How Visa Cross Border Solutions Reduces Outages by Testing System Resilience in Their SDLC

How Visa Cross Border Solutions Reduces Outages by Testing System Resilience in Their SDLC

Oct 7, 2024

For global financial services companies, reliability must be built-in and validated before and after shipping to production. Resilience testing is crucial for verifying the reliability of your applications under real-world conditions. But ad-hoc testing and exploratory experiments aren't sufficient: you need to run automated, standardized tests at global scale.

In this Gremlin-hosted webinar, Chris Kempster, a Sr. NFT Engineer at Visa Cross-Border Solutions, shares their journey from early Chaos Engineering experiments to integrating reliability test suites into their staging environments and build pipelines.

Chris will share the lessons he’s learned and best practices for building an effective testing process—and rolling it out across the organization.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how to:

  • Get the buy-in to run initial experiments and prove the benefits of resilience testing
  • Integrate resilience testing into development processes and pipelines
  • Customize test suites and schedule automation to fit your organization’s goals

Includes a live demo of how to build, customize, and schedule reliability test suites!

Speakers:
Chris Kempster
Sr. Non-Functional Test Engineer
Chris helps lead the resilience testing and Chaos Engineering efforts at Visa Cross-Border Solutions, working with teams across the organization to keep critical systems up and available. His previous experience includes over a decade of testing experience and leadership at companies like Barclays, TrakCel, and CGI. His areas of expertise include automation, containers/microservices, FMEA, DevOps, and SDLC management.

Andre Newman
Senior Reliability Specialist, Gremlin
At Gremlin, Andre promotes the benefits of Chaos Engineering and resilience testing to engineering teams around the world, including at some of the largest enterprise organizations. Prior to Gremlin, he created technical content explaining Kubernetes and containerization, the shift to cloud computing, DevOps, observability, and more. His work has been featured in The New Stack, DZone, Software Engineering Daily, TechBeacon, and StatusCode Weekly.

Dan Muret
Sr. Solutions Architect, Gremlin
At Gremlin, Dan works closely with organizations to understand, implement, and design Chaos Engineering and reliability testing practices. Prior to Gremlin, he worked as a system administrator and solutions architect for companies like IBM, Zerto, and Veeam/Kasten. Dan’s real-world experience in system architecture, cloud migrations, disaster recovery, and resilience testing help him guide companies to make the most out of their reliability and Chaos Engineering efforts.