Alyona Bulda

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[Exactpro @exactpro]

th2-loader is a high-performance load and simulation platform for mission-critical FMIs – environments where performance and resiliency cannot be separated from correctness.
th2-loader is equipped with a variety of testing modes:
▪️load generation via multiple protocols
▪️client and server simulation
▪️event-driven load test scenarios
▪️post-execution data analysis and reconciliation
▪️functional testing
▪️test or production data replay
See th2-loader’s advanced load control & fault testing features on our website at https://t.co/8TQXrC3TSD

#load #performance #nonfunctional #functional #operationalresilience #testing

[Exactpro @exactpro]

In environments where trading systems operate, microsecond-level latency is a differentiating factor and instability under load is as much of a threat as a functional defect. The validation of such systems calls for load testing tools purpose-built for the unique demands of the electronic trading infrastructure. They should be capable of sustaining millions of messages per second, simulating realistic market participant behaviour, supporting a wide range of financial protocols and producing actionable, analyst-ready performance reports.

At the 14th International Workshop on Load Testing and Benchmarking of Software Systems (LTB 2026), Exactpro’s Alyona Bulda, SVP, Emerging Technologies, will present a paper – ‘Beyond Message Injection: Advanced Load Testing Capabilities for Trading Systems with th2-shark’, co-authored with @IosifItkin, CEO & Co-founder of @exactpro.
🕓 16:30 CEST
The event, co-located with ICPE 2026 – the 17th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, will take place on 4 May in Florence, Italy.

Learn more about our participation in the event and register via this link: https://t.co/GQHf9IW5E8

Find out more about th2-shark (aka Loader) – our high-performance load and simulation platform for mission-critical financial market infrastructures: https://t.co/SOJpEBBf8f

Get in touch with Alyona Bulda to explore how th2-Loader can stress-test your systems.

#ICPE2026 #LoadTesting #workshop #SoftwareTesting #PerformanceEngineering

[Exactpro @exactpro]

What does it take to test high-performance trading systems where microsecond-level latency and stability under load are critical? It requires purpose-built tools capable of sustaining millions of messages per second, simulating realistic market behaviour, supporting multiple financial protocols and producing actionable performance reports.

At The 14th International Workshop on Load Testing and Benchmarking of Software Systems (LTB 2026) in Florence, @exactpro's Alyona Bulda, SVP, Emerging Technologies, presented a paper ‘Beyond Message Injection: Advanced Load Testing Capabilities for Trading Systems with th2-shark’, co-authored with @IosifItkin, CEO & Co-founder of Exactpro. The workshop was co-located with ICPE 2026 – the 17th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering.

In her presentation, Alyona introduced th2-shark (aka Loader), our high-throughput load generation and benchmarking tool built for high data volumes prone to fluctuations. Its core principle is to ensure test scenarios are expressive, portable and impose minimal overhead on the system under test.

Find out more about our participation in the event and access the slides: https://t.co/Cp62cDwiPt

Contact us at [email protected] to explore how th2-Loader can stress-test your systems.

#ICPE2026 #LoadTesting #workshop #SoftwareTesting #PerformanceEngineering

[Exactpro @exactpro]

❓‘Our regression library is large, and we have full traceability... Why do we still face defects in production?’ ❓‘Our system meets all of its initial SLAs. Isn't that enough?’ If these questions resonate with you, read on for answers from Alyona Bulda (@albulda) and Dmitry Kolpakov. Access the full article in this month's issue of @TheWFE's Focus at https://t.co/wAvdFh6uVU

#MarketInfrastructure #CapitalMarkets #OperationalResilience #AITesting

[Exactpro @exactpro]

In this article, @exactpro's Alyona Bulda (@albulda) discusses ‘Market Data Solutions Resilience for Increased Stability of the Financial Ecosystem’. Alyona explores why the issue of market data solutions quality is especially acute this year and recaps industry-tested practices to effectively assess and help enhance their functionality and performance characteristics.
Read the full article – first published in the @TheWFE Focus – at https://t.co/IkhJiSaFwV.

If you are attending @FIXTrading Community’s France Trading Conference 2025 today, come by the Exactpro stand to discuss more ways in which we help financial organisations enhance the quality and operational resilience of their systems, as well as boost in-house AI testing excellence.

#marketdata #consolidatetape #tickerplant #SIP #directfeed #quality #operationalresilience #AITesting #exactpro

[Exactpro @exactpro]

A few hours to go! We go live today at 6:00 PM (CET) | 12:00 PM (EST/EDT) for the webinar ‘A Book is the Best Gift – Software Testing & AI Edition’. Join our team – Daria Degtiarenko, Inthika Ramaniharan, Alyona Bulda, Elena Treshcheva, Dmitrii Degtiarenko and Iosif Itkin – as they explore must-read books on software testing and AI for 2025:
📌 Drawn to Testing by Wayne Roseberry
📌 Taking Testing Seriously: The Rapid Software Testing Approach by James Bach & Michael Bolton
📌 Non-Deterministic Software Engineering by Enrico Papalini
📌 Frictionless: 7 Steps to Remove Barriers, Unlock Value, and Outpace Your Competition in the AI Era by Nicole Forsgren & Abi Noda
📌 If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares
📌 The Last Book on Testing by Rahul Verma
📌 Introduction to AI Testing: Guide to ISTQB® CT-AI Certification by Iosif Itkin, Iuliia Emelianova, Dmitrii Degtiarenko & Anna-Maria Lukina

Sign up for the webinar via the LinkedIn event link: https://t.co/G2VrpPAGyp

#SoftwareTesting #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AITesting #Books #webinar

[Exactpro @exactpro]

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[Exactpro @exactpro]

Today at the @zero_outage Executive Summit 2025 in Vienna, Ian Salmon, Business Development @exactpro, sat down with Regina Melzer (Wiener Börse), Dietmar Böckmann (BKS Bank), Laura Hauser (OeKB CSD), and Scott Minneman (Zero Hash) for the panel ‘The New Currency: Trust, Technology and Resilience in Finance’.
The discussion focused on how traditional financial institutions are adapting their systems and strategies to meet resilience challenges, the intersection of regulatory oversight and technology, risk management in digital-native environments, and approaches to quality assurance and stress testing of financial platforms at scale.
The session also covered resilience-by-design, cyber risk frameworks, supply chain robustness and the role of cloud, AI, and automation in strengthening financial IT systems.

More on Exactpro at ZOIS Summit 2025: https://t.co/j16vzSAOvo

#ZeroOutage #ITQuality #ZOISSummit2025 #ITsecurity #ITprofessionals #ITresilience #Vienna #ZOISSummit #ZOIS #AI #AITesting

[Exactpro @exactpro]

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[Swift @swiftcommunity]

🏅 Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Swift Hackathon, @chainlinklabs and @DeutscheBank!

Chainlink secured the Business Challenge title with a solution that combines its automated compliance standard with the trusted verifiable Legal Entity Identifier (vLEI) framework to enhance regulatory compliance.

Deutsche Bank took the Technical Challenge with a digital-to-fiat bridge using ISO 20022 to enable interoperable CBDC and digital currency transfers across jurisdictions.

Congratulations also to the runners up, @CreditAgricole in the Business Challenge, and Currency Network Ltd in the Technical Challenge.

We’d also like to give an honourable mention to @BancoGuayaquil and @exactpro for their creative approaches and strong execution.

Read more about this year’s winning solutions: https://t.co/h62vuJt9Ry

#swiftatsibos #sibos #blockchain #iso20022 #digitalcurrencies

[Exactpro @exactpro]

Let us share the story of @exactpro's journey in the @Sibos Discover Perfect Pitch contest over the years. We’ve had the opportunity to showcase our capabilities in various categories – from ‘Leadership – Responsible Innovation’ in 2020, to the ‘Partnership and Collaboration’ stream in 2021 where we presented our distributed ledger technology development and testing expertise. In 2023 and 2025, we competed in the highly sought-after category – Established Trendsetter. In 2023, we presented our AI Testing approach as it gained adoption among our clients, and this year, we shared a holistic AI Testing Centre of Excellence offering.

Each year brought new opportunities to get creative and highlight our most forward-looking ideas, learn and connect with industry participants. Along the way, we were proud to reach the final stage twice, and each chance to address the judges and the audience marked another exciting milestone in our journey.
While we haven’t yet taken home the win, we embrace the fact that sometimes we win, sometimes we learn, and every experience has been a valuable opportunity to grow.

We sincerely thank Sibos for providing a global platform to share ideas and connect with the financial community – and our Exactpro team for their dedication in turning concepts into practical solutions.
More on our time at Sibos 2025 at: https://t.co/3pPtcxtEOJ

Browse our Perfect Pitch entries on YouTube:
‘Leadership – Responsible Innovation’, 2020 – https://t.co/eCd9UWZA23
‘Partnership and Collaboration’, 2021 – https://t.co/5fYAhI127F
‘Established Trendsetter’, 2023 https://t.co/92cM5L0mWo
‘Established Trendsetter’, 2025 https://t.co/lwVlQblKei
#Sibos #Sibos2025 #SibosConference #PerfectPitch #AI #AITestingExcellence #AITesting @swiftcommunity

[Exactpro @exactpro]

What a week @Sibos Frankfurt! From showcasing our solutions to connecting with industry peers, every moment was full of energy and inspiration. The crowning moment came on Day 4 when our solution Coincento, leveraging ISO 20022 to seamlessly integrate digital assets with traditional banking, earned an Honourable Mention in the @swiftcommunity Hackathon 2025 Technical Challenge!
Huge thanks to the organisers and our amazing @exactpro team for making it all possible.
Learn more about our Sibos 2025 activities at: https://t.co/JY8A0zL99c

#SwiftHackathon #Innovation #Sibos #DigitalAssets #SyntheticData #ISO20022 #FutureOfFinance #fintech #AI #AITesting #Sibos #Sibos2025 #SibosConference

[Exactpro @exactpro]

The @exactpro team has participated in the Swift Hackathon three times, and as of today, we are delighted to have collected the full house of Swift Hackathon awards:
✅ Honourable Mention in the 2025 Technical Challenge with our solution – Coincento – which leverages ISO 20022 to enable seamless integration between digital asset platforms and existing banking infrastructure.
✅ Winner of the 2022 Digital Assets Ownership Challenge with our solution – Project ‘Footprint’, an analytical framework for collecting, analysing and visualising ownership data of digital assets in an intuitive profile-based format.
✅ Runner-Up in the 2021 Synthetic Data Generation Challenge where we worked on creating privacy-preserving synthetic datasets for AI product development.

With the results traditionally announced during @Sibos – Europe’s premier financial services conference, Swift Hackathon is truly a global stage for innovation, creativity and technical excellence. We are proud of what we have achieved and, once again, would like to thank the hackathon organisers and judges for their consideration.

Every year, we’ve pushed boundaries, learned and grown. Each milestone reflects the dedication, creativity and resilience of our team. We’re inspired not only by what we’ve achieved but also by the challenges that continue to push us to innovate further. And this is just the beginning.
Find out more about our participation in the @swiftcommunity Hackathon 2025 and access the Coincento demo at https://t.co/zrhkJMUDdg

#SwiftHackathon #Innovation #Sibos #DigitalAssets #SyntheticData #ISO20022 #FutureOfFinance #fintech #AI #AITesting #Sibos #Sibos2025

[Exactpro @exactpro]

Financial markets rely on fast, resilient and trustworthy systems, as disruptions can cascade across the entire financial infrastructure. With AI becoming increasingly integral to finance, robust testing is more important than ever.
The September edition of @TheWFE's Focus features an article co-authored by @exactpro's Daria Degtiarenko (@DariaDegtiaren1) and Alyona Bulda, highlighting how SOR (smart order router) testing principles, approaches and test frameworks can be applied to RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) systems to ensure resilience, transparency and reliable AI in critical FMIs.
Read the full piece at
https://t.co/NgjycZN2tU

#WFEFocus #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AITesting #Fintech #SoftwareTesting #AIAdoption #RAGs #SmartOrderRouter

[Exactpro @exactpro]

As technological and regulatory innovation accelerates in financial services, software testing firms have a unique opportunity to move from compliance-driven assurance to showcasing their expertise at the heart of digital experimentation. In the white paper 'Test, collaborate, lead: turning industry engagement into a strategic advantage', @exactpro's Alyona Bulda explores how participation in initiatives such as PoCs, hackathons and calls for public consultation offers a high-return investment in visibility, capability and market relevance. While weighing the strategic pros and cons, Alyona outlines why software testing and other IT companies should leverage these opportunities.

Read the full white paper at https://t.co/9eXbtFD9ZZ

#SoftwareTesting #FinancialInnovation #DigitalTransformation #PoC #fintech

[Exactpro @exactpro]

We’re delighted to announce that our ISTQB® Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) Training Course is now accredited for version 4.0 of the ISTQB® syllabus! This ensures you gain up-to-date knowledge, prepare thoroughly for the official certification exam, and benefit from a hands-on learning experience focused on the core concepts and practical insights essential for success in today’s dynamic software testing environments.

Upcoming intakes for the ISTQB® CTFL Training Course:
✔️ CTFL 4.0 Guided Plan – an intensive 4-day course with 6 hours of live sessions each day – starts 21 July;
✔️ CTFL 4.0 Autonomous Plan – a flexible monthly subscription-based course – coming soon!

Find out more at https://t.co/kQ0Wyrzb08

#exactpro #ISTQB #CTFL #foundationlevel #SoftwareTesting #testing #istqbcertifiedtester #IT #fintech #course

[Exactpro @exactpro]

On 3 June, Elena Treshcheva (@_etres), Program Manager @exactpro, spoke at the A4Q Testing Summit on "AI Testing Explainability: Enhancing 'AI for Testing' with 'AI for Mapping’." In her session, Elena highlighted the important role of innovation in software testing – particularly as financial institutions advance their technological capabilities and the systems grow increasingly complex and less deterministic. To keep pace, testing practices must evolve to meet the demands of quality, cost, and speed, while effectively mitigating associated risks.

She introduced Exactpro’s software testing approach, which leverages data-driven workflows and simulation to support scalable, transparent testing across complex systems. The session also addressed the role of explainability in AI-driven testing, with a focus on requirements traceability and test library explainability, offering a perspective on their interconnection and practical implications.

Replay the session recording via the link below:
https://t.co/3dGFz6ZFLD

#AITesting #FIs #SoftwareTesting #A4QTestingSummit #AI #AITesting

[Exactpro @exactpro]

In today’s Q&A, Alyona Bulda, Head of Global Exchanges, SVP, Technology, @exactpro, catches you up on our recent case study on Test Strategy and Framework for Retrieval-augmented generative AI systems. Alyona introduces some of the key terms, explains the urgency behind the theme, and recaps the main features of the RAG-customised test framework.

Access the full case study at https://t.co/atcyJ6f4c8

#RAG #GenAI #SOR #SmartOrderRouter #exactpro #AITesting #SoftwareTesting

[Exactpro @exactpro]

Meet Ragsorus Rex – half dinosaur, half testing framework, all business. A creature born from the combination of RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), SOR (Smart Order Router), and a touch of AI imagination. Who said a research paper can’t have a mascot – its own Cretaceous creature to represent their mission?

In our latest case study, we draw from industry-proven practices for testing Smart Order Routers to shape a Test Strategy and Framework tailored specifically for RAG-driven generative AI systems. The result? An adaptable, AI-enabled framework with:
✅ Structured test steps
✅ Multi-level test coverage assessment metrics
✅ Areas of modifications for RAG-specific challenges
✅ Robust, reliable, and compliant test generation, execution, analysis and reporting mechanisms
Read the case study here: https://t.co/nxkaFsQdPB

#AITesting #GenerativeAI #RAG #SmartOrderRouter #OpenAI #finance

[Exactpro @exactpro]

The @TMXGroup Canadian Annual Derivatives Conference kicks off tomorrow in Montréal! Connect with the @exactpro team onsite if you are interested in learning more about our industry-proven AI testing approach.