Programme Schedule

Wed, Oct 28
Session
                             Speaker & Sessions
08:00 - 08:50
                              Registration
08:50 - 09:00
Opening Note and Welcome
09:00 - 09:45
Keynote
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From Test Automation to Autonomous Quality: Rethinking the Future of Quality Engineering
Nikunj Mehta, Corporate Vice President - Quality Engineering & Agile Delivery, New York Life Insurance Company
09:45 - 10:30
Track Talk
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Beyond Passing Tests: Building a Test Automation Platform Developers Actually Trust
Curtis Miller, SDET, Phantom
10:30 - 11:00
                              Refreshment Break
Session
11:00 - 11:45
Track Talk
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Onboarding Your AI Junior QA Engineer: Building an Autonomous Multi-Agent Test Team with MCP
Premkumar Viswanathan, Senior QA Automation Engineer,  Upgrade
11:45 - 12:30
Track Talk
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The evolving QA role — from tester to quality architect
Alex Khvastovich, Staff QA Engineer, Nuclearn.ai
12:30 - 13:15
                              Networking Lunch
13:15 - 14:00
Track Talk
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Performance, load & reliability engineering
Pulla Rao Grandhi, Technical Project Manager, USAA
14:00 - 15:00
Panel
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AI agents in testing — co-pilot, colleague, or replacement?Exploring autonomous testing, agentic QA, and what it means for the humans in the loop
Matthew Finitz, Richard Williams, Vandana Dhingra, Ayyappa Sabbisetty, David Schneider
15:00 - 15:15
                              Refreshment Break
Session
                              Tutorial Session
15:15 - 17:15
Tutorial Session
Ismayil Aliyev
When Locators Break: Self-Healing Test Automation with Selenium & Healenium
Ismayil Aliyev, Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, Early Warning
17:15 - 17:30
Closing Note
Closing and Wrap-Up