Brijesh Deb
Brijesh Deb
Principal Consultant
Infosys
Brijesh Deb is a quality engineering leader with over 2.5 decades of experience in software testing, AI, and Agile transformation. He is a Principal Consultant at Infosys and the Chief Enablement Officer at The Test Chat community. He has worked across several domains delivering customer-centric solutions grounded in technical excellence.
Known for his practical approach and systems thinking, Brijesh bridges the gap between engineering and business, advocating for ethical, context-driven testing. He promotes Agile not as a process, but as a cultural shift fostering collaboration, breaking silos, and building purposeful teams.
Brijesh is widely recognized for his bold perspectives on testing, leadership, Agile and AI shared through his posts and articles on Linkedin and Medium, his podcast TesterSpeak, and his active presence in various panel discussions, meetups and conferences both online and offline. He is also a passionate student of anthropology, often linking cultural behaviors with people dynamics to improve quality outcomes.
Based in the Netherlands, Brijesh continues to challenge outdated testing narratives while mentoring professionals across the globe. In his personal time, he enjoys meaningful moments with his son, drawing inspiration from the simplicity of everyday life.
You can find him on
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/debbrijesh/
Medium – https://brijeshdeb.medium.com/
YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheTestChat
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My AI overlord can write 50 test cases in 30 seconds. They’re all beautifully broken. So here I am, still employed, but with an existential crisis and a drinking problem.
Last week, ChatGPT suggested I “test if the login button prevents nuclear war.” The week before, it told me to “verify the database doesn’t accidentally become sentient.” I laughed. Then I got paranoid. What if it’s right? What if I’ve been missing the nuclear war tests this whole time?
Here’s the real comedy: I spend 3 hours crafting the perfect prompt. ChatGPT generates 47 test cases in 12 seconds. I read them and think, “This is genius garbage.” Then I spend the next 6 hours fixing them. So basically, I’ve become an unpaid QA reviewer for a machine that doesn’t even know what QA is. My therapist says this is a growth opportunity. My bank account says I’m an idiot.
But wait, there’s more! I asked ChatGPT to write edge case tests. It suggested testing if users could “login using interpretive dance.” I laughed so hard I cried. Then I realized that’s actually a brilliant accessibility test I’d never have thought of. So now ChatGPT is accidentally teaching me to test better while also making my job obsolete. It’s like being out-competed by your worst enemy who doesn’t even exist yet.
This keynote is me living in that beautiful, terrifying space where AI is both completely useless and suspiciously competent, and where your actual job has secretly become “professional machine supervision.”
Key Takeaways
- AI generates amazing test ideas approximately 6% of the time (and those 6% are accidental)
- Your new superpower: saying “no” to a computer that’s technically never wrong
- If ChatGPT could actually do your job, you wouldn’t have a job, but someone would have to QA ChatGPT. That someone is you. Congratulations.
Immediate Applications
- Use AI for 70% of test cases, spend 80% of your time breaking them (math doesn’t have to make sense)
- Build a team “ChatGPT Hall of Shame” and learn from its hilarious failures
- Stop writing tests, start validating whether tests written by machines are catastrophically stupid
Keep your job by becoming the machine’s quality control. It’s not a downgrade, it’s a plot twist