Mallika Fernandes - The Test Tribe
Session

Ideas to Impact: 22 Patents, Agentic AI, and the Next Decade of Quality Engineering

Outline

What we’ll cover in this session.

Looking forward to sharing a few reflections from my innovation journey across 22 patents in the QE space. Working on patents has been a learning experience filled with curiosity, collaboration, experimentation, and many valuable lessons along the way. More than the outcomes themselves, the journey has reinforced the importance of continuous learning, problem solving, resilience, and being open to new perspectives.

Hoping the session encourages others to see that innovation does not always begin with breakthrough ideas — often, it starts with simply observing and solving day-to-day challenges while keeping up with the best technology has to offer. I’ll cover the use of AI and agentic frameworks to improve SDLC quality, as well as how we evaluate AI algorithms as they become part of the build-test-ship loop.

We’ll walk through
01

Where agentic workflows actually earn their keep in a real QA pipeline — and the two places they quietly fail.

02

The four control surfaces to set up before an agent touches production: scope, evaluation, failure cataloguing, human-in-the-loop.

03

Patterns for flaky-test triage, regression pruning, and visual-diff arbitration with receipts from three production systems.

04

A reference architecture you can take back to Monday’s sprint planning, plus the metrics that prove it’s working.

Speaker

Mallika Fernandes

Managing Director

accenture
IT Leader with 25 years of industry experience, she has extensive expertise in driving innovation, building industry-trending tools, and leading transformational programs. She leads the Quality Engineering Capability at Accenture.
She holds 21 patents, and her ‘AI in testing’ research work is published by MIT in their book “Why Humans Matter More Than Ever (Digital Future of Management)”.

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