Set the Bug Right- 'SofTec' most topical testing event is back!
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 29 June 2011, 03:57 IST
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Bangalore: Come 2nd of July and Bangalore city will turn a new page in the field of Testing. The testing community of Bangalore can hardly wait for it. After holding six exceedingly successful editions of SOFTEC events, SiliconIndia now brings to you 'SOFTEC 2011'. An eye opening account of the current testing scene, and the challenges it faces, which need to be addressed now. The conference, brings the who's who of the testing world together and provides clear guidance to help with the challenges and issues faced by testing today, how best to address them and how to cope with changing conditions and the need to optimize every effort. If you are facing problems with the increasing complexity, ever increasing demands to reduce time-to-market or if you are confused about the thinning line of difference between the testers, developers and users then this is the place to be. We bring to you all of this and more in seventeen educating sessions. Around 600 techies are expected to get together to discuss and share information about what they know best, Testing !! We bring this event to you in two exciting parallel tracks, Test Professional and Test Leadership. Test Professional deals with the technical part of the testing topics, while Test Leadership focuses on managing testers and discusses techniques for working effectively in a leadership role with test and non-test teams. The SofTec 2011 will kick start with a keynote address from Arun Kumar Singh, Vice President (Testing Services), Global IT Business - Wipro, who'll be talking about 'The changing face of testing'. As part of this Conference, we are going to have an interesting panel on "The road map to higher quality" that brings together leading Quality experts from different sectors like auto, food, beverage, drug discover who can present their field in a new light. For which we have Percy Pavri from Tata global Beverages and Raghunandan HV from Biocon speaking on quality in their respective domains. This is followed by some of the big names of the testing world sharing their experience with you. * Vaidyanathan Ramalingam, Director - Engineering (Test), Huawei (R&D) * T Ashok, Founder and CEO of stag software * Mukesh Jain, Principal Engineering Manager, Microsoft India R&D * Shishank Gupta, Client Solutions Head- Independent Validation and Testing Services, Infosys * Venkatesh Kovvuri, Director Head of Automation Practice, AppLabs * GS Raju, Sr Vice President, Mahindra Satyam * Dr. Sukanta Bhatt, Senior Manager - System Integration and Test, Philips Electronics * Anuj Magazine, Software Testing Practitioner, Citrix R&D India * A V Asvini Kumar, Chairman and Managing Director, Thinksoft Global * Manoj Jain, Manager - Software Engineering ,CA Technologies * Srinivas Chintha, Director Product Development, Sabre Holdings * Vijayaganesh Meenakshisundaram, VP & Head of Innovations & Solutions, Polaris * Nagarajan Pichumani, Founder and CEO, Softsmith Infotech We have sessions dedicated to various topics ranging from Performance Improvement stories from Bing, Hotmail and MSN, Challenges and Growth Prospects for the Software Testing Industry - a SWOT Analysis, and Software Fault Patterns - A Narrative from the Operation Theatre in the professional track. In the leadership track we have sessions on Landscaping - The Science of Questioning, Leadership Lessons for the Test & QA Profession, Workforce Strategies for Creating Successful Test Organization and more! We have limited seats for each track, so if you have booked your seat already, CONGRATULATIONS! And if you have not, then hurry up - Register here This exciting event is sponsored by STAG SOFTWARE, SOFTSMITH, THINKSOFT, AMITYSOFT, INDIAN TESTING BOARD, TYTO SOFTWARE and PARASOFT. In addition to this there is also a targeted exhibition alongside where participants can view related products and services. You don't want to miss this! See you at the event!

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