Agile minds build Agile Software. Scrum enables Agile minds through framework of practices. In this talk let's explore how Scrum acts as catalyst in building agility in software and software development.

Arpan is an Engineering manager with 18 years of experience in the IT industry. Design thinking, Agile, DevOPs, Test Automation, Site Reliability Engineering and (driving) Innovation are his specializations. Arpan believes in using a human-centric approach to design products and deliver them with a good turn around time using agile. Arpan is a big advocate of creating an environment where innovation sustains and people have the psychological safety to experiment, fail fast and design products that delight customers. Arpan is an IBM recognized speaker and presenter.

In the age of digital transformation, the role of the tester is evolving. Today's testers need to be more than just bug hunters. They need to be human-centered designers who can use empathy, creativity, and collaboration to improve the user experience. Design thinking can help testers to identify potential problems, come up with creative solutions, and improve the user experience. The future of testing is bright. Testers who embrace design thinking will be the ones who are in demand. They will be the ones who are able to make a real difference in the quality of software. This talk will discuss the rise of the human-centered tester and how design thinking can be used to improve the user experience with examples. It will be of interest to testers, product managers, and anyone who is interested in improving the user experience of software products.

Dr. Srijith Sreenivasan leads the business transformation of Research and Development in the Industrial Automation Unit of Schneider Electric globally. In this role, he enables new product development and governance with new ways of working based on agile, design thinking, innovative people practices and engineering excellence. Prior to joining Schneider Electric, Srijith worked with KPMG for 10 years, leading agile consulting practice in India and delivered transformational client engagements leveraging agile, lean, and analytics to improve business outcomes. Srijith holds an Engineering degree in Electronics & Communication, MBA in Marketing and Information Systems and a PhD in Management Sciences. Srijith has published research papers and points of view articles in premium international journals and also has spoken in several industry conferences in India and abroad.

In the contemporary test automation world, we have 10's of test automation tools available to set up your automation testing environment. Stability and maintainability becomes a deciding factor in most of the test automation tool selection. You can build your in-house custom framework that works for your test automation needs, there are already tools and frameworks available that get you up and running instantly. WebdriverIO is one such tool which allows you to scale up your test suite and reduces execution time by running tests in parallel. In this talk, you will learn everything you need to know to run a successful, stable and maintainable WebdriverIO framework from the ground up.

Manoj is a Director,QA at HighRadius Technologies. He comes with 16+ years of experience in Test Automation, QA processes and worked with Oracle , Host Analytics(Now Planful Inc) & ADP prior to HighRadius Technologies. He loves evaluating new automation tools (mostly open source), frameworks & utilities. He is also a speaker in Selenium Conference 2018, STeP-IN HSTC 2019 & World Test Engineering Summit 2019.

Agile Testing Quadrants delves into a comprehensive framework for effective testing in Agile development. It explores the four distinct quadrants that categorize testing activities based on their purpose and scope. The discussion covers how each quadrant contributes to a balanced and thorough testing strategy, encompassing activities ranging from unit testing and exploratory testing to automation and performance testing.

Sachin's journey in the IT industry spans over 21 years, during which he has taken on a diverse array of roles, including Developer, Architect, Agile Coach, Tech/DevOps Coach, and now serving as the Product Owner for IBM's largest NRE datalake. With a master's degree in computers, he has honed his skills in crafting adaptable software within an Agile framework. Central to his expertise is driving the digital transformation of organizations. Sachin has been instrumental in training, guiding, and mentoring both leaders and teams, instilling a culture of continuous improvement and an Agile mindset. He possesses a wealth of proficiency in conducting workshops that focus on leadership development, team cohesion, software craftspersonship and effective product ownership.

Dr. Pavan Soni is an Innovation Evangelist by profession and a teacher by passion. He is the founder of Inflexion Point, offering programs on Design, Innovation and Leadership. He has conducted over 550 workshops with 170 organizations in 5 countries.

Pavan is the author of the National Bestseller, Design Your Thinking, published by Penguin Random House in 2020. The book was shortlisted for the '2021 BBLF CK Prahalad Best Business Book Award'.

Apart from being an Adjunct Faculty at ISB Hyderabad and IIM Bangalore, Pavan is a columnist at Mint, YourStory, Inc42, Entrepreneur and People Matters. His monthly newsletter, Inflexion Point, reaches to over 20,000 enthusiasts across the world.

I'm an SAP ERP professional with an overall experience of over 14 years.

In my current role, I'm working on building enterprise business applications on the SAP cloud platform driving customers run their businesses with greater productivity and flexibility with S/4 cloud applications

In an era where microservices architecture has become the de facto standard for building scalable and adaptable systems, rigorous testing is paramount. This session is designed to explore and demystify the multifaceted world of testing within the Microservices domain, incorporating various techniques, including Unit Testing, Component Testing, Contract Testing, and Integration Testing. With an emphasis on leading platforms such as JUnit5, TestNG, and Spring Spock, participants will be exposed to best practices in leveraging tools like Cucumber, Selenium, Mockito, WireMock, and Pact SpringBoot Tests. The nexus of these technologies form the bedrock of resilient and high-quality software, an indispensable asset for today's rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Over 25+ years of experience leading the design and development of mission-critical, object-oriented, and web-based applications for premier organizations.

Hands-on experience on various latest architectures implementations, including Blockchain, Big Data, Cloud, Microservices (SpringBoot with DDD, ES/CQRS), Reactive Programming, Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, Istio), Kafka, and critical foundational technologies.

Extensive knowledge of Agile, Blockchain (HyperLedger Fabric, Ethereum), Big Data, Containers, Design Thinking, DevSecOps, Lean Start-up, Kubernetes, Kafka (Pub/Sub, Streams, Connect), Microservices (Domain Driven Design, Event Sourcing & CQRS), RPA, Service Mesh (Istio), and Zero Trust.

Knowledge of (AI (ML – (Supervised, Semi, Unsupervised, Reinforcement Learning), (NN – (DL – (Large Language Models, Generative AI))) )), Tools: GitHub Co-Pilot.

Apps Developed for Bank of America, CIBC, Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Permanente, U.S. Department of State, and U.S. Dept of Energy.

Organizations Trained: Aditya Birla, Bata, Baxter, CGI, Dell, Glassbeam, Honeywell, Kotak, Nutanix, Philips, Reliance, Sapient, SpiceMoney, TCS, Walmart, ZScaler.

Software Testing marketplace has evolved from with growth of IT industry. V-Model and ensuring adequate testing has helped deliver quality products and applications and has also helped industry ride on the wave to deliver as well as grow multi-fold capability.

The evolution has seen centralized/shared testing capability, test automation, focused testers. The industry has also survived with the confusion of Agile/DevOps and testing as part of it. Many proponents of Agile/DevOps shunned independent testing and many companies disbanded centralized test COEs to create decentralized/distributed capability. This further gave birth to Hybrid model. Test practitioner moved on from manual/process/domain skills to Automation and Agile process skills.

Test Automation matured from record and play to scripts to scriptless lowcode nocode. Devops has required Continuous Integration/Continuous Testing (CI/CD).

This talk is about what has worked well and what has not and what is in store for future.

Dr Renu Rajani is one of the early entrant in Software Testing industry and has led large testing practice at IBM and Capgemini. She is author of 2 book on software testing published with Mcgrawhill and Packt publishers. Her book with Mcgrawhill in 2004 was the first book authored in India on Software Testing; and she was conferred Testing Thought leader award in 2008 for the same. While at Capgemini, Renu has been global influencer/thought leader on social media on the topics of Managed Services and Digital Transformation.

In her career spanning three decades, she has served in leadership roles with P&L responsibilities at IBM, Capgemini, Infosys and has held portfolios in ADM, QA, Core Technology Infrastructure, Technology & Operations, and Delivery as well as Sales/Solutions.

Dr Renu holds PhD in Management and MS from Purdue University USA. In addition to her roles, she is passionate about women leadership, Diversity and ESG and Climate Risk. She has been instrumental in setting up and leading Women Who Code Network in Hyderabad.

Testers who analyze quality in every aspect of the team’s deliverable also have a responsibility to mitigate risks and practical issues that are bound to come up, and help the team succeed in their product as well as at being agile. And the leadership and the team as a whole has a responsibility to empower agile testers in a way that makes this job easy! Let us discuss and distill ways in which agile testers can be empowered to help mitigate practical risks in agile teams.

Through the 14+ years of my career I have been a corporate trainer, an evangelist, an agile enthusiast and still am a tester at heart! I currently work on creating meaningful content for product users to understand, appreciate the software in form of technical articles, training programs, community posts, how to's, videos, enablement content and certifications. I am passionate about learning, organising community events and meetups, and have been a speaker at numerous testing events and conferences.

Professionally experienced in installing effective & efficient test process in many organization thereby achieving the set business goals.

My current goal is to take our unique solution with high quality to reach our customers and ensure "Software Engineering. Optimized". As a team we are committed to unlock value for our customers by transformation of People, Processes and Technology in the area of Software Engineering.

Specialties: Test Process Improvement using Test Maturity Model Integrated (TMMi), Test Engineering, Defect analysis, Knowledge Sharing in the area of Test Engineering, S/W Project Management, Soft skills education, coaching for Managers to move to leadership layer, installing a sustainable test automation practice and help organization in DevOps implementation.

Do you know that DevTools doesn't give the right information about XPath & Selectors? Today it's almost impossible to verify selectors for shadow dom & nested shadow dom and nested iframes. Testers have long suffered through this during UI automation. Also we considered DevTools as a standard solution for locators but do you know that DevTools doesn't generate correct selectors for all the WebElements. There is no platform to debug XPath & CSS Selectors which can provide the information like what's wrong in selectors. And we all lived with these problems and we are living with them.

I always found everyone (including me) in our industry saying that we should learn to write our own XPath & Selectors but we never discussed where to write and where to learn and we ended up writing XPath in DevTools and learned many misconceptions and lived with the myths. But then one day I found that whatever we are doing is not correct and immediately I started working on these problems and was able to solve most of them and continuously working to solve every unsolved selectors problem.

In this talk, I will show how we all lived with these problems and are still doing things in the wrong way. I will discuss how we can use SelectorsHub and get better at locating Xpath and CSS Selectors which testers can use as part of our UI automation strategy.

I will also show 4 more Free Community Tools like AutoTestData, Testing Daily, TestCase Studio and TestCaseHub which will save a lot of time everyday in the Testing and development process.