BANGALORE, December 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
QA Infotech, iGATE Solutions and Infosys Win Top Honors
QAI, the world's leading consulting and workforce development firm addressing Operational Excellence recently announced the Awards for excellence and innovation in Software Testing at the 13th International Software Testing Conference (STC) 2013. Ramandeep Singh from QA Infotech emerged as the grand winner for the paper titled 'Application Profiling to Measure End User Experience - An Open Source Solution'. The 1st Runner Up position was duly awarded to Sanju Kallumpurath from iGATE Solutions for his paper on 'Test Execution Scheduling Modeler for Large Transformation Programs'. The paper titled 'Essential Elements and Metrics for a Data Warehouse TCOE' helped Amita Awasthi from Infosys clinch the third spot. The awards were given away at a glittering ceremony at the Le Meridien, Bangalore during the Awards Evening at STC 2013.
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The Best of the Best Awards were instituted in 1999 to recognize practitioners for their excellence in the practice of Software Testing & Quality. Over the years, the awards have become industry recognition for practitioners. This year, over 588 submissions were received from over 137+ organizations from across 6 countries. After screening the submissions for relevance, and appropriateness of content, 245 papers were shortlisted for regional rounds in 6 cities across India. The regional rounds were hosted by Cognizant in Chennai, Deloitte in Mumbai, QA Infotech in Delhi, CGI in Bangalore, CSC in Hyderabad, and Capgemini in Pune. A Jury Board of over 72+ members evaluated each paper, and finally shortlisted 27 of the Best Papers for presentation and 10 for Poster Presentation at STC 2013 in Bangalore. Subsequently, the jury members made it a point to listen to each of the papers to finalize the Top 3 Winners.
One of the jury members was quoted saying, "The winning combination of simplicity and clarity make the submission from QA Infotech, a unique practice, and very practical to apply. The work is certainly original, unique, well-articulated and has a high relevance to business. In addition to aligning with the theme of the conference, this also aligns to the current industry need and converges the elements of automation, business, and technology very well. Well done and really astounding work. This paper deserves to be patented. Congratulations!"
In addition to the Best of the Best Awards, STC 2013 also gave away multiple awards across several other categories which included:
1) BEST POSTER AWARD 2013
Assess with your Blinkers Off - Widen your Scope for Tool Evaluation by J Jaya Murugan, Indium Software India
2) INNOVATIONS IN TESTING CONTEST 2013 (in association with Techgig.com)
a) IBAP - Intelligent QA System by Venkatesh Ramaswamy, Cognizant
b) CIVIM - A New Generation Test Automation Framework, by Ratish MM, NEST Group
c) Innovations in Agile Testing by Vinit Gulati, SpiderLogic
d) Zwitter Automation by Sai Ganesh, SunTec Group
3) BOSS OF BUGS 2013 (in association with 99Tests.com)
Individual Category - Winners
i. Pankaj Aggarwal
ii. Rinky Lahotty
iii. Sudhamshu
Individual Category - Certificate of Appreciation
i. Gangadhar Bontala
ii. S Kranthi Kumar
iii. Santosh Kumar Racha
iv. Deepali Shet
4) COMMUNITY CHOICE SPEAKER OF YEAR 2013
Lorinda Brendon, Quality Evangelist from Smart Bear Software
5) 'WHAT MAKES A GOOD CONFERENCE' WINNERS 2013
Gaurav Jindal, Ericsson India Global Services Pvt. Ltd.
Commenting on the overwhelming success of STC 2013, Mr. Navyug Mohnot, CEO, QAI said, "The growth and demand for testing, fueled by the outsourcing phenomenon is an indication of the future for the business. It also has created a strong realization that we are capable of more than what we currently provide. This realization coupled with the upcoming trend of Cloud Computing makes it imperative that for the journey to continue, organizations have to undertake focused initiatives to transform themselves from being a simple service organization. Recognizing such challenges, the International Software Testing Conference was created as a unique forum for exchanging, learning and accelerating the implementation of best practices in the domain of Software Testing."
For over 15 years, QAI has brought together international representatives and recognized thought-leaders to share information, learn new software quality processes, and discuss software practices through a number of prestigious events like Project Management Leadership Conference (PML), Software Estimation Colloquium (SEC), IT Service Management Conference (ITSM), High Maturity Best Practices Conference (HMBP) and the International Software Testing Conference (STC).
Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Pradeep C, CEO, Edista Testing Institute said, "STC 2013 has been a great platform for professionals to interact, exchange, and collaborate with the Best of the Best in the Industry. While enabling collaboration, STC 2013 has been also setting the vision, tone and direction of the future to come, for the Indian Testing Industry. Attended by over 50+ business leaders, this year, the conference has also been playing a critical role in recognizing leadership and excellence in the practice of the Testing Profession. At QAI and ETI, these events are a constant endeavor from our end to enable accelerated implementation and adoption of Best Practices, and the take-away has been immense for all participants."
About QAI:
QAI is a leading global consulting and workforce development organization addressing 'Operational Excellence' in knowledge intensive service organizations.
QAI Global Services (QGS) provides advisory and consulting services, leading to operational excellence in organizations. QGS engages with client organizations for deployment of best practices and process improvement engagements in areas including Quality, Innovation, Project and Programme Management, IT Service Management, Testing and Service Excellence to name a few.
QAI Global Institute (QGI) is the workforce development division of QAI and engages with individuals inside organizations and with professional communities. The Institute, through learning design, training delivery, competency assessments, development and certifications enables career growth and equips individuals to help realize organizational goals.
QAI has trained over 160,000 professionals and certified over 40,000 professionals across the globe and is currently servicing over 300 clients in over 35 countries. Our offices are located in USA, India, China, and Singapore.
To know more, please visit www.qaiglobal.com
About Edista Testing Institute:
Derived from the Finnish word meaning to enable and to enhance, Edista Testing Institute (ETI) is a workforce development partner for leading IT organization globally enabling Acquisition, Transformation, Recognition and Engagement solutions for Workforce Development in IT & IT Enabled Services.
Setup in 2008, as a subsidiary of QAI, the focus of the organization has been to enable IT organizations create a sustainable competitive advantage through talent acquisition, management and transformation solutions in Software Testing. ETI provides this support through various trainings, e-learning programs and in-house drives to assist employees in obtaining software testing certifications.
Over the years, we have helped over 100+ clients, in over 12+ countries, trained over 5,000+ professionals, certified over 2,000+ professionals, and build a community of over 10,000+ professionals in the field of Software Testing alone.
To know more, please visit www.edistatesting.com
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