How Testers Can Partner with AI in Automation | Ronak Ray | Testflix 2025
AI is reshaping software testing, but real quality does not come from hype alone. This session explores where AI truly adds value in automation and where human testers remain essential. It focuses on building a practical partnership between AI and testers, where speed and scale are balanced with judgment, context, and responsibility.
The talk breaks down what AI can do well today, such as generating test ideas, accelerating automation, and increasing coverage, while highlighting what testers must continue to own, including risk assessment, prioritization, and alignment with business goals. It also presents a real-world case study on large-scale parallelization, showing how AI-assisted testing can accelerate delivery without compromising reliability. Attendees will leave with a clear framework for using AI effectively, understanding its limits, and redefining the tester’s role in modern quality engineering.
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About the Speaker:
Ronak Ray, Vice President of QA & AI Strategy at Forbes
Ronak Ray is Vice President of QA & AI Strategy at Forbes Media, where he leads enterprise-wide initiatives to transform quality engineering with AI, automation, and modern delivery practices. Over his 14+ year career, Ronak has advanced through multiple leadership roles, driving innovation at the intersection of software quality, agile transformation, and AI adoption.
At Forbes, he has defined and executed an enterprise AI roadmap—introducing large language model–driven test generation, anomaly detection, and self-healing pipelines that reduced test creation time by 50% and cut production incidents by 30%. He spearheaded the rollout of a Playwright-based automation framework that expanded automated coverage from 10% to 85%, shortened regression cycles by 70%, and enabled a release cadence that grew from 2 to 60 weekly deployments.
Ronak’s leadership has delivered measurable gains in reliability, efficiency, and end-user satisfaction. A strong advocate of shift-left testing and agile quality practices, he is passionate about helping testers partner with AI to accelerate delivery while maintaining rigor and trust in software systems.
Connect with Ronak on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronakray/
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