22st Annual International
Software Testing Conference 2022
December 8 – 9 , 2022 | Virtual Mode

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The topic of relevance, interest defining the context for the conversation.
Creating and Enabling Secure, Resilient, and Scalable Digital Transformation
When COVID-19 accelerated digital business, it also accelerated the trend wherein many digital assets — and individuals — are increasingly located outside of the traditional enterprise infrastructure. In alignment with the goal of assurance – which is to minimize risk – the focus of all assurance teams shifts to building methods, practices, approaches and frameworks for enabling secure, and scalable digital transformation for organization. In addition to building these frameworks, a lot of emphasis is to ensure the enablement of the same for ensuring resilience and sustainability. Built on the theme of Creating & Enabling Secure, Resilient, and Scalable Digital Transformation this year, the conference will display ideas, experiments, and experiences to explore challenges and suggest techniques and innovations to overcome common problems.
STC 2022 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
800+
Practice Submissions
131+
Active Practitioners
75+
Leading Organizations
25
Inspring Thought Leaders
10
Best Practice Presenters
6
Focused Technical Tracks
1
Business Leadership
Track highlighting best practices for acquiring, growing, and sustaining growth.
Business Trends & Growth Models | Customer Acquisition & Retention | Innovation | Test Factory | Growth Strategy & Directions | Outsourcing & Crowd Sourcing | Customer Expectation & Value Management | Pricing Strategies | CIO Expectations | ROI Measurement | Scaling TCoE | Reducing Cost of Quality
2
Emerging Areas
Track focusing on the applied research and experiments to adopt newer methods & technologies
Cloud Testing | Internet of Things | Virtualization | Testing BIG Data | Security Testing | Microservices Testing | SAAS Testing | Continuous Testing | Release Test Automation | Performance Modeling | Maturity Models | New Standards & Frameworks | Cyber Security | Accessibility Testing | Managed Services | DevSecOps & Testing
3
Agile & DevOps
Track focusing on Continuous Quality in alignment with Agile & DevOps practices.
Agile Testing & Quality Strategies | Test Driven Development | Quality Control in Xtreme Programming | Automation in Agile Testing | Agility in Testing & Quality Control | Approaches / Examples for/of adopting Agile Principles to Testing Services | Agile Quality | Scaled Agile Framework for Testing | Integrating SAFe
4
Program Management
Track highlighting best practices for managing programs, projects, and portfolios
Requirement Management | Scope Management | Test Planning | Test Estimation | Test Project Management | Test Execution & Reporting | Measurement & Metrics | Team Building | Distributed Testing | Test Process Improvement | Infrastructure Management | Earned Value Management | Lean Testing
5
Tools & Automation
Track focusing on practices involved approaches, adoption, and scaling of Test Automation & Tools
No Code Automation | Automation | Enterprise Application Testing | Key Word Driven Testing | Embedded Application Testing | Tool Identification | Automation Frameworks | Tool Selection & Implementations | Lessons Learnt | Best Tools and Techniques for Test Case Definition | Reporting & Defect Analysis | Statistical Models | Predictive Modeling
6
Design & Innovation
Track focusing on identifying, innovations to out-perform the delivery of proposition of quality
Service Design | Service Innovation | Approaches for Service Design | Creating Quality by Design | Co-Design | Collaboration Models | Building Design Capability | Design Tools | Case Studies | Experiences in Design | Design Sprints

Focused Technical Tracks

6 technical tracks of content covering all aspects of Quality Outsourcing practices.
We love to hear your story.
Everyone has a idea, experience, learning, and a story which shapes a new practice, approach. There is a great learning hidden in these experiments, successes and failures which can shape the state of practice for the industry.

Why attend STC 2022?

Reasons why you should not miss this conference. Do you need more?
Learn from Leaders
10 Keynotes, 20 Practice Presentations, 6 Technical Tracks, Tool Demos. All in 2 days!
Showcase & Present
Your expertise, tools, techniques, experiences, and opinions to a global audience of practitioners.
Build Network
Connect with over 800+ practitioners, Experts, 100+ Thought Leaders and Decision Makers.
Explore & Partner
With individuals & organizations, Find a new technology, new trend, idea for your business need.
Get Inspired
By influential speakers, evangelists, experienced quality practitioners from across the world.
Support Profession
By attending, promoting, supporting, debating, and providing feedback.
Contest & Win
A Challenge, a puzzle, a contest and finally an award and recognition.
Get Recognized
Contest for the Best of Best Awards from over 300 organizations across 6 countries.

THE JURY

Leaders ensuring the best of the best learning!
PRABHU KOGUNDE
Head of Testing, Ericsson India Global Services
Praveenkumar Prem
Practice Geo/Sector Head, Wipro
Khimanand Upreti
Director, Quality Assurance, Nagarro
Venkata Goday
Assoc. Director Testing,
IQVIA
Haribabu Padmanaban
Head of Quality Engineering, Harness.io
Rahul Vishwaroop
Engineering Leader, Adobe
Dr Meeta Prakash
Principal Consultant, Independent
Diwakar Menon
Principal Consultant, Independent
Mamatha Mallya
Associate General Manager, HCL Technologies
Chandrashekar R.
Head India Delivery CoE, Emagine India
Sanjeev Das
Engineering Leader, Adobe
Angshuman Dutta
Director, Capgemini
Arvind Gupta
Global Security Lead & Quality Management lead of APJ & GC SAP CIM Engineering, SAP labs India Pvt Limited
Nagalakshmi Alapati
Sr. Directorg, Capgemini
Raghu KT
Director, Capgemini
Chetan Srivastava
Testing Delivery – EMEA, CALA & APAC, Amdocs
Rutvik kumar Mrug
Director, Cognizant Technology Solution

KEYNOTES

Learning distilled from practice and experience.
Subbiah Muthiah
Senior Vice President, Qualitest
Lisha Rakesh
Senior Director, Capgemini
Shridhara Bhat
AVP Projects / Head of QEA Technology COE, Cognizant Technology Solutions
Mehul Kagathara
Senior Engineering Manager, QMetry
Punit Samtani
Senior Product Manager, QMetry
Srivatsan Tiruvallur Thattai
Senior VP and Head of Digital Assurance, Changepond
Dr Shankar Ramamoorthy
Senior Vice President, iLink Digital
Raghu Krovvidy
Chief Delivery Officer, Cigniti Technologies
Avinash Tiwari
Co-Founder, Smart Software Testing Solutions
Rohit Piparsania
VP and Head of Competency Center, AQE, Amdocs
Best of the Best Awards 2022
Recognizing the best of the best in the practice, approach, research, and innovation in Quality Engineering
Who Will Win?

The Quality Engineering Leadership Award recognizes leadership and contribution in the field of Quality Engineering & Testing. It will provide impetus and encourage contribution to the Quality Engineering 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 Continuous Quality Engineering & Testing.

Instituted in 1999, the awards have become an industry-standard recognition for practitioners. This year, we received interest in submissions from over 375+ organizations from 5+ countries to contest for the Testing Leadership Awards. An Advisory Board of 18 industry leaders evaluated each paper and finally gave the opportunity to best of the best papers at STC 2022.

Winners 2022 – Best Of The Best Awards
A new way for testing in the autonomous factory
“Simulation based Testing”
Vinayak Rout
Siemens
Pratik Kulkarni,
Siemens
Soumya Peri
Siemens
Hari Priya Kodati
Siemens
Chaos Engineering for Creating and Enabling Secure, Resilient, and Scalable Digital Transformation
Microsoft – 1st Runner Up
Karteek Gadiraju
Digital Twin Model Solution
Ericsson – 1st Runner Up
Soumaditya Goswami
Author | Ericsson
Mainul Abedin
Co-Author 1 | Ericsson
Naveena Keerthi
Co-Author 2 | Ericsson
AI-Driven Automation with Ginger
Amdocs – 2nd Runner Up
Jinendra Ghodke
Itsik David
Mahesh Kale
Self-Healing – In Test Automation (Robot Framework)
CGI Global – 2nd Runner Up
Shyam Prasad
Kavitha G
Vinay Kumar
A new way for testing in the autonomous factory
“Continuous System Reliability Management”
Reuben R George, Mahesh Venkataraman, Accenture Solutions

Sponsorship & Support

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articipation as a sponsor or exhibitor at this conference provides high visibility for your company. The conference features an Exhibitor EXPO of IT quality and testing tools, and services. Conference attendees visit the exhibitor booths 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.
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COMPLETE PASS
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Complete pass closes on 10th December, 2021.
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