Theme
The Future of Quality: Imagine, Innovate and Build the “new normal”
COVID-19 made leaders to imagine the unthinkable. Artificial intelligence, automation, and robotics will make this shift significant. Many new jobs others created, and almost all will change. As we look ahead, the question is – “how can we innovate to solve most pressing quality challenges?”
At STC 2020 and we are inventing the future of Quality Engineering and creating the path for Quality in the new normal. The definition of the new path shall involve exploration of trends, insights, and new approaches
Built on the theme of The Future of Quality Engineering: Imagine, Innovate and Build the “new normal” 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 problems.
STC 2020 brings together practitioners, thinkers, and thought leaders to present tools and techniques to help you understand your environment better, organize your thoughts, create transformation enablers, and ultimately prepare you for thriving in the future.
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Technical Tracks
FOCUSED TECHNICAL TRACKS
6 technical tracks of content covering all aspects of Quality Outsourcing practices.
Business Leadership
Track highlighting best practices for acquiring, growing, and sustaining growth.
Test Outsourcing | Business Trends & Growth Models | Customer Acquisition & Retention | Innovation | Test Factory | Growth Strategy & Directions | Outsourcing & Crowd Sourcing | Customer Expectation & Value Management | Pricing Strategies | Testing CoE | CIO Expectations | ROI Measurement | Scaling TCoE | Reducing Cost of Quality
Emerging Areas
Track focusing on the applied research and experiments to adopt newer methods & technologies.
Cloud Testing | Internet of Things | Compliance Testing | Model Based Testing | Virtualization | Agile Testing | Testing BIG Data | Security Testing | Managed Services | SOA Testing | SAAS Testing | Non Functional Testing Techniques | Performance Modeling | Maturity Models | New Standards & Frameworks
Agile & DevOps
Track focusing on the practices involved with Continuous Quality in alignment with Agile & DevOps
Agile Testing & Quality Strategies | Test Driven Development | Quality Control in Xtreme Programming | Automation in Agile Testing | Agility in Testing & Quality Control | Approaches / Examples for/of adopting Agile Principles to Testing Services | Agile Quality | Scaled Agile Framework for Testing | Integrating SAFe
Program Management
Track highlighting best practices for managing programs, projects, and portfolios
Requirement Management | Scope Management | Test Planning | Test Estimation | Test Project Management | Test Execution & Reporting | Measurement & Metrics | Team Building | Distributed Testing | Test Process Improvement | Infrastructure Management | Earned Value Management | Lean Testing
Tools & Automation
Track focusing on practices involved approaches, adoption, and scaling of Test Automation & Tools
Test Architecture | Automation | Enterprise Application Testing | Key Word Driven Testing | Embedded Application Testing | Tool Identification | Automation Frameworks | Tool Selection & Implementations | Lessons Learnt | Best Tools and Techniques for Test Case Definition | Reporting & Defect Analysis | Statistical Models | Predictive Modeling
Design & Innovation
Track focusing on identifying, applying innovations to out-perform the delivery of proposition of quality.
Service Design | Service Innovation | Approaches for Service Design | Creating Quality by Design | Co-Design | Collaboration Models | Building Design Capability | Design Tools | Case Studies | Experiences in Design | Design Sprints
KEYNOTES
Conference Agenda
Day 1
December 03, 2020 | Thursday
| Time | Presentations | Duration | ||
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Online Registration & Seating | 30 Minutes | ||
| 09:30 – 09:45 | Opening and Welcome Address | 15 minutes | ||
| 09:45 – 10:15 | Artificial and Natural Intelligence – Competing or Complementary? – Mahesh Venkataraman, Accenture | 30 minutes | ||
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Leveraging Data Analytics, Machine Learning & AI for DevOps and Quality Engineering Transformation – Anjali Chhabra, TechMahindra | 30 minutes | ||
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Tea / Coffee Networking Break | 15 minutes | ||
| Paper / Best Practices Presentations | ||||
| Track I: | Track II: | Track III: | ||
| Leadership + Agile + DevOps | Emerging Areas & Innovation | Tools & Automation | ||
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Relational Drivers to complement Customer certitude – Spurti G, Sanjan Bora, Saurabh Shukla, Software AG | Accessibility and Mixed Reality – Nandan Chhabra, Nagarro | AI for Test Data Management (Data Profiling using Natural Language Processing) – Indrajit Dutta Gupta, Capgemini | 30 minutes |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | Intelligent Optimization of Cloud Subscription Cost – Muthu Venkatesh Sivakadatcham, Infosys Limited | The Whys, Whats, Hows of Content Testing – A Engineering QA approach – Dr. Kiran Marri, Karthikeyan Swaminathan, Dr. Rakesh Rajegowda, CSS Corporation | How to perform 100% data validation in Big Data testing – Praveena R, Arunachalam S, Hexaware | 30 minutes |
| 12:15 – 13:00 | TestOps.ai ( An Intelligent Testing & Environment Management Solution) – Bhartesh Bohra, Hemant Kumar, Amdocs | Metamorphic Testing for validating Machine Learning WorkBench – Anireekshith N, Prashanth K, Emmadi, Manivannan Pandi, Software AG | Cogburn – a TDK for Rapid Test Automation – Ramandeep Singh, QA Infotech | 45 minutes |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch Break | 60 minutes | ||
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Thrive with Technical Excellence – Ritu Chowdhary, FIS Global | 30 minutes | ||
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Key Quality Enablers – A Strong Need of the Hour – Rajini Padmanabhan, QA Infotech | 30 minutes | ||
| 15:00- 15:15 | Tea / Coffee Networking Break | 15 minutes | ||
| Track I | Track II | Track III | ||
| Leadership + Agile + DevOps | Emerging Areas & Innovation | Tools & Automation | ||
| 15:15 – 15:45 | Intelligent Testing with AI/ML & Cognitive Automation for Complex RPA Implementations – Priya Tripathi, Amit Tyagi, Infinite Computer Solutions | The Perfect Formula for Successful Data Validation on Cloud – Paromita Shome Deb, Infosys | PCloudy – Tool Demonstration | 30 minutes |
| 15:45 – 16:15 | Resiliency validation with Chaos Engineering – Yakub Reddy Gurijala, Infosys | Performance Predictive Analytics Using AI & Machine Learning – Sudarshan Sridhara, Capgemini | – | 30 minutes |
| 16:15- 16:30 | Conclusion of Day 1 | 15 minutes | ||
Day 2
December 04, 2020 | Friday
| Time | Presentations | Duration | ||
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Registration | 30 Minutes | ||
| 09:30 – 09:45 | Seating & Announcements | 15 minutes | ||
| 09:45 – 10:15 | Quality Assurance – An enabler for Business resilience – Lisha Rakesh, Capgemini | 30 minutes | ||
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Consumer Experience Transformation and role of testing – Avinash Tiwari, Pcloudy | 30 minutes | ||
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Tea / Coffee Networking Break | 15 minutes | ||
| Paper / Best Practices Presentations | ||||
| Track I: | Track II: | Track III: | ||
| Leadership + Agile + DevOps | Emerging Areas & Innovation | Tools & Automation | ||
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Automated Impact Analysis for unattended Continuous Testing – Jagadeesh Venugopal, Vivek Sejpal, Capgemini | Automated Quality for the Hotstar Content Factory – Pavitra, Ekta Arora, Hotstar | AWS Chaos Engineering Framework – Kavin Arvind, Cognizant | 30 minutes |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | CI/CD as a Service: Moving towards large scale Continuous deployment – Abhinav Srivastava, SAP Labs | Comprehensive E2E Automation Solution for testing Packaged Products – Nagalakshmi A, Ravindra K Maurya, Digant Kamdar, Capgemini | Oryx – A one stop solution for Usability and Accessibility – Powered by AIML – Hemant Kumar, Akhil Bhardwaj, Amdocs | 45 minutes |
| 12:30 – 13:00 | Testing Heterogeneous Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Models – Amit Tyagi, Infinite Computer Solutions | Creating Robust cloud vendor automation framework – Dinesh Balaji Venkatraman, Capgemini | Elementary Corollary Practices For API test Automation – With ML Fundamentals – Mouli Sodipalli, Debabrata Das, Capgemini | 30 minutes |
| 13:00 – 13:45:00 | Lunch Break | 45 minutes | ||
| 13:45 – 14:45 | Key Findings from the 2020 State of Performance Engineering Report – Sriram Rajaram, Neotys | 30 minutes | ||
| 14:15 – 14:45 | Integrating Quality Engineering & DevSecOps to build the new normal – Rituparna Ghosh, Wipro | 30 minutes | ||
| 14:45- 15:00 | Tea/Coffee Networking Break | 15 minutes | ||
| 15:00- 16:00 | Best of the Best Awards Function & Felicitation | 60 minutes | ||
| 16:00- 16:15 | Vote of Thanks & Closure | 15 minutes | ||
WHY ATTEND STC 2020?
Here are our 10 reasons why you should not miss this conference. Do you need more?
Learn from Leaders
10 Key Notes, 20 Best Practice Presentations, 04 Knowledge Tracks, 10+ Tool Demos Conference Webinars. All in 2 days.
Showcase & Present
Your practice, expertise, tools, technologies, technique, experiences, and opinions to a global audience of practitioners.
Get Recognized
Contesting for the Best of Best Awards with 750+ best practices from over 300 organizations across 06+ countries.
Meet, Network & Interact
Connect with over 800+ practitioners, International Experts, 100+ Leaders, Decision Makers in the field of Software Quality.
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.
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.
Test, Contest & Win
A Challenge, a puzzle, a contest and finally an award and recognition. Test your knowledge through online assessments, and skills and take home a host of prizes and goodies.
Explore Future Tools
Live labs and tool demonstration sessions for you to experience the new developments from various technology companies.
Support Profession
By attending, promoting, supporting, debating, and providing feedback to the individuals and organizations through both online and offline interventions.
Have Fun!
Work Hard, Play Harder. Lightening sessions, contests, quizzes, are just some of the many avenues created to make the professionals show their lighter side as well.
ADVISORY BOARD
TESTING LEADERSHIP AWARDS
Recognizing the best of the best in the Industry for their consistent, and constant pursuit of quality. Defining the future best practices, and
propagating it through communities of practice.
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 interest in submissions from over 250+ organizations from 06+ countries to contest for the Testing Leadership Awards. A Jury Board of over 40+ industry leaders evaluated each paper and finally gave opportunity to best of the best papers at STC 2020.
Winners 2020 - Best of the Best Awards
Winner - CSS Corporation
“The Whys, Whats, Hows of Content Testing A Engineering QA approach.”
Dr. Kiran Marri, Karthikeyan Swaminathan, Dr. Rakesh Rajegowda, CSS Corporation
1st Runner Up - Amdocs
“Oryx A one stop solution for Usability and Accessibility â Powered by AIML.”
Hemant Kumar, Akhil Bhardwaj, Amdocs
2nd Runner Up - Hotstar
Automated Quality for the Hotstar Content Factory
Pavitra and Ekta Arora, Hotstar
2nd Runner Up - Capgemini
“Automated Impact Analysis for unattended Continuous Testing.”
Jagadeesh Venugopal, Vivek Sejpal, Capgemini
Winners (2019)
AIML Driven Unmanned End to End Platform Automation with “Single Shift Left Design” for “QE/QA/Testing Organization
Snehasish Roy, Umasankar Reddy & Rekha Shetty, Amdocs
CodeVox® – An Analytics / ML based Riskier Component Prediction Model
Vivek Jaykrishnan & Jagadeesh Venugopal, Capgemini
Aero Attack: Entering and hacking a limited wifi range remotely through a Drone
Vikas Pethiya, QA Infotech
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QA methodologies for ‘Smart Lights’: A Testers perspective
Dr Kiran Marri, Karthikeyan Swaminathan and Suganthi Sambandam, CSS Corporation
SPONSORSHIP & SUPPORT
Great platform for promoting your thought leadership, extend your brand visibility and promoting your products and services.
Participation as a sponsor or exhibitor at this conference provides high visibility for your company.
The conference features an Exhibitor EXPO of IT quality and testing tools, and services. Conference attendees visit the exhibitor booths 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.
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COMPLETE PASS
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Complete pass closes on 04th December, 2020.
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