Exclusive Plenary session of Senthil Ayyappan, Associate Director -Testing Services, Cognizant

QAI's 11th Annual International Software Testing Conference
Le Meridien, Bangalore
1-2 Dec 2011.

As business agility becomes a key predictor of an organization's success, the way quality is delivered has to evolve at a faster pace. Applications today are deployed across a slew of new & multiple platforms (including mobile & virtual environments) and validating the functional & non-functional aspects of these platforms (across a wide range of devices) require a variety of tools & techno-functional testing methodologies - rendering testing all the more complex & costly. To address these QA challenges, organizations need to look at ways to ensure optimal alignment with IT & Business teams while establishing synergies in operation. Every entity within the delivery ecosystem needs to invent ways to achieve higher levels of operational excellence, agility and improved quality. Benchmarking your organization's QA against Best in Class models and adopting industry best practices & metrics will help your teams excel in delivery; while leveraging new age technologies such as cloud to enable virtualization will prove to be beneficial from an operational perspective

In this presentation, Senthil will explain how successful QA organizations employ best-in-class practices & techniques to enable business agility. You will understand easy & adoptable ways to make your QA organization more effective, efficient and agile. You will leave this session with an appreciation for:
Technology trends that will impact / have impacted the way testing services are delivered & consumed
How to engineer systems for higher quality & a better user experience
Ways to establish a framework that enables virtual delivery of services

Senthil Ayyappan, 12+ years of industry experience spanning multiple roles and industry domains including manufacturing, engineering consulting and management consulting. His global IT industry experience touches numerous functions including Account Management, Analyst Relationship, Alliance Management, Solutioning and process re-engineering, concurrent multi-project delivery management, management of large application maintenance and transformational deals, sales management and leadership in complex cross-functional & global team matrix environments. Senthil has wide experience handling service lines involving Application Development and Maintenance (ADM), Infrastructure services (IT IS) and Testing Services. Senthil currently heads Cognizant's manufacturing testing group

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