Conference at a Glance

Monday April 18 8:30 – 4:30 Full Day Classes	LEADERSHIP AGILE LEAN MOBILE AUTOMATION Test Leadership – Problem Solving Lynn McKee, Quality Perspectives Agile Estimation, Tom Cagley, DCG Software Value Trimming Down Your QA Effort While Maintaining Quality, Clyneice Chaney, MITRE Mobile Testing: Manual and Automated Michael Yudanin, Conflair Getting Started with Selenium Test Automation, Chris Lawson, Zenergy Technologies
Monday 8:30 – 4:30 Two Day Workshop	Manager’s Solutions Workshop
Monday 8:30 – 4:30 Two Day Class	CSTE Certification Prep, hosted by Morningstar
Monday 8:30 – 4:30 Two Day Class	CSQA Certification Prep, hosted by Morningstar
Monday 5:30 – 7:30	Manager’s Connection Dinner
Tuesday April 19 Morning 8:30 – 12:00 Half-Day Tutorials	LEADERSHIP PROCESS REQUIREMENTS MEASUREMENT AUTOMATION Leading Change When You’re Not in Charge, Jennifer Bonine, tap|QA Maintaining Testing Integrity Under Pressure, Carolyn Swadron, CIBC Making Requirements and User Stories Testable David DeWitt, NueVista Agile Metrics -It’s Not About Velocity, Philip Lew and Steve Gohres, XBOSoft The Development and Implementation of an Automation Framework, Dean Carvin, Checkpoint Technologies
Tuesday April 19 Afternoon 1:00 – 4:30 Half-Day Tutorials	LEADERSHIP PROCESS RISK MOBILE AUTOMATION What’s Your Leadership IQ? Jennifer Bonine, tap|QA Value Stream Mapping and Kaizen in Agile Retrospectives, Angela Dugan, Polaris Solutions, Chris Taylor, Polaris Solutions (Almost) Everything I know about testing I learned playing poker Matthew Eakin, Centric Consulting Usability Goes Mobile, Susan Brockley, ExxonMobil Introduction to ATDD using Ruby, Cucumber, Watir-WebDriver, Joseph Our, Centric Consulting
Tuesday 8:30 – 4:30 Two Day Workshop	Manager’s Solutions Workshop, Hosted by Tom Ticknor and Nancy Kastl, QUEST Conferences
Tuesday 8:30 – 4:30 Two Day Class	CSTE Certification Prep
Tuesday 8:30 – 4:30 Two Day Class	CSQA Certification Prep
Tuesday 4:30 – 6:00	Welcome Reception, Sponsored by QAI Global Institute
Wednesday April 20 7:30 to 8:15	Registration & Breakfast, sponsored by Accenture
Wednesday 8:15 – 8:30	Opening Remarks and Announcements: Nancy Kastl, QUEST Conference Chairperson
Wednesday 8:30 – 9:30	Keynote Presentation: Keeping Pace with Digital Transformation: Trends and Recommendations from the 2015-2016 World Quality Report, Matt Chessler, Capgemini
Wednesday 9:30 – 10:00	Morning Refreshment Break, sponsored by Microexcel
Wednesday 9:30 – 5:15	Exhibitor EXPO – Browse and learn from service and technology providers!
Wednesday 10:00 – 11:00	LEADERSHIP AGILE MOBILE RISK OPEN SOURCE Pursuing World Class Quality: Transforming Your Organization Clyneice Chaney, Quality Squared Simplicity: The Path to Achieving Agile Testing Efficiency Paul Herzog, SPR Consulting Mobile App Testing: What and How to Test? Nikhil Kaul, SmartBear Software The Tester’s Story: Painting the Picture of Risk Shaun Bradshaw, Zenergy Technologies Leveraging Free, Open Source, and Low-Cost Tools for Back End Testing Elysia Lock, Emmi
Wednesday 11:15 – 12:15	LEADERSHIP AGILE MOBILE RISK OPEN SOURCE What Time is It Over There? Maximizing the Effectiveness of Your Global QA Team Elizabeth Wisdom, Ulta Beauty Budgeting, Estimation, Planning, #NoEstimates and the Agile Planning Onion Tom Cagley, David Consulting Group Faster and Better Mobile Testing in the Cloud Jamie Moore, Mobile Labs Risk Based Testing at the Enterprise Level Bernd Bornhausen, Banque Nationale du Canada How to Tackle Open Source Test Automation in Incredible Ways Harpreat Singh and Piyush Sachar, Microexcel
Wednesday 12:15 – 1:30	Special Interests Roundtables and Lunch
Wednesday Workshops 1:30 – 3:00	LEADERSHIP AGILE MOBILE PLAN/DESIGN OPEN SOURCE ZAP, You’re QA Team Leader! How to Build a High Performance Team Rebecca Staton-Reinstein, Advantage Leadership Deconstruction SAFe – the Scaled Agile Framework in a Nutshell Angela Dugan, Polaris Solutions Mobile Testing: To Automate or Not to Automate? David Dang, Zenergy Technologies Making the Case for Collaborative Test Case Development Todd Peak, Seapine Software, Mike Lipps, Seapine Software Getting Started with Jmeter! Daniel Schiff, edo Interactive
Wednesday 3:00 – 3:30	Afternoon Refreshment Break, sponsored by Zeenyx Software, Inc.
Wednesday 3:30 – 4:30	LEADERSHIP AGILE MOBILE PLAN/DESIGN OPEN SOURCE Culture of Quality: Integrating QA in the SDLC Helene Simmons, Lincoln Financial Group Jackie Wilson, Lincoln Financial Group Using BDD and Specifications by Example in Increase Software Value, Diane Walker and Nick Hussey, Equifax Mobile Test Automation and the Need for Continuous Quality Eran Kinsbruner, Perfecto Mobile The Testing Pyramid: It’s Not about Testing Gary Pedretti, Sodoto Solutions Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) with SpecFlow Chris Taylor, Polaris Solutions
Wednesday 5:30 – 9:00	Attendee Appreciation Night in Chicago, sponsored by tap|QA
Thursday April 21 7:30 to 8:15	Registration & Breakfast
Thursday 7:45 – 8:15	Early Bird Session: Successful Networking: Making the Right Connection, Charlene Wooley, Equifax
Thursday 8:15 – 8:30	Announcements: Nancy Kastl, QUEST Conference Chairperson
Thursday 8:30 – 9:30	Keynote Presentation: Agility and Reliability Need Not Be Mutually Exclusive, John Chang, CAST North America
Thursday 9:30 – 10:00	Morning Refreshment Break, sponsored by Mobile Labs
Thursday 9:30 – 6:30	Exhibitor EXPO – Browse and learn from service and technology providers!
Thursday 10:00 – 11:00	LEADERSHIP MEASUREMENT AUTOMATION PERFORMANCE EXPLORATORY TESTING The Art of Testing Transformation: Blending Technology with Cutting-Edge Processes Jennifer Bonine, tap|QA Metrics: The Force Awakens Joseph Ours, Centric Consulting How to make Test Automation SMARTER Jim Trentadue, Original Software Load It UP: Effectively Combining Functional and Performance Testing Chris Lawson, Zenergy Technologies Agilify Your Manual Testing Through an Exploratory Approach Ryan Yackel, QASymphony
Thursday 11:15 – 12:15	LEADERSHIP MEASUREMENT AUTOMATION PERFORMANCE PROCESS Business Case for Software Testing and QA Operations Bernd Haber, Accenture Creating Useful Metrics to Provide Quality Software, Helene Astier, Cars.com Don’t Be Another Statistic! Develop a Strategy for Long-Term Test Automation Success Lee Barnes, Utopia Solutions How to Fit Performance Testing into Agile Dev Cycles Steve Weisfeldt, Neotys Tips For Maintaining Testing Integrity Carolyn Swadron, CIBC
Thursday 12:15 – 1:30	Special Interests Roundtables and Lunch, sponsored by Neotys
Thursday Workshops 1:30 – 3:00	LEADERSHIP DEV/OPS AUTOMATION SECURITY PROCESS Enhancing Your Leadership Skills to Become an Effective Test Manager Michael W Ennis, TEKsystems 10 Steps to Continuous Integration, Testing and Delivery Tanya Kravtsov, ROKITT Applying Design Patterns to Automated Testing Brian Le Suer, Zeenyx Software Real World Security Testing, Matt Konda, Jemurai The Red Bead Experiment Mike Kaufman, EMC
Thursday 3:00 – 3:30	Afternoon Refreshment Break, sponsored by DCG Software Value
Thursday 3:30 – 4:30	LEADERSHIP DEV/OPS AUTOMATION SECURITY DELIVERABLES Polyskilling Testers: Good, Bad or Ugly? Matthew Eakin, Centric Consulting DevOps: A Testers Best Friend Thomas Janik and ken Robertson, American Family Insurance Keyword Driven Testing with Selenium: The Good, the Bad and the Use Case Brian Van Stone, QualiTest Group Security Testing Scripts for the Non-Hacker: Straight from the Security Pro’s Handbook! Glenn Stout, HALOCK Security Labs Testing Deliverables: Define, Align, Document and Approve Clareice Chaney, MITRE and Clyneice Chaney, Quality Squared
Thursday 4:30 – 6:30	EXPO Reception
Friday April 22 7:30 to 8:15	Registration & Breakfast
Friday 7:30 – 8:15	Early Bird Session: Take Leadership by the Marshmallow! Mike Kaufman, EMC
Friday 8:15 – 8:30	Announcements: Nancy Kastl, QUEST Conference Chairperson
Friday 8:30 – 9:30	Keynote Presentation: Shift Left and Steer Right, Joe Colavito, Corevu
Friday 9:30 – 10:00	Morning Refreshment Break , sponsored by CompuGain Solutions
Friday 10:00 – 11:00	LEADERSHIP TEST DATA TEST STRATEGY REGRESSION CERTIFICATION Leading Indicators of Quality: Driving the Conversation & Managing Risk Dana Dietz, Nationwide 5 Critical Elements for a Successful Test Data Management Program Robert Kelman, AT&T Isn’t an Enterprise Test Strategy just for an Enterprise Project Release? Susan Schanta, Cognizant Technology Solutions Regression Test Management Using a User Interface – CARTTS Tool Manikandan Rajappa, GSI Health CSTE/CSQA Practice Certification Exam
Friday 11:15 – 12:15	LEADERSHIP TEST DATA CONTINUOUS TESTING CLOUD CERTIFICATION Efficiency and Effectiveness: When Process and Pressure Collide Frank Rios and Rich Valde Data, Data Everywhere! Understand Your Data & Maximize Test Coverage Jessica Paddock, Orasi Software Building ‘Quality Software’ with Continuous Integration & Continuous Testing Ashish Nirgudkar,Cognizant Technology Solutions The Cloud’s Impact on Testing Tom Chavez, SOASTA CSTE/CSQA Practice Certification Exam
Friday 12:15 – 1:30	Lunch
Friday 1:30 – 2:30	Panel Discussion: Achieving Cross Roles Collaboration to Build Quality Software TCOE Nancy Kastl, Chicago Quality Assurance Association David DeWitt, IIBA Chicagoland Chapter Michael Marchi, APLN Chicago Mark Blodgett, PMI Chicagoland Christopher Jones, IEEE Chicago Section Harmonizing Business and Technology Needs Using Next Generation Testing, Kimberly Tatum
Friday Roundtable Discussions 2:30 – 3:00	ALM Collaboration ALM Collaboration ALM Collaboration ALM Collaboration Shift Left through Tester – Project Manager Collaboration Mark Blodgett, PMI Chicagoland Shift Left through Tester – Business Analyst Collaboration David DeWitt, IIBA Chicagoland Chapter Shift Left through Tester – Developer Collaboration Christopher Jones, IEEE Shift Left through Tester – Scrum Master Collaboration Michael Marchi, Agile Professional Learning Network-Chicago