Keynote
The Quality Engineering Playbook: Adapting to Your Context
Suman Bala and Parveen Khan
Scaling quality without slowing delivery is one of the toughest challenges for engineering leaders—especially across teams with different tech stacks, release patterns, and levels of maturity. We keep coming back to the same question: What does “good” look like for quality engineering?
In this keynote, we’ll explore the concept of a Quality Engineering Playbook—not as a rigid set of rules, but as a flexible framework that helps teams align on universal quality fundamentals while adapting them to their unique context.
This session is for anyone leading teams or practices who wants to improve quality at scale by enabling a shared language and mindset.
Key Takeaways
Define what “good” means across diverse teams, roles, and contexts.
Embed quality as a strategic enabler that works differently for different team contexts.
Empower teams to own quality in ways that make sense for their specific challenges.
Use playbook principles to drive better technical decisions, clearer accountabilities, and more confidence in what you ship.
About the Speakers
Suman Bala – Quality Engineering Manager at Leighton
Suman Bala is an award-winning Quality Advocate who champions that quality is everyone’s responsibility. She transforms teams through mentoring and coaching, delivering workshops at national conferences. Suman co-created the Software Testing Bootcamp and co-authored testing ebooks on LeanPub. Talk to her about quality transformation, building inclusive teams, and test automation.
Parveen Khan – Quality practice lead at CFC
Parveen is a Quality Practice Lead at CFC and international speaker who believes delivering quality products is everyone’s responsibility. She collaborates with teams to optimize processes, tools, and methodologies that enable high-quality product creation. Parveen shares her testing stories and experiences to inspire the global community.
Connect on Twitter @Parveen_Khan10 or parveenkhans.com.