Krishna Bandarupalli
QA Team Lead at Encova Insurance
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Krishna Bandarupalli is a Quality Assurance Team Lead at Encova Insurance with more than a decade of experience in software quality. His career has taken him from intern and manual tester to automation engineer and QA leader, giving him a practical understanding of quality from both hands-on and strategic perspectives.
Krishna has worked across manual, automation, and performance testing, with experience supporting both legacy and modern applications in the insurance industry. He is passionate about improving QA processes, building effective automation strategies, and helping teams use AI as a thinking partner while keeping human judgment, risk awareness, and accountability at the center of quality decisions.
An active member of the software-quality community, Krishna serves on the COSQAM board and has spoken at QA or the Highway on open-source automation tools, prompt engineering, and the evolving role of QA in an AI-accelerated world.
Outside of work, Krishna enjoys spending time with his family, gardening, DIY projects, cooking, biking, and continually learning something new.
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Engineering the Future: A Deep Dive into Prompt Engineering
Engineering the Future: A Deep Dive into Prompt Engineering is a comprehensive session that explores the futuristic world of the Prompt Engineering. This talk will explain what the prompt engineering is and will guide them through the process of structuring the prompts to effectively communicate with generative AI models. The Key takeaways include:
Understanding the Prompt Engineering: Learn what Prompt Engineering is, why it is important to equip with this skill and how it is shaping the future
Prompt Types: Discuss different types of prompts such as direct prompts, prompt with examples and chain-of-thought prompts
Best practices: Do's and Dont's to get the optimal responses
Applications: Real world examples on the application of Prompt Engineering, in multiple domains.
This session is designed for anyone who is interested in AI, machine learning and Tech. Whether you’re a seasoned AI practitioner or a curious beginner, this talk will provide valuable insights into the art and science of Prompt Engineering. Join us as we engineer the future of AI!
The Human Advantage: Making Better QA Decisions with AI in the Loop
As AI becomes a key player in our tools and workflows, testing and testers need to evolve the strategies since the quality still depends on human judgment. This session focuses on the tester’s mindset and the strategies to follow in their personal + professional lives that help QA engineers make better decisions, communicate risk clearly, and build trust in what they deliver
This is a practical, human-centered talk on how to become a stronger Quality Assurance professional in an AI-accelerated environment without becoming overly dependent on tools. Focusing on the human aspect of the QA, we’ll explore the mental models and habits that separate “someone who runs tests” from “someone who owns quality.”
The key takeaways include -
Using AI as a test helper, expanding ideas, help debug and write reports, prompt pattens to generate better scenarios
QA mindset shifts for stronger testing - risk-based thinking, systems thinking, and skepticism without becoming adversarial.
Communication strategies that make QAs more human
Personal growth strategies that anyone can follow to build confidence and to be resilient
A set of repeatable daily/weekly habits (checklists, journaling prompts, review routines) to build stronger intuition and consistency.
This session will be beneficial for Quality Assurance professions in all levels, if you are wondering how the QA roles evolve with AI in the mix, this session is for you.
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