6th December 2023
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM MST
Too often, testers are portrayed as people who “prove developers wrong,” while quality is seen as someone else’s responsibility. Christina Thalayasingam challenges this mindset, emphasizing that quality and empathy are shared responsibilities across the entire engineering team.
Drawing from her experience managing an engineering team for Northwestern Mutual’s client website, Christina will share how her team integrates functional and non-functional testing, alongside strong user empathy, to ensure products are not just “done” but genuinely useful and user-friendly.
Attendees will learn how embedding these values into team culture improves both processes and product outcomes, fostering collaboration, continuous improvement, and customer-centric development.
Christina Thalayasingam is an experienced engineering people manager with over 10 years in the industry. She is the Assistant Director of Engineering Transformation Strategy and Operations, focusing on process standardization, tooling, and overall engineering quality output.
With a background spanning development, automation testing, project management, and DevOps, Christina has worked with UK consulting firms, government clients, Sysco, and Dassault Systèmes® in clinical trials, and currently manages an engineering team at Northwestern Mutual.
In this session, we will explore different software testing practices that can be applied in production, such as synthetic testing, covering its concepts, benefits, risks, and strategies. We will discuss how these approaches can enhance software quality by detecting failures in a real environment while also addressing challenges like user impact and security.
Additionally, we will present a real case study on applying automated tests to validate platform health in production, covering the challenges faced, strategies adopted, and the results achieved.
• Real-world case study on implementing automated tests for platform health validation
André de Oliveira is a QA Automation Lead specialized in software engineering and test automation. With over 15 years of experience, he has led technology projects across multiple platforms in the fintech sector. Throughout his career, he has managed QA and development teams, driving quality strategies, continuous testing initiatives, and DevOps adoption at companies like Devexperts and Itaú Unibanco. He holds CTFL, CBTS, and AWS Certified Developer certifications.
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