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Keynote Speaker

Arthur Lim

APJ GTM Lead, Synthesized
VP of Digital Assurance Chapter, SCS

Featured Speakers

Suresh Kumar V

QA Lead,

Screening Eagle Dreamlab

Siva Varma

Engagement Manager, Tata Consultancy Services

Srinivasan Santhanam

Senior Principal Technologist,
SINGAPORE AIRLINES LIMITED

Fireside Speaker

Poorvi Ladha

Head of QA (Risk Management Group)

DBS

Tutorial Speaker

Sabarinath Subramani

Engineering Manager, Quality, Dell

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Saurabh Mishra

Lead DevOps Engineer, Optum Global

Panel Discussion Speaker

Priyank Chawda

Expert, AI Testing & Quality Engineering, ABeam Consulting

Priyank Chawda is a Quality Engineering Leader with nearly two decades of experience in Banking and Financial Services, specializing in large-scale enterprise transformation programs. He has led end-to-end testing strategy, Test Center of Excellence (TCoE) setup, and quality governance across complex, multi-country initiatives, delivering predictable and risk-aware outcomes aligned with business and regulatory expectations.

He brings deep expertise in building scalable testing ecosystems across functional, automation, and UAT layers, with a strong focus on standardization, operating model efficiency, and measurable quality outcomes. Priyank has led global teams across onshore-offshore models, driving adoption of modern testing practices in high-stakes, regulated environments.

Currently, he is focused on integrating AI into Quality Engineering—leveraging it for intelligent test optimization, risk identification, and improved decision-making, while ensuring governance, transparency, and control in regulated domains.

Jane Qiu Jiazhen

Senior Manager in Quality Engineering, Traveloka

Jane Qiu Jiazhen is a Quality Engineering leader focused on scalable automation, release governance, and quality engineering systems for large-scale technology organizations. She has led cross-regional QA and SDET transformation initiatives across fintech and travel platforms in Singapore, China, and Indonesia.

Her current work focuses on advancing AI-native quality engineering and intelligent testing systems through practical experimentation, iterative adoption, and real-world software delivery practices.

Learn from the Testing Experts

Keynote Speaker

Arthur Lim

APJ GTM Lead, Synthesized VP of Digital Assurance Chapter, SCS

Featured Speakers

Suresh Kumar V

QA Lead, Screening Eagle Dreamlab

Siva Varma

Engagement Manager, Tata Consultancy Services

Srinivasan Santhanam

Senior Principal Technologist, SINGAPORE AIRLINES LIMITED

Fireside Speaker

Poorvi Ladha

Head of QA (Risk Management Group) DBS

Tutorial Speaker

Sabarinath Subramani

Engineering Manager, Quality, Dell

Saurabh Mishra

Lead DevOps Engineer, Optum Global

Panel Discussion Speaker

Priyank Chawda

Expert, AI Testing & Quality Engineering, ABeam Consulting

Currently, he is focused on integrating AI into Quality Engineering—leveraging it for intelligent test optimization, risk identification, and improved decision-making, while ensuring governance, transparency, and control in regulated domains.

Jane Qiu Jiazhen

Senior Manager in Quality Engineering, Traveloka

Her current work focuses on advancing AI-native quality engineering and intelligent testing systems through practical experimentation, iterative adoption, and real-world software delivery practices.

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Arthur Lim

APJ GTM Lead, Synthesized VP of Digital Assurance Chapter, SCS

Beyond the Black Box: Why Human-in-the-Loop is STILL the Future of Quality

Suresh Kumar V

QA Lead, Screening Eagle Dreamlab

AI-Driven Migration: Converting Legacy Cypress Test Suites to Playwright at Scale using AI agents

Many QA teams today face a common challenge: large Cypress test suites that have grown over time but struggle to scale with modern automation needs such as cross-browser testing, faster CI pipelines, and improved reliability.

Playwright has emerged as a powerful alternative with built-in parallel execution, stronger auto-waiting capabilities, and support for Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit browsers.

However, migrating existing Cypress frameworks can be complex and time-consuming.

This talk introduces an AI-assisted migration strategy that helps teams modernize their automation frameworks efficiently.

The session will cover:

The talk will include a live demonstration of AI converting a Cypress test into Playwright code.

Attendees will walk away with practical strategies to accelerate automation modernization using AI.

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Siva Varma

Engagement Manager, Tata Consultancy Services

AI Can Run the Tests. But Can It Carry the Blame

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The attendees will understand why a full handover to AI is irresponsible for quality engineering—non-deterministic systems can fail catastrophically, even if they are seemingly perfect.

They’ll identify key risks that traditional testing methods miss—false confidence in incorrect but certain answers, toxic or dangerous outcomes, unseen bias, adversarial attacks that defeat defences, and data breaches that destroy privacy and trust.

The attendees will gain a battle-hardened human-centric approach that combines automation speed with essential human oversight—enabling ruthless risk prioritization, efficient environments, and built-in explainability, resilience, and governance from day one.

The attendees will learn how to assess trust-critical qualities like reliable judgment, transparent decision-making, rock-solid failure modes, and compliance—moving quality engineering from firefighting to proactive assurance.

Finally, they’ll leave fired up with how to move quality engineering into a strategic trust engine—accelerating safe AI innovation and unbreakable stakeholder trust into 2026 and beyond.

Srinivasan Santhanam

Senior Principal Technologist, SINGAPORE AIRLINES LIMITED

Agentic Service virtualization

Imagine you need to stand up a mock API — a virtual service — for testing. Normally that’s many minutes of hand-writing YAML, debugging syntax errors, and manually deploying to a container.

Agentic SV does it in minutes. You just talk to it.

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Poorvi Ladha

Head of QA (Risk Management Group), DBS

A Technology Assurance and Quality Engineering leader with over 15 years of experience helping large, regulated organizations reduce delivery risk, improve release confidence, and scale quality as a strategic capability.

In addition, she has built and led QA organizations of 70+ members, managed multi-vendor delivery models, and partnered closely with Technology, Risk, and Audit leadership to support regulatory readiness and control assurance.

Sabarinath Subramani

Engineering Manager, Quality, Dell

Spec Driven Development for QA Engineers

This session introduces QA engineers to Spec Driven Development and demonstrates how it can be applied directly within existing test automation workflows. The session is structured in two parts:

**Part 1 — Introduction to Spec Driven Development (15 minutes)**

**Part 2 — Hands-On Workshop: End-to-End Product Quality with SDD (45 minutes)**

The complete journey — Requirement → Spec → Test Plan → Test Cases → Automated Tests — gives attendees a transferable blueprint they can carry back and apply to their own products and frameworks immediately.

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Saurabh Mishra

Lead DevOps Engineer, Optum Global

Elevating Code Quality Through GenAI-Powered Code Review Automation

Takeaways from your talk

APJ GTM Lead, Synthesized
VP of Digital Assurance Chapter, SCS

QA Lead,

Screening Eagle Dreamlab

Senior Principal Technologist,
SINGAPORE AIRLINES LIMITED

Head of QA (Risk Management Group)

DBS

APJ GTM Lead, Synthesized
VP of Digital Assurance Chapter, SCS

Part 1 — Introduction to Spec Driven Development (15 minutes)

Part 2 — Hands-On Workshop: End-to-End Product Quality with SDD (45 minutes)