Top QA Events in 2022
The Ultimate Guide by QAwerk
Quarter 1: January, February, March
New year, new me! This aspiration has probably struck your mind at least once during the holiday season. And why not? Why not make a change in the coming year and challenge yourself to become a better professional and a better human?
On this occasion, our QAwerk testing team prepared a guide on tech events for software testers, QA engineers, test automation engineers, security professionals, and basically anyone willing to know what it takes to deliver quality products.
Without further ado, let’s review each conference and perhaps find the one that will help us climb to another professional height. Here is a comprehensive line-up of tech conferences in the first quarter of 2022: January, February, March.
HEK.SI, January 27-28, virtual
HEK.SI is an event on ethical hacking arranged by a tech community in Slovenia. The conference gathers about 200 attendees and 30 speakers from Slovenia and abroad each year.
The conference program includes discussions on why blockchain is an appealing target for malicious actors, how black hats abuse healthcare APIs, and the latest hacking techniques to circumvent Anti Virus (AV) and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) security controls. The lecturers will also reveal typical vulnerabilities in a cloud environment and effective mechanisms against them, ways to inject templates used by web apps for presenting dynamic data, and review the disparities of the cybersecurity job market.
Among the speakers are seasoned security executives, penetration testers, security analysts, and ethical hackers acknowledged for responsible disclosure to big names like Sony, Adobe, Pentagon, Australian Government, and Swiss Post.
Pricing:
- From 297 € exl. VAT, 1 day (around $335)
- From 347 € exl. VAT, 2 days (around $392)
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Automation Guild, February 7-11, virtual
Automation Guild is a community-driven event bringing together successful and highly experienced test automation experts the world over. It is specifically created for software testers, both junior and senior, to help them learn from peers’ mistakes and experiences, shorten their learning curve, find guidance on further steps in career development, and increase their income through upgraded skill-sets.
The program contains over 30 sessions diving deep into such issues as speed in test automation and how to achieve it, how to extend test automation coverage with new techniques like high-volume automated testing, and how one can start off with chaos engineering. Attendees can also expect to learn about the most effective test automation strategies, design patterns to follow, handy features of frameworks like Cypress, Appium, and Selenium, and discover peculiarities of API, accessibility, and security testing.
The conference ticket includes lifetime access to complete recordings and access to a private Slack community home to over 2000 experienced software testers.
Pricing:
- From $297, 5 days
- From $197, 3 days (20-30% off for groups of 5-10)
- From $297, 5 days
- From $197, 3 days (20-30% off for groups of 5-10)
SEETEST, September 28-29. Belgrade, Serbia. Hybrid
To meet the needs of testers from all over the world, SEETEST is coming in two formats: offline and online. This will be a hybrid conference with 24 sessions and 8 tutorials. Over 30 speakers are expected to join.
Here are some of the topics SEETEST will cover: test automation, mobile testing, cloud testing, performance testing, security testing, Agile testing. You will meet world-class lecturers, gain expertise and interact with around 600 IT professionals. Sounds interesting? Then take a look at the program to learn more about the event.
If you are going to attend SEETEST in person, you will need the full conference hybrid ticket. It allows physical attendance and provides access to the online recordings (you can learn more about the package differences here). The early bird prices are valid until July 15.
Pricing:
- Early bird, full conference ticket (virtual only): €95.20 (around $113)
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