Posts Tagged 'Community'

Inflectra Partner Face-Time: London and Stockholm Key Partner Visits | June 2024

June 21, 2024

Inflectra's recent partner visits in London, UK, and Stockholm, Sweden, were a whirlwind of face-to-face interactions, strategic discussions, and a welcome break from the usual video calls. These meetings with both new and long-standing partners were more than just about coffee and great food, although, truth be told, we thoroughly enjoyed those; they were about forging deeper connections, understanding market trends, and planning for the future.

Inflectra, LambdaTest and DevOpsDC Meetup's Joint Event on DevOps, Testing and AI

April 4, 2024

Inflectra, in collaboration with LambdaTest and DevOpsDC, co-hosted a meetup event in Arlington, VA, on April 4, 2024. The event attracted local professionals, enthusiasts, and thought leaders from DevOps, software testing, and artificial intelligence. It offered a mix of insightful discussions, Q&A, and relaxed networking opportunities. Continue reading to get an in-depth look at the event highlights.

Inflectra at ATD: Six Years of Community Support and Collaboration

November 20, 2023

As we close out our sixth year at Agile Testing Days (ATD) in Potsdam, the Inflectra team's enthusiasm is more than evident. This year's event wasn't just another annual gathering; it represented a key chapter in our ongoing partnership with ATD, highlighting our dedication to software quality, support for the testing community, and a commitment to continuous innovation.

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Recap: Meeting the Inflectra Community in Germany 2023

June 28, 2023

Last week we had the pleasure of holding an Inflectra user meetup in Germany for our customers based in the DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) region of Europe.  In this article we will provide some ideas and information that came from the event that was held in Mannheim, Germany in conjunction with our partner PTA GmbH.

Inflectra Partner Tour 2023: Western Europe

June 5, 2023

The Inflectra Partner Team is on the road again this week, this time to visit partners, friends, and partners-to-be in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France. Inflectra's Partnership team, including the CEO and Head of Global Alliances will kick off the Partner Tour 2023 in Zurich and wrap it up in Mannheim, Germany.

Read on to take a look into the full agenda, including the places and teams we'll be visiting.

Are you looking to supercharge your business and unlock new partnership opportunities? Explore the Inflectra Partner Program today.

Recap of March 21 DevOpsDC Meetup in Arlington

March 27, 2023

#TeamInflectra is delighted to share another successful meetup event! On March 21, 2023, tech folks from the DMV area joined us in Arlington, Virginia to expand their networks, hear insightful talks on all things DevOps, and learn more about additional upcoming tech events. We appreciate those who came, took time to meet our team members, and asked us about our products. Read more to see how the evening went, what's to come for Inflectra events, and how you can redeem $75 off your InflectraCON ticket!

Inflectra's First of Many In-Person Events for 2023! - Happy Hour Meet & Greet Recap

February 21, 2023

#TeamInflectra was excited to host our meetup event of 2023 on Thursday, February 16th. An eclectic group of attendees joined us throughout the evening at The Admiral in Washington, DC right in DuPont Circle - we appreciate those who came and took time to get to know our team and our products. Read more to see how the night went and what you can expect in future Inflectra meetups.

Crowd-Test Your App or Website at #TestBowl 2.0

June 24, 2021

Do you have a new app, software, or website that is ready for testing? Are you looking to avoid turning your customers into testers? We hear you, and we have a fun solution for you - bring your app/software or website to #TestBowl 2.0!

As part of the Inflectra-run software testing competition - #TestBowl 2.0 on June 24, 2021, we offer to crowd-test your software for free! 

All you need to do is apply before June 18, 2021!

Inflectra's SpiraTest Is A Tool of Choice To Run Israeli Testing Competition 2021

March 25, 2021

Inflectra is excited to support the Israeli Software Testing Cup (ISTC)- the ultimate challenge for QA testing professionals - for the fifth year in a row!

Sponsors in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020, we’re happy to continue to support the Israeli testing community through this competition. Inflectra is once again making its award-winning test management solution - SpiraTest available to the organizers, judges, and teams for this year’s competition.

Time To Get Excited About Inflectra's Discord Community

November 5, 2020

We are launching Inflectra's first global online community - InflectraCon365 on Discord and we want you to be a part of it! 

InflectraCon 365 is a vendor/tool-agnostic community platform, moderated by tester-practitioners. It is designed to be a hub for the robust exchange of ideas, sharing of experiences, announcements about training and work opportunities, freelancing, and blogging. Memes, geekiness, and rants about all manner of tech fails are the spice of our online community.

Join the community today!

Women In Tech Get It Done

October 14, 2020

About 10 days ago, we bid farewell to InflectraCon™ 2020 Virtual - Inflectra’s Agile Testing & DevOps conference. It was an unmitigated success with some 40 world-class speakers, 600+ attendees from 43 countries, and over 80 hours of learning on the most cutting edge topics in the software testing industry. Among InflectraCon 2020 highlights, we want to recognize the talent, expertise, and dedication to their craft by a fantastic cast of women technologists from the US and abroad! 

With InflectraCon 2020 in the rearview mirror, we now look to the future. And in doing so, we look to those paving the way in their industries, making their mark and setting examples for girls all over the world to look up to. Without further ado, let us introduce you to the amazing women blazing trails in AI, software development, testing and validation, tech leadership, and many other fields (presented here in alphabetical order).

Inflectra Supports ISTC 2020 Tester Competition

July 6, 2020

Inflectra is once again excited to support this year’s Israeli Software Testing Cup!

Sponsors in 2017, 2018, and 2019, we’re happy to continue to support the Israeli testing community through this competition. Inflectra is making its award-winning test management solution - SpiraTest available to the teams, judges, and organizers to run the competition.

Changing Lives - One Tester at a Time - with Codo a Codo

November 27, 2019

In 2018, the Buenos Aires City Government (GCBA) and Codo a Codo partnered with Inflectra in a formal training program that teaches the fundamentals of software testing to high-school students from city's disadvantaged neighborhoods. This month, Adam Sandman, our technical director was honored to attend the inaugural awards ceremony. and hand out the diplomas to the graduating class. In this article we discuss why this program is so important and how we'd like to help other communities around the world in a similar manner.

Recap #InflectraCon - Highlights from our Inaugural User Conference

September 16, 2019

About six months ago we decided to host our first international user conference, to bring together our users, partners and evangelists together in the same place for the first time. Last week this vision became a reality: InflectraCon

With 130 attendees from 5 continents, 40 sessions, 4 sponsors, and of course 2 banjos (!) the event was a roaring success. If you couldn't attend this year, please check out the sessions and presentations, as well as why you should attend next year at InflectraCon 2020.

Meet-Up Sponsorship - ASQF @Berlin

December 12, 2018

Inflectra is excited to support ASQF @Berlin - a Berlin/Brandenburg-based meet-up group dedicated to developing and securing software and system quality. The group's first, Inflectra-sponsored meetup will take place on January 26th, 2019 in Potsdam.

Join Quality Brunch 2019: Yesterday: V, today: agile - and what about quality? if you are around.

What Do Knoxville, TN & Lexington, KY Tech Meet-Ups Have In Common?

October 8, 2018

Well, other than geography (both are in North America, and are predominantly English-language groups), they also are the proud recipients of an Inflectra sponsorship in 2018!

Knox QA and Bluegrass IIBA Chapter in Lexington, KY are volunteer-run groups that strive to build the community of practice centered around professional excellence in tech, business management and analytics. They both have a vibrant local following, and an active meet-up culture that is nurturing, inclusive and supportive.  That is why Inflectra is helping the two groups by rewarding their hard work and enthusiasm.

Inflectra Gives Back: Parkmont School Intern at Inflectra

June 4, 2018

We have recently hosted  another intern  - a young man named Niko from Parkmont school in Washington, DC. Niko turned out to be diligent and smart and a delightful person. We enjoyed giving him an opportunity to experience tech company work-style at our office in Silver Spring, MD. 

Below is his own account of this internship.

Meeting the Inflectra Community in California

April 17, 2018

This week we had the pleasure of holding our inaugural California User Summits in Santa Monica and San Francisco. We met lots of fantastic customers, had great conversations and got lots of valuable feedback on the development roadmaps for our products. In this article we will recap the ideas and information that came from the event, provide copies of the presentations from Inflectra, and also include some fun photos that we took during the event.

Inflectra Gives Back - Meet-Up Sponsorship in DC/MD/VA

January 30, 2018

Revised on Nov 16, 2018

The sponsorship offer is now extended to all meet-ups in the USA.

Since 2017, Inflectra has significantly stepped up its community engagement efforts, which come under the umbrella of Inflectra Gives Back. This on-going campaign is designed to nurture and support the community of software testers, developers and project leads operating the agile software testing, test automation, and project management space in the metropolitan DC area.

Inflectra Gets its First Woman Tech Intern

November 3, 2017

It has been almost a year since we started our internship program. The premise of this undertaking has always been simple - Inflectra wanted to give back to the community by building up in-demand coding skills among young and aspiring techies in the metropolitan DC area.

So, this week we started a new round of internships and (drum roll, please.....) we got our first woman coder!

Her name is Julie and we are excited about working with her. 

Supporting the Local DC-Tech Community - CDK Meetup

June 16, 2017

Last night we attended a large gathering of technologists in Washington, DC at the CDK Summer Meetup. Held at the General Assembly building, part of the 1776 technology incubator, the event was a chance for local technologists to learn about Inflectra, our mission to make software development and testing awesome, and also to sign up for our internship and tech blogging programs.

Expanding Inflectra’s User Universe One Country At A Time

June 9, 2017

Team Inflectra is traveling to Israel to participate in DevGeekWeek2017 – an annual, 5-day conference on all aspects of software development. Three Inflectra software engineers will give talks, meet face-to-face with Inflectra’s partners, customers and users and organize social events in Herzliya, Israel between June 19 and 22, 2017.

So, if you are in town for this exciting conference, look up Inflectra, get on our guest list and get much more out of your participation in DevGeekWeek2017.

Supporting the Local DC-Tech Community - CDK Meetup

May 26, 2017

We are excited to be part of the local DC tech community, and we have been working to help software developers and testers get into the industry, with training and career coaching events, as well as our internship program. We also sponsor local meetups and events in the community.

Meeting the Inflectra Community in Boston

May 19, 2017

This week we had the pleasure of holding our first ever North America East-Coast User Summit in the fair city of Boston, MA. We met lots of fantastic customers, had great conversations and got lots of valuable feedback on the development roadmaps for our products. In this article we will recap the ideas and information that came from the event, provide copies of the presentations from Inflectra and our partners, and also include some fun photos and videos that we took during the event.

Tech Job Advice Event in Silver Spring, MD!

May 5, 2017

I already know you are planning to be out and about during Fiesta Asia in downtown Silver Spring, MD on May 7. But while celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is good for your soul, we invite you to combine play with a bit of job-search advice at Inflectra's Company HQ down the street. Come spend an afternoon working for your own future at Tech Recruitment Workshop for aspiring coders, programmers and software testing enthusiasts!

If you want a job in tech, then you are not going to want to miss this free Tech Job Advice workshop on May 7!

It’s Official – East Coast User Summit is On!

April 7, 2017

You probably remember our recent posts about Inflectra’s plan to host North America User Summits in Boston, MA and San-Francisco, CA in 2017. We are pleased to announce that we’ve now finalized the details of our inaugural East Coast User Summit, and have the following updates to share:  

Listening to our Customers: Updated Product Roadmaps

April 4, 2017

One of the most popular sessions in our recent user summits in London, Zürich and Mannheim were the discussions of the future Inflectra product roadmaps. We presented the proposed roadmap for SpiraTest, SpiraPlan, SpiraTeam and Rapise to the community and captured their feedback and suggestions (sadly there was not time to also cover KronoDesk). Based on their feedback we have now published the updated roadmaps for the products for 2017/2018. Learn what users in Europe had to say.

Meeting the Inflectra Community in Germany

March 30, 2017

This week we had the pleasure of holding our inaugural user summits in several key cities Europe. We had events in London, Zürich, and Mannheim, with customers coming from across the UK, Switzerland, Germany, and the Czech Republic. We met lots of fantastic customers, had great conversations and got lots of valuable feedback on the development roadmaps for our products. In this article we will provide some ideas and information that came from the event in Mannheim, Germany.

Meeting the Inflectra Community in Switzerland

March 29, 2017

This week we had the pleasure of holding our inaugural user summits in several key cities Europe. We had events in London, Zürich, and Mannheim, with customers coming from across the UK, Switzerland, Germany, and the Czech Republic. We met lots of fantastic customers, had great conversations and got lots of valuable feedback on the development roadmaps for our products. In this article we will provide some ideas and information that came from the event in Zürich.

Meeting the Inflectra Community in London

March 24, 2017

This week we had the pleasure of holding our inaugural user summits in several key cities in Europe. We had events in London, Zürich, and Mannheim, with customers coming from across the UK, Switzerland, Germany, and the Czech Republic. We met lots of fantastic customers, had great conversations and got lots of valuable feedback on the development roadmaps for our products. In this article we will present some of the ideas and feedback from our event in London.

Save The Date: North America User Summits

March 3, 2017

It is no secret that our work revolves around our amazing community of partners, product users, followers and fellow software enthusiasts. So, this year we are upping our game in building our user community worldwide through various Inflectra Gives Back Initiatives.

We know full well that it is a privilege to work with all of you. That’s why we are making time to get to know you better. And we figured the best way to connect is to get together and talk about things we have in common, i.e. Inflectra’s simple tools that help you build your awesome products. So, save the dates of two User Summits in North America!

Start Your Tech Side Hustle with Inflectra

February 17, 2017

If you are looking for a tech side hustle, you’ve come to the right place. And, get this: we’ve done the company research for you. Read about what we need and decide if you want to make some cash, while doing something you like.

What we are looking for: in the short run, we are interested in high quality, sharable content focused on software development and testing, automated testing, DevOps, ALM, agile software development, continuous delivery and so on. Our longer-term goal is to build up a corps of tech evangelists and influencers who love our products and are available for speaking engagements, trainings, software-related curriculum development, etc.

What we are offering: short-term per blog compensation, with long-term opportunities such as web and event sponsorship and tech evangelist position with Inflectra.

Getting Smart With Inflectra

February 13, 2017

Remember when we asked you for your ideas for how we can help your career? Well, we had a great response, and the clear winner was for us to provide tools to help you become trained and certified in our products. Working with our colleagues at Agile Training Champions, we have developed an initial course list for our products.

Inflectra Gives Back - Testoramas and Hackathons

February 3, 2017

As part of our drive to give back to the local DC Tech Community, Inflectra is going to be sponsoring local Hackathons and Testoramas in the DC area in the coming year. Keep an eye out for news on our local meet-ups and events. In addition we have user summits in Europe during the month of March, and are planning on similar events in North America later this year.

Inflectra Gives Back! Agile Training Champion at Your Service

February 1, 2017

As part of Inflectra’s commitment to corporate social responsibility, we are developing fresh and innovative approaches to giving back to our global user community as well as to our local community in DC metropolitan area.  

Along with our internship program, announced in January 2017, Inflectra is expanding its training capabilities in order to offer our fans an array of virtual resources to meet their software development needs. Furthermore, while our users are spread widely across the world, we, at Inflectra, see a great value in forging North to South cooperation and skills-transfer to build our follower base in the global South. In an increasingly globalized world, we are using multiple social media channels to reach and engage tech-savvy youth of various backgrounds everywhere.

Inflectra Gives Back! Helping You Make a Career Change into Coding

January 30, 2017

This week at Inflectra, the theme is all about careers and training. So, to kick off Monday morning with some good news, we'd like to talk about our successful weekend Internship fair at Inflectra. Partnering with our local chapter of freeCodeCamp, we have launched a program to help people looking for a job in coding or to switch careers to technology, to get experience and, hopefully, get their first job.

DC Tech in Motion - Coworking and Collaboration

January 27, 2017

Last night we attended the first DC Tech in Motion meetup in Washington, DC. Held in the very cool WeWork Manhattan Laundry collaborative shared working space, it was a great opportunity to get a pulse on the tech scene in DC and meet some of the people looking to work in the industry as well as those with startups looking for new people.

Inflectra User Summits Coming to London, Zurich and Mannheim

January 23, 2017

Another one of our New Year's Resolutions was to work on supporting our diverse user communities around the world. There are people in almost every country on the planet using Inflectra tools to build awesome products. From healthcare, core banking, and energy, to education and Government, we have customers and users in almost every industry using Inflectra's products to streamline their project management, improve their quality and get rid of outdated, legacy, software tools. As a first part of this mission, we will be holding user summits in three key cities in Europe in March 2017: London, GB, Zurich, CH and Mannheim, DE.

Mixing It with the DC Tech Community

January 20, 2017

One of our New Year’s Resolutions for 2017 was to support and nurture the tech community in our home area – Washington, DC and Silver Spring, Maryland (a hip superb of DC where our office is physically located).

So while everyone else today is talking about the Presidential Inauguration, we’re going to bring some optimistic light relief to recant our first attendance at the popular DC Tech Meetup group. This was our first time attending, and it was great to see the local DC Tech scene in action:

Getting Social with Inflectra?

January 6, 2017

One of our new year's resolutions for 2017 was being more engaged with our global community of developers, testers, managers, agilsts, evangelists and partners. As part of this we are going to be improving our use of social media channels as well as email and our website. This will bring you more up to date information on what we're doing as well as give you a voice in helping shape our plans for the future.

How Can SpiraTeam and Rapise Can Help Your Career

December 19, 2016

In our recent (and unrelated) Linked-In search we were pleasantly surprised to find that over 3,000 people have listed at least one of Inflectra's products - either SpiraTest, SpiraTeam or Rapise on their resumes. And while you are poking around to check the accuracy of this statement, note the number of companies around the world that have openings for QA managers, scrum masters, project managers, developers and testers.

That made us think - how can we help our customers and users with their careers?