STARCANADA 2016 - Sponsors & Exhibitors

Platinum Sponsors

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that is among the Top 10 largest IT Services Providers, both globally and in Canada. Building on more than 40 years experience, TCS has over 353,000 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 46 countries and generated consolidated revenues of $16.5 billion USD for fiscal year ended March 2016. In Canada, TCS has been present for 25 years and today serves over one hundred large Canadian enterprises from coast-to-coast. In 2016, TCS was ranked at the top of the pack in two IDC MarketScape reports which profile the Canadian Enterprise Application Testing, and Mobile Application Testing markets. Visit us at tcs.com

Gold Sponsors

CA Technologies is a leader in Continuous Delivery solutions, helping organizations to become lean and agile. Our tools help organizations speed software development and increase quality by continuously adapting software to meet user expectations and business strategies. CA Technologies automates and streamlines the build, test and release process. From Release Automation to better Test Data Management to comprehensive Virtualized Services, we help your teams compress development timelines while maintaining superior application quality. ca.com

Delphix delivers data on demand, enabling companies to release business-critical applications twice as fast while using half the infrastructure. Traditional approaches to data management are slow, manual, and inefficient––creating a critical impediment to releasing high-quality applications at the pace of the business. Delphix addresses this challenge with its unique data virtualization and masking technology, enabling IT organizations to take a streamlined, automated approach to securely managing data in applications and databases. Over 30% of the Fortune 100 use Delphix to solve complex data management challenges across the lifecycle of their applications. Delphix is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with offices globally. delphix.com

Mobile Labs provides enterprise-grade mobile device clouds that improve efficiency and raise quality for agile, cross-platform mobile app and mobile web deployments. The company’s patented device cloud, deviceConnect™ is available in both public and on-premises configurations. deviceConnect provides affordable, secure access to a large inventory of mobile devices across major mobile platforms to developers, test engineers, and customer support representatives, among others. At the heart of enterprise mobile app deployment, deviceConnect enables automated continuous quality integration, DevOps processes, as well as automated and manual app/web/device testing on real managed devices. For more information please visit mobilelabsinc.com.

At tap|QA - We Test Software. tap|QA is a consulting services firm 100% focused on Quality. Our consultants’ wide range of experience includes Business Analysis, Quality Assurance & Testing within a vast array of industries. Our Quality focused solutions enable IT Organizations to meet the growing demands of their business partners. tapqa.com

Our solutions include:

Strategic Quality - Strategic Consulting to Optimize IT Capabilities, Technology & Organizational structure.
tap|Nearshore - cost-competitive with offshore, but embedded locally with your team, or at our site in Minneapolis.
tap|Automation – Continuous Integration, Automation Accelerators and Performance
QA/QC/BA Project Augmentation – From well-seasoned QA experts to bright, talented to well-trained associate consultants

Silver Sponsors

Avant is an innovative information technology integration and workflow solutions company. Our expertise stems from over 20 years of experience in software consulting and development. Our team is passionate about software, development tools, development processes, methodologies, and most importantly we are passionate about sharing our expertise with our clients and being a part of their growth and evolution. In addition to our Avant Consulting services and solutions, Avant is an Atlassian Expert, providing a full range of professional services supporting the full Atlassian stack including license sales, configuration & setup, managed hosting, data migration and custom plugin development. avant.ca

Certifying Software Testers in Canada, the Canadian Software Testing Board (CSTB) is committed to the development, maintenance, and promotion of the ISTQB Certified Tester program in Canada. With Certifications ranging from Foundation to Advanced Levels, the CSTB helps Canadian Software Testers stand out from the crowd. Visit cstb.ca for more information.

imbus Canada Corporation is the Canadian subsidiary of imbus AG, a leading solutions partner for professional software testing and intelligent software quality assurance since 1992. imbus is a global organisation with headquarter in Germany and having various locations in Canada, China, Germany, Kosovo, Tunisia- including nearshore and offshore testing resources. imbus Canada specializes in software testing, QA, process improvement, test tools, test outsourcing and ISTQB® training. We are experts in the field of software testing and we strive to raise the standards of QA professionalism in Canada by training and consulting. All our experts are ISTQB® certified. Please visit imbus.ca for more details.

The International Software Quality Institute (iSQI), with offices in Boston, Potsdam (DE), London (UK) and Amstelveen (NL) is a leading provider of certification examinations all over the world. iSQI plays a large role in certifying the know-how of IT professionals in over 90 countries on 6 continents in 10 languages. With over 20,000 certifications per year, iSQI paves the way for successful career development. The iSQI ‘Certified’ Program includes certification examinations that set the global standards in Software Testing, Requirements Engineering, Agile, Mobile App Testing as well as Usability and User Experience etc. To find out more about iSQI visit: isqi.us

Parasoft researches and develops software solutions that help organizations deliver defect-free software efficiently. By integrating development testing, API testing, and service virtualization, we reduce the time, effort, and cost of delivering secure, reliable, and compliant software. Parasoft's enterprise and embedded development solutions are the industry's most comprehensive—including static analysis, unit testing, requirements traceability, coverage analysis, functional and load testing, dev/test environment management, and more. The majority of Fortune 500 companies rely on Parasoft in order to produce top-quality software consistently and efficiently as they pursue agile, lean, DevOps, compliance, and safety-critical development initiatives. parasoft.com

With 6 offices across Canada, we’ve got your software testing needs covered 12 hours a day. Move past your testing roadblocks, with 20 years of expertise in everything from custom automation to managing extensive regression test suites customized to your environments and budget. To address the challenge of Indigenous inclusion that makes real business sense, PQA recently launched PLATO Testing, a sister company building a network of Indigenous software testers across Canada. On demand testing, scalable resources, and the ability to mix advanced solutions with on-shore manual testing make working with us not only practical, but impactful. Visit pqatesting.com and platotesting.com to learn more.

Since 1999, PureLoad software has been helping small and large companies worldwide to verify and load-test their Internet-based systems & solutions. Whether you want to perform a functional test simulating one virtual user or perform a load/stress test simulating millions of virtual users, PureLoad is the right software for you. PureLoad gives you proven and trusted results whether it is for testing web, video streaming, mobile applications or areas like VoIP and Diameter. Easy to use, it doesn't need any programming experience and is HW & OS independent. More importantly, it has the best price/performance value of any testing software on the market. pureload.com

For over 25 years, QA Consultants has helped companies maintain strong reputations for building software products and systems. QA Consultants accomplishes this by conducting comprehensive software testing. Thousands of forward-looking companies across North America have drawn upon QA Consultants’ professional services, staffing services, and products. For more information, visit qaconsultants.com.

As the leader in software quality tools for the connected world, SmartBear supports more than four million software professionals and over 25,000 organizations in 194 countries that use its products to build and deliver the world’s greatest applications. With today’s applications deploying on mobile, Web, desktop, Internet of Things (IoT) or even embedded computing platforms, the connected nature of these applications through public and private APIs presents a unique set of challenges for developers, testers and operations teams. SmartBear's software quality tools assist with code review, functional and load testing, API readiness as well as performance monitoring of these modern applications. For more information, visit: smartbear.com, or for the SmartBear community, go to: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Google+.

SQE Training is one of the world's largest providers of software improvement training. We provide the industry’s best resources to help organizations meet their software testing, development, management, and requirements training needs. SQE Training provides a wide selection of specialized courses, developed and dispensed by industry experts, that deliver field-proven techniques for producing high-quality software. sqetraining.com

From our founding as Software Quality Engineering (SQE) to now as TechWell Corporation, the company’s focus has remained the same—helping software developers, testers, and managers improve development and delivery practices. TechWell Corp.'s hands-on experience and training expertise helps companies, large and small, to improve their processes, gain measurable control over software projects, and deliver better software. With an experienced team of associates, field-proven methodologies, an array of international conferences, training courses, consulting services, and specialized publication and research, TechWell Corp. is a trusted resource of many of the Fortune 1000.

At TestLauncher - We provide the fastest, most reliable web and mobile app testing services for SaaS/Cloud- based companies in all industries across the globe. Whether your app is Fintech, EdTech, HRTech or in another industry, our “Bulletproof QA” framework fuses context-driven testing with agile best practices to shield your users from discovering bugs. Every QA Engineer is screened for culture fit, aligned core values and QA mastery. All our manual QA services and automation solutions are fully managed to provide worry-free levels of customer service, speed and flexibility. Visit us @ testlauncher.com for more information.

Tricentis, the Continuous Testing Company, specializes in market leading agile software testing tools for enterprises. We help Global 2000 companies adopt DevOps and gain success by achieving automation rates of over 90%. Top analysts recognize Tricentis as a leader in Software Test Automation, with Model-based Test Automation and Test Case Design as standout features. Our 400+ customers include global names from the Top 500 brands such as A&E, Allianz, Deutsche Bank, HBO, JetBlue, Orange, Swiss Re, Telstra, Toyota, UBS, Vantiv, Virgin Airlines, and Zurich Insurance. Tricentis has offices in Austria, United States, Germany, Switzerland, UK, Netherlands, Poland, and Australia. tricentis.com

Partner Sponsors

Acmqueue provides a critical perspective on current and emerging information technologies, highlighting the technical challenges and problems that software engineers are likely to encounter when using them. In doing so, Queue helps readers sharpen their own thinking and pursue innovative solutions in their own work. queue.acm.org

AgileConnection has today’s best agile ideas and how-to advice on the latest agile development and methodology practices. AgileConnection provides weekly articles from industry experts, as well as interviews with thought leaders, searchable tools and books guides, Q&A, the complete Better Software magazine archive, and access to past conference presentations. AgileConnection.com

Better Software magazine is the quarterly, online magazine for software professionals who care about quality. Each issue brings you relevant, timely information to help you build better software. Better Software magazine delivers in-depth articles on testing, project management, development, configuration management, DevOps, agile, mobile, and cloud technologies. In each issue you'll find solutions to common problems, coverage on emerging technologies, and more. It’s a steady stream of ideas for software professionals focused on quality. BetterSoftware.com

The Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) is an IT industry leadership group comprised of IT executives from the Global 2000, system integrators, outsourced service providers, and software technology vendors committed to introducing a computable metrics standard for measuring software quality & size. CISQ is a neutral, open forum in which customers and suppliers of IT application software can develop an industry-wide agenda of actions for improving IT application quality to reduce cost and risk. Become a CISQ member, learn more: it-cisq.org.

CMCrossroads is where configuration management and development professionals go for answers on SCM, ALM, change management, DevOps, tools, and more. CMCrossroads delivers weekly articles from industry experts, as well as interviews with thought leaders, searchable tools and books guides, Q&A, the complete Better Software magazine archive, and access to past conference presentations CMCrossroads.com.

The International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG) is the recognized leader in promoting and encouraging effective management of application software development and maintenance activities through the use of Function Point Analysis and other software measurement techniques. It is the steward of the international standard of software size measurement – ISO/IEC 20926:2009 Software Engineering. ifpug.org

IT Central Station is the leading product review site for software testing and quality assurance tools, and other enterprise technology, revolutionizing the enterprise tech buying process through the power of crowdsourced knowledge, online product reviews and social networking. The company has been called an "innovative platform at the forefront of the new social buying process" by IDC and the "Yelp for Enterprise Tech" by the Wall Street Journal. IT Central Station reaches over 22 million tech buyers who access and share unbiased product information and tap into a community of other real users in order to make the best buying decision. For more information, visit www.ITCentralStation.com.

IT Today informs readers of best practices, as well as of research into current and upcoming issues in information and communication technology (ICT). Articles take a how-to approach to their topics. They help readers solve problems and are applicable to on-the-job situations faced everyday by IT management, staff and consultants in all areas. ittoday.info

Methods and Tools is a free e-magazine providing practical expert knowledge for software development professionals. Methods & Tools gives software development ideas more than one page to express themselves and covers all aspects of software engineering: software project planning and tracking, Agile and Lean frameworks and techniques like Scrum or Kanban, software testing and quality assurance, business analysis and requirements management, software architecture, software process improvement, user interface and UX, continuous integration and delivery, software developer psychology and management, metrics, software design, software tools presentations, etc. methodsandtools.com

Software Testing Magazine is a web site dedicated to present articles, blog posts, book reviews, tools, videos and other resources about unit testing, integration testing, functional or acceptance testing, load or performance testing in software development projects. We will also present content linked to software quality assurance and new approaches like Behavior Driven Development (BDD) or Test Driven Development (TDD). SoftwareTestingMagazine.com

StickyMinds, is the most comprehensive online resource for helping you produce better software. StickyMinds offers an unrivaled scope of original articles from industry experts, as well as interviews with thought leaders, searchable tools and books guides, Q&A, the complete Better Software magazine archive, and access to past conference presentations. StickyMinds.com