Speaker Bio:  

Aashu Chandra
Head of QA and Testing Practice, Infogain
Aashu Chandra has more than 20 years of IT experience. He is responsible for developing the Testing competency in Infogain.Aashu is an Electronics Engineering Graduate and has also done Masters in Business Administration. He is also PMI certified in Project Management. He started his career with CMC Ltd. During his 5 years of tenure in TCS, he developed and implemented IT solutions for several leading international banks. He has written several white papers on Software testing and Project Management that have been published in international conferences. He can be reached at Aashu.chandra@infogain.com
Ananya Das
Head Quality , Snap-on Business Solns
Over 19 years of hands-on management experience in the Information Technology industry. She has the unique combination of delivery as well as Quality expertise. Her expertise encompasses delivery management, Quality and testing, information management, staff training etc, She has established frameworks for Quality processes and testing, SLAs and procedures for Global Distributed Development and Global Engineering Product Development Organization. Created and established metrics for the Global offices. She has been a part of three CMMi level 5 organization as the ATM ( Assessment team ) and established approach and execution of ISO and CMMi (L5) for the Global organization. She has managed several initiatives like Rapid Continuous Improvement (Lean Methodology), Six Sigma and communications. She has worked with organizations like Mphasis, NIIT technologies, Sapient, Aspire and BirlaSoft. Currently she is working with Snap-on Business Solutions playing the role of Head Quality (process & testing) and also overseeing delivery accounts. She can be reached at ananyadas@hotmail.com
Amitabh Parmar
Global Delivery Head, Testing Practice, Dell Services
Amitabh has over 20 years of experience in IT Services Industry. He has been working with Dell Services for more than 11 years. He is currently responsible for Delivery Function globally and Center of Excellence within Testing Practice. He had spent over ten years of his initial career into application development and maintenance, later switched over to Testing. Last ten years have been dedicated to testing handling various functions such as Testing Center Of Excellence, nurturing testing service offerings like Mobility, BI-DW, Web Services, Functional Automation, Performance among others. He has actively contributed towards testing solution design, creation of testing lifecycle processes, methodologies, estimation models among other things. He is a Computer Science graduate and spent his initial years with Tata Motors in their IT division ( now Tata Technologies ), and a couple of years with startups before joining Dell Services ( erstwhile HCL Perot Systems ).
Vipul Gupta
Sr. Test Architect, Impetus Infotech
Vipul Gupta leads the Test Engineering R&D at Impetus Labs. As a resident testing expert, he is responsible for innovating test engineering methodologies and designing solutions viz. Test360 Degree (integrated toolset and best practices for mature software product testing), Test Engineering Maturity Model and iLeap (best practices based test automation platform), to meet the upcoming trends and demands to overall simplify product testing. As a test architect he is also involved in defining test strategies for various small to large organizations. Prior to this he managed several testing assignments across different verticals for Impetus s clients. Vipul is an active contributor to various online testing forums and a regular speaker at testing conferences in India and US. To know what he is doing, follow vipsgupta@twitter or send him an email at vgupta@impetus.co.in.
Somil Katiyar
Senior Quality Manager, NIIT Technologies
Somil is a Senior Quality Manager with NIIT Technologies Limited. He brings over 15 years of QA & Testing experience ranging from client management, delivery management, test consulting, and developing testing capability. His strengths lie in clear communication with stakeholders and the strategic direction of testing resources. He had worked in different domain areas – Insurance, Banking & Financial, Travel, and Transportation. He has strong expertise in all major testing tools, QA within JAVA, .Net, Web, Oracle, SAP, C++ and other technologies/ architectures. His key capabilities include QA & Test process definition, Strategic solutions for all QA activities, Performance and automated testing solutions. He is a graduate in IT from Americas.Whitepaper: http://www.infosys.com/services/enterprise-quality-services/white-papers/business-value-of-testing-CoE.pdf
Jaideep Khanduja
Head Quality Assurance and Project Management, G4S
Currently working in India Regional Office of a large versatile International group as Head Quality Assurance and Project Management, Jaideep has over 20 years experience in IT. Starting his career as a hard core developer, in 1987, he became Head IT of a reputed automobile components manufacturing company. During 10 years of his tenure at this company he transformed a small setup 3 PC company to a fully networked Client Server Architecture setup with over 100 PCs and an ERP in place. After that in the year 2000, he joined another well known automobile component manufacturing corporate having group of companies manufacturing auto electrical components, exporting to Europe/Asia and to all major OEMs. In his tenure of 5 years in this corporate, he helped corporate to grow from 20 PCs setup to fully structured network, centralized mail server, in-house ERP on Oracle database and D2K as frontend tool, Routers, Intelligent Switches, Firewall, Video Conferencing Room, 100% up-time etc. all in place. Jaideep believes that Innovation, Team Managements, Time Management, Skills enhancement, Learning, Knowledge Management and Mentoring are the best tools to grow.
Mandeep Walia
Senior Project Manager, Infosys Technologies
Mandeep has over 11 years of IT experience encompassing Software Testing, Development and Maintenance. He is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) by PMI and a Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) from QAI, USA. During his career at Infosys, Mandeep has managed multiple QA and Development programs for large Fortune 500 companies.
Vipul Kocher
Co-President, PureTesting
Vipul Kocher holds a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering and Masters Degree in Computer Technology from IIT Delhi. He is the co-founder of PureTesting and is also the president of Indian Testing Board. He has over 15 years of testing experience. Prior to PureTesting he has worked for a number of reputed companies such as Adobe Systems, Aplion Networks and River Run Software Group. Vipul has presented his papers and tutorials at various international testing conferences in USA, Europe and Asia. His papers have won awards at EuroSTAR 2005 and STAREast 2006. He has presented Keynote in various international conferences. You can contact Vipul at vipul@puretesting.com or at kocher@istqb.org.