Chandrashekhar Patil at TribeQonf 2026
Session

Beyond Assertions: A Strategic Framework for Testing AI Chatbots

Outline

What we’ll cover in this session.

“Traditional test automation operates on a simple promise: Given Input X, the software must output Y. In the era of Large Language Models (LLMs) and autonomous chatbots, that promise doesnt hold. How do you quantify quality when a system is designed to never give the exact same response twice?

Key Topics Covered

  • The Paradigm Shift: Navigating the foundational challenges of AI testing, where non-determinism replaces predictable code paths.
  • Proactive Quality in the Dev Phase: Why establishing a “”Golden Dataset”” early in the development lifecycle is a critical strategic decision.
  • The Evolution of Data: A look at Static Test Data versus Synthetic Queries generated from historical personas and real user interactions.
  • The Response Confidence Matrix: An overarching framework to evaluate chatbot trustworthiness across four core pillars:
    1. Linguistic Integrity: Programmatically scoring response quality using an LLM-as-a-Judge framework.
    2. Data Veracity: Strategically validating structured data nested within fluid, conversational responses.
    3. System Trust: Verification of guardrails to protect against adversarial inputs
    4. Behavioral Observability: Leveraging telemetry to trace and monitor complex agentic workflows and function calls.”
Speaker

Chandrashekhar Patil

VP – QA
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An Engineering Leader with 20+ years of experience specialising in building and scaling high-performing Quality Engineering teams across startups and enterprise environments. His diverse domain expertise covers Semiconductors, Consumer Electronics, AV Streaming , EV, and Travel Tech. In his current role at redBus (MakeMyTrip), he is actively transforming traditional Quality Engineering into an AI driven practice.

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