Regular Conference Session
Developing an Automated Testing Process
Raj Rao - Keane
Session Abstract:
Automated testing has always been the proposed answer to lower testing costs, while improving the speed, breadth and depth of testing. Many organizations have developed automated testing solutions with varying success. Most discover that automation is expensive, takes time to implement and require the right people with the right skills to develop and maintain it. In this presentation, you will learn about the software automation maturity model and how to create a roadmap for your organization to achieve higher quality automation. Additionally, you will see demos on open source automation test tools that can be quickly leveraged in your organization, and learn about meta data automation - a framework that creates automation in an automatic way. Finally, you will learn how to construct your quality automation strategy to more efficiently drive your software quality value chain processes.
Speaker BIO - Mr. Raj Rao
Raj Rao is Global head of Software Quality Engineering at Keane, responsible for driving Keane quality initiatives and solution support activities. In this role Raj has created new comprehensive quality frameworks for enterprises such as: Quality 360, Automation 360, well recognized open source framework such as Open2Test. These quality solutions are unique and innovative in the industry and have attracted significant customer interest and adoption globally. Raj has 20+ years of experience in the software and communications industries. Raj has worked at SAP, PeopleSoft and Oracle building successful new products. While at SAP Raj created testing solution (TAO) – to accelerate and optimize SAP application testing based on meta-data learning. This solution is widely adopted by SAP customers.
Raj was also responsible for developing Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) product suite at SAP. Prior to SAP, Raj was at PeopleSoft, as a VP in the Human Capital Management product group.
At PeopleSoft, Raj was part of the management team that successfully transformed aging HRMS products to Human Capital Management (HCM) suite. During his time new product suites Enterprise Learning, Enterprise Compensation and Enterprise Talent management were successfully launched. Raj also worked at Oracle where he was part of communications industry vertical, responsible for creating niche products for communications industry. Raj successfully introduced Service Delivery platform – a product for communications carriers to aggregate and provision various offerings across heterogeneous network.
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