Test automation is not a new testing concept; however, it is still underutilized, with less than 20% of testing being automated. Test automation is among the top testing trends globally. The reason why test automation is still a global trend and will remain so in the next few years to come is because of the constantly changing market dynamics. As a result of these changing technologies, enterprises need to be on their toes to not only adopt the latest digital technologies but also have the provision for testing these technologies swiftly. This is where new-age technologies such as AI/ML and innovation can help. Testing in today’s world is about efficiency in terms of reliability and time. Artificial intelligence assists test automation by making testing more efficient. AI/ML can help in quickly identifying the defects by going through the test files at a greater speed than a human can do. Moreover, AI/ML can be designed to create algorithms that can help in generating better test cases, scripts, and data. Additionally, predictive models can be developed using AI/ML that can provide insights on what, where, and when to test. AI, therefore, has tremendous potential to drive the next level test automation that would be much more efficient than its predecessors.

A graduate in Engineering with PGDM/MBA from a Tier 1 B school, an innovator, strategist and a technology evangelist with over 20 years extensive experience working with Qualitest, Cognizant Business Consulting/Technologies, IBM Global Business Services, Wipro Technologies/Consulting in key focus areas such as Quality Engineering & Assurance, Enterprise Applications Implementation/Roll out/Upgrade/Maintenance, Management Consulting, Business Analysis/Development, Business Performance Management, Enterprise Risk Management for industry verticals including Banking and Financial Services, Energy & Utilities, Manufacturing, Hygiene chemicals, Electrical and Telecommunications, Logistics etc., across North America, EMEA, APAC geos.

There are a ton of best practices in the operations world. But what really makes sense for your team? The reality is that one size doesn't fit all. Lean is a framework for designing and optimising processes. Let's apply it to a typical incident management process and see what comes of it.
Description:
Lean Thinking is an analysis framework that has revolutionised various domains like manufacturing and software development. It's principles are:
Optimize the whole
Eliminate waste
Create knowledge
Build quality in
Deliver fast by managing flow
Defer commitment
Respect people
We will look at each of these principles and apply them to the incident management lifecycle. At the end of this we will see why certain best practises make sense, practices that aren't common but should be and common practises which are probably not very helpful

Biju Chacko is a 20+ year veteran of Unix system operations. In the past he has been a prominent open source advocate, helped popularize Linux in India and a core committer of the Xfce Desktop. Most recently, he helped lead an operations team that managed a fleet of 55,000 physical servers.

Many DevOps engineers have a burning desire to innovate and excel at automating and learning newer platforms. But they often feel their skills are underutilized or not rewarded fairly. So they withdraw their passion from work, and soon feel stuck in their jobs. Studies show that it costs millions of dollars in lost revenue due to employee inefficiency. This speech enables engineers debug the root cause of their mindset and provides actionable steps to reinvigorate their passion for DevOps. This new found enthusiasm and empowerment among engineers result in a high performing engineering teams and eventually a cutting edge tech company.

Aditya Guthey, based in USA, is an engineer by craft who worked his way up to becoming a senior data engineer at major companies like eBay, Verizon. Through coaching at IPEC, one of America's premier coach training institute, he transformed himself into an award-winning and a performance coach enabling engineers achieve their full potential. He is also a founder of a group coaching and training company called WorldWithoutBorders which helps clients experience life without limits so they live up to their full potential.

Testing is context-dependent, and in turn, so is test automation! Testing teams are faced with a number of questions, decisions and challenges throughout their test automation journey. But there is no single solution for their varied problems! In this talk we will outline a number of strategies that agile teams can follow– be it their selection of what to automate and how much, what approaches to follow, whom to involve, and when to schedule these tasks so that the releases are debt free and of best quality. Knowing your options, you can then decide on what strategy fits the best in your context and follow it in your test automation efforts.

Nishi is a corporate trainer, an agile enthusiast and a keen tester at heart! With 11+ years of industry experience in Agile environment, she has worked in various roles as a hands-on tester, automation developer, a consulting trainer and currently works with Sahi Pro as the Evangelist and Trainings Head. Nishi is passionate about training, organizing testing community events and meetups, and has trained hundreds of professionals and teams on agile, test automation, QA bootcamps and DevOps courses.
She is CP-AAT, CP-SAT, CP-DOF, CP-MAT (certified by ATA), Agile Scrum Master ASM (by EXin) and ISTQB certified (Foundation and Advanced Test Analyst & Test Manager) and likes to keep updating her skills periodically. She has been a speaker at many testing events and conferences. Nishi is also a writer on technical topics of interest in the industry and has numerous articles published at numerous popular forums and her own blog https://testwithnishi.com/ where she writes about the latest topics in Agile and Testing domains.

How Automation helps in building the scalable systems in the fastest way and grow and maintain sustainable business?

How DevOps is used to achieve 24x7 Cybersecurity. Using Spatial cryptography & AI/ML, provide realtime challenges to avoid security threats. DevOps ecosystem plays a key role in role-out changes to block new threats.

Dalbir has 23 years of experience in deep technology solutions including cybersecurity, banking, omnichannel solutions using AI/ML, Blockchain, Cryptography, Big data analytics, Protocols & Industry alliances. He successfully delivered products & platforms with Motorola-Google, Microsoft-Nokia, Huawei, ISRO. He contributed to cutting edge technology solutions & patents. His interests are Cryptography, AI/ML & Blockchain.

Let us automate in new way to an Infrastructure-as-code world. Terraform and Chef to safely and predictably deploy and operate the full stack lifecycle. By codifying APIs into declarative configuration files and recipes that can be shared, edited, reviewed, and versioned.

New Approach to Collaboration for faster Innovation

Core Competencies:

➢ A global Software Quality Engineering Leader driving Enterprise Applications both in the Cloud and Managed services platforms
➢ Been a driver of customer success and have had active discussions with executive leadership teams within the organization and attended several direct discussions with customers across the globe and resolved quality and product issues.
➢ Drove Global Strategic Quality engineering initiatives for OpenText, I was responsible for setting the Goals for Software Automation, Performance Engineering and Application Security and End-toEnd Solutions Testing. I was also heading the Custom Development Quality Engineering team as part of my leadership role in the past.
➢ Head of Engineering Product Support Tier-3 about 120 Mobile Value Added Service Applications while at OnMobile Global Ltd. .
➢ Been a mentor and a guide to all my reporting organizations and have ensured that the teams deliver on optimal performance with quality in mind.
➢ Practiced Agile (SAFe)and Waterfall models at various organizations including V-Model and Scrum Methods
➢ Have been actively on the innovations and development of inhouse tools and Analytics dashboards for the Quality Engineering and Product Support functions
➢ As part of the Agile product development process, implemented shift-left development process to accelerate the development of applications and testing. Introduced Automated Build verification CI/CD process during the Scrum development.
➢ Worked with cross-functional Business Analysts and Product Owners and Executive Leadership to ensure the products were delivered on-time and with acceptable quality standards.

Companies tend to think that making products accessible is expensive. However if companies start looking at Senior Citizens and Persons with Disabilities as potential customers who can improve top line and bottom line, that will make a huge difference. In this 45 minute talk - we will talk about what is accessibility, why do that, how to do that and integrate it into Agile.

•28+ Years of IT Experience
•Founder Chairman of WinVinaya Foundation
•Founder Director of WinVinaya InfoSystems India Private Ltd
•Alumni of Microsoft, Adobe, NTT Data , Wipro
•We provide free Training & Placement assistance to Persons with Disabilities, Women
•We focus on Software Development, Software Testing, Data Visualization, RPA, Tally Skills
•Our candidates work in MNCs like JPMC, Wipro, Caterpillar, HP, Dell and Upcoming start ups
•70% of our employees are Persons with Disabilities
•40% of our employees are Persons with Disabilities
•Along with our PWD employees, we provide Accessibility Testing, Disability Sensitization Services, Software Development, Software Testing, Data Visualization, RPA consulting services
•We build Software Products File Validater which validates thousands of business rules in fraction of time and effort
•Our clients include many Fortune 100 companies

Microservices Architecture focuses on helping the developers/architects to understand the key Architecture paradigms with a hands-on section available in the 1-day workshop. The objective of this session is to help the developers from Monolithic App mindset to a Microservices based App development. It also helps the developers with hands-on development experience with key Microservices infrastructure technologies like Eureka, Ribbon, Zuul, Kafka etc., and key Architecture styles like Hexagonal Architecture and Design styles like Domain Driven Design, Event Sourcing, and CQRS, Functional Reactive Programming, Microservice messaging. Apart from the Infrastructure and Software Architecture, the awareness session also focuses on Scalability and Testing aspects of Microservices.

Araf Karsh has with over 25 years of experience leading the design and development of mission-critical, object-oriented and web-based applications for premier organizations including Bank of America, CIBC, Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Permanente, the U.S. Department of State, and the U.S. Dept of Energy. Karsh has an established track record leading production software organizations and bringing new products to market using leading-edge technology.

He has extensive knowledge of Microservices, Containers (Docker), Blockchain, SOA, Angular platform and key foundational technologies. He is well versed in building highly scalable and high performance distributed applications using Java technologies.

Agile is picking up in almost every industry. Having a successful product means an essence of the kind of ground work, team, understanding and solving the problem of the tech world. We would walk through the journey of how we managed to unlearn the mistakes of building a product & back with a bang!

Naturally gifted skills | Product Enthusiast | Entrepreneur | Businessman

I was selling 3G dongles at different locations in Bangalore in 2009. I was selling them so effectively, someone noticed my skills, interviewed me for a software testing position, offered an internship and then later became a full time tester. I tested some of India's top apps and also at customer locations outside India. I was professionally on par.

I needed a better challenge. I saved some money, quit the job, and tried doing my own app. What a journey. I failed with it, burnt my money but had gained sufficient experience in identifying the gap between developers - testing - businesses.

Reduce manual efforts by 70% provides ROI and quicker feedback by test automation of Accessibility workflows with integration of Selenium & HTML code sniffer Enhancing customer base by enabling applications accessible to leads including differently-abled/ having special needs and abide by WCAG

• I would like to concentrate on 4 principles mainly ( POUR - perceivable, operable, understandable, Robust) and 12 guidelines of Text alternatives by providing alt attributes, Time based media by proving captions, Adaptable by all assistive technologies like screen readers/magnifiers, Distinguishable, Keyboard accessible

• This paper describes manual testing by reviewing HTML code and automated Accessibility techniques using evaluation tools like Voice over, AXE, HTML code sniffer, WAVE, A checker, W3c Mobile ok analyser, colour contrast analyser useful for developers and QA within their automated scripts