Santhosh Tuppad, Software Testing Guru

Most of us always have this thought in our thinking that security testing / ethical hacking is always different from “Testing”. Well, to me it has never been different as my perspective has been about testing the software for Functional, UI / UX, Usability, Security, Front-end performance, Automating where it adds value as one for two decades now. You give me a computer to test, and I won’t have a narrow vision ONLY, but a variety of visions when I look at and use the software. In this talk, I shall demonstrate and we all will test our test ideas across a variety of things. Are you ready? Let’s make testing effective and fun with diversified skill sets within an organization.

Nivarti Jayaram, Chief Data Officer, Societe Generale

Sreekala Sunderrajan, Senior Corporate Leader

Debashis Banerjee, Senior Director, Walmart, India

Every cross functional Agile Team has a set of specialists who pitch in at various time to ensure a backlog is ready to be customer shippable sprint by sprint. These could be development specialists, test specialists, documentation specialists, operations specialists, business analysts and other specializations. As in mathematics the ratio of each of these is critical to the success of any sprint as their skills lend expertise and learning to others. In this session we explore if the number of devlopment specialist to test specialist within a cross functional agile team has a golden ratio? In this experience report what will be covered is learnings from scenarios where there is no test specialist in the team to a ratio where number of test specialists are more than development specialists. What will be covered are examples of sample ratios and the good and the bad of these ratios. The implications of getting this ratio are discussed not just from product development, people and stage of product. In the end the session should help product owners, scrum masters and scrum team members get a insight into this crucial element of any agile project.

Kiran Rayachoti, Vice President Engineering, Publicis Sapient

This talk is about the latest technologies like ChatGPT and how it can be leveraged to its maximum potential to enhance testing either in manual or automation. It also talks about how ChatGPT kind of technology impacts testing and is it really worth to explore this way of testing? This will give an insights and perspective on the testing trends with the introduction of the latest next gen technologies.

Rajesh Kannan, Executive Director, Deloitte India

With the increasing complexity of the cloud journey, there is a growing emphasis on integrating quality engineering practices right from the initial stages. This allows organizations to ensure a smooth and successful transition to the cloud, delivering high-quality, resilient, and secure solutions to their users. This session will explore the essential factors and critical focus areas that need to be adopted in any quality engineering journey aligned with Cloud transformation. By implementing the necessary shifts of Quality engineering within the cloud journey, organizations can deliver a seamless user experience, minimize downtime, and ensure the overall robustness of your system.

Vinita Jacob, Associate, Director-SRE, Verizon India

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is an important approach for organizations looking to optimize the performance of their systems and applications to deliver reliable, scalable and secure solutions to the users. Moving towards an SRE model involves several critical stages and evaluations that could vary for each organization based on their distinctive landscape of needs, current systems, applications and processes. There is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ solution. While organizations invest a significant amount of time to assess the current state of their systems, establish SRE goals and implement best practices, the most crucial component of the transformation journey is to rally the organization towards embracing the SRE mindset. This involves a fundamental shift in the perspective towards operations and infrastructure, by approaching them as software engineering challenges and dismantling organizational silos with a shared ownership model. A ‘Reliabilitymindset’ should bemodeled beyond SRE.

Mohammad Anwer, IT Engineering Enterprise DevOps Manager, Accenture

DevSecOps integrates security into the software development lifecycle, ensuring that security is not an afterthought, but a crucial part of the development process. This leads to reduced risk, improved compliance, and faster time-to-market. In my talk, I’ll cover the benefits of DevSecOps for organizations, including increased collaboration between development, security, and operations teams, better visibility into security vulnerabilities, and more efficient security testing. I’ll also discuss building a business case for DevSecOps adoption, including ROI and success factors to justify the investment in this approach.

Rama Krishna Sanjeeva, Sr Solutions Architect, AWS India

As part of digital transformation every organization looks for way to maximize developer productivity and improve their experience by providing them with right set of tools and services. Low code/No code platforms enable to build applications with minimal to no amount of code. This enables productivity for developers by enabling them to focus on key business specific value adds rather than writing large amount of code to handle platform specific aspects. I will provide an overview of industry trends and insights on Low Code/No Code and touch upon some key AWS cloud services like AWS Amplify Studio, Amazon AppFlow, AWS Glue Studio, Amazon CodeWhisperer, AWS CodeStar, etc that cater to this area and are widely adopted by many global organizations. Many of these are AI powered are provide a platform and insights to improve developer productivity and experience. I look forward to sharing our guidance on these too.