Speaker Bio:  

Nick Pointon
International Director and COO, SQS India
Nick was one of the original founders of Cresta and his energy and commitment over 10 years enabled Cresta to become the market leader in software testing in the UK and Ireland. When Cresta was acquired by SQS in July 2006, Nick continued as part of the management team to drive forward SQS’s consultancy in the UK, Ireland and South Africa and to expand its leadership position.As Consultancy Director within SQS, Nick orchestrated a period of superb market-beating growth, creating the biggest and most successful region within the SQS Group. This region spanned 7 offices in 3 countries and, through Nick’s leadership and vision, has achieved sales of over £30m annually and more than 450 consultants.Nick is currently the International Director for SQS in UK, USA, Ireland, India, Nordics and South Africa, responsible for all the offshore services provided by SQS to its customers. In 2008, having negotiated, executed and integrated SQS’s acquisition in India, he relocated to Pune, India, to work more closely with SQS’s offshore delivery centres in India and South Africa. From there, he oversees the activities of 500 offshore consultants in India and South Africa, delivering services to SQS’s customers in across the world. He currently works as the COO at SQS India.
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, Ashoks 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).
Shinto Joseph
Operations and Sales Director, LDRA
Shinto Joseph is Operations and Sales Director at LDRA. With over 14 years experience of supporting and implementing Embedded Software Life Cycle solutions, Shinto has built a solid reputation at the forefront of the embedded software field working with cross border delivery teams, technology partners and Industry regulators in the defense, aerospace and nuclear sectors. Today he concentrates on creating a healthy ecosystem in the embedded, mission and safety critical software domain in India.
Shrinivas Kulkarni
Test Solution Architect, Barclays Technology
Shrinivas is a Test consultant (over 14+ Years of experience) specializing in Enterprise level software Testing, Test Automation and Performance Testing. As experienced Tester, Test Manager and Testing coach/consultant Shrini can help organizations in assessing their testing, automation and performance testing practices and develop skills.Shrinivas is a popular blogger on Software Testing, Shrini&rsquot;s writing has attracted many software testing professionals around the world.Shrini has worked in companies like HCL Technologies,iGATE Global Solutions, Microsoft Hyderabad, Aditi Technologies Bangalore, i2 technologies Bangalore. Shrini worked in many roles covering entire spectrum of IT – like Software developer, Project lead, SQA lead, Test Lead, Test Manager.
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.
Maheshwar Kanitkar
Sr. Delivery Manager, Vertex Software
Maheshwar has over 16 years of experience in IT industry. His work experience has perfect balance of both worlds, startup product companies and servicing enterprise customers. He successfully delivered very large projects built based on complex technologies. He started working on Virtualization Technology/ cloud technology in early 2001-2002. Currently he is leading Test team at NTT Data Vertex.
Swati Pandit
Software Testing Evangelist, Persistent Systems
Swati is a software testing evangelist. She has led the Testing Competency track in Persistent. As a part of this role, she has actively contributed to optimizing testing processes, building a family of test automation frameworks over commercial and open source tools. She has led large testing teams on projects involving data migration, web application testing, test automation framework development. She has hands-on experience on developing testing tools using VB, SilkTest, QTP, IBM Rational Functional Tester. Swati brings in exposure to customer interaction on diverse domains - Banking, Telecom, Advertising, Life Sciences. She has been instrumental in defining test strategies and winning proposals for testing engagements with customers. Apart from this, she has conducted multiple training programs in software testing for Engineering college students/faculty in association with CSI. She has been a member of SPIN and has been on the panel for setting question papers for Software Testing and Quality Assurance in B.E. (IT) course conducted by University of Pune. Swati is an Electrical Engineer and has 13+ yrs of experience in software development and testing.
Vinod Doshi
Quality Engineering Manager and QA Architect , Synerzip
Vinod is Quality Engineering Manager and QA Architect with Synerzip. At Synerzip he is managing a QA team and is responsible for driving the testing as well as automation for Synerzip next generation SaaS offering. Vinod has 11 years of experience in software development and testing. For past several years he has has been driving QA and Automation projects. He has hands on experience in working with a number of proprietary and open source test frameworks. Over the years he has been responsible for owning the quality and releasing high quality products to market. Prior to joining Synerzip he has has worked with Microsoft, Amazon.com, Symantec and Adobe.
Feroz Khan
Dy. GM-Quality, TATA Autocomp Systems
Feroz has a total work experience of 17.5 years in Quality Assurance function in Automobile Industry. He is responsible for Supplier Quality Assurance ,product development , support to supplier for designing process & its control ,continuous improvement in view of customer satisfactions, support assessment & audits. He has diverse knowledge and experience in Machining, Grinding, Cold Ring Rolling, Plastic Injection Moulding, Pressure Die Casting, Fabrication, Fail Safe Conveyor Assy. Line, Painting & Assembly process. He has diverse knowledge and experience in Various Automotive Products .He has a thorough understanding of International quality standards,ISO TS16949 He Worked with leading companies – Minda Valeo Security Systems Pvt. Ltd., Pune (50:50 JV of AKM Group & Valeo, France) , Cummins Turbo Technology, Dewas, MP , Indian Seamless Metal Tubes Ltd., Ahmednagar , India Tube Mills & Metal Ind.Ltd, Vikhroli Mumbai , Niton Valve Industries Ltd., Mumbai
Mahesh Mani.
Technology Evangelist, Borland Solutions
Mahesh started his career as a developer in RDBMS and 4GL technologies in the early 90’s. Since then, he has worked as technology consultant for several large Enterprise clients onsite in India, UK, Germany and North America. During this time, he has been involved across all aspects of application delivery –Business Analysis, Software Design and Development, Testing and Deployment. After joining Borland in 2002, Mahesh has been involved in technical selling and deployment of products and solutions to ease the delivery of software applications. With Micro Focus (who acquired Borland in the Summer of 2009), Mahesh continues to support and evangelize solutions to ease software delivery. Mahesh has also written several whitepapers including one on the benefits of Software Testing using a Test Management system in conjunction with virtual lab management systems for rapid test infrastructure deployment and execution.
Mahesh Karandikar
Assistant Manager Quality Powertrain, General Motors Power Train Division
Mahesh in his experience of 10+ years has managed several projects related to quality assurance and maintainance. He is associated with General Motors since 2009 where he is involved in setting up (green field) of Metrology Lab in GM Powertrain.Looking after the Metrology Lab and gauge management activities. Also working as Quality Engineer for Crank shaft machining line.
Amit Kumar Pandey
Engineering Manager, Eaton Corporation
Amit Kumar Pandey leads In-Loop Validation Technologies group in Embedded Controls Software Centre of Excellence in Eaton India Engineering Center since 2009. In this role he’s responsible for software verification and validation for vehicle and hydraulics businesses of Eaton corporation.Prior to joining Eaton India, he has worked as Manager- Electronics for Mahindra and Mahindra. In this role he was responsible for the delivery of entire electronics content for global SUV program XUV 500. He was one of the pioneering members in setting up the Ashok Leyland Telematics Business Unit and was part of the prestigious government project for Chennai Metropolitan Transport Corporation for Telematics for Ashok Leyland. Amit has rich experience in automotive design and had been involved in complete design and development of Cars as well as Commercial vehicles.
Shrikant Satyanarayan
Technical Consultant, LDRA
Shrikant Satyanarayan is a Technical Consultant with LDRA Technology Pvt. Ltd, specialising in the development, integration and certification of mission- and safety-critical systems in the Avionics, Nuclear, Industrial Safety and Automotive domains. With a solid background in software development, software testing and real-time operating systems, Shrikant guides organizations in selecting, integrating and supporting their real-time embedded systems from development through certification.