Conference Agenda
JUNE 18, 2013 @ Nimhans Convention Centre, BANGALORE
Jump-starting your Software Testing Career
Target Audience: Budding professionals up to 3 years of experience
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Welcome Address P.S. Ravindranath Palehalli (PSR), STeP-IN Forum Bangalore EC Chair, and, Director, VMware Key Note Address Srinivasan Desikan, Worldwide Portfolio, Offering and Capability Management – Testing & Quality Assurance, HP Enterprise Services Trends in Testing – Synergizing Developers, Testers, Customers and End-Users |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | TEA BREAK |
| 10.45 – 11.25 | Mohan Babu Nellore, Engineering Manager, eBay Test Driven Development – Agility in Testing! |
| 11.25 – 12.05 | Praveen Kumar, Test Consultant, erstwhile Test Manager, Logica (now part of CGI) My professional life experience - Consciously grow the tester in YOU! |
| 12.05 – 12.45 | Raghavendiran D, Sr. Software Engineer, QA and Srivalli Arkalgud, Sr. Dev. Manager - QA, Intuit IDC Code Siren – Change Based Testing |
| 12.45 – 01.45 | LUNCH |
| 01.45 – 03.15 | Ajay Balamurugadas, Sr. QA Engineer, Fiberlink Communication MINDMAPS: A Powerful Tool to aid the Testing Process |
| 03.15 – 03.45 |
Ajay Baghel, Project Test Lead, Fiserv |
| 03.45 – 04.00 | TEA BREAK |
| 04.00 – 05.30 | MINI COLLOQUIUM Gopalakrishnan Nagarajan (GK) - PANEL CHAIR and TELECOM |
JUNE 19, 2013 @ Vivanta by Taj, M.G. Road, BANGALORE
Sharpening the saw - a deep-dive into Techniques, Tools and Methodology
Target Audience: Test leads upwards to Test Architects, Test Managers
Two-Hour Tutorial Workshops (2 parallel tracks) followed by a Finale session
| TRACK 1^^ | TRACK 2^^ | |
| 09:00 – 11:00 | Session 1–A Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering White Box Testing – Learn the Unknowns |
Session 1–B Suchitha Chetia, Sr. Director - QE, VMware Data Center Migration / Cloud Infrastructure Enablement – Role of QA in an infrastructure intensive environment |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | TEA BREAK | |
| 11:15 – 01:15 | Session 2–A Suhas Desai, Practice Lead – Mobile Security, Aujas Networks Secure Mobile Application Development – a Non-Traditional approach |
Session 2–B Rahul Goel, Sr. Manager, Cigniti Inc Building A Cloud Based Performance Test Lab: An Experiential Workshop |
| 01:15 - 02:15 | LUNCH BREAK | |
| 02:15 – 04:15 | Session 3–A Yogananda Jeppu, Sr. Systems Specialist, Moog India Technology Mission Critical Software – Can we afford defects? |
Session 3–B Udhay Kumar VR, CoE Head Performance Engineering, Test Automation and SOA, Wipro Ltd. Service Virtualization - Conjure, Test and Deliver |
| 04:15 – 04:35 | TEA BREAK | |
| 04:35 – 05:35 | Rahul Mirakhur, Director – QA, Atimi Software Inc Moving beyond Mobile Testing 101 |
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JUNE 20, 2013 @ Vivanta by Taj, M.G. Road, BANGALORE
Next Generation Testing - Learning from the past; Preparing for the future
Target Audience: CXOs, Vice Presidents, Directors, Business Heads; Customers and end-users of IT products and services; Test Management professionals – Managers, Test Leads, Software, Test Engineers; Quality / SEPG Management Professionals – Managers, QA Leads, Software QA Engineers; Product Development Managers; Change Agents
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Welcome Address Key Note Address Vote of thanks |
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| 10:30 – 10:45 | TEA BREAK | |
| 10:45 – 11:25 | Keith Klain, Head of Global Test Centre, Barclays Plc Creating Dissonance Overcoming Organizational Bias towards the Value of Software Testing |
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| 11:25 – 12:05 | Vikram Biswas, Senior Director – Testing & QA, FMR | |
| 12:05 – 12:45 | Vibhor Agarwal, Principal Group Program Manager, Visual Studio Test Tools, Microsoft IDC Impediments to Agile Testing and their Solutions |
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| 12:45 – 12.55 | Lightning Talk Nagbushan T.H.M, Staff Software Engineer in Quality, Intuit Inc and Srivalli Arkalgud, Sr. Dev. Manager - QA, Intuit IDC How to Bullet Proof Releases |
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| 12.55 – 02.00 | LUNCH | |
| 02.00 – 02.30 | Ashwin Palaparthi, Founder, ApnaBoxOffice.com Tactics of Testing a Social Network |
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| 02.30 – 02.40 | Corporate Presentation: Thibaud Bussière, President and Co-founder, & Stéphane Jammet, Managing Director, Neotys Next-Gen Applications Require Next-Gen Performance Testing |
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| 02:40 – 03:20 | Dr. Mike Bartley, CEO, Test and Verification Solutions Innovations in Hardware Verification and their novel application in Software Testing |
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| 03:20 – 03:40 | TEA BREAK | |
| 03:40 – 04:20 | Sharad Kumar, Principal Solution Architect, Mahindra Satyam Testing the Shrinking World |
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| 04:20 – 05:30 | PANEL DISCUSSION: Next Gen Testing - The quest for Faster, Better and Cheaper Testing Krishna Rajan Sachidanand Mangala |
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JUNE 21, 2013 @ Vivanta by Taj, M.G. Road, BANGALORE
Next Generation Testing - Learning from the past; Preparing for the future
Target Audience: CXOs, Vice Presidents, Directors, Business Heads; Customers and end-users of IT products and services; Test Management professionals – Managers, Test Leads, Software, Test Engineers; Quality / SEPG Management Professionals – Managers, QA Leads, Software QA Engineers; Product Development Managers; Change Agents
| 09:00 – 10.15 | Welcome to dignitaries and lighting of the lamp ceremony Welcome Address Key Note Address Vote of Thanks |
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| 10:15 – 10:45 | TEA BREAK | |
| Technical TRACK 1** | Technical TRACK 2** | |
| 10:45 – 11:30 | Sowmya Krishnan, Sr. Software QA Engineer, Citrix Performance Testing of an IaaS Cloud Product - A Cloudstack Use Case |
Shabnam Choudhury, Test Architect, Happiest Minds, |
| 11:30 – 12:15 | Naveen S Yeshodara, Software Consultant, Novell Software Development and Sumanth Krishna, McAfee India Data Leak Prevention application on Consumer Electronic Devices |
Ashish Jain, Sr. QA Engineer; Mahesh Ganji, Project Leader QA; ShriRam Paidi, Project Leader QA, Oracle Deriving Context Utility of Test Cases using Fuzzy Logic |
| 12:15 – 01:00 | Subramanyam Tata, QA Manager and Abhilasha Vyas, Sr. QA Manager, Sapient Data Mining | Best Practices To Reuse Data |
Hemant Jaggi, Sr. Manager – Technology Development, MakeMyTrip Bringing Agility in Test Automation for Ecommerce organizations |
| 01:00 – 02:00 | LUNCH | |
| 02:00 – 02:45 | Harish Prathapani, Sr.Software Engineer Q.A, and Jyothi Nawabpeth, Sr.Software Engineer Q.A, Hitachi Consulting Business Intelligence from a Tester's Eye |
Dr. Kailash K P Chanduka, Head - Testing Shared Services, Aris Global Software Test Harnessing using Model Based Testing- A case study in Pharmaceutical Software Development |
| 02:45 – 03:15 | TEA BREAK | |
| 03:15 – 04:15 | Raj Neravati, COO, Cigniti Inc Testing Industry – Phase II of IV&V |
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| 04:15 – 04:45 | Awards and closing | |
| 04:45 – 05:00 | Photo session | |
Note: ** Each track sessions is of 40 minutes duration. Additional 5 minute buffer to move between adjacent track venues
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