The Catastrophic change and disruption in IT are imposing quality challenges, testing organisations need to be equipped for this massive change in a pragmatic and robust test strategy.

1. Name of the Speaker : Deepak Daniel
Place: Auckland
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DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION TESTING!

2. Content
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Conventional Test Manager/Test Management
Agile Organisation structure
DevOps Organisation structure
Who will do Test Management
Enriching the Test Role
Alternative roles
Key Takeaways

3. DIGITAL IS
DISRUPTIVE.
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4. Complexity | Disruption | Speed of Change
Sustainability Environment TalentCrisis
Economics Competition TechnologyRegulation
CustomersGlobalization
Digital
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IT IS ONE DISRUPTOR IN A SEA OF DISRUPTORS

5. Artificial Intelligence Genomics
Connected Home Internet of Things
Crypto-Currencies
Robotics3D Printing
Drones
Mobile Payments
Oculus RiftWearables
Electric and Connected Cars
Super Disruptors New Exponentials
Mobile
Analytics
Social
Cloud
Web
Content
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THE SUPER DISRUPTORS ENABLING THE DIGITAL ERA
Design Thinking

6. DISRUPTION TRIGGERED CHALLENGES
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Digital
Customer
Experience
Speed of
Delivery
Security and
Compliance
Organisational
Change
Seamless
Integration
Skills and
Investment to
get Digital

7. QUALITY ASSURANCE IN DIGITAL ERA
Application Testing Lifecycle Assurance
Functionality, Performance
and Security
Customer Experience and
Brand Reputation
Performance Metrics Predictive and Intelligent
Test Automation
by Choice
Early and continuous automation
across the Lifecycle
Waterfall and Manual Testing Agile and Automation
Flow based Scenarios Persona based scenarios
Quality Assurance Specialist Digital Assurance Specialist
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TraditionalERA
DigitalERA

8. DIGITAL IMPACT
ON
TESTING.
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Quality journey
Organisations
Domain and
complexity
Challenges
Growth in testing
Opportunities
Increase tool
reliance
Environment
Constant upskill
Capability
Digital Impact

10. OPPORTUNITIES
Digital transformation has lead to strong
recognition of QA and Testing
Due to the need for faster time-to-market and the
creation of new digital programs and mobile
initiatives, agile testing has grown in maturity
Growth and transformation from Test Centre of
Excellence to Digital Test Centre of Excellence
Research and many studies have indicated that
current QA and testing spend is 35% of IT Budget
and is expected to reach 40-50% by 2020
Test continuously to avoid sequencing all testing
activities at the end (Agile not waterfall)
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11. CAPABILITY
“If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got” – Albert Einstein
Use and understand Technology
Technical Engineering skills to work on Smart Devices
Understanding of Security testing
Cloud, Infrastructure and Social understanding and
working
Behaviour driven and persona experience testing (Domain
knowledge)
Mobile Test Specialists
(Platforms/ Tools/ Simulators/ Risks)
Automation (tools and scripting) is must have skill
Agile is order of the day
Digital Testing Soft skills
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12. EMPLOYEE CHARACTERISTICS
Curiosity
Clarity
Passion
Self-motivation
Self-editing
Versatility
Quick on the uptake
Knows when to ask for help
Has perspective
Think logically
Influences with emotion
Not a desk jockey
Is imaginative
Has a sense of humour
Knows when to skip the rules
Understands the business world
Anticipates reader questions and
concerns
Tells stories
Listens
Quick Learner
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13. ENVIRONMENT
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Lifecycle Automation tools
(Requirements/ Design/ Build/ Smoketest/ Regression/ Deploy)
Performance test tools (Application and environment)
Integration tools/Virtualisation Tools/Network Virtualisation tools
Functional testing, Test Management, Test automation, Defect management and
Execution tools
Right partnerships (Specific Service providers)
On-Demand Test Environments/ Simulated environments/ Emulators/ Simulators
DATA/ DATA/ DATA

14. ORGANISATIONS
Organisational Quality Journey
Test Leadership and Test Sponsor
Infrastructure investment for environments, tools and training
budgets
Automation strategy: Across the project lifecycle
Flexibility: Operations and Attitude
Adopt new ways of working (Social Media and Networking are
tools)
Transform the traditional Test Centre of Excellence (TCOE) to
DTCOE
Testing and quality is each phase of delivery lifecycle
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15. Test integration of services across local platforms, private and public clouds
Testing of end-to-end workflows, and the orchestration of data and services
Consistency of solutions across multiple channel interfaces (mobile, social and
traditional systems)
Support faster software delivery, not become bottleneck
Manually testing is costly and time consuming
Large testing project with high complexity, requires a methodical approach
Domain Expertise across the scope of testing
Test Data, Environment and Customer Behaviour
CHALLENGES
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16. DIGITAL TEST
ORGANISATION.
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17. GOAL
Smarter Testing:
Define the Vision for Testing
Define the Strategy needed to achieve the vision
Identify how roles and or personas will interact.
Assess the acceptable level of risk involved.
Build with a test early and often attitude
Process to enhance speed
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18. DIGITAL TEST STRATEGY
Domain Involvement
Multi Device and
Multi Platform
Integration and Data
Emotion and
Behaviour
Understand
Customer Intent
Automation &
Performance
Security
On Demand
Resource Planning
Common Tools and
Std. Documents
Lessons Learnt
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19. ACTIONS
Apprise Sponsor (Business) all the time
Be transparent to the organisation
Develop a Test Plan and align to the change
Create and Stick to a testing standard.
Establish an environment and take control of your testing future
Test ROI for each project/programme
Test Innovation roadmap
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20. CORE DISCIPLINES FOR TEST ORGANISATION
Strategy and leadership
Budgets and ROI
Capabilities and organisation
Products and platforms
Strategy &
leadership
Capabilities &
organisation
Products &
platforms
Budgets &
ROI
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21. KEY
TAKEAWAYS.
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22. KEY TAKEAWAYS
Customer experience and digital assurance are
testing focal points
Business to drive the testing (verifying code to
verifying customer experience)
Continuous and security testing are key in test
strategy
Digital without automation does not exist
Predictive analytics and continuous feedback drives
the priority
Agile, data, domain and agility key for test success
On demand resourcing, specialist outsourcing,
continued upskilling are order of the day
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24. THANK
YOU
Speaker Name: Deepak Daniel
Organised by
UNICOM Trainings & Seminars Pvt. Ltd.
contact@unicomlearning.com
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