The rise of the 10X QA Team

Your pipeline is under pressure. Here's how to make agentic AI work for you, not against you.

On July 16, 2026, at 11 a.m. ET | 5 p.m. CEST, join Applause for Episode 2 of Velocity & Validation Labs, our technical webinar series for engineering and testing professionals navigating the shift to AI-assisted delivery.

Our first episode helped QA and automation practitioners set up Claude Code securely at the test-script level. This one moves up the stack. If you are a QA Manager or Test Lead, brittle scripts, growing manual verification queues and unpredictable sprint demands are your daily reality. AI coding tools like Claude Code and Codex are driving a 10x increase in application code output, but your QA team can't realistically absorb 10x more verification work. This could lead to defect leakage reaching production, putting your reputation at risk.

Savitha Kadambi, Automation Program Manager at Applause, will walk through how enterprise teams pair an agentic engine with targeted human-in-the-loop validation. Learn how to catch what autonomous tools miss: edge cases, localization failures and the judgment calls no model makes reliably. You will leave with a practical framework for reducing CI/CD latency, tracking the metrics that matter and confidently explaining defect leakage when leadership asks.

Register for this webinar to learn more about:

Driving Speed: Deploy AI agents and low-code tools to eliminate manual bottlenecks, generate resilient test scripts and automatically verify release candidates within your CI/CD pipeline.
Ensuring Quality: Strategically deploy human testers to close AI blind spots across exploratory testing, complex edge cases and localization validation.
Scale and Repeatability: Track core metrics, including self-healing rate, Execution Cycle Time, Script Creation Velocity, Autonomous vs Manual Coverage Ratio, and the global readiness matrix, to validate the framework's operational health.

Speakers

Savitha Kadambi

• Automation Program Manager • Applause

Savitha has built her career at the intersection of advanced automation, multi-agent orchestration and pipeline governance. She specializes in helping global enterprise QA teams modernise legacy architectures and deliver at scale, with hands-on experience across complex, real-world programmes for leading brands.

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