Automation Testing Podcast Automation Episode 597

AI Testing Strategy: Stop Being a Cost Center, Start Protecting Revenue with Nandini Srinivasan

with Nandini Srinivasan

July 22, 2026 Hosted by Joe Colantonio

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Key takeaways

What you'll learn in this episode

How she frames quality metrics for executives

Using language around revenue protection

Risk mitigation

Feature velocity instead of test coverage percentages.

About this episode

Nandini Srinivasan has spent 25 years in the quality industry and leads a global QA organization of over 150 engineers across the US, Canada, India, and Pakistan.

In this episode, she breaks down exactly how she built a QA AI acceleration charter, ran a train-the-trainer model, and used a phased proof-of-concept approach to separate real AI from what she calls “powerful automation dressed up as AI.

She talks about the four pillars she uses to present her team's value: quality, scalability, performance, and availability.

Nandini also shares her take on the future of QA hiring, why the judgment layer will always require a human, and what skills testers need to stay relevant as AI agents take over the more mechanical parts of automation.

She is also writing a five-part LinkedIn series called “The Voice of QA in the AI Era" if you want to follow along.

About the guest

About Nandini Srinivasan

Twenty five years in the industry. She leads a distributed quality organization of roughly 150 people across the US, Canada, India, and Pakistan, and has built teams in Ukraine and Vietnam before that. She came up in an era where her first manager made her write her own network monitoring tools because there was no budget for commercial ones, which is the whole origin story for how she thinks about tooling today. She is also a former robotics coach, and she is currently publishing a five part LinkedIn series called The Voice of QA in the AI Era.

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