Speaker Bio:  

Vipul Gupta
Senior Test Architect, Impetus Technologies
Vipul Gupta leads the Test Engineering R&D at Impetus Technologies. Prior to this, he was the Software Engineering Manager and Lead QA Engineer at Impetus. Vipul works on innovating test engineering methodologies; focusing on innovating cost effective software testing solutions for desktop, web and mobile applications. He is a Co-founder of NCR Testers community and is contributing to several online testing forums. He has been involved in designing RUP and Agile based testing frameworks for various organizations. He has worked as a Defect Prevention Engineer at Barco and as the Customer Support Officer at Stracon India Limited.
Ajay Kumar Chhokra
Director - Testing Center of Excellence, UHG India - IT
Ajay is part of UHG India IT Leadership Team and is responsible for driving Testing Competency and establishing Global Testing Center of Excellence. He has worked with The Dept of Electronics, HCL Technologies, Adobe Systems, HP USA, KPMG Consulting USA and Keane India. Initiatives around Delivery Excellence, Maturity Assessment, Adaptive Testing, Test Governance and Test Regression Automation of Legacy Systems and driving the global agenda of Quality Cost reduction and Quality improvement by implementing Test Optimization techniques comprise his professional career span of 25 years. He has done his Masters from IIT, Delhi and Bachelors from Delhi College of Engineering. He has been a Key-note speaker in many national and international Testing Forums and also authored a book titled "Excellence in Software Quality"
Ajay Jain
Engineering Manager - Quality, Adobe Systems
Ajay is the Engineering Manager, Quality at Adobe Systems, Inc. primarily leading and test program managing Installers, Licensing, Clouds Subscription, Anti-Piracy validation projects for multi-million dollars Creative Suites family product line. Prior to Adobe, Ajay worked with Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs Development Center) and Skyworks, Inc. Ajay has an active interest in sharing knowledge and experience with software community, wrote technical papers for conferences like PNSQC (USA), STC, ACM etc and spoke at STC 09,10, Quality Summits, NCRTMM. Won Best paper award at Adobe’s Quality Summit, nominated for best of the best award at STC. He also has a Patent Invention-Meritorious Disclosure Award to his credit. He is an alumnus of Delhi Institute of Technology (Delhi) and IMT (Ghaziabad).
T Ashok
Founder and CEO, STAG Software
T Ashok is the Founder and CEO of STAG Software Private Limited, Bangalore, India, a company that specializes in inventing test technologies to deliver boutique test solutions/services to deliver clean software. Passionate about excellence, his mission is to discover methods to build clean software. At STAG he is deeply involved in architecting Hypothesis-based Testing (HBT), a scientific personal test methodology powered by the defect detection technology STEM.He is an alumnus of Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago) and College of Engineering, Anna University (India)
Sanjay Sircar
Asst Vice President & Testing CoE Head, Birlasoft (India)
Sanjay has worked as Worldwide Head for Testing, Program Management and Quality in several organizations. He has rich experience in Testing, Development, Configuration management, Delivery, Quality processes and Marketing. He has also worked in leadership and other roles at various multinationals. He has procured CMM certification for India operations of an MNC. He has an MBA from Faculty of Management Studies - Delhi University and B.Tech from IIT-BHU
Sachin Kumar
Project Manager - Testing, Corbus
Sachin is PMP Certified and has a total experience of 11 Years in the field of Software Testing. His experience includes both Manual and Automation Testing besides Test Management. He has played different roles like that of a Test Manager, Test Lead, Automation Architect, Onsite Coordinator, Training new personnel and member of Testing COC etc. He has designed Automation Framework for a very complex Banking Domain project which provided a good ROI to Client. He has worked as Test Automation Architect for IBM-Hyderabad prior to Corbus. He has shared many tutorial & white paper on his blog for other fellow members of Testing Community. Currently he is employed with Corbus India (A Soin International Company) as Test Manager.
Mukesh Sharma
Founder & CEO, QA InfoTech
As founder and CEO of QA InfoTech Worldwide, a leading Quality Assurance and Testing company, Mukesh Sharma leads the organization’s worldwide operations, marketing, sales and development effort to provide unbiased quality assurance (QA) testing solutions. Mukesh began his technology career as a software engineer with DCM Data Systems. He has also worked in Quark Inc., Gale Group and Adobe Systems. Mukesh holds a Master of Science and Technology in Information Systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS)- Pilani, India, and a Master of Engineering in Engineering Management from University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.
Abhishek Talwar
Head of Testing and Partner, Hexaview Technologies
Abhishek Talwar is the Head of Testing and Partner at HexaView Technologies. His role requires him to drive the testing efforts of the company (for both products and services) Prior to starting HexaView Technologies, Abhishek had worked with Adobe as Quality Engineering Manager (II) and also in various technical & Managerial positions. He has 10 years of experience in testing, test management, Project Management and Tool Development, Hiring best talent and in domains like Video, Imaging, Telecommunications, White Box testing, Automation, scripting and Black Box testing. An avid reader about technological innovations happenings, he also holds solo US patent, patent publications and has presented more than 15 international publications in various conferences at Spain, UK, Australia and India.