Breakpoint 2021 Speaker Spotlight: Ragavan Ambighananthan, Expedia

Breakpoint 2021 is a two-day virtual summit on software quality featuring dev, QA, and open source experts discussing how to ship quality software at scale. Ragavan Ambighananthan, Principal Software Engineer in Test at Expedia, will be presenting a session on the Shift-Left approach, which focuses on ensuring code is production-ready when merged. He has experience with test management, automation frameworks, and testing in agile environments and on cloud platforms like AWS. Ragavan's work includes building an Autoscaled Distributed Automation system using Kubernetes and Traefik to eliminate restrictions on test automation speed and capacity. As a contributor to open source tools, he has experience troubleshooting bugs and learning new technologies for quality engineering problems. His advice to those new to testing is to think of dev and test as one team working towards the same goal, keep learning, and look ahead to predict and find solutions instead of reacting to problems.