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Your weekly QA Financial newsletter covering the latest topics in software quality management and assurance, and related issues such as resilience and innovation, software risk management, AI, testing and DevOps.

Any news? Please contact editor Michiel Willems via [email protected]

LATEST NEWS THIS WEEK

• Google Cloud ’s DORA lays bare QA’s love-hate relationship with AI
• Newgen Software wins Bank Midwest contract amid QA push into US
• UpSlide CEO claims banks are wasting millions on underutilised software
• ESG must include QA emissions, says Lloyds Banking Group ’s Richard Bishop
• Nationwide Building Society automates ‘everything but the coffee machine’
• Synechron pushes further into Europe with new Belgrade hub

WHAT THE INDUSTRY IS TALKING ABOUT

• Deals: OBL teams up with UK startup Ozone API
• People Moves: SmartBear signs up David Phillips in key role
• InsurTech: Leveraging AI for testing within the insurance industry
• QA: Reality check: where and how is AI impacting QA testing?

INDUSTRY VOICES

• Exclusive: why Nexus’ Amit Rawat embraces the chaos approach
• Applitools CTO Adam Carmi: ‘most test automation projects fail to scale’
• Testing delivers best ROI from AI, says Tricentis APAC exec Damien Wong
• Rise of AI does not mean human testers will be replaced, says Tal Barmeir
• Leapwork CTO: performance, accuracy and reliability headache for QA
• OutSystems CEO: ‘QA most widely adopted use case for AI in software’

REGISTER HERE FOR MORE NEWS, INTERVIEWS AND ANALYSES

NOVEMBER 6 IN SINGAPORE

REGISTRATION IS STILL OPEN FOR THE QA FINANCIAL AND E-COMMERCE FORUM SINGAPORE 2024

Test automation, data and software risk management in the era of AI

An invited audience of DevOps, testing and quality engineering leaders from financial firms will hear presentations from expert speakers on topics including:

• How automation technologies - and in particular GenAI - is being applied to software engineering and testing
• How firms are managing data for testing and engineering in multi-Cloud environments
• Vendor management, compliance and new standards of observability for the entire SDLC
• Accessibility testing: Legal requirements and business opportunities
• Performance testing for customer-facing apps

Delegate places are free for employees of banks, insurance companies, capital market firms and trading venues. MORE INFORMATION HERE.

READ: Ahead of the event, read our exclusive interview with key speaker Amit Rawat on why he embraces the chaos approach.

QA FINANCIAL FORUM LONDON: RECAP

Last month, on September 11, QA Financial held the London conference of the QA Financial Forum, a global series of conference?and networking meetings for software risk managers, including:

• LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)’s engineering chief Sudeep Chatterjee: ‘one team does it all’
• STOXX: building an engineering capability from scratch
• Chase: key to QA+ is culture where ‘developers do testing’

The agenda was designed to meet the needs of software testers working for banks and other financial firms working in regulated, complex markets.

Please check our special post-conference flipbook by clicking here.

GET IN TOUCH

If you’d like to talk to us about how we can help you generate new leads and contacts among technology decision-makers at financial firms around the world, then please contact us via: [email protected].