PUNE special QA Meetup
Meetup is happening in Wakad, Pune — please register only if you're 100% sure to attend, as seats are limited. [ This is IN-PERSON meetup and no option to join Online]
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Join us in Pune on October 5, 2025 for the PUNE special QA Meetup, hosted by Milan Kaul This session brings together testers, QA engineers, AI enthusiasts for a focused conversation on practical testing strategies, automation data tips and HIST.
Location ( Wakad Pune), exact details will be shared with accepted attendees Only as we have limited space.
Topic: DATA STORYTELLING
Speaker : Vaibhav Bajpai
Vaibhav is a Fintech and Product leader with 20+ years of experience across payments and online retail domain, currently contributing at Mastercard. A certified agile scaling expert, he brings deep expertise in Quality Engineering and Software Delivery solutions. He is passionate about building stronger teams, creating better work experiences, and advocating a product-first mindset to drive impactful engineering outcomes.
Data by itself can overwhelm. But when paired with a story, it can inspire action, drive clarity, and make people care. Let's meet to uncover the art and science of data storytelling, where numbers meet narratives, and insights turn into influence.
Potential Takeaways
✅ A view on crafting stories that are engaging, relatable, and impactful
✅ Ways to blend narrative techniques with compelling visuals
✅ Some examples of extracting insights from complex data and present them in clear and meaning ways
TOPIC: How AI is transforming Testers to become strategist
Speaker : Neelam Pal
Neelam is a Senior Architect with a strong foundation in test automation and known for strategic quality leadership. With 18 years of experience in building scalable QA frameworks and mentoring teams, she now focuses on aligning quality engineering with business outcomes in the age of AI. Neelam is a mentor, coach, implementor and advocate for human-machine collaboration in testing.
Key Takeaways:
AI is changing how we think about quality. As testers, we now have the chance to influence product decisions, not just validate them. This is our time to lead—not just with tools, but with insight, strategy, and a deep focus on user experience.
QA professionals can now influence big decisions, like when to release, what risks to watch out for, and how to improve user experience.
With AI tools, testers get powerful insights that help them think like strategists—not just run tests, but guide the team toward better quality.
The future of QA is about teamwork between humans and machines—where intuition meets data, and testing becomes a SME skill.
TOPIC: The QA Industry in Crisis: Exposing the Hidden Issues No One Wants to Talk About.
Speaker : Ruslan Desyatnikov
Ruslan Desyatnikov, CEO of QA Mentor, is an award-winning QA visionary and the creator of HIST – Human Intelligence Software Testing. He has dedicated his career to restoring respect, value, and purpose to the QA and Testing industry worldwide.
Key Takeaways:
In Ruslan's talk “The QA Industry in Crisis: Exposing the Hidden Issues No One Wants to Talk About,” Ruslan will reveal how the testing industry has lost its direction by prioritizing automation and now AI over human intelligence, eliminating QA leadership roles, and ignoring business value. He calls for a rebirth of QA through HIST (Human Intelligence Software Testing) a movement to restore respect, strategy, and purpose to the testing profession.