Capital One’s highly integrated environment creates many interdependencies for its agile teams. Because these dependencies were not being completed until late in their sprints, Adam Auerbach says that Capital One faced prolonged integration and regression testing phases and did not realize expected improvements in quality or time-to-market. As technology leaders pushed for continuous delivery (CD), testing needed to shift left and occur simultaneously with development. To shift left, the testing community needed to learn basic development skills, including Ruby and Java, to take advantage...Learn More
Adam Auerbach
Capital One
Adam Auerbach is the senior director of technology for advanced testing and release services for Capital One Financial Corporation, a diversified bank with 65-million customer accounts worldwide. Adam is responsible for Capital One’s enterprise performance and automated testing departments as well as enterprise release management and test data management. Since joining Capital One, he has provided leadership for the agile transformation of their quality assurance group, and led the enterprise adoption of DevOps and ATDD. Previously Adam was with Chase and other financial and insurance companies in leadership positions focused on quality and agile practices.