keynote session
About the Talk
In her insightful talk, Priyanka Halder, Vice President Quality Assurance, HealthEdge, addresses the pressing question: Is it possible to get 100% confidence while releasing multiple times a day? As hyper-growth companies push the boundaries of innovation, they face the challenge of maintaining high-quality standards amidst rapid development cycles. Priyanka delves into the strategies and modern automation techniques that enable her team to deliver quality at an unprecedented pace.
Priyanka shares her experiences dealing with complex issues such as CORS in testing environments and ensuring accessibility when a data center moves to EMEA, impacting applications initially designed for the USA. She explores how continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines are pivotal in automating repetitive tasks, reducing human error, and accelerating the release process. By implementing robust automated testing frameworks, her team can quickly identify and rectify issues before they reach production.
Additionally, Priyanka discusses the automation of analytics to ensure seamless and accurate data collection without manual intervention. She emphasizes the importance of distinguishing synthetic tests in production from actual transactions to avoid skewing financial records. Real-time monitoring and feedback loops provide critical insights into system performance and user experience, ensuring quality remains uncompromised despite high release velocity.
She also touches on the cultural aspects of quality engineering, advocating for a collaborative approach where developers, testers, and operations teams work in unison towards common goals. Through her talk, attendees will gain valuable knowledge on balancing speed with quality, ensuring even the most dynamic startups can achieve reliable, high-quality software releases multiple times a day.
With an extensive background spanning over 15 years in software quality assurance, Priyanka Halder is a certified leader deeply committed to steering large-scale quality engineering, automation, and compliance projects within global multi-billion-dollar organizations. Holding a Master of Science in Computer Science from California State University, Long Beach, along with a certificate in Mobile Application Development from UCLA, her academic prowess underpins her professional expertise.
Currently at the helm of HealthEdge's Quality Assurance team, Priyanka excels in founding, guiding, and cultivating teams across QA, platform, DevOps, and compliance sectors. This leadership is not only pivotal in launching teams from the ground up but also in consistently delivering superior products and services across diverse industries. She is a trusted advisor to various Series A and B companies within the quality engineering field. As a regular keynote speaker and panelist at industry conferences and webinars, she disseminates her knowledge and insights on topics such as quality engineering leadership, automation testing, and test planning. Her career goal is to continue evolving as a subject matter expert, embracing new technologies, and contributing to an innovative company that prioritizes quality and collaboration.
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