India, March 19 -- For years, software testing was largely about one thing: proving that code worked as designed. But enterprise systems no longer operate in predictable environments. Today, they are cloud-native, distributed across geographies, updated continuously, and increasingly shaped by AI-assisted development. In that world, software can pass traditional tests and still fail in production when dependencies break, traffic spikes, or infrastructure behaves unpredictably.

That is the gap Umasankar Mukkara has spent years trying to address. Founder of ChaosNative, later acquired by Harness, and now VP of Product at Harness, Mukkara is known in open-source cloud-native chaos engineering circles for his work on building resilient Kuber...