
Background
In today’s fast-paced digital world, the synergy between software testing and DevOps has become essential for delivering reliable, high-quality software at speed. The DevOps and Testing Summit Chennai 2026, scheduled for 19 February in Chennai, is designed to bring together practitioners, engineers, and leaders dedicated to mastering this critical intersection.
This summit provides a unique platform to explore the latest trends, tools, and best practices in test automation, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and collaboration across development and operations teams. Through expert-led sessions, and real-world case studies, attendees will gain practical insights to enhance their testing strategies and accelerate DevOps transformations.
Whether you are a QA professional, DevOps engineer, developer, or IT leader, the Testing and DevOps Summit Chennai offers invaluable opportunities to connect with peers, learn from industry pioneers, and discover innovative approaches that drive software excellence and operational agility.
Join us in Chennai to be part of the conversation shaping the future of testing and DevOps, where quality meets speed in the software development lifecycle.
Topics Covered
Why should you attend
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Access Exclusive Resources and Content
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Advance Your Career
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Discover Innovative Tools and Technologies
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Earn Professional Recognition
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Enhance Your Skills
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Gain Hands-On Experience
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Get Inspired by Success Stories
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Learn from Experts
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Network with Peers
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Participate in Interactive Sessions
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Solve Real-World Challenges
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Stay Ahead of Industry Trends
08:15 - 09:00
Registration and Coffee
09:00 -09:10
Navigo Introduction & Welcome
09:10 - 09:15
Introduction to Sponsors and Supporting Bodies
09:30 –10:00
Beyond AI: Solving Real Tester Pain Points with and without AI
Speaker: Sanjay Kumar, Founder and Creator, SelectorsHub
Abstract: Traditional testing methodologies often lead to repetitive and time-consuming tasks, creating an atmosphere where testing is perceived as monotonous. Throughout the testing process, from learning and reading to exploratory/manual testing, bug filing, bug reproduction, automation testing, links testing, performance testing, code writing, data generation, and career growth, there are numerous opportunities for innovation. Join us in this talk as we address the common challenges faced by testers in their daily routines and present practical, innovative solutions. Discover how embracing creativity at every stage of testing can not only make the process more interesting but also significantly reduce the time spent on mundane tasks. Walk away with actionable insights that you can immediately apply to enhance your testing practices
10:05 – 10:25
Beyond the Hype: Accelerating Quality with AI Agents and Unified Test Stack
Speaker: Ganesh Mahalingam, Sr. Director of Product, BrowserStack
Abstract: While AI continues to dominate the conversation, most testing teams are still grappling with how to turn the hype into real, practical value. This is the top concern we’ve heard from across our 50,000+ customers.
Over the past two years, we’ve worked closely with thousands of them to solve the actual problems of AI adoption. The result is not just theory, but a suite of targeted applications—including 17 new AI agents—that deliver a 10x boost in productivity, a 50% jump in coverage, and a 40% reduction in build failures.
In this session, I’ll walk you through how leading teams at companies like GM, PayPal, and L’Oréal are using these AI agents and BrowserStack’s Unified Test Stack to drive measurable results. You’ll see demos across key use cases—like instant test generation, Self-Healing Agent, Test failure analysis agent, and low-code automation.
If you’re a QA leader, developer, or tester looking to deliver quality at scale, this session will give you a clear, practical view into what’s working—and how to stay ahead as testing enters the AI era.
10:35 – 10:55
Coverage Is a Lie. More Scripts Won’t Save You. Intent Will.
Speaker: Narain Muralidharan, Director- Marketing, Testsigma
Abstract:
Every week, automation suites run and dashboards glow green. Leadership sees 100% coverage and feels confident. But manual testers keep finding bugs. The disconnect isn't a tooling problem - it's a knowledge problem. The people closest to the business (manual testers, BAs, SMEs) carry the intent: they know what should be tested, which edge cases matter, and where the real risk lives. But they aren't the ones automating. So their knowledge stays locked - in spreadsheets, in Jira tickets, in their heads - while automation engineers build tests from incomplete context.
The result? Coverage that measures volume, not risk. Pipelines that validate what's present but can't tell you what's missing. And a gap between intent and execution that widens with every release.
This session exposes three lies the green pipeline tells, reframes coverage as an empowerment problem, and shows - live - how AI can bridge the gap by letting intent holders convert what they know into automated tests with real, traceable coverage.
11:40 – 12:05
AI Beyond Models: From Technical Intelligence to Decision Intelligence
Speaker: Aiswaria Balasubramanian, Director- Open Banking Platforms, Standard Chartered Bank
Abstract: The AI conversation today is dominated by models — larger architectures, faster inference, better benchmarks. But real enterprise impact does not come from model sophistication alone. It comes from the quality of decisions surrounding AI adoption.
This session explores what lies beyond the model. When do organizations truly need AI — and when is automation enough? How should leaders navigate the strategic choice between build vs buy? What role does data play in creating sustainable advantage? And why is digital literacy no longer sufficient without decision literacy?
Through a practical, strategy-first lens, this talk reframes AI not as a feature, but as a redesign of decision systems. It highlights the importance of governance, contextual data, and accountable human oversight — especially in complex and regulated industries.
As intelligence becomes increasingly commoditized, competitive advantage will shift from who has access to the best models, to who exercises the best judgment.
This session challenges leaders to move from AI experimentation to AI responsibility — and from technical adoption to decision excellence.
Table 1
AI in Testing & DevOps: Cure for Quality or a New Kind of Risk?
Host: Thameemul Sadiq, AVP- Testing, BNP Paribas Wealth Management
Table 2
Scaling Test Automation with MCP and AI: Standardization and Efficiency in Modern CI/CD
Host: Sivanandhini Chandrasekaran, Technical Product Lead, FordPro
Table 3
Cloud and performance optimization driven by AI
Host: Ramchandran B., Sr. Performance Lead, Capgemini
Table 4
Is Manual Testing Dead - Or Is Critical Thinking the New Manual Skill?
Host: Ganesh Manoharan, Sr. QA Engineer, TransUnion
Table 5
Are We Measuring the Right Things? The Future of Quality Metrics in an AI World
Host: Ashwin Shanmugam, Product Owner, Ideas2IT Technologies
14:10 – 14:30
Shift Left, Move Fast: Building Secure Software at DevOps Velocity
Speaker: Kasiraja Thangapandian, Global Director- Software Engineering, Visteon Corporation
Abstract: Modern engineering teams are under constant pressure to deliver faster without compromising quality, reliability, or security. “Shift Left, Move Fast” explores how organizations can embed automation, security controls, and governance early in the development lifecycle to achieve true DevOps velocity.
This session will share practical strategies for designing high-performance CI/CD pipelines, integrating security into containerized environments using Kubernetes, and enabling platform-driven engineering models.
The talk will also highlight real-world implementation insights, including the development of an internal DevSecOps platform, devNext, built to enforce secure build standards, automate compliance checks, and enable deterministic, reusable engineering assets at scale.
Attendees will gain a practical blueprint to accelerate software delivery while maintaining operational stability, scalable infrastructure, and security-by-design principles
Scripting to Strategy: Two decades of Test Automation Evolution
Speaker: Sathish Janakiraman, Sr. Principal Software Engineer, Dell Technologies
Abstract: Over the last two decades, test automation has evolved from proprietary solutions built for monolithic systems to
framework-driven and DevOps pipeline-driven approaches, and more recently to AI-assisted and AI-driven automation
for microservices-based systems.
This talk explores the evolution of test automation and tools—from early scripting-based automation to modern AI-based
automation and execution.
Talk will also examine how the role of automation engineers has shifted from scripting to strategy, how observability and
data reduce risk more effectively than brute-force test coverage, and how AI is transforming automation development
and regression testing into an intent-driven, adaptive, and risk-based discipline.
The session concludes with a rational look at the future, what will truly change, and where human expertise will remain
irreplaceable
14:35 – 14:55
15:00 – 15:20
Scrum Zombies in DevOps teams - The never ending war of Process vs Progress
Speaker: Harihara Subramanian SC, Release Manager, Comcast India Engineering Centre
Abstract: DevOps has evolved far beyond its early roots as a deployment or automation function. Today, it sits at the heart of Agile delivery, especially when teams are shipping to live users who expect reliability, speed, and continuous improvement. Yet many organisations still treat DevOps as something outside the “real Agile work” while frameworks like Scrum sometimes unintentionally box these teams into rigid cycles, ceremonies, and ticket-driven rituals. This is where the “Scrum Zombie” pattern emerges: teams following the process but unable to make real progress. On the other hand when teams make progress with a lot of chaos and have no process or discipline. In reality, DevOps is an agile way of working. Its principles of continuous delivery, rapid feedback loops, experimentation, and high collaboration align perfectly with Agile values. The challenge is not DevOps vs Agile; it’s process vs progress. I would like to discuss and brainstorm what leaders can do in empowering devops teams to embrance agile delivery. Leaders are pivotal in building self managed and cross fucntional devops team who can decide what frameworks fit their needs the best. Teams need to experiment and learn from the past and design their hybrid framework to accelerate value delivery. What matters is not how well you follow scrum or kanban but how well you deliver using them. Leadership should champion outcomes over rituals, enable faster decision-making, and remove organisational blockers that slow delivery. When we stop forcing DevOps into a framework that doesn’t fit, and instead let the principles of Agile guide the model, teams move faster, experience less chaos, and deliver meaningful value with confidence and autonomy.
15:25 – 15:50
AutoPixby – AI-Driven Figma UI Comparison Tool
Speaker: Vijay Anand Vaidyanathan, Head of Quality Assurance, Quickplay
Abhijeet Puniya, Sr. Test Engineer, Quickplay
Praveen Kumar, Sr. Test Associate, Quickplay
Abstract: This presentation showcases an automated Figma UI validation solution that compares live application screens with approved design specifications using AI. The framework eliminates manual visual checks, detects UI deviations early, and ensures pixel-perfect design consistency across platforms, enabling faster releases and higher UI quality.
16:20 – 16:40
RAG-Powered Testing: Building Context-Aware Testing Systems with Generative AI
Speaker: Maheshwaran VK, Sr. Lead Engineer, Elixr Labs
Abstract: Software testing is going through a big transformation with the adoption of Generative AI. We can clearly see that large language models are very good at things like test case generation, defect analysis, and helping in automation activities. But one important limitation which we are seeing is that these models do not have access to our system-specific and organization-specific context. Because of this, most of the time the output which we are getting is very generic. It does not really reflect how our real application works, what kind of historical defects we had, what are our framework standards, and what kind of domain knowledge is required. So even though the model is powerful, the lack of real context is becoming a bottleneck. In this session, I am introducing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) as a very practical and scalable approach to build context-aware testing systems. Instead of using only the large language model, we are combining it with our enterprise knowledge sources. This includes things like requirements documents, historical test cases, automation repositories, execution logs, defect databases, and architectural documentation. By doing this, RAG helps the testing tools to generate outputs which are more relevant, more accurate, and more aligned with how our organization actually works. It is no longer just a generic AI answer. It becomes an answer which understands our application, our data, and our testing practices. In this talk, I will be covering real-world use cases of RAG across the testing lifecycle. This includes requirement-to-test case generation, self-healing automation, intelligent failure analysis, risk-based test prioritization, and QA knowledge assistants. These are practical scenarios where RAG can directly add value to day-to-day testing activities. I will also explain how to design RAG pipelines, how to select the right data sources, how to implement vector-based retrieval, and how to integrate RAG into existing QA frameworks and CI/CD pipelines. The idea is to make this not just theoretical, but something which can be applied in real projects. Through architecture patterns, implementation strategies, and practical lessons learned, this session will show how RAG can move software testing from static and rule-based processes to more intelligent, adaptive, and context-driven quality engineering systems. By the end of the session, participants will have clear and actionable guidance to start building RAG-powered testing solutions within their own organizations.
16:40 – 17:00
Transforming QA to Quality Engineering in the AI-Driven Era
Speaker: Dhilip Prasanna, QE Manager, FPMarkets
Abstract: The software quality landscape is rapidly evolving from traditional Quality Assurance (QA) to modern Quality Engineering (QE), driven by rapid delivery cycles, DevOps/CI-CD integrations, and AI-enabled automation. This session will demystify key trends such as GenAI-assisted testing, predictive analytics, shift-left / shift-right approaches, and cloud test automation - particularly relevant for beginners and mid-career professionals looking to transition from QA to QE roles. Attendees will gain a clear understanding of emerging tools, engineering practices, and real-world examples that accelerate quality at scale while aligning with agile and DevOps methodologies. This talk provides practical guidance on building a career in QE and adapting to future-ready quality practices.
Key takeaways:
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What QE is and why it matters more than traditional QA
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Overview of leading trends shaping QE in 2025–26
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Tools and techniques beginners can adopt
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Practical steps for professional transition from QA → QE
Speakers

ABHIJEET PUNIYA
Sr. Test Engineer
Quickplay

GANESH MAHALINGAM
Sr. Director of Product
BrowserStack

GANESH MANOHARAN
Sr. QA Engineer
TransUnion

Thameemul Sadiq
AVP- Testing
BNP Paribas Wealth Management

HARIHARA SUBRAMANIAM SC
Release Manager
Comcast India
Call for Speakers
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Venue:
Park Plaza OMR
Rajiv Gandhi Salai, 142,
OMR Service Rd, Mettukuppam, Thoraipakkam,
Chennai
Tamil Nadu 600096













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