Learn from the Testing Experts

27th June, 2025

BANGALORE

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Keynote Speakers

Harish Ramakrishna

Harish Ramakrishna

Director of Software Engineering
Visa

At Visa, I drive engineering excellence in Push Payments, leveraging Agile expertise to elevate Visa Direct’s operational precision. With experience at Target and Yahoo!, I’m committed to innovation, product quality, and agility, ensuring Visa stays ahead in payment technology. My team thrives on challenges, setting industry benchmarks.

QA Reimagined: Thriving in the Era of Generative and Agentic AI

The software quality landscape is undergoing a seismic shift. From manual test cases to continuous testing pipelines, QA has constantly evolved. But now, with the rise of Generative AI and Agentic AI, we stand on the brink of a transformation unlike any before—a shift that redefines not just how we test, but who we become as quality professionals.

In this keynote, Harish Ramakrishna takes you on a journey through the evolution of QA, revealing how AI is not just disrupting tools and techniques but reshaping roles, mindsets, and the very essence of quality engineering. With real-world examples and forward-looking insights, we’ll explore how GenAI is generating test assets, predicting failures, and designing smarter test strategies, while Agentic AI autonomously executes, learns, and improves test ecosystems in real time.

This is not a story of replacement. It’s a call to reimagine QA careers—where testers become quality strategists, prompt engineers, and AI collaborators. Join us to gain clarity, courage, and a practical roadmap to thrive in the AI-augmented world of software testing.

Takeaways from this talk

  • Understand the impact of Generative and Agentic AI on the QA ecosystem.
  • Discover emerging QA roles and skillsets for the AI era.
  • Learn how to future-proof your QA career with practical steps and mindset shifts.
  • Are you ready to not just survive, but lead in this AI-driven transformation?

Features Speakers

Yeswanth Lingala

Yeswanth Lingala

Software Engineering Chapter Lead – QA
Telstra India

Playwright Framework with different types of testing

Different tools used in creating a Playwright framework covering Automation, Stubbing, Security scan, Accessibility and few others

Takeaways from this talk

People can understand various types of NFT and FT testing covered in a single framework with regards to Playwright and its usage.

Araf Karsh Hamid

Araf Karsh Hamid

CTO
MetaMagic Global Inc

AI based Cloud Native Testing Strategies

AI based Cloud-Native testing strategies are critical to ensure the reliability and performance of applications built on microservices architecture. A comprehensive approach includes unit testing, integration testing, contract testing, and end-to-end testing. Unit testing focuses on individual components, ensuring they function as expected. Integration testing validates the interaction between different services. Contract testing, facilitated by tools like Pact, ensures that services adhere to the agreed-upon API contracts. End-to-end testing verifies the complete workflow of the application. Open source tools such as JUnit, TestNG for unit testing, WireMock for mocking APIs, and Selenium for end-to-end testing play a crucial role in these strategies. Additionally, tools like Kubernetes for container orchestration and Istio for service mesh can help in creating realistic test environments, making the testing process more robust and reliable

Takeaways from this talk

  • AI based test code generation
  • Comparison of Diffblue and GitHub Co-Pilot
  • Understanding the criticality various testing framework for Test Automation
Akansha Saraswat

Akansha Saraswat

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test
Mimecast India Private Limited

Microservices and Messaging: A Deep Dive into AWS SES Simulation and Asynchronous Testing

This topic focuses on the integration of micro services with messaging systems, specifically using AWS Simple Email Service (SES) for simulating email-based workflows and testing them asynchronously.

Takeaways from this talk

  • Simulating AWS services for performance tests
  • Testing the components with no end points
  • Mock test data and simulate the production behaviour
  • Scale the systems for better maintenance
Krishnakumar Mahalingam

Krishnakumar Mahalingam

Principal Software Engineering Manager
Microsoft

Industry Readiness – Nuances of testing applications based on Microservices architecture

Welcome to my session on “Nuances of testing applications based on Microservices architecture”.
In this session, we discuss the unique challenges and considerations of testing microservices applications. The session is going to be filled with real-life experiences on

  • Service Isolation: testing needs to ensure that services function correctly in isolation as well as when integrated with other services.
  • Inter-Service Communication, latency and potential points of failure.
  • Data Consistency and Concurrent updates
  • Deployment and Environment Parity: to ensure that tests of microservices run in an environment that closely mirrors production.
  • Security Testing: Security assessments and protection against common vulnerabilities
  • Performance Testing of loading Microservices
  • Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
  • Automated testing:

The session is aimed to provide best practices and detailed guidance on implementing and testing microservices.

Looking forward to a very interactive session

Takeaways from this talk

Key takeaways are Service Isolation, Inter-Service Communication, Data Consistency and Concurrent updates, Deployment and Environment Parity, Security Testing, Performance Testing and Automated testing.

Panel Discussion Speakers

Naveen Tiwari

Naveen Tiwari

Vice President – Data Engineering & Gen AI
Commonwealth Bank

Naveen Tiwari

Transformational Banking & Insurance SME | AI/ML & Tech Leader

With 20+ years in Banking & Insurance, I drive digital transformation for top banks like JPMC, HSBC, and Citi. Skilled in AI/ML, AWS, Agile, DevOps, and Solution Architecture. Proven leadership in managing 150+ teams, optimizing operations, and leveraging innovation for business growth. AWS Cloud Architect & SAFe 5 certified.

Anil Verma

Anil Verma

Senior Vice President of Engineering – Tech Platforms
Kotak Mahindra Bank

Anil Verma

Hands-on technical Engineering Leader on a mission to improve engineering productivity, development velocity, and quality of releases.

Ashish tiwari

Ashish tiwari

Director (Chief architect)
Capgemini Engineering

Ashish tiwari

At Capgemini Engineering, I lead AI innovation across Semicon, robotics, and smart IoT, embedding GenAI at the edge with tools like NVIDIA cuDNN. I’ve driven business growth by implementing AI strategies, including automation that significantly cut processing time and elevated our tech capabilities with Large Language Models.

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