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The Agentic Quality
Podcast

Engineering leaders, developers, and quality professionals discuss how AI is reshaping software quality — from test strategy and developer workflows to trust, scale, and decision-making. No hype. Real stories, real trade-offs, practical takeaways.

Meet the Host

Tatyana Arbouzova

Tatyana brings deep expertise in quality engineering, AI-driven systems, and engineering leadership. She's passionate about helping teams navigate the intersection of automation, intelligence, and human judgment — building systems that scale without sacrificing trust or rigor.

Why This Exists

Real-world conversations about AI,
quality, and decision-making

Teams are moving fast, systems are complex, and traditional test automation often creates noise instead of confidence.

Who We Talk To

Engineering leaders, developers, and quality practitioners navigating real-world AI adoption in software teams at companies like Amazon, Slalom, Fox, Forbes, and more.

What We Focus On

How AI changes decisions, not just tools. Honest discussions on trade-offs and real failures. No generic "AI will change everything" — just what actually works in production.

Core Themes

Trust in automation, signal vs. noise in testing, scaling quality without losing rigor, and agentic systems with human-in-the-loop oversight.

What You'll Walk Away With

01
Evaluation Skills
Better ways to evaluate AI in testing — beyond demos and vendor promises.
02
Practical Approaches
Methods to increase trust and reduce noise in automated testing pipelines.
03
Alignment Language
Ways to align quality work with business outcomes that leadership understands.
04
Clear Path Forward
From automation → augmentation → agentic quality. A roadmap for modern QA.
Season 2
3 Episode
Anupama Kytham podcast guest Ep1 S2
Season 2 · Episode 1
How One QA Leader Cut Regression Testing from 2 Weeks to 2 Days with Multi-Agent AI
"Starting accuracy of 60–65% can climb to 90% within months once the LLM is fed the right application context."
Anupama Khatam
Director of Software Quality Assurance, NCQA
Deepanjan Bhol Agentic podcast s1 ep2
Season 2 · Episode 2
How Microsoft Tests AI That Never Gives the Same Answer Twice
"AI is pumping in so much amount of code... the amount of testing that needs to be done will definitely increase a lot."
Deepanjan Bhol
Senior Principal Software Engineering, Microsoft
Podcast Guest Nishadhi Nikalandawatte S2EP3
Season 2 · Episode 3
Why AI Isn't Making Your Team Ship Faster

"AI is a powerful accelerant - but you have to have something worth accelerating. Perfect tools inside a broken process achieve nothing."
Nishadhi Nikalandawatte
Director, Market Solutions, Slalom
Season 1
15 Episodes
Contextai podcast
Episode 1
Quality as an Operating System: From Test Counts to Trust Checkpoints
Rethinking quality metrics and building trust at scale.
Nishadhi Nikalandawatte
Director of Quality, Slalom
Contextai podcast CEO ContextQA AI Deep Barot
Episode 2
Quality at High Velocity: Keeping Testing Principles in Rapid Delivery
Maintaining quality principles while shipping fast in modern development.
Deep Barot
CEO, ContextQA
Contextai podcast
Episode 3
Using AI Without Losing Critical Thinking: A Developer's View
How developers stay sharp while leveraging AI tools in their daily workflow.
Walter Zimerman
Software Developer, Amazon
The Agentic Quality Podcast ContextQA Priya
Episode 4
AI Won't Replace QA: It Amplifies the Quality Mindset
Use AI to accelerate repeatable work; keep humans on judgment and culture.
Priyamvada Govil
Senior Quality Engineering Leader
Greg podcast speaker ContextQA
Episode 5
From Automation to Agentic Testing
Self-healing tests are achievable when AI understands context and intent.
Greg Goldshteyn
QA Manager, Fox Networks
The Agentic Quality Podcast ContextQA
Episode 6
AI in FinTech Testing: High-Stakes Quality, Compliance, and the New Role of SDETs
Testing in high-stakes FinTech systems where mistakes affect real money and trust.
Ravi Subramanian
Software Developer, Amazon
The Agentic Quality Podcast ContextQA Ep 7
Episode 7
Automation ≠ Quality: How to Measure Test Automation Effectiveness
Automation is a capability, not a quality strategy. Quality is about risk, customer experience, and release confidence.
Alekhya Guduri
Director of Engineering, Indeed
The agentic Quality podcast ep 8
Episode 8
Observability-Led Quality Engineering: Using AI to Turn Production Data into Better Testing
AI helps analyze large-scale production data and reduce noise.
Shrish Ashtaputre
Senior Technical Director, Calsoft
The agentic Quality podcast ep 9
Episode 9
AI in Healthcare Quality: From Rule Engines to Responsible Adoption
AI helps generate skeleton test cases and uncover edge scenarios humans may miss.
Radhika Naik
Quality Engineering Leader, Apexon
Devashish Meena EP 10 The Agentic Quality Podcast
Episode 10
Multi-Agent Engineering: Building Disagreeing Systems for Higher Quality
AI is making engineers faster — but it's not automatically making teams better.
Devashish Meena
Senior Director, Esper
Ep #11 of The Agentic Quality Podcast Ronak Ray Forbes
Episode 11
AI in Software Delivery: Lessons from Forbes' Platform Stability Team
Forbes treats AI like a junior dev — review everything, trust nothing.
Ronak Ray
VP of Platform Stability & AI Ops, Forbes
agentic quality podcast ep 12
Episode 12
Quality Engineers as Risk Intelligence Experts: AI, Finance Systems, and the Future of Testing
The role of QA is evolving toward risk intelligence engineering.
Tanvi Mittal
Quality Engineering Leader
Agentic Quality podcast 13 with Jackie
Episode 13
QA Is No Longer About Testing — It's About Trust, Speed, and AI
Don't chase shiny tools — understand your problem first, then find the solution.
Jackie Namanda
Technology & Quality Engineering Leader
episode 14 contextqa podcast
Episode 14
QA in Clinical Trials: When a Bug Can Affect a Patient
AI is your best friend. The faster you bond with it, the faster you stop being a tester and start being a strategist.
Rohit Singh Raja
Quality Engineering Leader
ContextQA agentic quality podcast ep 15
Episode 15
QA's AI Shift: From Pass/Fail to Grading Reasoning
Start with a baseline before adopting AI to measure real ROI.
Stacy Kirk & Brittany Stewart
QualityWorks Consulting Group

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