DevOps & AI: Build Flawless Software Faster
SDET ManagerDBDeep Barot
Founder, ContextQA (host)
What if quality were everyone's responsibility, embedded across the whole delivery cycle? This session makes the case for DevTestOps — streamlining CI/CD with quality gates, prioritizing intelligent automation with the test pyramid, and building real Dev-QA collaboration to ship flawless software faster.
Walk away knowing how to apply it
What the conversation covers
DevTestOps defined: de-siloing testing so it stays constant across the cycle
Quality gates: sonar checks, unit-test thresholds, staging regression, non-functional testing
Intelligent automation guided by the test pyramid and top 15–20 revenue journeys
Team model: ~25–30% manual, ~50–55% automation, SDETs, and daily learning time
Closing the Dev-QA collaboration gap and starting API automation early
Keeping the original product idea intact to avoid scope drift
Build vs buy and the hidden cost of "free" open-source
The ideas worth remembering
Quality is everyone's responsibility — from CTO to product to devs to testers
Put quality gates in your pipeline and fail builds automatically
Don't over-automate the top of the pyramid; secure top revenue journeys first
Follow people → process → strategy, and protect time for cross-learning
Technology is nothing — it's the people behind it. Trust your people and they'll do wonderful things.— Siddhant Wadhwani
Who you'll hear from
Siddhant Wadhwani
SDET Manager
Deep Barot
Founder, ContextQA (host)
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