Strategies for Building Successful Quality Engineering Teams
Are you concerned that you might not know how to successfully step into a quality leadership role? How to lead when assigned to a new division or joining a new company? There are lots of challenges when stepping into a new role and leading quality engineering. Those challenges might include how to adopt better automated practices, deal with cultural or team morale issues, or even how to increase productivity in the face of budget cuts and hiring freezes.
Join Priyanka Halder as she discusses how to determine what kind of quality practices are needed for various sizes of organizations, cultures, and situations. Learn how to establish industry best practices for agile communication, quality engineering, automation testing, and release management. Understand what kinds of metrics to collect and show senior management direct ROI for quality engineering practices. Discuss what kinds of budgets to ask for to build a solid quality engineering team. Take home lots of advice for how to improve your quality leadership skills and realize your leadership potential!
Priyanka Halder has more than 15 years of experience in Quality Engineering leadership working in various multi-billion dollar companies like Oscar Health, GoodRx Inc, Sony Network Entertainment, Dell R&D, Accenture, and Truecar. She currently leads the Quality Engineering + DevOps team at Oscar Health – the one and only full-stack powered health insurance company in America. Growing up in India, Priyanka today sees herself as a Californian and is building her career implementing QA teams to use technologies like Kubernetes, visual validation, test stabilization pipelines, and CI/CD for each code deployment. She loves to tackle DevOps & QA technical challenges with the help of modern technologies like Playwright, Applitools, and BrowserStack. She won the “World Bug Battle Championship 2014” while representing America and was also a recent speaker at Automation Guild, Testflix, STAREAST, Wonder Women in Tech, and Test Leadership Congress. In her spare time, Priyanka loves to travel, try out new foods, and spend time with her daughters Ariya and Adrika.