Quantori   13:00 — 13:45 

Topic:

Career Guide – QA Engineer: How to Start, Get Promoted, and Be Happy at Work

Speaker: 

Ricardas Ralys -QA Engineering Manager

Maria Bredeleva — Senior Manual QA Engineer.

Info:

Becoming a quality assurance engineer is considered one of the simplest ways to start a career in IT. We will find out whether this is the truth or a myth. Is this profession so elementary to master and does it require any special skills? We will learn what a QA engineer is responsible for, what they should know, and which soft skills are essential for such a specialist. Also, we will speak about education and self-study and give recommendations on how to start a career. Then we will discuss perspectives and further opportunities for professional growth and reveal possible career paths. In addition, we will look into the magnificent world of life science and showcase how important the role of a QA engineer is in IT projects. We have two experienced speakers who are high-qualified representatives of the profession: Ricardas Ralys, QA Engineering Manager, and Maria Bredeleva, Senior Manual QA Engineer.

WorldQuant 14:00 — 14:45

Topic:

INTRODUCTION TO WORLDQUANT
A company presentation for interested attendees

Speaker:

Vasilii Mironov — Senior Recruiter

Valerii Mikheev — Recruitment and Operations Assistant

Info:

Worldquant is a global quantitive asset management firm with more than 850 employees spread among 23 offices in 13 countraies.

QuestGlobal Armenia 15:00 — 15:45

Topic: 

FinTech company transformation journey: From distributed monolith to hybrid system

Speaker:

Anna Grigoryan - Senior Software Engineer 

Arthur Manasyan - Senior Quality Assurance Engineer 

Info:

Let’s have a brief look to a transformation roadmap Questrade is going through to ensure the provided products are scalable, reliable and have high performance.

Although the monolith infrastructure was quite successful, challenges arise during the growth of the number of the customers.

We will discuss the technologies and approaches that led to a new successful hybrid system, as well as the quality assurance transformation during all this process.