The days of waterfall and siloed teams are gone. QA now works alongside development to release products faster and find bugs sooner. Agile transformations changed how companies work, bringing development and testing together and prioritizing quality. However, the current market and consumers demand higher levels of quality and faster releases. Companies can’t afford bugs, vulnerabilities, or critical issues. Quality is no longer a vision - it’s a necessity.

With operations in 70 countries, Allianz is a world leading insurance company and the preferred insurance brand. The company offers a large range of insurance policies for both corporates and individuals. Allianz has been present in France since the late 1950s and made a major acquisition there in 1998 with the purchase of the AGF company. 5 years ago, Allianz France decided to reorganize its IT to scale agile practices.

We see a lot of teams working with automated testing, and many feel the need to take the next step in order to optimize and excel in their product release cycle. Prior to implementing DevOps, companies can experience a stall in releases and only make new ones every 6 months. This means that development efforts are not bringing value to users quickly enough. For companies that work in regulated industries, it’s also critical that they set up reporting and traceability into their DevOps pipeline.

Exploratory testing is a software testing strategy that depends on the inventiveness of the tester. This testing method is flexible, creative, and simple and requires little documentation or training. Using exploratory testing strategies helps QA teams to prevent gaps in the software that’s left unnoticed with predefined testing. Exploratory testing helps QA teams in different ways, such as faster bug detection, improved team collaboration, and overall achieving better results.

This year, there are more commercial tools offering no-code and low-code test automation solutions, helping the testing community to worry less about the tech stack. As the testing industry evolves with many new principles and tools, testers should also continuously improve their skills in order to test their product more robustly.

In today's evolving world, companies keep pushing for new goals and objectives, which are usually bolder and aim higher. As a QA Manager, there’s a constant need for you to keep evolving and ensure that your testing strategy helps the company succeed. Here’s how you can plan your testing strategy in 2023 to ensure you hit your quality goals.

With more than three decades of existence, this company in the payments sector supplies modern, dependable, and secure financial services to more than 300 million users and processes more than 7 billion transactions annually. Alongside being a major payment processor in Europe, they are a benchmark in Security and Anti-Fraud solutions and services in Business Process Outsourcing.

Exploratory testing is a successful method for locating undiscovered defects in software. However, many companies request that testers use scripted test cases based on predetermined product requirements rather than exploratory testing. Although scripted test cases help find faults in a product's code, exploratory tests assist the QA team in finding difficult-to-predict problems within the features of the finished product.

The purpose of exploratory testing is to learn how a particular area of your testing is working while using your skills as a tester to offer insightful input to your team. Through exploratory testing, you can ensure that all bugs are detected, and developers can fix them in time for the product release.

“The way I do work is to lead by a good example, and that’s why I’m trying to set up Xray as an example for test management and reporting.” Sharon Lundgren, Manager IT Quality at IU About the Company IU (International University) is the largest university in Germany. One of Europe's most cutting-edge educational institutions, IU has over 10,000 practice partners, over 1,000 lecturers, and about 480 professors.