Test Architect • AI-in-Testing Leader • Keynote Speaker

Rahul Parwal.

Great testing is a thinking craft and not a checklist. For 10+ years I’ve helped teams and testers trade box-ticking for judgment, curiosity, and sharper questions. Now at the frontier of AI in quality.
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🏆 Jerry Weinberg Award  ·  🎤 50+ Talks  ·  🤖 Agentic AI in Testing
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What I stand for

Testing is a mind game first,
a tooling game second.

Tools change every year. Judgment compounds for a career. My work is about building testers who can think — who know what to question, why it matters, and how to know when they’re wrong.

Thinking over tools

Rooted in Rapid Software Testing. Automation amplifies a tester’s thinking — it never replaces it.

The oracle problem

Knowing a result is wrong is the hard part. Great testers obsess over how they decide what “correct” even means.

Context-driven craft

No best practices — only practices that fit a context. I teach testers to read the situation, then act.

What I do now

Test Architect at ifm engineering

I own the end-to-end test strategy for industrial IoT at a global leader in sensor technology and an Industry 4.0 pioneer. When off-the-shelf tools fall short, I design automation from scratch — and I’m driving the company’s first AI-augmented testing capability with agentic AI.
  • End-to-end strategy for sensors, controllers & the protocols that connect them
  • Custom-built automation where commercial tools can’t reach
  • Pioneering agentic-AI workflows for real testing problems
HTTP MQTT OPC UA WebSocket Industrial IoT Agentic AI
Beyond the day job

Building the wider craft

I invest in the testing community as much as my own work — mentoring, advising, and shaping how the next generation thinks about quality.
  • AI Chapter Lead — Ministry of Testing
  • Peer Advisor, Rapid Software Testing — alongside James Bach & Michael Bolton
  • Course author — Gen AI & Prompting for Testers
On stage

Keynotes & talks, worldwide

50+ talks for practitioners across the globe — on testing thinking, AI in quality, and the craft behind the tools.
EuroSTAR TestBash TestMu
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Recognition

Honoured for the craft

The award I value most isn’t on this list — it’s a tester telling me they think differently now.

Jerry Weinberg Testing Excellence Award

For sustained contribution to the testing craft.

EuroSTAR Best Tutorial — 2025

Top-rated tutorial at Europe’s largest testing conference.

QA Advocate of the Year — 2026

Recognised for advancing quality advocacy.

20+ International Contest Wins

A decade of competitive testing wins worldwide.

Explore my work

Dig into the good stuff

Articles & Insights

200+ pieces on testing, thinking & AI.

Gen AI for Testers

Free certification course.

AI Prompt Repository

Battle-tested prompts for testers.

AI Resource Hub

Curated AI-in-testing resources.

Cheatsheets

UI, UX, web, API & more.

Media & Speaker Kit

Invite me to speak.

Let’s build serious testing capability.

Exploring AI in quality, leveling up a test team, or just want to talk craft? I’m always up for connecting with people who care about doing this well.
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