BWI: QAI’s Announces The Best of the Best Awards at 12th Software Testing Conference Awards 2012

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Source: QAI
Monday, December 24, 2012 11:14 AM IST (05:44 AM GMT)
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QAI's Announces The Best of the Best Awards at 12th Software Testing Conference Awards 2012
NeST, Nokia Siemens Networks, Infosys & Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions win top honors

Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Monday, December 24, 2012 -- (Business Wire India) -- QAI (a href ="http://www.qaiglobal.com/" target="_blank">www.qaiglobal.com), the world's leading consulting and workforce development firm addressing Operational Excellence announced the Awards for excellence and innovation in Software Testing at the 12th International Conference on Software Testing (STC) 2012. NeST and Nokia Siemens Networks emerged as the joint winners for their paper titled "Business Component and XML driven framework" and "Simulated Field Environment - Test Automation & Continuous Regression Testing Framework" respectively. The 1st Runner Up position was duly awarded to Infosys for their paper on "Testing 3Vs (Volume Variety and Velocity) of Big Data". Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions secured the third spot with their paper titled "Test size driven productivity tracking. The awards were given away at a glittering ceremony at the Le Meridien, Bangalore during the Awards Evening at STC 2012.

For the awards this year, a record breaking number of 466+ author intent forms from over 150 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 27 members were invited to present their papers at the conference. In all 100 organizations were represented for the regional rounds, hosted in six cities in India.

The jury members were quoted as saying "The concept presented by NeST is completely unique, original and well-articulated. The framework presented is a unique approach which has a high relevance to business, and converges the elements of automation, business, and technology very well. The paper presented by Nokia captures the fact that, many a times, testers focus on engineering more and don't simulate or understand what is happening in production. In addition to providing a fresh perspective and a solution to Regression testing, this framework was well detailed, articulated, and presented with substantial production level details to qualify for the winning position. These papers deserve to be patented."

Commenting on the overwhelming success of STC 2012, 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 2012 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 2012 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 1,60,000 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.



CONTACT DETAILS
Arka Sengupta, QAI, arka.sengupta@qaiglobal.com

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