Afsana Atar is an accomplished test engineer with a decade’s experience in software testing. She extends her thought leadership to teams in various domains, from digital advertising, education, and healthcare, to the financial sector, insurance, and trading. Previously, she worked with Google, IBM, the Principal Financial Group, and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and is presently working for Susquehanna International Group. She is a Certified Scrum Master, an Agile Scrum practitioner, and is also part of the Scrum Alliance community. She has managed and worked on projects worth over $1M as a QA engineer to a QA manager. She believes in sharing her experiences with the testing community to help foster learning and innovation.
Varun Pillai is an accomplished technical manager, a seasoned software engineer, and a data scientist with over 10 years' experience in managing multicultural project teams making end-to-end deliveries in SDLC and the Agile-Scrum process for advertising, banking, and insurance companies. He has worked with various MNCs, such as HSBC and the Principal Financial Group. He is currently working with the advertising unit at AlticeUSA.
He is an avid technologist and is always looking to experiment with the next big technology stack for data science. In addition to his work, he also contributes to open source projects and offers consultancy services to start-ups in relation to their technology stacks and business processes.
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