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Guest interviews
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15 episodes
since July 4, 2025
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The “best” AI model is not always the right one. For QA teams, the better question is: how much intelligence does this testing task actually require? In this episode, Neeraj Jain and Nikita Mittal unpack a practical 3-tier framework for AI model selection across the Software Testing Life Cycle (ST…

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What if the real security risk is hiding inside your automation framework? In this episode of The Quality Beat, Manisha Mittal and Birbal Tahim, QA experts at Nagarro, unpack how test automation can expose sensitive data, hard-coded credentials, and unexpected attack surfaces — and why security nee…
What if automated testing could move from “run everything” to “run what actually matters”? This episode explores MACTX, a framework-agnostic, multi-agent testing approach designed to make test execution smarter, more targeted, and risk-aware. Learn how decision intelligence can help teams reduce un…
How do you evaluate generative AI when there isn’t just one “right” answer? In this episode of The Quality Beat, we explore why traditional metrics fall short for GenAI, and how teams can define what “good” looks like in context, from factual consistency and fairness to safety, business impact, and…
In this episode of The Quality Beat, Gurpreet Bhadesh speaks with Chris Mastnak about a challenge many QA teams know well: how to communicate testing results in a way that actually supports release decisions. Instead of relying on pass rates, test counts, and long defect lists, the conversation exp…
AI agents can sound confident, act autonomously, and still go wrong in ways traditional testing will never catch. In this episode, we explore how teams can build trust in autonomous AI agents. From silent failures and hallucinations to prompt injection, bias, and multi-agent handoff errors, they re…
At scale, quality is no longer just about testing. It’s about trust, governance, and culture. When things slip, defect management turns political, engineering becomes firefighting, and release decisions become negotiation. We talk about what quality management really looks like inside complex, larg…
In banking, financial services, and insurance, software failures don’t just break systems — they break trust. A bug isn’t just a bug; it’s a payment outage, a regulatory incident, or tomorrow’s headline. In this episode of The Quality Beat, Charu Kapil and Sachin Ahuja bring deep BFSI experience f…
Production is not beautiful. Production is messy.  In the latest episode of The Quality Beat, Christian Mastnak, QA Director at Nagarro, challenges common assumptions about end-to-end testing, from why “green” test suites still fail in production to why teams must stop testing a fantasy and start …
AI can speed up tests, spot patterns, and generate thousands of cases in seconds—but can you trust it? Deepshikha, Nagarro's Gobal Practice Lead - AI in Testing, unpacks the real wins, the hidden risks, and the human expertise that keeps AI on track. A lively deep dive for quality leaders navigatin…
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