Intro to QuickTest Professional

Boston, MA: September 23-25

This course focuses the fundamental concepts of test automation and how they are implemented using the features of QuickTest Professional. Learn more.

Advanced QuickTest Professional

Boston, MA: September 26-27

Through discussions and hands–on exercises, you will learn to create steps that work with dynamic objects and data, use VBScript conditional and looping statements to control the flow of your tests and components, and use Data Table methods and database connection objects to retrieve external data. Learn more.

Testing Mobile Applications

Boston, MA: September 23-24

This two-day course looks at the challenges of testing mobile applications and teaches how to establish viable mobile testing strategies, both manual and automated. Learn more.

Agile Test Strategies and Management

Boston, MA: September 25-26

This two-day course focuses on practical issues faced by increasing numbers of testers on how to integrate testing processes with iterative/incremental software engineering practices. Learn more.

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Intro to QuickTest Professional

Chicago, IL: August 19-21

This course focuses the fundamental concepts of test automation and how they are implemented using the features of QuickTest Professional. Learn more.

Advanced QuickTest Professional

Chicago, IL: August 22-23

Through discussions and hands–on exercises, you will learn to create steps that work with dynamic objects and data, use VBScript conditional and looping statements to control the flow of your tests and components, and use Data Table methods and database connection objects to retrieve external data. Learn more.

Essentials of Leadership in Software Testing

Chicago, IL: August 19-20

This two-day course offers solutions and techniques available to Test Leads and QA Managers in the challenges they face in managing Quality Assurance and Testing within their organizations. Learn more.

Boot Camp for Software Testing

Chicago, IL: August 21-22

This two-day, intermediate level course is designed for the professional who has test experience and is interested in improving their level of effectiveness and efficiency in testing techniques and test methodology. Learn more.

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QUEST continues online with our growing community of past, present, and future QUEST attendees! Each Thursday, presentation slides from a select QUEST 2013 session are posted online to generate discussion and help advance best practices in quality engineered software and testing.

This week’s featured presentation is “Leveraging Automation Beyond Regression Testing” by Thien-An Nguyen of Aetna. View and download the presentation slides now!

About the Presentation

In the year 2012, most businesses leverage automation in their IT departments to conduct regression testing. It is something that has evolved over the years and become a mature slice of the IT world. However, despite the power of automation, many still do not look to harness automation’s capabilities for other areas. Thien-An will show how they successfully implemented automation solutions in new arenas at Aetna.

For example, automation can be used to screen scrape from various applications generating a document in a few short minutes that would take significantly longer to create manually, saving customer service representatives significant time when speaking to customers. Inside the testing world, automation can be used to create a complete end-to-end test that goes through many systems ensuring they all interact together as expected. By using automation to eliminate mundane manual tasks, you will be able to show significant savings and Thien-An would like to show you how. Download Slides

About the Presenter

Currently serving as the QA Automation Team Lead, Thien-An Nguyen has 10 years of first-hand experience with automation in the testing industry. He has used many of the tools available from the days of Rational Robot through QuickTest Professional and most recently mobile automation tools such as Perfecto and the IVR tool Hammer CallMaster. Thien-An has a significant amount of experience and knowledge in the automation domain within both the traditional waterfall and more recent agile methodologies. Download Slides

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Fundamentals of Test Automation

Atlanta, GA: July 8-9

This two-day course looks at how and when to automate test cases and how test case automation optimally integrates with the various manual testing techniques. Learn more.

Metrics for Managing and Improving Testing

Atlanta, GA: July 8-9

This two-day course introduces and instructs Test Leads on the value of software test and QA measurement and how to use these tools to improve the overall quality of projects. Learn more.

Testing Mobile Applications

Atlanta, GA: July 10-11

This two-day course looks at the challenges of testing mobile applications and teaches how to establish viable mobile testing strategies, both manual and automated. Learn more.

Agile Test Strategies and Management

Atlanta, GA: July 10-11

This two-day course focuses on practical issues faced by increasing numbers of testers on how to integrate testing processes with iterative/incremental software engineering practices. Learn more.

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Location

Hennepin County Library – Ridgedale, 12601 Ridgedale Drive, Minnetonka, MN 55305

Abstract

This IT world is ever changing. If something were to happen to your job are you prepared? Come learn the trends in the market from a panel of QA Recruiters who will share where jobs are going, how to maximize your current employment, how to find a job if you need one, and the best practices in growing your career.

Speakers

Kirk Walton has been recruiting for Quality Assurance professionals (among many roles in IT and Management Consulting) for nearly ten years. Prior to recruiting, Kirk was an IT consultant at BORN, a national consulting firm headquartered in MN. His first recruiting position was at Shavlik Technologies, a Minnesota-based security software company, before moving into the IT consulting world in 2006. In his current role as Recruiting Director for tap|QA, Kirk’s specific focus is around matching quality assurance and software testing professionals to consulting opportunities in the Twin Cities. He has helped the company grow to over 70 employees since its inception in 2010. Kirk graduated from the University of St. Thomas in 1999 with degrees in Computer Science and Marketing.

Christian Pederson founded The Bulldog Companies, LLC in 2009 and serves as its CEO and CIO. He has established business applications using Cloud-based solutions as well as back-office operations and partnerships. He administers the Bulldog Alliance Partner Program with 120 members; providing strategic and tactical leadership in marketing, sales, and recruiting efforts. He manages CIO and technical leadership placement, Cloud solutions, and technical quality assurance, including products and software. With 17 years of experience working with people in Test and QA, he remains focused on their continued success. He has built and managed two successful Twin-Cities based test labs.

Lonnie Fluck, Vice President of Recruiting, joined Tech-Pro as a recruiter in December of 1997 after spending 12 years in sales and sales management roles. He attended Buena Vista University and received a BA degree with a double major in Business Management and Mass Communications. He has interviewed more than 2000 QA candidates in his career as his primary profile. He also specializes in Adobe LiveCycle consultants as well as IT personal all throughout the SDLC. He is a Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) and a Certified Internet Recruiter (CIR).

RSVP:

Find out more at www.tcqaa.org.

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Location:

Intuit Office, 21215 Burbank Blvd, Woodland Hills, CA 91367

Abstract

In the light of big data and new style of business decision paradigm, enormous amount of unstructured data is processed along with traditional structured data in near real time to generate actionable insights. In this talk, you will learn about Big Data, NoSQL vs SQL, Hadoop and how the old business decision process is different from new one. What tools and platforms can be used to generate the insights? Our insight is as good as THE sourced data and data in process.

What is quality of sourced data and data in process? Quality assurance process for Big data is today mostly ad-hoc process filled with scripts, proprietary and in-house setups. It is because source data could be tweets, Facebook updates or blog posts and every customer has unique need to process them for their business use. Over time, few tools and practices have evolved, thanks to open source revolution. We will review such tools and practices in place today to handle the quality management in general. As examples,we will cover Google Refine and Hadoop as a Service by Mortar Data.

Speaker

Sunil Sabat has 20+ years of hardware and software industry experience in a variety of roles – Intel circuit design automation, and delivering enterprise software solutions involving IBM, Oracle, Microsoft and Open Source technologies. He is currently a Director at NRIT Inc, which is a leading Business Intelligence solutions provider based in the US, Australia, Middle East and India. Sunil has worked in various sectors including product strategy, design, development, release, sales, support and marketing execution. He has extensive experience working with product, project and revenue life cycle management. He is known among his peers for having excellent partner and customer engagement skills, as well as having a customer-centric problem solving and solution delivery.

Sunil has earned MS (Computer Engineering) and MS (Computer Science) from University of Louisiana, in 1989 and 1990 respectively. Sunil also has an MBA ( Marketing and Finance) from Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University, California. Sunil is an IBM, Microsoft, SNIA and CompTIA (Linux+, Security+ and Network+) certified professional. He has presented papers at academic conferences like ISCAS 89, CompEuro 90 and Eclipse 2008. He has also presented at IBM and Intel conferences. Sunil has reviewed a very popular hardware design book on Verilog, in addition to being the co-author of an IBM Redbook published in 2009. Sunil is an active volunteer with organizations such as the Red Cross, Second Harvest Food and other community projects.

Register

Register now!
SCQAA and Intuit Employees: FREE
Non-members – $10 donation at the door
For further questions or to become a member of the Chapter, please email: sujit@scqaa.net.

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Location:

Northpark Town Center, 1000 Abernathy Road NE (Building 400), Atlanta, GA 30328
Attendees should park in Visitor Parking, check in with Security, and then take the elevator to the 3rd floor. The meeting is in the Northpark Conference Center, 3rd floor, Georgia conference room.

Schedule:

6:30 – 7:00 Networking and Refreshments
7:00 – 7:15 Welcome and Job Announcements
7:15 – 8:15 Presentation. The last 15 minutes are for Q&A
8:15 – 8:30 Networking

Program:

LinkedIn is the premier social network that every professional should belong to for career advancement and development. Founded in 2003, it has over 225 million members worldwide and it is the largest professional social network. The reasons why people use LinkedIn are for career advancement, business development, branding and for mentors/expertise.

This presentation is highly interactive and will be primarily aimed at intermediate and advanced levels. It will provide you with tips on strategy and the recent changes in the app that you can use to advance your business analysis brand.

In addition, you will also learn:

• New criteria for a 100% complete profile
• Professional Gallery
• Networking Strategy – should I connect with everyone that sends me an invitation to connect?
• Other Tips and Tricks

Meeting Costs:

Visitors are $10
AQAA Members, Sponsors, and Recruiters are FREE!

Learn more at www.aqaa.org.

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