3rd Agile Testing Conference

Anand Bagmar is a hands-on and result-oriented Software Quality Evangelist with over 19 years in the IT field off which 15+ years in the software test field. He is passionate about shipping a quality product, and specializes in building automated testing tools, infrastructure and frameworks. He has built open-source tools related to Software Testing – WAAT (Web Analytics Automation Testing Framework), TaaS (for automating the integration testing in disparate systems) and TTA (Test Trend Analyzer).
Anand specialties in Automated testing, building Test automation frameworks, Agile, Coaching and Consulting. He is an avid blogger and active contributor in various conferences of international repute as conference speaker and organiser sharing knowledge and experiences.

Hrishikesh is an Agile expert with 16 years of development experience and 5+ years in Agile transformations. Hrishikesh has several publications to his credit. Passionate about high-performance teams, Lean thinking, and technology.

Ketan Soni is a hands-on tester who specializes in testing software within the context of Agile development methodologies. An ardent follower of lean practices, he believes in shipping code to production in the most lean fashion ensuring a quality product. An experienced polyglot agile practitioner who believe in failing fast, Ketan love to write code to automate any repeatable tasks. In his present role at Thoughtworks, he is Involved in activities on projects that includes test automation, business analysis, iteration and release planning, distributed QA team coordination. 

Ketan specialises in Test Automation, DevOps Testing, Business Analysis and Agile Project Management.

Poonam Jain, Manager, Tieto Software Technologies Limited is leading the Testing Process CoE where her responsibilities involve consulting, defining, optimizing and implementing efficient and effective testing processes, software measurement and process improvement programmes within Tieto and client organizations using Agile, SAFe and Lean principles. She has helped international clients implement and improve quality, productivity and measurement processes using DevOps, Agile and Lean principles.

She has 14+ years of professional experience in Programme, Project Management and Consulting client organizations in software measurement, benchmarking software productivity, development methodologies and process improvement using Lean/Agile Principles. She is also an international consultant and instructor in the areas of estimation, lean and agile.

Rahul Gangwal is an engineering professional with over 18 years of diverse professional experience spanning across various management roles like founder-MD, AVP-Director, IT Discipline Head, and portfolio head. He specializes in creating and managing departments-functions, teams and Testing practices (such as IV&V, COE, Vertical & Horizontal QA-QC business models) at offshore locations primarily while being member of the global governing group. His experience has been purely in IT working for Products, Captives and 3rd party consulting services companies with primary clientele from US, UK, Europe and India.
 

Rajiv Bajwala is an Agile Enthusist with over 17 years of professional experience. In his present role as Agile Coach at Fiserv he is engaged in transformation of a large team from Waterfall to Scrum and Kanban. He has experience in successfully handling Agile transformations for several teams over the past 6 years. A senior Manager with experience in delivery of wide variety of business applications using Scrum as well as a traditional development approaches.
Rajiv is a ICP Certified Agile Coach (ICP ACC) and a Certified SAFe Agilist (SA). Additionaaly he also holds certifications such as - Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM) & Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP).

Sachin Jain is an astute and result oriented professional with extensive techno managerial experience in IT testing project planning & management, business development ; have worked across consulting, design, development, test management and software testing. He has a penchant to work with different teams and is always looking for new challenges. Because of his passion for Software Testing, Sachin likes to address each challenge in this domain with an innovation solution approach. His specialises in Testing Solutions, Test Management, and Thought Leadership.

Vinaya Muralidharan comes with over 15 years of experience in the IT industry. Vinaya has vast experience in Change Management and in coaching for introducing new Software Development practices and methods. She has coached several teams and leaders in their journey towards Agility for nearly 7 years. She has been a TOC (Theory of Constraints) coach, a Kanban coach and more recently a Scrum and SAFe coach.

With her focus on large scale transformations, Vinaya is leading a team of coaches and change agents in her present role at Amdocs.