Ramasubramanian G, Delivery Head -SOA Testing Center of Excellence, Cognizant
Introduction
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is one of the most widely used jargons in the IT industry today. With today’s organizations heavily focusing on SOA, implementations are a complex mix of services at every layer of the architecture. There are quite a few challenges, one of those being: How can we assure the quality of the business services built?
This presentation highlights the transformation from the traditional 3-tier to the new age agile architecture and details out the concepts and benefits of SOA. It puts forth the risks emanating from an SOA implementation and tries to bring out a testing perspective towards SOA by specifying the characteristics of a typical SOA Testing engagement.
The presentation also discusses a test methodology to address the various needs of an agile development process and depicts a practical test approach to validate a webservice. It concludes by unfolding the key success criteria and suggests some of the best practices in an SOA Testing assignment.
Speaker Profile
Ramasubramanian G, Delivery Head -SOA Testing Center of Excellence, Cognizant
Ramasubramanian has over 10 years of experience in the IT industry with a successful track record of delivering large testing programs. Currently, he is the delivery head of SOA testing Center of Excellence at Cognizant Testing Services. His diverse experience spans key functions such as providing cutting edge technology solutions to clients, delivery management, customer relationship management, business development and operations management. He has played a vital role in growing several key accounts for Cognizant in the technology domain with his strong delivery management and technical skills. He pioneered the establishment of SOA testing center of excellence in Cognizant.