline for end-to-end quality.
Summary:
Brief discussion on the trend of API in the Philippines – From Apache Servers, cloud, and docker
Challenges with functional, performance, and security testing of API and tips to overcome them
Importance of DevOps pipeline to add quality: static code analysis, unit test (code coverage), and automated regression of API
- 12:50
- Networking Lunch
- 13:50
- Q & A Session
- 14:30
- Adversary Emulation System
BJ Edward M. Taduran
PayMaya Philippines, Inc.
Head of Security Engineering, PayMaya Philippines, Inc.
Having a strong background in software engineering and information security, he excels in collaborating and building well-architected, cost-efficient and secure software systems. In the process, he lead agile teams, growth hacked a revenue stream, raised awareness about security bugs that were making huge financial losses to companies, spoken to different organizations both public and private about security trends and practices and is now securing one of the biggest financial technology e-wallet systems in the Philippines, PayMaya.
The FinTQ industry is a highly regulated domain in the private sector. BSP Circular 982, PCI-DSS and Data Privacy of 2012 are the main frameworks of security that his company is complying with.
There is no shortage of work in the security field but everything can be managed through a risk-based approach. He believes that policies and processes should be based on this.
He likes to do tech stuff, infosec presentations and spreading security awareness in the private and public sectors. It is his career goal to become a consultant for the government and to help scale security best practices on a national level.
Adversary Emulation is one of the innovations in recent years in the security industry space.
This technique and discipline enable you to mimic the behavior of a possible system compromise to validate an attack, test the effectivity of monitoring tools and discover blind spots in the security of your system.
One of the overlooked aspects of this valuable activity is its testing aspect. There is much to grow in this field when it comes to creating scenarios and test data. And this need is overlooked by both sides; testing community and infosec community.
In this presentation, we will lay down the foundations to establish why this is a valuable practice in the Information Technology industry and why having “testing discipline” is a much-needed skill.
Then we will show a basic demo on how this activity is conducted using a POC setup.
- 15:10
- Refreshments Break
- 15:40
- CI/CD Milestone Roadmap
Antonio Barroquillo Jr
Willis Towers Watson
Senior DevOps Architect/Manager, Willis Towers Watson
I’ve been working in the IT Industry for 14 years. I’ve been in Software Development Management for 6 years, in Release Management for 5 years, QA for 7 years, and in DevOps for more than 4 years. I worked in different industries such as Shared Services, Financials, Government, Software, Manufacturing & Engineering, and Academe. I also worked with different solutions such as Desktop, Web and Mobile App Development, Systems Integration, and Data Mining & Warehousing.
We all may have the same understanding in CI/CD but most of the time, it’s difficult to implement the complete set at the start regardless of it’s a legacy or a new application. Major factors are the balancing of delivering sufficient automation that will give impact to the business, and the limited time, limited resources and other priorities that we have.
The milestone roadmap for implementing Continuous Integration and Delivery that will serve as a guide and direction in implementing it. It contains break-down of milestone so we would know what’s the overall direction, where are we in a specific application delivery pipeline, and what are the next steps.
- 16:20
- Pragmatic Test Automation: Testing Serverless Machine-Learning Powered Applications
Joshua Arvin Lat
Complete Business Online
Chief Technology Officer, Complete Business Online
Joshua Arvin Lat is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Complete Business Online, Insites, and Jepto. He previously served as the Director for Software Development and Engineering for multiple startups which allowed him to see the bigger picture and be more effective as a professional and leader. For the past couple of years, he has been sharing his knowledge in several international and local conferences and events to discuss practical strategies for companies and professionals.
Over the past couple of years, several professionals and teams have started to utilize serverless concepts and techniques to design and build scalable, low cost, and maintainable applications. Having automated tests and setting up continuous integration and delivery pipelines are critical in ensuring the stability and success of these projects and applications, Understanding the concepts alone will not guarantee success especially when dealing with modern requirements involving Machine Learning and Data Engineering. It is critical that professionals and teams are aware of the automated testing solutions which work and the solutions which may not work in production especially when a strict budget is in place.
- 17:00
- Conference Ends
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TESTIMONIALS
Liked the “family” feeling the conference had!
Liked the “family” feeling the conference had, the atmosphere of the conference really allowed people to contribute in discussions, asking questions, sharing thoughts etc. A lot of bigger conferences are lacking this.
Clavent
2020-02-22T09:21:23+05:30
Jori Ramakers,
Tricentis
https://www.clavent.com/testimonials/liked-the-family-feeling-the-conference-had/
Had an enriching experience!
Thank you @ClaventEvents for inviting me and helping me share #Microsofts #Test and #DevOps journey. Had an enriching experience sharing and connecting with so many. 👍to a wonderful conference #testing #TESTCON2019
Clavent
2020-02-22T09:23:58+05:30
Divya Vaishnavi,
Microsoft
https://www.clavent.com/testimonials/had-an-enriching-experience/
Indeed a Great learning experience!
Thanks, Clavent for arranging a TestCon in Bangalore. Indeed a Great learning experience!
Clavent
2020-02-22T09:34:33+05:30
Lokesh Kumar,
Matryxsoft
https://www.clavent.com/testimonials/indeed-a-great-learning-experience/
Helped fellow testers to listen to great orators!
You guys did an awesome job in choosing the right people for the conference. Indeed helped fellow testers to listen to great orators. Interactions during the session, post-session and networking for the rest of the tester life made #TESTCON2019 successful.
Clavent
2020-02-22T09:36:21+05:30
Shiva Mathivanan,
Augray
https://www.clavent.com/testimonials/helped-fellow-testers-to-listen-to-great-orators/
Thank you for helping me experience such a wonderful conference.
Thank you @ClaventEvents for inviting me and helping me experience such a wonderful conference. Three things (out of the many others which I missed) that help you stand out: 1.Organizing committee 2. Talk selection 3. Ability to quickly learn. #TESTCON2019
Clavent
2020-02-22T09:42:50+05:30
Ajay Balamurugadas,
Qapitol QA
https://www.clavent.com/testimonials/thank-you-for-helping-me-experience-such-a-wonderful-conference/
Spectrum of attendees at all career levels!
Given how new this conference is, it’s surprisingly well organized and has managed to attract quite a spectrum of attendees at all career levels. It was delightful to see most of my current clients in the audience during my presentation. Very courteous organizers, excellent arrangements on the day, and stimulating content.
Clavent
2020-02-22T09:44:12+05:30
Bharat Sangekar,
Accenture
https://www.clavent.com/testimonials/spectrum-of-attendees-at-all-career-levels/
It’s great to speak and present to like-minded people!
It's great to speak and present to like-minded people. Thanks to Dr. Vikram Venkateswaran and Clavent for inviting to speak and present of blockchain and Health care.
Clavent
2020-02-22T09:45:21+05:30
Priyank Jani,
Co-Speaker, Healthchain
https://www.clavent.com/testimonials/its-great-to-speak-and-present-to-like-minded-people/
Humbled by the crowd!
"Proof of Burn & its Economics" during the Blockchain 2.0 Conference. Humbled by the crowd and thanks to the organizers Clavent Team. Organizing team did a great job.
Clavent
2020-02-22T09:46:57+05:30
Shankar Ganesh PJ,
Blockchain Specialist, BlockStack
https://www.clavent.com/testimonials/humbled-by-the-crowd/
Exceptional job done!
The way you had marketed the event was exceptional and beyond what others do. Your connect with everyone was strong. Exceptional job done. Please keep it up.
Clavent
2020-02-22T09:48:00+05:30
Vijay Kumar,
Technology Executive, TiVo
https://www.clavent.com/testimonials/exceptional-job-done/
Beyond just concept!
Excellent set of speakers and delegates sparring into details of execution and beyond just concept. Nice work by Clavent Team and super speech by Gokul Alex.
Clavent
2020-02-22T11:07:43+05:30
Shane Nantis,
TruStack
https://www.clavent.com/testimonials/beyond-just-concept/
Felt I was in 10 years in the future!
Great session on BlockChain 2.0 by Clavent. Felt I was in 10 years in the future. Thanks to all the speakers especially Dr. Vikram Venkateswaran Venkateswaran used case on ISDP, fake medicine,medical supply chain audit. Thanks Clavent Team!
Clavent
2020-02-22T11:08:49+05:30
Nanda Kumar,
Cisco
https://www.clavent.com/testimonials/felt-i-was-in-10-years-in-the-future/
Great discussion on practical implementations!
It is great to see the kind of excitement that blockchain is generating and the exposure and experience young developers already have on it! Great discussion on practical implementations and use cases of blockchain technology. Thanks to Clavent Team for organizing a great event with a well thought out agenda.
Clavent
2020-02-22T11:09:49+05:30
Ashish Bhatia,
Senior Director, Harman International
https://www.clavent.com/testimonials/great-discussion-on-practical-implementations/
The best BLOCKCHAIN Event in recent times!
In my opinion, this event was the best BLOCKCHAIN Event in recent times in the region. Thanks Clavent Team for the great event!
Clavent
2020-02-22T11:11:44+05:30
Mohan Satyaranjan,
Technical Mentor, nVipani Labs
https://www.clavent.com/testimonials/the-best-blockchain-event-in-recent-times/
Very well organized
Very well organized. Started on time. There was a lot of focus on ensuring that the participants get to ask questions. Event organizers to keep it very lively. Loved it
Clavent
2020-02-22T11:12:48+05:30
Shiva Jayagopal,
Director, WinVinaya Infosystems
https://www.clavent.com/testimonials/very-well-organized/
It’s awesome to see how the developers climbed up the tech ladder within a year!
It's been a year since the Blockchain Journey has started as a Speaker. It's awesome to see how the developers climbed up the tech ladder within a year. Thanks to Clavent Team for organizing an excellent event.
Clavent
2020-02-22T11:18:06+05:30
Araf Karsh Hamid,
Co-Founder, Metamagic Global
https://www.clavent.com/testimonials/its-awesome-to-see-how-the-developers-climbed-up-the-tech-ladder-within-a-year/
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