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Quality by Design: Convergence of Testing, Lean, Intelligence & Automation
Software has become a key business differentiator. As a result, organizations now expect software development teams to deliver more, and more innovative, software within shorter delivery cycles. To meet these demands, teams have turned to lean approaches, such as Agile, DevOps, and Continuous Delivery, to try to speed up the delivery life cycle. After accelerating other aspects of the delivery pipeline, teams typically find that their testing process is preventing them from achieving the expected benefits of their acceleration initiative. Testing and the overall quality process remain problematic for several key reasons.
Design is defined as having purpose, planning, or intention that exists or is thought to exist behind an action, fact, or a material outcome. And quality is defined as the standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind; the degree of excellence of something. So, the question is how do you set a standard of excellence by design, while evolving into a fast-moving, adaptive organization?
As enticing as such a vision is, turning it into a reality can be challenging.
Building an organizational focus, enablers, teams, and capabilities aligned with the focus on Quality by Design offers unique opportunities for humanizing technology and for developing emotionally resonant products and services. Adopting this perspective isn’t easy. But doing so helps create a workplace where people want to be, one that responds quickly to changing business dynamics and empowers individual contributors.
Built on the theme of Quality by Design, this year the conference will be a display of ideas, experiments and experiences to explore challenges and suggest techniques and innovations to overcome the common challenges.
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Conference Agenda
Day 1 – December 06, 2018 | Thursday
Time | Presentations | Duration | |||
0800 – 0900 | Registration and Seating | 60 Minutes | |||
0900 – 0910 | Opening and Welcome Address | 10 minutes | |||
0910 – 0940 | Quality @ the Heart of SAP Cloud Transformation Journey. An insight into the bold new mission of Intelligent Testing – Rishabh Tripathi, Vice President & Head – P&I S/4HANA Test Engineering, SAP Labs India Pvt. Ltd. |
30 minutes | |||
0945 – 1015 | Will AI be another Tesla for software testing in the future? – Avinash Tiwari, Co-Founder, pCloudy |
30 minutes | |||
1020 – 1050 | The Next Frontier of Automation: Enterprise RPA
– Raj Dhingra, Business Head – RPA, Tricentis |
30 minutes | |||
1050 – 1110 | Tea / Coffee Networking Break | 20 minutes | |||
Paper / Best Practices Presentations | |||||
Track I: Business Leadership + Agile (Grand Victoria I) |
Track II: Emerging Areas (Grand Victoria II) |
Track III: Tools & Automation (Arabica) |
Track IV: Design & Innovation (Robusta) |
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1110 – 1145 | Business Testing Optimization – Mohamed Riaz, Manager Integrated Business Testing, VMware Software |
Effectiveness of front end performance of a website – M.Ramkumar, Ramakrishnan Sitaraman, Shyamaladevi Saravanamari & Kiran Marri, CSS Corp |
Bill to bill testing concept (Revenue Assurance) – John Kamaraj Alexander, Software Test Manager, Amdocs |
Customer Driven Testing Practices with Data Mining – Monica Singh & Anasuiya Gupta, Adobe |
30 + 5 minutes |
1150 – 1225 | Master-Orbit – Snehasish Roy, Rekha Shetty & Umasankar Reddy, Amdocs |
Quality Assurance for Ingestible Iots – Jibendu Narayan Mazumder & Arpan Sarkar, Cognizant |
AI Driven Continuous Testing for Accelerated Devops – Sibsankar Majumder, Dattatreya Majumder & Sayan Mukherjee, Cognizant |
Productionizing AI based Analytics Model for Quality Engineering – Dattaprasad Kulkarni & Rajeshwari Kumaran, Cognizant |
30 + 5 minutes |
1230 – 1305 | In-Sprint Performance Testing – Naveen Merugu, Manager Consulting, CGI |
Testing AI Applications – Vinod Sundararaju Antony, Senthilkumar T., Ankur Joshi & Neil Samson R., Cognizant |
A testing journey in the age of Smart Assistants – Geoff Meyer, Dell EMC |
Humanizing Quality by Design Thinking – Vamsi Krishna Kuppa & Konidena Sravan, ADP India |
30 + 5 minutes |
1305 – 1405 | Lunch Break | 60 minutes | |||
1410 – 1440 | Quality since Inception powered by Intelligent QA – Vadeesh Budramane, Founder & CEO, AlgoShack Technologies Pvt Ltd. |
30 minutes | |||
1445 – 1515 | Technology Aided Accessibility Testing – A Solid Prelude to Quality in the Coming Years – Rajini Padmanaban, Vice President – Engagements, QA Info Tech |
30 minutes | |||
1520 – 1550 | A DevOps approach to QA: Leveraging Containerization to Accelerate Quality Assurance Workflows – David Parker, Director – Global Strategic Alliances, Smartbear |
30 minutes | |||
1555- 1615 | Corporate Presentations (pCloudy & Amdocs) | 20 minutes | |||
1615- 1630 | Tea / Coffee Networking Break | 15 minutes | |||
Grand Victoria I & II | Arabica – Parallel Track I – Tool Demo Session | Robusta – Parallel Track II – Tool Demo Session | |||
1635 – 1655 | Blocked for Entertainment & Dinner Preparations | pCloudy | Smart Bear | 20 minutes | |
1700 – 1720 | Neotys | Tricentis | 20 minutes | ||
1720 – 1745 | Behavior Driven Test Automation and it’s Future. – Atul Sharma, Founder, Svatah |
Amdocs | 20 minutes | ||
1750 – 1810 | Raffles, Games & Give Aways | 20 minutes | |||
1815 Onwards | Corporate Presentations / Entertainment / Gala Dinner |
*subject to change
Day 2 – December 07, 2018 | Friday
Time | Presentations | Duration | |||
0800 – 0900 | Registration and Seating | 60 Minutes | |||
0900 – 0910 | Seating & Announcements | 10 minutes | |||
0910 – 0940 | Transformation from Quality Assurance to Quality Engineering Organization – Mr Jitendra Dutt Sharma, Head of Competency Centre, Amdocs Development Centre |
30 minutes | |||
0945 – 1015 | Drive the future with AI enabled testing – Mayuri Darabastu, Practice lead – Robotic Process Automation & Manager – Quality Engineering, Innominds |
30 minutes | |||
1020 – 1050 | Taste of Cloud Testing Anand Vaishampayan, Director – Cloud Application Migration Services, IBM |
30 minutes | |||
1050 – 1110 | Tea / Coffee Networking Break | 15 minutes | |||
Paper / Best Practices Presentations | |||||
Track III: Tools & Automation (Grand Victoria I) |
Track III (contd.): Tools & Automation (Grand Victoria II) |
Track II: Emerging Areas (Arabica) |
Track IV: Tools & Automation & Emerging Areas (Robusta) |
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1115 – 1150 | Zero touch QA automation platform – Suhardhini Kannapiran & Varadharajan Srinivasan, Cognizant |
Automatic BDD Feature Generation using Machine Learning Algorithms and Techniques – Indrajit Bhattacharjee, Sridhar Santharam & Magesh Jayagopal, Cognizant |
Machine Learning And Artificial Intelligence – Machine Controlled Data Dispensation – Muthu Venkatesh Sivakadatcham & Karthikeyan Mani, Infosys |
AI Powered Accessibility Testing – Jaspal Chand Ramola, Sr. Software Engineer, QA Info Tech |
30 + 5 minutes |
1155 – 1230 | Smart DevOps – Siddharth Sahni & Karanjeet Singh, Adobe Systems |
Digital Test Automation Platform (Omni-Channel & AI Led Solution) – Paul Thilak Adaikalam, Saravana Kumar Nagamurthy & JayaSudha JayaSankar, Cognizant |
Test Genie – Transforming The Way You Test!! – Partha Patnaik, Durgesh Joshi & Harsh Agarwal, Amdocs |
Reducing maintenance of automated scripts through smart object identification and runtime xpath generation for testing a continuously evolving application – Swarnil Kulkarni & Girish Kulkarni, Eaton |
30 + 5 minutes |
1235 – 1310 | Voice Experience Testing over Communication Media – Rahul Barua, Karthikeyan Swaminathan & Kiran Marri, CSS Corp |
Accelerating QA with Microservices Automation – Sai Subramanian, QA Manager, Cognizant |
Plug & Play Blockchain Validation Framework – Priya Venougoballou & Kishan Krishnappa, Cognizant |
Agility @ field level validation – Rajat Taheem, Manager QA, Rishabh Software |
30 + 5 minutes |
1315 – 1350 | Real world use-cases in using AI and Ml in Software Testing – Ram Shanmugam, Co-Founder & CEO, AutonomIQ |
Load Volume Designing through Application Performance Monitoring Tools – Vishal Anand, Manish Sinha & Satheesh K Babu, IBM |
Test Automation in DevOps and Agile – AI way – Karteek Gadiraju & Raj Uppadhyay, Microsoft Global Services |
Open Session | 30 + 5 minutes |
1350 – 1450 | Lunch Break | 60 minutes | |||
1455 – 1525 | Testopedesham: “Developer Bhi Kabhi Tester Tha And Testing Group Me Ab Sdet Hoga…” – Dr. Shankar Ramamoorthy, Customer Success Officer, Harman Intl. |
30 minutes | |||
1530 – 1600 | Growing and Thriving as a Testing Professional – Dhiraj Sinha, Vice President, Capgemini |
30 minutes | |||
1605 – 1635 | Shifts in Testing Services and Digital Drivers behind these Shifts – Anupama Jayakumar, Director, Schneider Electric |
30 minutes | |||
1640- 1710 | Corporate Presentations (Tricentis, Smart Bear & Neotys) | 20 minutes | |||
1710- 1730 | Tea / Coffee Networking Break | 20 minutes | |||
1735 – 1805 | Best of the Best Awards Function & Felicitation | 30 minutes | |||
1810- 1830 | Vote of Thanks & Closure | 20 minutes |
*subject to change

Keynotes

2018 Finalists
Presenters Category
2018 Posters Category

01
Learn from Leaders
14 Plenary Key Notes by Gurus, 25 Best Practice Presentations, 10 Poster Presentations, 04 Knowledge Tracks, 15+ Tools & Automation Demonstrations, Pre-Conference & Post Conference Tutorials, Pre-Conference Webinars. All in 2 days.
02
Showcase & Demonstrate
Your practice, expertise, tools, technologies, technique, experiences, and opinions to a global audience of senior professionals and practitioners. Create awareness, and get feedback with a community of over 12,000+ professionals.
03
Get Recognized
By contesting for the Best of Best Awards with 750+ best practices from over 300 organizations across 06+ countries. Winners of the Best of the Best – Testing Leadership Award get a featured speaker slot at QUEST 2018 in USA.
04
Meet, Interact & Network
Meet with over 800+ practitioners, International Experts, 100+ Leaders, Decision Makers, Influencers, and Thought Leaders in the field of Software Testing & Quality.
05
Explore & Partner
With individuals & organizations, expand your network influencers. Best place to find a new technology, new trend and new associates for your ideas and goals.
06
Get Inspired
By influential speakers, quality practitioners, evangelists, who have experienced quality from other walks of life, and other lines of work from across the world.
07
Get Tested & Win
A Challenge, a puzzle, a contest and finally an award and recognition. We encourage you to test your knowledge through online assessments, and skills by testing future products and take home a host of prizes and goodies. STC has 15+ different awards to recognize excellence.
08
Explore the Future
At the technology & innovation show case by the leading technology providers in the field of Software Testing & Quality. Live labs and tool demonstration sessions for you to experience the amazing new developments from various technology companies.
09
Support Profession
By attending, promoting, supporting, debating, joining the discussions and helping others in gaining insights and right perspectives, and providing feedback to the individuals and organizations through both online and offline interventions.
10
Have Fun
Work Hard, Play Harder is the motto at STC 2017. The Gala Dinner, Best of the Best Awards Night, lightening sessions, contests, quizzes, competitions and mock paper presentations, are just some of the many avenues created to make the professionals show their lighter side as well.

Testing Leadership Awards (2018)
The Testing Leadership Award recognizes leadership and contribution in the field of software testing. It will provide impetus and encourage contribution to the testing processes, skills and principles that make testing an imperative part of the software development life cycle. It will also encourage breakthrough achievements and innovative approaches in the testing process that aim to make successful products and services in the IT Industry.
The Best of the Best Awards have been instituted to recognize practitioners for their excellence in the practice of Software Testing & Quality. Instituted in 1999, the awards have become an industry standard recognition for the practitioners.
This year, we received over 470 submissions from over 250+ organizations from 06+ countries to contest for the Testing Leadership Awards, 2017. After screening the submissions for relevance and appropriateness of content, 252 papers were shortlisted for regional rounds in 6 cities across India.
The regional rounds were hosted by Cognizant in Chennai, Deloitte in Mumbai, QA Infotech in Delhi, CGI in Bangalore and Capgemini in Pune. A Jury Board of over 40+ industry leaders evaluated each paper and finally gave opportunity to 34 best of the best papers at STC 2018in Bangalore.
Winners of this year’s award ceremony conducted at STC 2018.
Winner
Zero Touch QA Automation Platform
Suhardhini Kannapiran & Varadharajan Srinivasan, Cognizant
&
Accelerating QA with Microservices Automation
Sai Subramanian, Cognizant
Click here to view the Presentation
1st Runner Up
Test Genie – Transforming The Way You Test!!
Partha Patnaik, Durgesh Joshi & Harsh Agarwal, Amdocs
Click here to view the Presentation
2nd Runner Up
Reducing Maintenance of Automated Scripts Through Smart Object Identification and Runtime Xpath Generation for Testing a Continuously Evolving Application
Swarnil Kulkarni & Girish Kulkarni, Eaton
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Winner
Best Practices to Prevent Spillovers in Agile Scrum
Janaki Pusuluri, Wells Fargo
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Winner
Taste of Cloud Testing
Anand Vaishampayan, IBM
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If you are a provider of IT quality and/or testing tools and services, this is a great opportunity to reinforce your brand’s presence by being represented and making yourself known at STC 2018 through the sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities.
The conference features a two-day Exhibitor EXPO for “one-stop-shopping” of IT quality and testing tools, and services. Conference attendees can browse the exhibitor booths in the exhibition hall to gather information and speak with representatives from the vendor organizations. The Expo, gives sponsors direct access to conference delegates. Companies with software testing and development products and services will certainly benefit from direct sales interaction with this highly targeted and motivated audience.
The conference sponsors and exhibitors will host an EXPO reception on Thursday evening with conference attendees for additional networking opportunities.
Participation as a sponsor or exhibitor at this conference provides high visibility for your company. Your company’s name and logo will appear on the STC conference website. Secondly, your company’s name and logo will appear in all marketing materials for the conference which will be distributed to over 50,000 IT professionals across the India and globally. Lastly, your company will have direct contact with IT professionals attending the conference, which include management at all levels as well as practitioners who take information back to their companies that they gathered during the conference and Exhibitor EXPO. You can view past STC sponsors and exhibitors at STC 2017, STC 2015, STC 2014, STC 2013, and STC 2012.
We are now accepting requests for serving as a conference sponsor and/or participating in the Exhibitor EXPO. For more information please contact Pradeep Chennavajhula (pradeep.c@qaiglobal.com) for a detailed proposal.

September 10, 2018:
Submission of Author Intent Form.
September 18, 2018:
Submission of Final Paper/Practice/Tutorial & Copyright Release Form signed by all authors.
September 22, 2018:
Regional Qualifying Rounds.
October 05, 2018:
Announcement of results for Regional Qualifying Rounds.
November 10, 2018:
Submission of Final Presentation for the conference.
December 06-07, 2018:
18th Annual International Software Testing Conference (STC 2018).




COMPLETE PASS
Rs. 12500
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For individuals, corporate sponsored professionals/ teams interested in attending the complete 2 day event, including Entertainment Evening/ Gala Dinner and Awards Night.
DAY PASS
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Per Participant
For Professionals interested in attending the complete 1 day event. Choose either Day 1 (includes entertainment evening/ gala dinner) or Day 2 (includes awards night).

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