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Architecting Continuous Quality: Think, Transform, and Thrive in an Intelligent Future
We are on the cusp of writing our next, and most significant, creation myth. It is the dawn of a new form of intellectual diversity, one that we need to embrace to advance state of the art in many critical ways. The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than the community of intelligent professionals.
With the AI revolution fast approaching, and convergence of agile, continuous integration, automation, the world has little time to prepare. But prepare we must, because it’s going to change everything. So the question this year is – How do you think, transform, and thrive in the intelligent future?
Exactly why STC 2019 is keen on addressing this challenge. STC 2019 aims to offer the most comprehensive view of what is taking place in the world of AI and emerging technologies and gives valuable insights that will allow you to successfully navigate the tsunami of technology that is coming our way.
Built on the theme of Architecting Continuous Quality, this year, the conference will be a display of ideas, experiments, and experiences to explore challenges and suggest techniques and innovations to overcome the common problems.
STC 2019 brings together practitioners, thinkers, and thought leaders to present tools and techniques to help you understand your environment better, organize your thoughts, create transformation enablers, and ultimately prepare you for thriving in the future. Learn, share, network, and grow yourself and your team at STC 2019.
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Conference Agenda
Day 1 – December 05, 2019 | Thursday
Time | Presentations | Duration | |||
0800 – 0900 | Registration and Seating | 60 Minutes | |||
0900 – 0910 | Opening and Welcome Address | 10 minutes | |||
0910 – 0940 | Glimpse of the Future: Testing in 2025 – Avinash Tiwari, pCloudy |
30 minutes | |||
0945 – 1015 | Continuous Architecture Characterization for Improving System Reliability and Resilience – Mahesh Venkataraman, Accenture |
30 minutes | |||
1020 – 1050 | The Convergence of RPA and Software Test Automation
– Vaibhav Kelkar, Tricentis |
30 minutes | |||
1050 – 1110 | Tea / Coffee Networking Break | 20 minutes | |||
Paper / Best Practices Presentations | |||||
Track I: Grand Victoria I |
Track II: Grand Victoria II |
Track III: Arabica | Track IV: Robusta | ||
Business Leadership + Agile | Emerging Areas | Tools & Automation | Design & Innovation | ||
1110 – 1145 | Enterprise QA Transformation Model for Digital Future: Turning your Vision for Change into Reality – Suhardhini Kannapiran & Varadharajan Srinivasan, Cognizant |
CodeVox® – An Analytics / ML based Riskier Component Prediction Model – Vivek Jaykrishnan & Jagadeesh Venugopal, Capgemini |
Reportage Tool – Mathi Deepthi, Parikh Vaibhav and Ankam Sruthi Kruthika, Wells Fargo |
Intelligent Scope Optimizer for SAP Applications basis Code Change and Customer Usage – Kumaresh V S & Sheeba Bazaz, SAP Labs India |
30 + 5 minutes |
1150 – 1225 | Dashboard for Agile – Panoramic (DAP) View of Agile Metrics and Predictions – Indira Kannan & Lavanya Mahendramani, Cognizant |
Performance at Right Left and Center of Quality – Karteek Gadiraju, Microsoft |
ChatBot in Software Automation – Rahul Jain, Arshla Jindal, and Nidhi Sachdeva, Adobe |
AIML Driven Unmanned End to End Platform Automation with ”Single Shift Left Design” for “QE/QA/Testing Organization – Snehasish Roy, Umasankar Reddy & Rekha Shetty, Amdocs |
30 + 5 minutes |
1230 – 1305 | Machine Learning will Aid QA/Testing Function – Meherphani Nori, Krishna Kankipati and Sridhar Potladurti, Broadridge Financial Solutions |
Aero Attack: Entering and hacking a limited wifi range remotely through a Drone – Vikas Pethiya, QA Infotech |
Amelioration of Testing Environment – Shift from VM farm to Docker clump – Avik Dey & Sanjan Bora, Software AG |
– | 30 + 5 minutes |
1305 – 1405 | Lunch Break | 60 minutes | |||
1410 – 1440 | Latest Trends in Quality Engineering – World Quality Report 2019-20 – Dhiraj Sinha, Capgemini |
30 minutes | |||
1445 – 1515 | Transformation – Where Quality Engineering is heading to? How to be prepared for the same? – Kiran Rayachoti, PublicisSapient |
30 minutes | |||
1520 – 1550 | Are you ready for Digital Transformation? – Ritu Chowdary, Fiserv |
30 minutes | |||
1550- 1605 | Tea / Coffee Networking Break | 15 minutes | |||
Grand Victoria I & II | Arabica – Parallel Track I – Tool Demo Session | Robusta – Parallel Track II – Tool Demo Session | |||
1605 – 1625 | Blocked for Entertainment & Dinner Preparations | pCloudy Tool Demo | How to build a bot using Tricentis RPA? | 20 minutes | |
1630 – 1650 | GenRocket Tool Demo | Functionize Tool Demo | 20 minutes | ||
1655 – 1715 |
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1720 – 1740 | Raffles, Games & Give Aways | 20 minutes | |||
1740 Onwards | Corporate Presentations / Entertainment / Gala Dinner |
Day 2 – December 06, 2019 | Friday
Time | Presentations | Duration | |||
0800 – 0900 | Registration and Seating | 60 Minutes | |||
0900 – 0910 | Seating & Announcements | 10 minutes | |||
0910 – 0940 | Thrive to mature Quality Engineering Organization in Digital era – Jitendra Dutt Sharma, Amdocs |
30 minutes | |||
0945 – 1015 | Digital Transformation : Remaking markets Reimagining industries and Reinventing companies – a futuristic view – Rituparna Ghosh , WIPRO Digital |
30 minutes | |||
1020 – 1050 | Nurturing a Postive Mindset as a Tester – Rajni Padmanabhan, QA Infotech |
30 minutes | |||
1050 – 1110 | Tea / Coffee Networking Break | 15 minutes | |||
Paper / Best Practices Presentations | |||||
Track III: Grand Victoria I |
Track III (contd.): Grand Victoria II |
Track II: Arabica |
Parallel Track: Robusta | ||
Tools & Automation | Tools & Automation | Emerging Areas | Tools & Automation & Emerging Areas | ||
1115 – 1150 | Design & Innovation – Orchestrate Test Execution – Sumit Chaturvedi, Ravi Shankar & Pankaj Kumar Pal, Tavant |
AI/ML Medicine – To Overcome Automation Challenges – Bhaskar Ranipa, Capgemini |
Deriving insights from legacy for assuring technology migration through Machine Learning solutions – Rajeswari Kumaran, Cognizant |
Application of Machine Learning in Quality Engineering – A techno functional perspective – JLRV Ramana, Virtusa |
30 + 5 minutes |
1155 – 1230 | Driving Continuous Quality through Culture to enable Success – Shantanu Ramchandra Divekar & Swapneel Shidhaye, Capgemini |
How do we test One Billion Data set in One Hour? – Varadharajan Srinivasan & Suhardhini Kannapiran, Cognizant |
QA methodologies for ‘Smart Lights’: A Testers perspective – Dr Kiran Marri, Karthikeyan Swaminathan and Suganthi Sambandam, CSS Corporation |
AIT – Artificial intelligence Test – Ashwin Kalmady, Piyush Jadon & Askana Chetan K, Wells Fargo |
30 + 5 minutes |
1235 – 1310 | Transforming Testing with “Cloud Testing Framework” enabled by Cloud Automation Platform (CAP)!!! – Aman Singhal, Paurnima Belpathak, Snehasish Roy, Amdocs |
Unique Compatibility Test and Automation – Deepti Palagiri, Siemens Technology Services |
The Testing Machine: Wings of a Tester – Hemant Kumar, Partha Patnaik and Anshul Jain, Amdocs |
Predict Quality and Effectiveness of Test suite using Machine learning – Harleen Bedi, Infosys |
30 + 5 minutes |
1305 – 1340 | Facets of IoT System Testing and Challenges Involved – Seema Bharadwaj, Venkataraman N and Sridhar Nagappa, Residio Technologies |
Elementary Performance Modelling for iOS Mobile Apps using XCTest – Ramprasath G, Cognizant |
Survive disruption – How AI is transforming uncertainty in testing – Khimanand, Vimmi Walia, Om Mishra, Nagarro |
Prodigy STLC : Leveraging AI to drive E2E testing !!!
– Partha Patnaik, Bharat Mantry and Yawar Khan, Amdocs |
30 + 5 minutes |
1345 – 1445 | Lunch Break | 60 minutes | |||
1445 – 1515 | Nation wants to know!! Testing Nation wants to know: Yantras Mantras and Tantras of New Testing Constitution – Dr. Shankar Ramamoorthy, CMRIT |
30 minutes | |||
1520 – 1550 | Improving accuracy of AI solutions by leveraging Synthetic Test Data – Mhahesh Muraleedharan , UST Global |
30 minutes | |||
1555 – 1625 | Keynote by QAI – To be announced. |
30 minutes | |||
1625- 1645 | Tea / Coffee Networking Break | 20 minutes | |||
1645 – 1715 | Best of the Best Awards Function & Felicitation | 30 minutes | |||
1715- 1730 | Vote of Thanks & Closure | 20 minutes |

Keynotes

2019 Finalists
Presenters Category
Poster Category

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Learn from Leaders
14 Plenary Key Notes by Gurus, 25 Best Practice Presentations, 10 Poster Presentations, 04 Knowledge Tracks, 15+ Tools & Automation Demonstrations, Pre-Conference & Post Conference Tutorials, Pre-Conference Webinars. All in 2 days.
02
Showcase & Demonstrate
Your practice, expertise, tools, technologies, technique, experiences, and opinions to a global audience of senior professionals and practitioners. Create awareness, and get feedback with a community of over 12,000+ professionals.
03
Get Recognized
By contesting for the Best of Best Awards with 750+ best practices from over 300 organizations across 06+ countries. Winners of the Best of the Best – Testing Leadership Award get a featured speaker slot at QUEST 2020 in USA.
04
Meet, Interact & Network
Meet with over 800+ practitioners, International Experts, 100+ Leaders, Decision Makers, Influencers, and Thought Leaders in the field of Software Testing & Quality.
05
Explore & Partner
With individuals & organizations, expand your network influencers. Best place to find a new technology, new trend and new associates for your ideas and goals.
06
Get Inspired
By influential speakers, quality practitioners, evangelists, who have experienced quality from other walks of life, and other lines of work from across the world.
07
Get Tested & Win
A Challenge, a puzzle, a contest and finally an award and recognition. We encourage you to test your knowledge through online assessments, and skills by testing future products and take home a host of prizes and goodies. STC has 15+ different awards to recognize excellence.
08
Explore the Future
At the technology & innovation show case by the leading technology providers in the field of Software Testing & Quality. Live labs and tool demonstration sessions for you to experience the amazing new developments from various technology companies.
09
Support Profession
By attending, promoting, supporting, debating, joining the discussions and helping others in gaining insights and right perspectives, and providing feedback to the individuals and organizations through both online and offline interventions.
10
Have Fun
Work Hard, Play Harder is the motto at STC 2019. The Gala Dinner, Best of the Best Awards Night, lightening sessions, contests, quizzes, competitions and mock paper presentations, are just some of the many avenues created to make the professionals show their lighter side as well.

Testing Leadership Awards (2018)
The Testing Leadership Award recognizes leadership and contribution in the field of software testing. It will provide impetus and encourage contribution to the testing processes, skills and principles that make testing an imperative part of the software development life cycle. It will also encourage breakthrough achievements and innovative approaches in the testing process that aim to make successful products and services in the IT Industry.
The Best of the Best Awards have been instituted to recognize practitioners for their excellence in the practice of Software Testing & Quality. Instituted in 1999, the awards have become an industry standard recognition for the practitioners.
This year, we received over 470 submissions from over 250+ organizations from 06+ countries to contest for the Testing Leadership Awards, 2019. After screening the submissions for relevance and appropriateness of content, 252 papers were shortlisted for regional rounds in 6 cities across India.
The regional rounds were hosted by Cognizant in Chennai, Deloitte in Mumbai, QA Infotech in Delhi, CGI in Bangalore and Capgemini in Pune. A Jury Board of over 40+ industry leaders evaluated each paper and finally gave opportunity to 34 best of the best papers at STC 2019 in Bangalore.
Winners of this year’s award ceremony conducted at STC 2019.
Winner
AIML Driven Unmanned End to End Platform Automation with “Single Shift Left Design” for “QE/QA/Testing Organization
Snehasish Roy, Umasankar Reddy & Rekha Shetty, Amdocs
1st Runner Up
CodeVox® – An Analytics / ML based Riskier Component Prediction Model
Vivek Jaykrishnan & Jagadeesh Venugopal, Capgemini
2nd Runner Up
Aero Attack: Entering and hacking a limited wifi range remotely through a Drone
Vikas Pethiya, QA Infotech
&
QA methodologies for ‘Smart Lights’: A Testers perspective
Dr Kiran Marri, Karthikeyan Swaminathan and Suganthi Sambandam, CSS Corporation
Winner
Cognitive and Resilient Internet of Things(IoT) Testing
Anireekshith Narayana, Kiran Kumar Reddy and PrakashGouda C from SoftwareAG
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Building trust in Smart (AI) system Smart way!
Rutvik kumar Mrug from Cognizant

If you are a provider of IT quality and/or testing tools and services, this is a great opportunity to reinforce your brand’s presence by being represented and making yourself known at STC 2019 through the sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities.
The conference features a two-day Exhibitor EXPO for “one-stop-shopping” of IT quality and testing tools, and services. Conference attendees can browse the exhibitor booths in the exhibition hall to gather information and speak with representatives from the vendor organizations. The Expo, gives sponsors direct access to conference delegates. Companies with software testing and development products and services will certainly benefit from direct sales interaction with this highly targeted and motivated audience.
The conference sponsors and exhibitors will host an EXPO reception on Thursday evening with conference attendees for additional networking opportunities.
Participation as a sponsor or exhibitor at this conference provides high visibility for your company. Your company’s name and logo will appear on the STC conference website. Secondly, your company’s name and logo will appear in all marketing materials for the conference which will be distributed to over 50,000 IT professionals across the India and globally. Lastly, your company will have direct contact with IT professionals attending the conference, which include management at all levels as well as practitioners who take information back to their companies that they gathered during the conference and Exhibitor EXPO. You can view past STC sponsors and exhibitors at STC 2018, STC 2017, STC 2015, STC 2014, STC 2013, and STC 2012.
We are now accepting requests for serving as a conference sponsor and/or participating in the Exhibitor EXPO. For more information please contact Pradeep Chennavajhula (pradeep.c@qaiglobal.com) for a detailed proposal.

September 01, 2019:
Early Bird Registration Opens
September 15, 2019:
Last Day for Receiving Author Intent forms
September 21, 2019:
Regional Rounds
October 15, 2019:
Super Early Bird Registration Closes
September 30, 2019:
Announcement of Results
November 15, 2019:
Submission of Final Presentation for the conference.
December 05-06, 2019:
19th Annual International Software Testing Conference (STC 2019).




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COMPLETE PASS
Rs. 12500
Per Participant
For individuals, corporate sponsored professionals/ teams interested in attending the complete 2 day event, including Entertainment Evening/ Gala Dinner and Awards Night.
Complete pass closes on 04th December, 2019.
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DAY PASS
Rs. 8125
Per Participant
For Professionals interested in attending the complete 1 day event. Choose either Day 1 (includes entertainment evening/ gala dinner) or Day 2 (includes awards night).
Day pass closes on 04th December, 2019.

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