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Twenty years running quality where a miss is not a ticket.
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Ravin Elango
Quality engineering is becoming the discipline that decides whether AI can be trusted.
Leading AI-augmented testing at one of the top publishers · Founder, Nexacore
20
years
4
regulated industries
AI
testing in production
2
ventures
Currently
In motion.
Updated September 2026
Building
AI-in-the-loop validation for ebook production at a major publisher. The constraint is public: a miss ships.
Experimenting
Whether agents can own regression maintenance if a human still signs the quality contract.
Reading
Empirical evaluation work — how you measure model behavior when the distribution moves.
Where
Chicago, working globally.
03Think
Featured writing
September 2, 2026
Why most AI testing pilots fail
They are scored on generation, starved of context, and shipped without a contract. The model is not the failure mode. The design of the pilot is.
4 min
August 18, 2026
What I learned running Claude inside a real QA pipeline
Selectors rot, assertions are the meaning, and the evaluator needs tests of its own. Notes from putting a model on work that ships.
4 min
July 9, 2026
The QA org chart of 2030
Fewer people writing tests. More people writing contracts. Agents as staff, with managers. A sketch of the function after generation is cheap.
3 min
Selected proof
- Publishing
- Healthcare
- Insurance
- Financial services