Return to quality: Radical and practical QA career transformation
What we’ll cover in this session.
The modern QA professional is at a crossroads: trapped in a cycle of high-toil automation and task-oriented testing while the “Great Automation” of AI looms. This session is a call to Return to Quality, a radical shift that reclaims engineering excellence. This session will inspire and instruct QA professionals to reinvent themselves as true quality professionals and not just testers or automators. Attendees will leave with a usable guide to changing their mindset, a rigorous Skill Rubric for self-evaluation, Goal-Setting Templates, and the “Accountability Rituals” necessary to ensure this transformation is not a momentary inspiration, but a permanent professional evolution.
Where agentic workflows actually earn their keep in a real QA pipeline — and the two places they quietly fail.
The four control surfaces to set up before an agent touches production: scope, evaluation, failure cataloguing, human-in-the-loop.
Patterns for flaky-test triage, regression pruning, and visual-diff arbitration with receipts from three production systems.
A reference architecture you can take back to Monday’s sprint planning, plus the metrics that prove it’s working.
C S Sriram
VP of Engineering
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One pass, every talk, no parallel tracks. Super Early Bird
ends when the next 200 seats are gone.