The meetup will be hosted in our office, so you will be able to learn more about our team and enjoy our friendly atmosphere. Come with friends and colleagues, everyone is welcome!

AGENDA:

19:00 – 19:30 Registration

19:30 – 20:00 “QAs and DevOps: Magic Happens?” - Dimo Mitev, QA Architect at Progress Software

About the talk:

• Join us to learn more about the magic between QA and DevOps. How can we improve our release process, boost the quality, and reduce the manual steps for delivering software? This can be easily achieved following the best practices that will be revealed during the presentation.

Speaker bio:

• Dimo Mitev is a professional with more than 17 years of experience behind his back in the IT industry. He has worked in many local and international companies, such as Quality House Ltd, InterComponentWare AG, Progress Software, and others. The roles he has occupied include Test Consultant, QA Engineer, QA Lead, and Team Lead.
• While being actively engaged in the software testing process, which is a part of the Software Development Lifecycle he has gained significant experience in different software testing types, including but not limited to functional, web service, performance, security, and automation testing. For the past few years he has been working for Progress Software and his current position in the company is a QA Architect..

20:00 – 20:30 “Switchboard: QAOps Swiss Knife in Action!” - Dmitry Gorbunov, Deputy Head of QA at Devexperts

About the talk:

• While being tested with a sophisticated set of advanced tools, modern trading systems often introduce complex test management problems: intricate test scope tuning, query optimization and management execution, test data cross-synchronization, etc. We’re unifying the solution scope for these challenge types by introducing Switchboard – an all-in-one test integration tool. Join us to find out what's inside and how to apply it!

Speaker bio:

• Dmitry works for Devexperts as Deputy Head of QA and QA Automation Lead. During his 12+ years in QA and 8+ years in a leadership role, he has mainly focused on FinTech projects for big American brokers. Dmitry has shared his experience in several speeches at conferences and meetups. In his spare time, he writes electronic music.

20:30 – 22:00 Afterparty: networking, drinks, and music

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