Track/s: Strategy
As technology continues to advance, we have seen a growing presence of tools in the industry that can be used to support testing. We are seeing tools introduced to the market that are related to test planning, test execution, test data creation, database compare tools, image compare tools, automation, performance, service virtualization, monitoring, reporting, and much more. With this rapid growth of products comes the need for organizations to rationalize the best tool for their needs.
Selecting a tool is an important decision, and there are many factors that should be taken into account when making that decision. The last thing your organization wants to do is select a popular tool, only to find that it doesn’t meet the specific needs of your company. Join us in this highly interactive roundtable as we encourage the group to share the tools they are using, the criteria used to select them, and most importantly their expert opinions based on their usage of the tools.
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Session Speaker:
Joseph Ours – National Quality Assurance and Testing Service Lead, Centric Consulting
With nearly two decades of career experience in Information Technology and Certified Project Management consulting, Columbus, Ohio-based Joseph Ours offers expertise as a leader in business processes with a successful record of providing project and portfolio management of large technology initiatives in multiple senior-level positions. He currently works with Centric Consulting, in the role of National Service Offering Lead for Software Testing & Quality Assurance Services. The strategy & technology company works with numerous Fortune 500 clients in strategy, technology and process, where Joseph commandeers its consulting efforts, including business development, practice management and client delivery. Joseph has served major clients such as Nationwide Insurance, Grange Insurance, State Auto Insurance, Motorists Mutual Group, BMW Financial Services, Kroger, Orange County Public Schools, LexisNexis, CareSource and Cardinal Health. He has also held roles at Bank One (now JP Morgan Chase), Cohesion, Davison Associates, Vitro Corp., and was an Electronic Warfare Technician with the United States Naval Service. He earned an MBA degree from Keller Business, and two Bachelor degrees: in Electronic Engineering Technology from World College, and in Technical Management from DeVry University. He is also PMP certified by the Project Management Institute. Within the community, Joseph is Chairman of the Columbus Advisory Council for Per Scholas, which aims to break the cycle of poverty by providing technology education, access, training and job placement services for people in underserved communities.
Speaker Details:
Joseph Ours – National Quality Assurance and Testing Service Lead, Centric Consulting
Dave Haeffner – @TourDeDave
Dave Haeffner is the writer of Elemental Selenium (elementalselenium.com) — a free, once weekly Selenium tip newsletter that’s read by thousands of testing professionals. He’s also the creator and maintainer of ChemistryKit (github.com/chemistrykit) (an open-source Selenium framework), and author of The Selenium Guidebook (seleniumguidebook.com). He’s helped numerous companies successfully implement automated acceptance testing; including The Motley Fool, ManTech International, Sittercity, and Animoto. He’s also a founder/co-organizer of the Selenium Hangout and has spoken at numerous conferences and meet-ups about automated acceptance testing.
Speaker Details:
Dave Haeffner – @TourDeDave
Twitter: @TourDeDave
Website: davehaeffner.com