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Testing Thought Leadership Awards

The contributions of the following Indian Software Testers were recognized.

Ashwin Palaparthi
The well known --Testers Desk (www.testersdesk.com) -- Ashwin quit his job as an AVP of App Labs to work on this project. There are about 5000 testers in India so far who have been using this on a regular basis. This project has already won an award from NASSCOM.

Mohan Panguluri
Test Republic (www.testrepublic.com) -- A non-profit neutral platform for software testing professionals across the globe promoting thought leadership and a great place where debates happen from different schools of thought in software testing. Mohan Panguluri funds this project from his pocket. Mohan is the COO of Edista Testing which is doing pioneering work in Talent Acquisition and Talent Transformation.

Pradeep Soundararajan
Pradeep represents an example of "Next Gen" thinking testers in India. Trained in School of none other than Jerry Weinberg, James Bach, Michael Bolton, Pradeep has honed his software testing skills by hard work and spending more time in testing applications. His blog -- Tester Tested -- is one of the most influential blogs across the world. Being employed by James Bach for Satisfice India is recognition to Pradeep's growing influence in global software testing community. To simply put it, Pradeep continues to be a rallying point for upcoming software testers and continues to push for skilled software testing.

Rahul Verma
Very few people in the world qualify to work in Anti Virus Emergency Response Team of Security Product organizations and Rahul is one of them. He actively educates himself and other testers on performance and security testing through many ways, one of which is through his portal Testing Perspective (www.testingperspective.com). His work of How did Pareto learn Python and his portal Testing Perspective is commendable.

Renu Rajani
Renu has been an excellent leader for software testers not just in IBM. Her passion for software testing extends beyond her extensive capabilities and she has demonstrated skills in motivating upcoming generations of software testing. She was one of the earliest people from India who co-authored a book on software testing - Software Testing: Effective Methods, Tools and Techniques.

Shrini Kulkarni
Shrini is a great representation of learning. He has been testing for many years now and is considered as India's Test Automation Expert. He associates, argues with all schools of thought and some people even say "Shrini is wherever testing is". His arguments and blog is highly thought provoking and is credited by James Bach as "The World's Most Inquisitive Tester".

Srinivasan Desikan
He is the author of one of the best selling book "Software Testing - Principles and Practices". He has delivered talks on testing at international conferences both in India and abroad, such as QAI-India, ASIASTAR-2002 (Melbourne, Australia), PSQT/PSTT-2003 (Washington, USA), SPIN (Chennai) and STeP-IN (Bangalore). His book is one of the widely read books in India by software testers.

T Ashok
As one of the early trainers in the area of software testing, Ashok has developed and maintained a unique style of teaching the craft. Through his popular workshops, Ashok has influenced many budding and seasoned software professionals to make mark in the area of software testing. Ashok's philosophy of testing is around "human thinking and questioning" and apparently stayed away from "Process" oriented testing philosophy as taught by his contemporaries.. Ashok prefers to treat software testing as human thinking oriented approach. Ashok is the Founder and Director of the software company "STAG Software" and provides corporate consulting services to the clients in the area of software testing.

Vipul Kocher
Vipul’s contributions are manifold. With over 12 years of testing experience in various capacities with leading companies, Vipul co-founded a company –PureTesting, which focuses specifically on software testing. He invented Q-Patterns -- a method of capturing testing knowledge and writing reusable test cases. Vipul has won several awards including the best paper award at STAREast 2006 and the Logica CMG Triple Star Award for the most original contribution at EuroStar 2005, Denmark. He is also the President of the Indian Testing Board, which is affiliated to the International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB). He also sits on the Boards of PureTrainings and PureConferences

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