Speaker Bio:  

Manoj Jain
Manager – Software Engineering, CA Technologies
Manoj Jain is Manager – Software Engineering, at CA Technologies, an IT management software and solutions company with expertise across all IT environments. He has been with CA Technologies for more than 5 years and possess over 12 years of IT experience primarily in the area of software testing and sustaining engineering. He has extensively worked with automation tools like Rational TeamTest, Compuware QALoad. HP Mercury QTP, Selenium, Segue SilkPerformer etc. He has successfully delivered many third party testing services (functional/performance) at Singapore & South Korea. Previously, he has worked with Newgen Softwares and Nucleus Softwares based out of New Delhi. He has done his Masters in Computer Applications and currently pursuing Executive MBA from Indian Institute of Management – Lucknow. He is certified Scrum Master along-with ITIL V3 Foundation and Pragmatic Marketing Certification. Manoj regularly contributes to various testing forums and has submitted various white papers to annual conferences organized by QAI and STeP-IN. He has also conducted a session for HydSpin as well.
Ramesh Loganathan
VP Products & Center Head, Progress Software
Ramesh Loganathan, VP (Products) and Center Head of Progress Software in India, is responsible for leading the product development at the India Development center. The development center is organized in a COE (Centre of Expertise) model, where groups own technology horizontals for the company building components for multiple products in each of the horizontals. Present COEs include Eclipse based development tools, web tooling & frameworks and adapters. Apart from providing strategic guidance to all the product teams at PSI, Ramesh also directly drives the Common Technology projects. Prior to Progress, he was the Vice President of Product Engineering & Middleware Technologies at Pramati. Ramesh has been a Member of several Standards Expert groups (JCP, SPEC) including J2EE 1.3. Co-founded ebXMLIndia.org and hyd-eclipse.org, and organizes BarCamps and Startup events. He has co-authored a book on ‘SOA approach to Integration’ and runs a well read blog viz. http://jroller.com/rameshl. An accomplished technologist and orator, Ramesh is an Adjunct Faculty at IIIT, Hyderabad and regularly delivers workshops and seminars in India.
Saurabh Chandra
Architect, CA
Saurabh Chandra, also known as Testing Evangelist, is one of the youngest Six Sigma certified quality professionals. He has several internationally acclaimed white papers and two patent to his credit. Saurabh has worked with several IT MNCs and was heading the automation division of Oracle Financials, Oracle India. Currently, he is with the R&D Group of CA Technologies
Anutthara Bharadwaj
Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation
Anutthara Bharadwaj is a Senior Program Manager in the Visual Studio Test Tools group at Microsoft Corporation. In over 7 years at Microsoft, Anu has worked in different roles – developer, tester and PM and shipped some interesting products like Visual Studio 2010. She is fascinated with the simple yet extremely effective Agile philosophy and is currently experimenting with scaling Agile to massive enterprise teams at Microsoft Anutthara has chosen Exploratory Testing as one of her research areas and has worked on several cool tools and prototypes with exploratory testing as a central theme. She has 3 patents from her research and prototyping work in this area and has contributed to James Whittaker’s book on Exploratory Testing. Anutthara is passionate about software testing and has presented at various test conferences like Eurostar, Step In and QAI’s Software Testing Conference on a number of testing related topics. She blogs at http://blogs.msdn.com/anutthara and tweets at http://twitter.com/anutthara
Kalyana Rao Konda
Vice President, AppLabs
Kalyana Rao Konda is the Vice President, Delivery at AppLabs, the world’s largest software testing and quality management company. He has been with AppLabs since early 2005. Kalyan has over 12 years of IT experience in diverse areas including global delivery management, talent development, test management and non-functional testing. After securing a B.Tech in Electronics and Communication engineering from Pondicherry University, he started his career in the field of software testing, and soon built an impeccable track record of managing large scale complex testing projects across a wide variety of organizations. Prior to joining AppLabs, Kalyan has worked with Virtusa and BaaN. Kalyan has also published several papers and presented at international testing conferences.
Narayan Raman
Founder, CEO, Tyto Software
Narayan Raman is the founder, CEO of Tyto Software, a Bengaluru based software products company specializing is software automation products. Narayan is the author of Sahi, an award winning open source web test automation tool. He has over 10 years of experience in the industry and holds a B. Tech degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay. Tyto Software, started in 2008, helps organizations simplify and achieve success in their test automation process. Tyto is now a small but successfully growing company.
Pradeep C
CEO, Edista Testing Institute
Pradeep C (PC as is referred in the market), is a well-known trainer, speaker, and evangelist in the field of Software Testing. In his current role as CEO of Edista Testing Institute – a venture of QAI Global, PC works with organizations to help them solve their Software Testing Workforce Development Problems. Some of the clients that PC works closely with include Deutsche Bank, HCL, Cognizant, Infosys, Siemens, Oracle, Adobe, McAfee, and many others. In all he has a total of 17 years of experience in the fields of Application Development & Maintenance, Software Testing, Software Estimation and Project Management. He is a graduate from BITS Pilani and Wharton School, Penn State, USA.
T Ashok
Founder and CEO, STAG Software
MS in Computer Science (IIT Chicago), BE(Electronics and Communication) Anna University, CSQE(ASQC). Spearheads the operations of STAG, has 18+ years of working experience. Setup and managed global test group at VeriFone. Active in test engineering community, have given 10+ lectures in test forums, and presented about 10 tutorials/papers in International / National conferences. He is highly passionate about software test engineering and devotes time in his lab pursuing his interests in software patterns, test design, test automation, object technology, process engineering and measurement.