We are Proud to Present the following Key Note Speakers:
Indranil Sinha, Andy Redwood, Jan Grape, Jörgen Damberg and Michael Bolton
CANCELED: SIGIST Sweden 2023 at Convendum, Vasagatan 16 Stockholm
Optimizing QA & Test
10 May 2023 08:30-16:30
Optimizing QA and Test.
What do you need to optimize your QA and Test?
This conference focuses on some of the most important things that you need to make your QA & Testing work smoothly in Agile teams.
There are many conferences, workshops and courses about testing, but we see the need for a place where you can reassure that you are working the right way, strengthen your weakest links in ways you never knew existed, or maybe just grow as a team learning together.
Our mission is to empower the test and QA industry by bringing world renown specialists to our conferences.
We really hope you can come and learn from and together with the best.
Schedule:
09:00
The obligations of being a leader
It was 2012 when Indranil got an opportunity to work at Marginalen Bank as a junior assistant and after 9 years he rose to leadership position. There is a fascinating story behind how he, without having any prior knowledge about banking, about IT, about software testing and without being fluent in Swedish language, made this journey possible. Now, for the first time, he is ready to tell the story publicly. In his speech he will talk about power of identification and gratitude, significance of vulnerability and courage, stories of failures and successes. Anyone who is an aspiring leader or already a leader should find Indranil’s talk inspirational.
Indranil Sinha
Head of QA at Marginalen Bank
10:00
The Answer of Everyones Testing Question is - It Depends
Andy has now over 25 years in the testing industry.
He is one of the most well known test specialists in the area of Banking and Finance.
This presentation will go through many of the moments when people (mostly managers) have made a question about testing, and the answer has always been “It Depends”.
Come and listen to Andy Redwood and learn from his experiences.
Andy Redwood
Senior Agile Specialist
11:00
Test environment aspects that should be nested in every testers amygdala
We all need to deal with test environments to do our jobs. We rely heavily on them to trust our findings are valid. Test environments are complex matter with a lot of perspectivs and it's easy to feel like your consciousness is getting jolted into the 5:th dimension when attempting to grasp them all, but before you start checknig your carbon monoxide detector status - check out this talk trying to sort the various aspects out.
Jörgen Damberg
Test, Test Tools and AGile Testing SuperGURU at Zington
13:00
14:30
The Secret Life of Automation in Testing
The Web is abuzz with talk about “automated testing” and “test automation”. Automation comes with a tasty and digestible story: eliminate “manual testing”, and replace messy, complex humanity with reliable, fast, efficient robots! Yet there are many secrets hidden between the lines of the story.
Automation encourages people to think of mechanizable assembly-line work done on the factory floor, but neither development nor the testing within it is like that. Testing is a part of the creative and critical work that happens in design studios, inventors’ workshops, and research labs. Although they can be assisted by tools, those kinds of work are neither “manual” nor “automated”.
User and tester behaviours can be simulated, but users and testers cannot be replicated in software. Automated checking does exist, but it cannot do the testing. While tools can help us, we must not lose sight of the important skilled work that people must do to use tools wisely and powerfully.
In this talk, Michael Bolton will reveal secrets about automation that people do not usually consider, disclose or discuss. He’ll present a vision for using tools effectively—one that puts the tester at the centre of testing work and the testing mission: finding problems that threaten the value of our products and our projects.
Michael Bolton
Speakers:
Jan GrapeAgile Coach at Crisp
Jan made his first commercial software over 35 years ago in Stockholm, Sweden, as a teenager. He has worked as a programmer, usability engineer, team lead, software architect, manager, CEO, chairman of the board, agile coach, and more throughout his career.
Today, Jan focuses on helping companies form successful product development organizations and awesome workplaces where individuals and teams can excel.
Jan’s clients include Skype, Audi, iZettle/PayPal, Tobii, Cisco, Ericsson, SimCorp, Teradata, and numerous small and medium-sized businesses and startup companies.
Diversity and richness of inputs have always guided Jan, taking on different roles and viewpoints, but above all, working with people that are different from himself to broaden his perspective and learn from those who think differently.
Michael Bolton
Michael Bolton is a consulting software tester and testing teacher who helps people to solve testing problems that they didn’t realize they could solve. In 2006, he became co-author (with James Bach) of Rapid Software Testing (RST), a methodology and mindset for testing software expertly and credibly in uncertain conditions and under extreme time pressure. Since then, he has flown over a million miles to teach RST in over 35 countries on six continents.
Michael has over 30 years of experience testing, developing, managing, and writing about software. For more than 20 years, he has led DevelopSense, a Toronto-based testing and development consultancy. Prior to that, he was with Quarterdeck Corporation for eight years, during which he managed the company’s flagship products and directed project and testing teams both in-house and around the world.
Jörgen DambergTest, Test Tools and AGile Testing SuperGURU at Zington
About Jörgen: Jörgen has been working in the QA field for 25 years. During this time he has worked with most types of testing in at least 40 organizations and 100 projects. He is a well-known speaker at conferences. He is the only receiver so far of the “Stora testpriset” award, for leveraging the testing community as a whole in Sweden.
Andy RedwoodSenior Agile Specialist
Andy is a senior testing practitioner managing global test teams to deliver pragmatic, strategic solutions. He works all over the world, currently for a large investment bank.
Andy also has a duty to integrate the corporate test strategy, aligning it with business objectives, strategic architecture, and life-cycle processes to deliver tangible benefits both onshore and offshore. He has lead teams that have saved over £30M in a year through removing diversity across departments and subsidiaries, inter-department process, commercial inefficiency and geographic or cultural differences, not just for testing activities, but for the greater corporate good.
Andy has a personal industry profile and is a regular public speaker at international conferences. He was Chair of the UK ISEB International standards Panel in 2003/4, the UK representative to the International Board in 2003. In 2004 he founded the ISEB UK Executive Committee at the request of the Chief Executive of the British Computer Society.
Andy was awarded the EuroSTAR Award for outstanding contribution to the Software Testing Industry in Europe, in December 2005, following a previous nomination in 2003.
Test Excellence award 2023
This price is awarded to a professional that has done exceptional things for the testing community in Sweden, the person has extended the boundaries for the profession.
The winner is selected by the Sigist Sweden Board.
