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

1. Monolithic infrastructure: success and problems
2. How to make the system scalable? Migration to Google Cloud
3. Problems during the transformation from onPrem to hybrid systems
a.Real-time data flow

i.Publishing the updated data via Google PubSub

ii.Interaction with cloud services using gRPC and REST technologies

iii.SOD, publishers responsible for each domain, data sync with cloud, hashing…

b.Market data streaming

i.Additional connection to a vendor

ii.Google DataFlow and Google BigTable

c.Knowledge enhancements: trainings and self-learning

i.Most of the backend developers are with C++ background

ii. QA engineers were mostly experienced in monolithic system testing using python, squish.