" Building Thought Leadership in Test Automation"
Sai Chintala, VP-Technical Services, AppLabs

Abstract:
Test Automation has been a buzz word in the industry and it is considered to be a lucrative option for the product development organizations to improve the quality of the product, enhance test coverage and reduce time to market. This session provides an insight into various aspects of building a successful Test Automation COE, which can be leveraged across various types of test automation projects. We have implemented these principles and were highly successful in evolving teams at a swift pace and delivered test automation services which helped us achieve the client delight. If you have found that you are having difficulties in the areas of planning, rationalizing requirements, estimating accurately, choosing the right architecture, maintaining test automation scripts and transitioning/preserving the test automation ware to manage test automation projects successfully , this topic is for you.

Speaker :
Sai heads the software testing professional services group at AppLabs. He has been with AppLabs since December 2002. Sai has over 16 years of IT experience. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies in US for over 12 years. He began his career at William Telecommunications, where he worked on building applications for NeXT desktops. Later he got into developing X-windows applications at Schlumberger Well Services. Sai was part of key Legacy to Client server implementation at Fidelity Investments & Brokerage services, before contributing to SAP implementation at Phillips Lighting in New Jersey. For over 6 years, Sai worked very closely with utility deregulation phenomenon in US. As part of utility deregulation implementation (while working at NSI, Exolink, and Alliance Data),
Sai has contributed to utility deregulation implementation at NYSEG, NIMO, PECO, PSEG, Duquesne, Penn Power, CSP, CNGE, TXU, and HP&P.