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Standard testing tools provides status by defect categories & severity; progress of testing based on number of test cases etc. There is a wealth of information in defect descriptions, requirement descriptions, log files etc that remain unharnessed. LTI has developed an NLP engine that examines unstructured & verbose data from such sources and provides insight into application hotspots, elements that change more than others. This helps testers and developers understand where future defects are likely to arise

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EIon Musk, one of the renowned innovator and entrepreneur, had announced one of the ambitious AI project “OpenAI”. With AI BOTs at heart, objective of project was to defeat professional gamers but it had rather short life with professional gamers found better of AI system quickly. This project is not alone, Microsoft’s Tay – AI tweet bot had posted indecent tweets and forced Microsoft to suspend within a day itself. Similarly, many of the prestigious company like Facebook, Apple had bad press for their AI invention. So is it problem with AI? Not really. There are many successful example of AI like face recognition by Facebook or product recommendation engine from Amazon. Difference is how you ensure the quality of AI product. The biggest hurdle to have AI successful is to build trust in quality of AI prediction or action. What AI needs hence is quality engineering, building quality within system rather than assuring the same. Potential reasons behind failure of above systems are either incorrect or incomplete input, not so right model or future scenario inclusion. Solution hence will include –

• Assurance of data quality (validating input) to have base of AI product error free
• including check of data bias, outlier, variance in data
• Assuring model (blackbox testing of final product)
• including key KPI and analysis of prediction quality
• Explaining Model behavior
• Focusing on “Why” rather than just “what” model predicts to ensure structural issue identified before releasing the product Also, AI being more close to domain, need solution less technical but impactful.

All above solution will hence be script less and interactive solution. This solution has not only reduce to distance between AI system and QA person but also increasing quality of product well before making it open for wider audience.

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Rutvik has 15 years of IT experience predominantly in development as well as automation testing. Rutvik currently spearheads solution as well as capability development for Blockchain assurance and AI/ML testing and had owned capability of lifecycle automation, SV and TDM in recent past. Rutvik comes with extensive experience in delivery as well as consulting for large enterprises. During such diverse experience, he has developed expertise on vital transformation levers of QA and DevOps.

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Test Automation Strategy: In Digital, enterprises hustle a lot to get the right application, on time. Business requirements, IT priorities and functional parameters change mid-course. To succeed in a market space that shifts as a norm, they need to drive quality at speed.
Automation is the key element to drive this outcome but the traditional automation levers are maxed out and we need to think of a different paradigm. It should be built on an intelligent, integrated and inclusive strategy that addressing Life cycle automation, Omni Channel assurance, DevOps enablement etc.
With cognitive capabilities, it makes software development not just automated, but also autonomous.
The session will It helps enterprises respond to market changes faster, accelerate adoption of Agile and DevOps and build applications right, the first time. With Zero-Touch QA, Cognizant is upping the ante for quality assurance, taking it above and beyond test design and execution, to end-to-end quality orchestration.

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Shridhar is a Sr. Director @ Cognizant and currently leading the QE&A Technology Centre of Excellence (CoE). He has 20+ years of experience in information technology in the areas of Software quality assurance, development and consulting. In his current role he is responsible for driving Technology based initiatives (Automation, Continuous Testing, Digital technologies etc) and build next generation solutions to address the digital needs. He has presented quite a few papers in leading conferences.

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In the session I will try to cover what exactly is DevOps. What value it bring to business. How to measure DevOps maturity. Once maturity is assessed how to lay down the transformation strategy. What role testing and Agile plays in overall transformation journey. And while doing the transformation what metrics should be considered and what artifact needs to be created. At the last i will cover "What is next DevOps".

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Abdul Haseeb Lunje, BE Computers, over 15 yrs of IT Experience. He is PMP and CSM Certified. He is a mentor and coach for senior and junior professionals well
During his experience he has played variety of roles like DevOps and Agile Transformation consultant, Product and Engineering Coach, Scrum Master, Transition and Transformation manager, Project Manager (for Development, Support and Infrastructure).

He has worked companies like HP, IBM, Wipro and Infosys.

His international exposure includes UK, Denmark, Middle East (Dubai, Abu Dhabi).

He also runs an NGO called 360° Career Vision 360careervision.com. Where he works as a Freelance Social Worker in the field of Career Counselling and Education.

He has delivered around 32 lectures in past 18 months. He has guided more than 100 professional and over 500 students.

He speaks on Career Counselling, Effective ways of CV creation, How to stay relevant?, Technical or Management Career Path?, I should study further or search job? What next after 10th an 12th and so on..

His NGO has created a portal where scattered Scholarships are brought at one place.

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To be successful today, a tester has to not only be great at testing, but also be an engineer of the agile testing processes. We all know 'defects are less costly when caught early'. This realization has given a birth of this concept called 'Shift left'. In the world with less time to delivery, teams are being asked to move faster with more expectations to improve the quality of each release. It is not only to move testing activities in the earlier stage of SDLC but also to test continuously again and again. With increasing adoption of Agile, BDD, TDD and DevOps (CI/CD), QA enterprises are rapidly moving towards Shift left testing. ‘Shift Left’ approach has brought a huge transformation for the Testing fraternity with a journey of ‘Early Defect Detection to Defect Prevention’ moving away from the sole testing focus of 'Defect Detection'. During this session we will try to understand this concept with examples… What it really means to Shift Left, How does Shift Left influence software development, How the testing processes and tester's roles are changing, What should testers do differently in Shift Left.
Test earlier! Test often... Test Left!!!

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Lalkar has over 23 years of experience in IT industry including over 13 years in quality field. His expertise is in driving all aspects of software quality throughout the software development life cycle using various techniques and tools. Being creative, energetic and results oriented with proven competencies in Team Development, Program and Product Management, Process Design, Quality Service Delivery, He has successfully created and maintained relationships with domestic as well as world-wide clientele in the software industry in a broad range of business verticals.

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Life cycle of user story Abstract: Life cycle of user story: Why BDD matters to Agile Testing?
• Test Automation Approach in Agile World
• Shifting Left - Building Quality in - a SAFe Core Principle
• Automation tooling
• Improving Agile Team's Efficiency via TDD and BDD
• Test Automation Strategy

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15+ Years of experience, specializing in Agile and devops transformation and enterprise transfomation, PMP, PSM-1, CSM CSP, SAFE Agilist, SAFE POPM Certified

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Evolving role of software quality professionals in enterprise cloud product development lifecycle

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During this talk, we will talk about the importance of Shifting Left, Shifting Right and the benefits we get in terms of agility and continuous delivery. We will also talk about changing paradigm in the testing world and more than ever need of continuous testing.We will also break the myth of testing dying in the agile and DevOps world and what our tester fraternity need to know and equip themselves to succeed in this transformation journey.

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Over 13 years of diverse techno-functional experience at HSBC, Capgemini (Morgan Stanley) and Fiserv as a Project Manager/Organizational Change Agent at both onsite (US, Costa Rica) and offshore (Pune, Noida) locations. Extensive experience in Software Delivery and consulting, Process Optimizations & Simplification, Agile coaching & implementation, organizational culture change and DevOps tools implementation and management. Proven skills in leading organization wide initiatives to bring cultural and technological transformations to bring agility in deliveries and accelerate time to market. A test evangelist with proven track record of test process optimization, automation ROI and agile scrum coaching.

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In this frenzy competition of transforming software delivery teams into agile delivery teams, In the quest for building the perfect agile, multi-skilled, cross-skilled teams, Organisations may disregard what a specialist can bring to the table. I would like to elicit you, the audience to - think about what should be quality for an agile team?
how should teams build -in quality?
Is it through the people, method, tools, process and what about knowledge?
And did you say you are comfortable with people marking their own homework? Do you want team to lose their quality mindset ?
My presentation will probe and guide the leaders and teams to
To aim for defect prevention over defect finding.
The need of the time is to first get the organisation’s understanding and set expectations from the teams right so that they can set the teams up for success, they can set themselves up for success.

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Devi is a Certified Agile Coach with 17 years of IT industry experience encompassing a wide range of skill sets. She specialises in setting up agile teams and help organisations achieve their vision. She is a staunch supporter of Agile and agile teams and believes everything can be resolved with good conversation and a cup of tea.

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Points to cover 1) In-depth reviews of Agile projects, designed to assess the health, profitability and client Satisfaction
2) Crucial checkpoints to review Agile projects
3) A mechanism for leadership to communicate or reinforce key messages
4) Actions to improve Sales and Delivery Performance which helps for
* Improved Forecast Accuracy
* Improved Contribution Margin on the projects
* Go-to-Market Assistance for Sales team
* Any Delivery Quality improvements

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Run the automation scripts using container which results into faster automation runs. Hardware cost is saved, it is more efficient as there is very less maintenance requires. There are many advantages and few challenges. Session will tell more details about how to create automation containers and manage them to get the consistent results.