The Test Tribe Mega Meetup - NCR
NCR, we're meeting for the 41st 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 NCR's testing community.
See you on 28 November.
Details
Agenda
About the event
Session 1
Topic - Debugging the Human Stack and Behavioral Bottlenecks
Software delivery and autonomous AI workflows move faster than ever, yet projects still stall, miss milestones and pile up technical debt. The root cause is rarely a technical glitch. It is usually a human one. This session looks at the hidden psychological debt and behavioural bottlenecks that derail teams, from pre-sales estimation all the way to deployment. You'll see how cognitive biases, Goodhart's Law and poorly set AI and team KPIs lead to "fast blunders", and learn how real-time governance, automated circuit breakers and human-centred guardrails help fast-moving teams ship software that is truly reliable.
Key Takeaways
Spot the biases and bad metrics behind "fast blunders"
Add human-centred guardrails to fast AI-driven delivery
Speaker: Vikas Saini, QE Leader at Amdocs
Vikas Saini is a Quality Engineering leader with 19+ years of experience driving large-scale QE transformations across global organisations. His career spans leadership roles across QE practice and TCoE, transformation, GTM, offerings and large-scale delivery, with a strong focus on Agentic AI, intelligent automation, modern QE governance and scalable quality engineering. With an M.A. in Psychology alongside his technology background, he brings a unique view of how technology, process and human behaviour shape the future of quality engineering.
Session 2
Topic - Quality & AI Native Development: From Testing Faster to Testing Differently
AI agents have made building software much faster. If testing stays human-paced, it becomes the new bottleneck. This session looks at how testing got here, from manual to scripted automation to AI-native, and what the tester's role looks like next: building quality into the AI-native workflow, then working alongside teams as a partner instead of a gate. It walks through a four-level maturity ladder for AI-assisted testing (prompting, context engineering, agentic and autonomous) and an autonomy map that shows which testing tasks AI can own, which need a human watching, and which AI should never touch. Every attendee leaves with one concrete action to take back to their team.
Key Takeaways
Where your team sits on the AI testing maturity ladder
Which testing tasks to hand to AI, and which to keep human
Speaker: Sumit Kalra, Director, Quality Engineering at Cvent
Sumit Kalra is Director, Quality Engineering at Cvent, based in Gurgaon. He has been leading quality through his organisation's move to AI-native development, and this talk draws on that hands-on experience.
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.