Ruchi Singhi is a Senior Software Engineer in Netflix’s Site Automation and Tools team. She has been extensively involved in writing the test framework, adding automation coverage for netflix.com and writing tools for reporting.

Prior to joining Netflix, Ruchi was working at Microsoft for 5 years with her prime focus being designing and leading automation efforts for her team.

In her talk, Ruchi will share the site’s automation journey, and how her team is striving to achieve stability of a big test suite.

Michael James is an Engineering Manager in the Partner Tools team. This group provides the cloud-based tools and automation used to certify Netflix on a huge variety of Consumer Electronic devices including Smart TV's, cable & set-top boxes, streaming sticks, and blu-ray players.

In this talk, Michael will detail how Netflix has solved the challenge of certifying the Netflix app on thousands of consumer electronics devices. He will describe some of the tools we have created to make thousands of test cases available to both Netflix internal teams and Partner companies to run worldwide, 24/7.

Gustavo Branco joined Netflix two and a half years ago. Having worked in three different teams at Netflix and two different teams at Microsoft, he is a veteran automation engineer. At Netflix he helped design and bootstrap a automated test framework that is being used by several teams in the company. Now Gustavo is helping to lead our latest efforts to innovate in the mobile device automation space.

In this talk, Gustavo will be sharing some of the challenges that we at Netflix have identified with automated testing of mobile devices and how we are creating innovative test infrastructure for executing end to end tests as well as specialized tests such as power consumption and data usage under cellular networks.

Benoit Fontaine is a Senior Software Engineer in the NRDP Tools, Test and Reliability team. The teams take care of validating the functionality of the Netflix application on CE devices and game consoles. Benoit lead the redesign of the existing test automation into a lean and flexible system. He started by improving test frameworks to automate devices and deploy a variety of critical test services in the cloud.

Prior to joining Netflix, Benoit was the co-founder of a tech media startup for which he took care of the cloud infrastructure and embedded software on the devices connected to it.

In this talk, Benoit will describe the design and technology choices that lead to building a robust, lean and scalable automation system.

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