Designing a Comprehensive QA Roadmap
Beth Wisdom, Ulta Beauty
About the Topic
Your senior leadership just asked you to develop and implement a multi-year QA Roadmap to align more with agile processes, reduce cost, and increase overall capability maturity in terms of people, process, tools. Where do you start?!
Seasoned QA leaders recognize the importance of a QA strategy – after all, it contains the guiding principles of your QA and QC operations. But what about a comprehensive QA Roadmap? How do you start? What should it include? Who should participate? How do you know if you’re in synch with your organization’s roadmap? Will my peers and leaders buy into my vision? How can I get the needed budget?
Beth Wisdom, Sr. QA Manager at Ulta Beauty will share her experience on developing and implementing a comprehensive multi-year QA Roadmap which started with understanding current capabilities and defining an end state. Learn how she was able to create the vision, gain support from her leadership as well as her team and associates, finalize a plan, and lead through change.
Key Learning Objectives
- Leading through change
- Strategic planning
- Developing and Implementing a Quality Assurance Roadmap
About the Speaker
Beth Wisdom has over 30 years of experience in IT software development and delivery, the most recent 20 years were leading Quality Assurance, Performance Testing, and User Acceptance Testing teams. Elizabeth’s extensive project portfolio covers several industries including telecom (AT&T Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies), retail (FTD, Ulta Beauty), financial (Bank One), manufacturing (USG), and insurance (Bankers Life & Casualty, Hallmark Services Corp). As a QA enthusiast, Elizabeth has built and managed several high performing QA, UAT, and Performance Test teams, both onshore and offshore – with a passion for continuous improvement, process governance, metrics, and best practices. She has enjoyed speaking at STPCon, STAR, and QUEST conferences and welcomes the opportunity to network with others who are equally as passionate about QA, UAT and Performance Testing.
Location
Ulta Beauty
120 S Riverside Plaze, 15th Floor
Chicago, IL 60606
Agenda
1:30-2:00 Sign-in & Networking
2:00-2:15 Announcements
2:15-4:00 Presentation (15 minute break at 2:45)
Registration
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND THIS PROGRAM.
PLEASE REGISTER BY October 21, 2017 at www.cqaa.org. If you have any questions, please contact CQAA Program Director at info@cqaa.org.
