Tackling Strategic Engineering Challenges with eBay and Walmart

eBay, Walmart and Applause discuss modern engineering challenges and how they are tackling them on a daily basis

Engineering leaders face many of the same strategic decisions. How do you increase the percentage of automated test cases? How do you determine how to automate front- and back-end components of your applications, or build test automation frameworks?

Applause is excited to bring together eBay’s Senior Director of Engineering Srikanth Rentachintala and Walmart’s Director of Engineering Anthony Tang, alongside Applause CTO Rob Mason, for a live session to discuss the challenges facing top engineers today, and how their companies tackle these areas. In our interactive live session, ask questions and learn how these engineering leaders make strategic decisions on an ongoing basis.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

How the speakers tackle test automation challenges
Best practices to handle test data
Accessibility testing approaches

Speakers

Srikanth Rentachintala

• Head of Payments Strategy • eBay

Srikanth has more than 16 years of leadership, management and engineering experience in product design, development and quality. He is passionate about automation and continuous improvements of release efficiencies. Before working at eBay, Srikanth worked at Verizon Wireless and PayPal.

Anthony Tang

• Director of Engineering • Walmart

Anthony Tang leads the Developer Experience and Optimization Tools teams at Walmart Global Tech. The Developer Experience Tools team is responsible for test automation tools and supports the development of the Walmart site. This includes functional, performance and accessibility testing. Optimization tools include building and managing the A/B testing platform. Anthony joined Walmart Global Tech in 2012 after working at Yahoo!, and earned his MS in Computer Science from UCSD.

Rob Mason

• Chief Technology Officer • Applause

Rob Mason is the CTO at Applause, helping leading brands quickly release high-quality digital experiences. Rob has more than 20 years of operational, management, and software development experience across many different companies, languages, platforms and technologies. A meticulous builder and obsessive tester, Rob’s teams produce innovative, robust software.

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