Gaurav Khurana
Senior Test Consultant at Microsoft · Tester of the Year 2022
15+ years in software testing and automation, from telecom billing to insurance to Azure data platforms. I share what I learn through talks, hackathons, videos and this site, because sharing is caring.
Speaking
Conference talks, tutorials and training sessions, newest first.
Poison Kills Poison: AI Tests AI
AutomationSTAR 2026
4 Nov 2026 · Antwerp, Belgium
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You Can't assertEquals an Agent: A Tester's Guide to Agentic Quality
TestMu Conf 2026
20 Aug 2026 · Online
View eventPrompt Injection is the new SQL injection
BrowserStack Breakpoint 2026
May 2026 · Online
View eventA Playwright Visual Regression Runner: 39 lines of TypeScript
Automation Guild 2026
13 Feb 2026
View eventFrom Flaky to Bulletproof: Teaching AI to Smell Bad Test Patterns
ATA AI Test Fest
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Super Cool Daily Chores with Selenium
CP-SAT Selenium Summit 2021
6 Feb 2021 · Online
Watch the talkHackathon and contest wins
Building and testing under a clock, solo and with teams. Each card shows the certificate or the organiser's announcement.
ATA AI Test Hackathon
Agile Testing Alliance
Jul 2026
So You Think You Can Hack? AI Hackathon
The Test Chat
Joint top spot
18–19 Jul 2026
BrowserStack Testathon, Noida
BrowserStack
Team "Thinkers"
26 Jul 2025
UiPath AI-Driven No-Code Automation Hackathon
UiPath and The Test Tribe
Mobile Automation Challenge, team "The Autopilot Gang"
26–27 Apr 2025
Test Innovation Challenge 2022
askui
2022
ACCELQ Automation Hackathon 2.0
ACCELQ and The Test Tribe
13–14 Nov 2021
So You Think You Can Test?
The Test Chat, with TestProject and Bugasura
17 Oct 2021
ACCELQ Automation Hackathon
ACCELQ and The Test Tribe
Team "TTT Believers"
1–2 May 2021
Moolympics #2: Experimenting with selectors && beliefs
Moolya
Feb 2021
Cignithon testing hackathon
Cigniti and The Test Tribe
Team "Believers", project Cometa.Rocks
Recognition
From the testing community and from work.
Tester of the Year 2022
The Test Chat
Named Tester of the Year 2022 by The Test Chat testing community.
AI Odyssey: top 11
Microsoft
One of the top 5 completions from GDC and part of the top 11 who completed the AI Odyssey challenge.
Skills Champion
Microsoft MCAPS Q4 Skills Challenge
Earned the Skills Champion badge in the MCAPS Q4 Skills Challenge.
Podcast guest trophy
Salesforce Testing Guy podcast
A thank-you trophy for sharing testing insights and experiences on the podcast.
Workplace honours
Employer awards
SEE (Spotlight Employee Excellence), ABCD and Techie of the Week.
99tests beta tester
99tests.com
101 bugs logged, level 9 tester, and 3 contests won for finding and validating the most bugs.
Podcasts and guest appearances
Conversations on other channels about testing careers, ethics and community.
Testing Roundtable
Iti Shruti
How to get your dream testing job (Roundtable part 2)
Iti Shruti
Four for Fore, chapter 3
The Test Chat
TTC Turns 3
The Test Chat
Unlock the secrets to community involvement
Salesforce Testing Guy
Importance of testing ethics, part 1
Salesforce Testing Guy
Importance of testing ethics, part 2
Salesforce Testing Guy
SelectorsHub user story #5
SelectorsHub
Certifications
- ISTQB Certified TesterISTQB
- Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)Microsoft
- Azure Developer AssociateMicrosoft
- Microsoft Global Hackathon 2023Microsoft
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