
DevOps & Testing Conference - Chennai 2026

Programme
Registration and Coffee
Navigo Introduction & Welcome
Introduction to Sponsors and Supporting Bodies
AM SESSION
Beyond AI: Solving Real Tester Pain Points with and without AI
Speakers: Sanjay Kumar, Founder and Creator, SelectorsHub
Beyond the Hype: Accelerating Quality with AI Agents and Unified Test Stack
Speakers: Ganesh Mahalingam, Sr. Director of Product, BrowserStack
Coverage Is a Lie. More Scripts Won’t Save You. Intent Will
Speakers: Narain Muralidharan, Director- Marketing, Testsigma
Brew and Connect
11:00 – 11:40AI Beyond Models: From Technical Intelligence to Decision Intelligence
Speakers: Aiswaria Balasubramanian, Director- Open Banking Platforms, Standard Chartered Bank
Roundtables
12:10 – 13:00AI in Testing & DevOps: Cure for Quality or a New Kind of Risk?
Host: Thameemul Sadiq, AVP- Testing, BNP Paribas Wealth Management
Scaling Test Automation with MCP and AI: Standardization and Efficiency in Modern CI/CD
Host: Sivanandhini Chandrasekaran, Technical Product Lead, FordPro
Cloud and performance optimization driven by AI
Host: Ramchandran B., Sr. Performance Lead, Capgemini
Is Manual Testing Dead - Or Is Critical Thinking the New Manual Skill?
Host: Ganesh Manoharan, Sr. QA Engineer, TransUnion
Are We Measuring the Right Things? The Future of Quality Metrics in an AI World
Host: Ashwin Shanmugam, Product Owner, Ideas2IT Technologies
Lunch & Meet
13:10 – 14:10PM SESSION
Shift Left, Move Fast: Building Secure Software at DevOps Velocity
Speakers: Kasiraja Thangapandian, Global Director- Software Engineering, Visteon Corporation
Scripting to Strategy: Two decades of Test Automation Evolution
Speakers: Sathish Janakiraman, Sr. Principal Software Engineer, Dell Technologies
Scrum Zombies in DevOps teams - The never ending war of Process vs Progress
Speakers: Harihara Subramanian SC, Release Manager, Comcast India Engineering Centre
AutoPixby – AI-Driven Figma UI Comparison Tool
Speakers: Vijay Anand Vaidyanathan, Head of Quality Assurance, Quickplay Abhijeet Puniya, Sr. Test Engineer, Quickplay Praveen Kumar, Sr. Test Associate, Quickplay
Tea and Talk
15:50 – 16:20RAG-Powered Testing: Building Context-Aware Testing Systems with Generative AI
Speakers: Maheshwaran VK, Sr. Lead Engineer, Elixr Labs
Transforming QA to Quality Engineering in the AI-Driven Era
Speakers: Dhilip Prasanna, QE Manager, FPMarkets
Close of Day
17:00Speakers
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Venue

Park Plaza OMR
Park Plaza OMR Rajiv Gandhi Salai, 142, OMR Service Rd, Mettukuppam, Thoraipakkam, Chennai Tamil Nadu 600096