Thomas Vaniotis

Liquidnet

Thomas Vaniotis is a product manager for production support at institutional brokerage Liquidnet in New York City. He delivers quality tools for the product support team based on nearly a decade of experience in financial software as a tester, developer, and product lead. His career expertise includes customer-driven business analysis, exploratory testing, automated test design and modeling, performance testing, UI design and testing, and Scrum implementation. With a wide exposure to the workings of equities trading technology and an academic background in music and philosophy, Thomas has a unique liberal arts perspective on testing, software, and finance. His research interests include test communication, bridging the gap between test and production, and applying analytical epistemology to testing. Thomas blogs at epistemic-applications.com and tweets @tvaniotis.

Speaker Presentations

Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 12:45pm

Test Management

Snappy Visualizations for Test Communications

Do you struggle to find the best way to explain your testing status and coverage to your stakeholders? Do numbers and metrics make your stakeholders’ eyes glaze over, or, even worse, do you feel dirty giving metrics that you know are going to be abused? Do you have challenges explaining your strategy to fellow testers and developers? Visualizations are a great way to turn raw data into powerful communications. Thomas Vaniotis presents eleven powerful visual tools that can be created easily with simple materials around the office—sticky notes, graph paper, markers, and whiteboards.