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Raman from Syntel won QAI's software testing award
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 01 December 2010, 18:44 IST
Bangalore: QAI, One of the leading workforce development and consulting firm addressing Operational Excellence in IT, BPO and knowledge intensive service organizations, announced the much awaited Software Testing Leadership Awards 2010 at the 10th Annual Software Testing Conference (STC) 2010, at a gala awards ceremony.
Kumar Raman from Syntel emerged as the winner for his paper titled 'Healthcare Testing for the Compliance Era: The Road Less Traveled'. Nikhil Chinchwade and Bidyuditya Das from MindTree were chosen as the first runners-up for their paper titled 'DIY: Cloud Based Low Cost, Elastic Load Generation Using Open Source Tools'. The second runner-up spot was awarded to Nanda MP from Aricent Technologies for her paper titled 'Improving Test Effectiveness'. The awards were given away on the first day of the conference at Bangalore.
For the awards this year, a record breaking number of 461 author intent forms from over 134 organizations were received which is the all-time highest received for any conference conducted in the past 10 years in India. After preliminary screening, a total of 190 members have been invited to present. In all 54 organizations were represented for the regional rounds, hosted in six cities in India - Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune, and New Delhi. The Jury panel consisted of 22 eminent leaders from Capgemini, Cognizant, HP, Infosys, Accenture, CSS Corp, HCL, ITC Infotech, Logica, Wipro, CGI, Mastek, Barclays, AppLabs, Maveric amongst others.
Kumar Raman from Syntel, on winning the award commented, "I am really delighted on winning this prestigious Testing Leadership Award, this year. I strongly believe the healthcare compliance space will be a hyperactivity zone over the next three to five years. Such recognition for these kind of papers will encourage more people to look at the domain aspect of Testing and hope that it helps in some way to bridge the skill gap in these areas, that is one of the biggest challenges facing the IT sector."
