The Test Tribe Mega Meetup - Pune
Pune, we’re meeting for the 51st time, and this one’s a bigger gathering than our usual monthly meetups.
If you’ve been to one of our meetups before, it’ll be good to see you again. If this is your first, you’re very welcome. Come for the talks, and take the chance to meet more people from Pune’s testing community.
See you on 28 November.
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About the event
Session 1
Topic - Re-Architecting the STLC: Thriving as a Tester with AI
AI writes the code in minutes, so why does QA still take days? And when the same model writes both the feature and the test that approves it, who owns the bug that reaches production? AI has made testing artefacts cheap to produce, but not trustworthy. In this session, we take the testing lifecycle apart phase by phase, using real AI-era failures to show where old habits crack, where blind AI generation goes wrong, and what testers, analysts and managers should do instead. No tool demos, no hype. Just a sharper answer to the one question that matters now: when machines write everything, who decides what “right” looks like?
Key Takeaways
AI tests are quick to write but tough to trust
Where each testing phase breaks with AI, and how to fix it
Keep people, not models, in charge of what “right” means
Speaker: Khalid Imran, VP / Head of QA & Testing at Zimetrics Technologies
Khalid Imran has spent 25+ years building and scaling QA organizations across a dozen global enterprises. He’s the leader companies call when they need a testing function built from scratch or a stalled one brought back to life. He has lifted automation from 20% to 75% at Aztecsoft, tripled it at Tieto, cut ETL test cycles by 90%, and rolled out QA practices across teams of 1,400+. With deep roots in MedTech, Payments and Fintech (CSQA, CSM, CPISI), Khalid sees quality as a business advantage, not a cost center.
Session 2
Topic - Agentic DevOps: Lessons from Legacy Pipelines
What happens when you give a fragile, two-decade-old Windows build pipeline to an AI agent? Juhi shares a real project to modernize a legacy CI/CD estate. It covers code coverage on code you can’t touch, security scanning built into the pipeline, and tests that triage and fix themselves instead of waking someone up at 2 a.m. You’ll see where the agent saved the day and where it burned the team.
Drawing on 20+ years in QA and DevOps, Juhi explains what AI can really automate and which decisions engineers should never hand over.
Key Takeaways
Adding coverage and security scans to legacy pipelines
Using self-healing tests to cut late-night alerts
Deciding what AI handles and what engineers keep
Speaker: Juhi Tahiliani, Sr. Manager SQA Engineering at InfoScale
Juhi Tahiliani brings 20+ years of experience across software development, QA, automation, CI/CD and product management, having led enterprise product testing at Veritas, Symantec, EMC and Siemens-UGS. She is currently Sr. Manager SQA Engineering at InfoScale and has previously headed QA, automation and CI/CD for products like ACCESS and Backup Exec, across domains such as Backup & Recovery, Storage and RMM. A Certified AWS Solutions Architect and Scrum Master, Juhi is known for building strong teams, hiring everyone from associate engineers to senior principals, and turning good testers into great ones.
Who should attend
Testers, QA engineers, SDETs, automation engineers, quality leaders, and anyone building or breaking software for a living.
A look back
We've done this before, just smaller. Here's what our monthly meetups usually look like - expect more of this, at a bigger scale.
About The Test Tribe:
The Test Tribe, established in 2018, is the world's largest software testing community and an EdTech startup. We empower testing professionals globally with expert courses, memberships, events, and community initiatives, fostering collaboration, learning, and growth. With over 980+ events and a global reach of 175K+ testers from 130+ countries, our mission is to provide life-altering growth to every testing professional.