Tuesday 28th June 2016
Presented by
Level39, Canary Wharf qa-financial.com
AGENDA 8:00 – 9:00
Registration and Reception
9:00 – 9:10
Welcome introduction Matthew Crabbe: Editor and Founder, QA Financial
9:10 – 9:40
“The Emerging Chief Quality Officer: Why UBS Centralised App Development and Quality Assurance” Nevin Thomson: Head of QA & Testing — Legal, Compliance and Operational Risk IT, HR IT, UBS
Learn how UBS set out to centralise app delivery across the firm world-wide, and combined its quality assurance teams across investment banking, wealth management and asset management divisions in order to share expertise and test environments.
9:40 – 10:15
Panel — “Building Compliance into Software Quality Assurance”
• Paul Bentz: Director of Government and Industry Programs, Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) • Nick Idelson: Technical Director, TraderServe Limited • Chris Wilkins: Test Manager, Tyler Capital Get a global overview of new regulation affecting IT risk management, including new directives, MiFID updates and how this regulation affects you.
10:15 – 10:45
“The Future of Technology in Testing: Impacts and Opportunities” Shalini Chaudhari: EALA Testing Services Lead, Accenture
There are several key technology trends that will dramatically disrupt large enterprises in the next three to five years. This presentation analyses these trends from a Testing perspective, considering impacts and opportunities that they present for testing professionals and quality engineers and how to ensure solutions work as expected. The five trends in discussion are Intelligent Automation, Liquid Workforces, the Platform Economy, Predictable Disruption and Digital Trust.
10:45 – 11:15
Coffee Break and Networking Opportunity
11:15 – 11:45
“Inside the Credit Suisse Automation Factory” Christian Räss: Director, Global Head of Specialised Testing, Credit Suisse
Hear how Credit Suisse created a single assembly line for automation across the firm; centralising resources and skill-sets for engineering and testing across construction, mobile, data and UI. Learn how Credit Suisse created an entirely new, and self-funding, system for sharing expertise and growing its capacity for quality assurance engineering.
11:45 – 12:15
“Cloud Sandboxing for Financial Services” Maya Ber: Vice President, Product Management, Quali
Financial Services applications are becoming complex and sophisticated – embracing technologies like mobile, IoT, SDN, containers, and microservices, while supporting core services that are based on legacy and on-prem specialised systems. This poses a challenges to Financial Services organisations wishing to provide high end, secure, reliable services to their customers. As a result, financial organisations are looking into embracing DevOps, to accelerate Application Launch and reliability. This presentation discusses these challenges, and introduces the concept of Cloud Sandboxing as an enabler for DevOps processes.
12:15 – 12:45
“Agile for Continuous App Delivery” Stefan Simenon: Head of Operational Vendor Control, ABN Amro
Hear how ABN Amro has employed Agile frameworks for continuous delivery of apps across its businesses. Stefan will explain how the move to Agile and continuous delivery has affected decisions about software quality, tooling and ABN Amro’s framework for vendor risk management.
12:45 – 13:35
Lunch
AGENDA 13:35 – 14:05
Panel — “Delivering a 5 star mobile banking experience”
14:05 – 14:35
Panel — “Integration Testing for the Modern Bank: The Role of Test Service Virtualization”
• George Mackintosh: Chief Executive Officer, TestPlant • Paul Gerrard: Principal, Gerrard Consulting • Plus panelists from leading banks Digital is the channel of choice for most consumers. 65% of UK people do all their banking online, 40% do the majority of their banking on mobile, and these numbers are increasing. The success of services such as Barclay’s Pingit is stretching the boundaries of digital banking and setting a benchmark for innovation speed. This panel discusses what major and challenger banks are doing to ensure they deliver a 5 star mobile experience to their users.
• Ani Gopinath: COO and Head of Delivery, Testhouse • Glyn Rhodes: Head of Product Management for Rational, IBM Cloud • Plus panelists from leading banks Integration testing at financial firms is undergoing a revolution, enabled by test service virtualization. The panel will discuss the challenges of integrating testing faced by banks, e.g. when they merge systems or deploy new software. You will learn how quality, time-tomarket and cost effectiveness can all be improved using the latest in test virtualization.
14:35 – 15:05
“Let it Flow: Testing Bank-to-Bank Messaging Formats, and the Impact of Large Scale Industry and Regulatory Initiatives” Marc Delbaere: Head of MyStandards, SWIFT
This session will focus on two themes: testing within the bank (especially in the context of regulatory compliance) and testing for systems integration with external partners. Among the specific tests covered will be ISO 20022 and Target 2 for securities. Learn about testing services and the value of third party vendors in the critical messaging space.
15:05 – 15:25
Coffee Break and Networking Opportunity
15:25 – 15:55
“Quality Assurance for Distributed Ledgers and Smart Contracts” Ross Nicoll: Senior Developer, R3 CEV
The presentation will start with a basic technical overview of distributed ledgers and smart contracts and an introduction to what R3CEV has been testing, and what it has been testing for. This session will cover testing methodologies; code review, unit tests, and distributed tests using cloud services. Also: checklists, component libraries and fuzzing.
15:55 – 16:25
“Imandra: Formal Verification for Financial Algorithms” Grant Passmore and Denis Ignatovich: Co-founders and Co-CEOs, Aesthetic Integration
Formal verification was first developed in the micro-chip industry as a means of mathematically modelling the risk of defects. Our presenters explains how formal verification can be applied to complex financial markets, such as dark pool trading venues, and in particular used to model the risk of regulatory non-compliance.
16:25 – 16:55
Panel — “Penetration Testing and Threat Intelligence: Latest Standards”
16:55 – 17:30
“The Next Cycle of Vendor Risk: the Changing Dynamics of the Marketplace for Outsourced QA and Testing Services” Nick Mayes: Director & Principal Analyst, PAC
17:30 – 18:30
Cocktail Reception
• Rowland Johnson: Executive Director, CREST • Stephen Massey: Chief Information Security Officer, Kleinwort Benson This panel will look at the move towards industry standards for testing (e.g. CBEST) and the increasing emphasis on threat intelligence. Responses to recent threats will be analysed, including the DDoS attacks and the Bank of Bankgladesh theft. Finally, we will discuss the pros and cons of building in-house solutions versus out-sourcing.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Nevin Thomson UBS
Head of QA & Testing: Legal, Compliance and Operational Risk IT, HR IT
Christian Räss Credit Suisse
Director, Global Head of Specialised Testing
Shalini Chaudhari Accenture EALA Testing Services Lead
Maya Ber Quali
Vice President, Product Management
Nevin is part of the Global QA and Test organisation management committee in UBS. Her role is to deliver effective, efficient QA and Testing services to IT and Business partners through co-designing testing solutions that drive the desired level of quality and stability for UBS applications. Nevin is a natural leader, self-driven, passionate about quality, and her objective is to be recognised as a global leader who is leading by example. Christian has 18 years of experience in the software industry as developer, consultant and line manager. Software quality and efficiency have always been integral to his career; 2005 to 2013 he specialised in Performance Engineering and is renowned in the community as a thought leader. He now heads a global team providing Performance Testing, Test Automation, Tools & Frameworks as well as Data Anonymisation at Enterprise Scale. Shalini has been a leader in Accenture’s global Testing practice for over a decade. Previously she was at India Testing Lead responsible for building capabilities, innovating new offerings and architecting testing solutions for global clients. She has worked in professional services for 18 years, playing varied roles in test consulting and large scale delivery to ensure quality across software engineering lifecycle and stability for applications in production. Prior to her current role, Maya served in a variety of key management roles including systems engineering and sales. In her sales management roles, Maya was VP of International Sales, Director of Channel Development as well as Director of AsiaPacific Sales. Prior to QualiSystems, Maya held technical roles at Amdocs. She holds a Bachelor’s degree with honors in Biomedical engineering from Tel Aviv University.
Grant Passmore and Denis Ignatovich Aesthetic Integration
Co-founders and Co-CEOs
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Denis has over a decade of experience in trading, risk management, quantitative modeling and complex trading system design. Previously he was head of the central risk trading desk at Deutsche Bank. He holds an MSc in Finance. Grant has over ten years’ industrial formal verification experience. He has been a key contributor to safety verification of algorithms at Cambridge, Carnegie Mellon, Edinburgh, Microsoft Research and SRI. He holds a PhD.
Stefan Simenon ABN AMRO
Head of Operational Vendor Control
Marc Delbaere SWIFT Head of MyStandards
Stefan has 19 years’ experience in IT at ABN AMRO. He started as a programmer, and grew to a tester, designer and project manager. He has international experience in both project development and infra-maintenance organisation, as well as vendor management experience. Stefan is currently responsible for Tooling, Software Quality and Continuous integration Continuous Delivery. Marc initiated and grew MyStandards into the central financial services platform for standards management and customer onboarding. Marc joined SWIFT in 2008, as the Head of Standards Strategy and Architecture. Prior to joining SWIFT, he held various positions at IBM, including Head of Architecture and Product Manager for IBM industry Models. He also gained experience as a Trader at JP Morgan and worked as a consultant in Actuarial sciences.
Senior Developer
Ross Nicollhas recently joined R3 CEV as a developer working on the Corda distributed ledger platform, and comes from background as a distributed systems researcher with the University of St Andrews. He has extensive experience writing and testing blockchain applications as one of the main developers for Dogecoin Core, as well as being a contributor to Bitcoin Core and a number of other open source blockchain applications.
Nick Mayes PAC
Nick Mayes is responsible for PAC’s research on the UK IT services market, and is also one of the lead analysts in PAC’s global coverage of areas including application management, business process outsourcing and IT outsourcing. Nick also leads many consultancy engagements in addition to managing PAC’s Deal Tracker service.
Ross Nicoll R3 CEV
Director & Principal Analyst