Name: The War on Bugs: Automating QA for scaling Mobile and Web Apps
Start: 2023-03-16T18:00:00+11:00
End: 2023-03-16T20:00:00+11:00
Location: Deputy Head Office

The most successful apps don't just have to be really great, they have to be really great in a countless number of different scenarios and perform optimally under sometimes extremely challenging conditions. This is where QA the unsung heroes of a product's success play their most crucial role.

The panel will share their experiences and perspectives in running a highly scalable QA operations in a "fireside chat" format hosted by David Jones followed by an AMA session.

### **Featured Speakers**

**James Morrissey**
[James Morrissey ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-morrissey-0826a155/)is a Senior Android Engineer on the Mobile Platform Team @ Deputy. He is across all aspects of the mobile platform, CI, and digs into backend as needed to solve performance bottlenecks. In the last year he has worked closely with QA Engineering to integrate various testing frameworks into our tech stack for evaluation.

He worked at Westfield & GoCatch and currently at Deputy for over 3 years where he has brought technical excellence and passion for the craft. When he’s not brewing craft beer at home, he’s developing his own reddit client for Android called [Mellow](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.morrissey.mellow).

**Sooyeon (Sue) Park**
[Sooyeon (Sue) Park](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sooyeon-park-b06b72162/). QA Automation Lead @ Contextual Sooyeon is an experienced QA engineer with over four years of expertise in specialized testing areas, including test automation and performance testing.

Since joining the Contextual team after completing her Master’s degree in Software Engineering, Sooyeon has been instrumental in improving the team’s quality engineering practices and fostering a harmonious work environment. Her dedication to her work and passion for delivering quality products have made her a valuable asset to the team.

Prior to transitioning into a career in software engineering, Sooyeon was a classical musician with a keen ear for sound quality.

**Rajdeep Mahawal**
[Rajdeep Mahawal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahawal-rajdeep-0919434/) is a Senior Quality Engineer @ SafetyCulture with more than 16 years of experience in Quality Assurance in Software Test.
Prior to SafetyCulture, Raj was at ING and has more than 7 years of experience working in fintechs and insurance domain. His abilities in Quality testing, includes establishment of the test environments, preparation of test strategy and test plan, creation of test scripts/cases, execution of Tests and tracking of defects using various tools.
He is a complete Test Automation Expert with excellent analytical and communication skills, innovative and experience in working with cross-functional teams, short to large sprints, agile & Lean Kanban based agile test practice with continuous integration.

**Daniel Ring**
[Daniel Ring](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dbr787/) is a Solution Architect @ Buildkite, where he speaks with developers and engineers from all kinds of teams and industries, helping them understand the features and capabilities of CI/CD platforms and get the most out of their pipelines and workflows.

With a background in DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Solution Architecture, Daniel has developed a keen interest and knack for automating complex tasks and enjoys working to improve the building, testing, and delivery of platforms and software.

**Moderator: David Jones**
[David Jones](https://www.linkedin.com/in/djinoz/) (Founder/CEO [Contextual](http://contextu.al/)) is a product-obsessed founder whose last company, ThreatMetrix, exited in March 2018 for over $1B. His previous company exited to Surfcontrol (now Forepoint). David is also Board member @ Fishburners, was a Founding Mentor/Investor at Startmate and co-convenor for the Sydney Mobile Apps and Android Australia User Group.

**About Contextual**
[Contextual](https://www.linkedin.com/company/contextual-pointzi/) delivers a codeless SaaS Onboarding solution for Mobile and Web applications – the team can often be found around Fishburners.

**FUTURE EVENTS**
If you are a QA expert and/or app developer and would like to be part of this or future panel discussions please contact charles@contextu.al.

In person places will be limited for this special event. So register now and secure your spot.

You can also join us online. Zoom details will be sent to you once you RSVP.

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