“Fail fast and fail often” is a key tenet of DevOps. It places great emphasis on continuous testing to deliver software with confidence and ensure a positive user experience. As teams embrace the “shift left” methodology, they need to transform the traditional approach that relegates performance testing to later stages of the delivery process. By shifting the performance testing left and conducting it continuously, teams can quickly detect and gain insight into software performance degradations earlier in the lifecycle. Gajan Pathmanathan will discuss the transition a team needs to undergo...
Gajan Pathmanathan
Leader - Enterprise Quality Architecture
Quicken Loans
Gajan Pathmanathan is a quality evangelist, DevOps enthusiast, and engineering leader with fifteen years of experience in designing, developing, and testing software. He currently leads the Enterprise Quality Architecture team at Quicken Loans, where he is responsible for implementing solutions and strategies for continuous quality and quality-driven development across the enterprise. Before joining Quicken Loans, Gajan worked at Intel Security/McAfee as a lead engineer and led the team that was responsible for defining quality processes and test automation processes across the organization. Gajan holds a master’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and he is a certified SOA Architect and ScrumMaster. Gajan has given guest lectures at technical institutes and spoken regularly at technical conferences across Canada and the United States.