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340 Corporate Way, Suite   Orange Park, FL 32073 888‐2

W12 Concurrent4/9/2014   2:00 PM     

“Rapid and Intelligent Test Engineering” 

 

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Mathi Natarajan Cognizant  

A senior consulting manager at Cognizant Technology Solutions, Mathi Natarajan has broad experience in telecom, media, retail, CRM, BPM and business intelligence in a wide variety of technologies and testing techniques. Mathi leads the SAP Test Consulting services and is responsible for SAP SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud) Testing solutions for North American clients. He has pioneered innovative delivery models for complex SAP engagements and established independent SAP testing factories.

     

Sreeram Gopalakrishnan Cognizant  

A passionate and experienced QA professional with fifteen years of industry experience, Sreeram Gopalakrishnan is a senior QA manager at Cognizant Technology Solutions. Sreeram's forte is managing QA for large programs such as ERP, technology migrations, and system integrations. He is experienced in managing and strategizing automation and regression testing for large engagements. With an MBA in systems and holding PMP and CMST certifications, Sreeram has authored and presented papers at international conferences and in magazines.

Rapid & Intelligent Test Engineering

Testing Transformation for Application Support & Maintenance

Mathi Natarajan&

Sreeram Gopalakrishnan

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Agenda 

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§ CIO’s Freudian Dilemma

§ Industry Asks

§ Changing IT Landscape

§ RITE

§ Pattern Based Testing

§ Business Value Testing

§ KANBAN

§ Intelligent Automation

§ Managed Innovation

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CIO Dilemma

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§ Cost 

§ Quality

§ Speed

§ Risk

Today’s IT plans are more defined by boundaries rather than requirements

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Industry Asks 

6.4 Production releases

67% functionality Increase

55% Budget reductions

<6 Project Months

Teams get lesser time to develop, test and deploy

Increase in average annual releases

Organizations expect more functionalities in each release

Reduction in available IT budget

90% had problems with application stability and availability 

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Changing IT Landscape

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Agile Life Cycles

Technology Trends

Flexible Delivery Models

Integrated Tools

Data Analytics

There is a greater need for holistic strategies which can deliver robust results in the long term

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Shift RITE ‐ Rapid & Intelligent Test Engineering

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RITE - comprises of lean and fast delivery strategy, just in-time scheduling and QA Analytics resulting in greater value generation

KANBANJust In Time Scheduling

AGILITYInnovation & Automation

PBSTrend & Impact Analysis

BVTQuality &  Change Control

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PBS – Pattern Based Testing Strategy

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Analytical capability for identifying patterns to right size the test coverage

Impact analysis provides technical and functional coverage ensuring quality delivery

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Pattern Analysis

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Business Value Testing

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Understand Business Scenario

Develop defect prevention

Establish Quality &

Change Control Process

Socialise approach alignment

Maintain Quality Control

Leverage Poka-Yoke Techniques for Defect Prevention and Risk Control thus accelerating the business RoI

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KANBAN

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Just in Time Scheduling enabling flexible intake process as well as transparent tracking system

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AGILITY  ‐ Faster Go to Market

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Early Automation through Script-less tools and framework

Modularizing E2E business flows

Accelerating test execution through Service Virtualization

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Componentization of End to End business flows

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Automation – Virtualization of Services

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Managed Innovation through Gamification

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Targeting work activities to reward desired behaviour

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End Note

Quality

The Canvas of the Changing world needs a new palette to paint a new

picture“Rethink – Reinvent - Rewire”

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Quality

Q&A

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