BWI: Deloitte, IBM, L&T Infotech, Adobe…Shortlisted for the Leadership Awards at the Asia's Largest Software Testing Conference (STC 2010)

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Source: QAI
Monday, November 15, 2010 12:54 PM IST (07:24 AM GMT)
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Deloitte, IBM, L&T Infotech, Adobe.Shortlisted for the Leadership Awards at the Asia's Largest Software Testing Conference (STC 2010)
Countdown to the Final Winner at STC 2010 Begins

New Delhi, Delhi, India, Monday, November 15, 2010 -- (Business Wire India) -- QAI ( www.qaiglobal.com), the world's leading workforce development and consulting firm addressing Operational Excellence in IT, BPO and knowledge intensive service organizations, announced Software Testing Leadership Awards 2010 at the 10th Annual Software Testing Conference (STC) 2010, to be held in Bangalore on November 22-23, 2010 at The Chancery Pavilion.

Last year, CSS won top honors, with Aricent and Mindtree the first and second runners up respectively at the STC Best of the Best Leadership Awards 2009. For this year's awards, Deloitte, IBM, L&T Infotech, Adobe, TCS, IBM, Syntel, TechMahindra, Capgemini, Honeywell, AppLabs, MindTree, Infosys, Fiserv, Aricent and Nokia among others are shortlisted for the best of the best awards. The Awards Committee will be announcing the Leadership Awards at the conference on 22-23, November.

For the awards this year, a record breaking number of 461 author intent forms from over 134 organizations are 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.

STC 2010 is built on the theme of "Testing 3.0 - from Transaction to Transformation". STC 2010 will focus on building a leadership narrative to piece together the three cornerstones of future business growth and continuity - Agility, Adaptation, Achievement and focuses on the ability of the organizations, practitioners and leaders to adopt, learn and lead in the wake of the new paradigms.

10th in the series, this year's conference has received overwhelming response from the industry with over 250 delegates already registered and support and sponsorship by leading organizations in the industry like Microsoft, Accenture, HP, Cap Gemini, Microfocus, CGI Global Information Systems, Confirmiq and Infostretch In addition it is being supported by various Software Process Improvement Networks (SPINs), Test Republic and Software Certifications and PCQuest, the media partner and CIOL, the online media partner. The conference is also supported by Applabs, Cognizant, Deloitte, QA Infotech and Wipro Technologies as the regional hosts for the evaluation rounds.

STC 2010, organized in association with the Edista Testing Institute (ETI), is a platform where practitioners from various organizations share and learn the current best practices, and the future possibilities on how to manage not only change and continuity, but perhaps paradox more generally. Tenth in the series, STC 2010 will include four specific tracks focusing on Business Leadership, Test Program Management (Test Management, Team Management, Test Estimation etc.), Techniques and Tools and Emerging Areas.

For over 17 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), IT Service Management Conference (ITSM), High Maturity Best Practices Conference (HMBP) and the International Software Testing Conference (STC).

About QAI( www.qaiglobal.com and www.qaiglobalinstitute.com)

QAI is a leading global consulting and workforce development organization addressing 'Operational Excellence' in IT, BPO and knowledge intensive service organizations.

QAI Global Institute, the workforce development and competency building division of QAI, focuses on creating international education and training products and services to address assessments, career programs and certifications to cater to the large pool of manpower requiring skills for increased employability.

QAI is currently servicing over 300 clients in 30 countries and our regional bases are located in US, India, China, Singapore and Malaysia.

About Edista Testing Institute ( www.edistatestinginstitute.com )

Edista Testing Institute [ETI] is a talent partner for leading IT organization globally providing Talent Acquisition, Management and Transformation solutions in Software Testing. Through the structured competency assessments based on proprietary competency framework UCFT [Universal Competency Framework for Testing] we aid organizations assess precisely the competencies of a potential hire to evaluate the job fitment or an employee to identify the his/her training needs, do project allocation, to conduct objective performance appraisals and evaluate training effectiveness through pre and post training assessments.

With a network of 27+ Authorized Education Partners and programs customized to suit the organizations context, we support organizations in meeting their annual demand for quality fresh hires in Software Testing. We support organizations in managing, transforming and retaining their talent by providing training programs, e-learning programs, supporting in-house drive to assist employees obtaining software testing certifications.

Through International Software Testing Conferences and Test Republic (www.testrepublic.com - an online community of Software Testing professionals) we strive towards advocating and furthering the profession of Software Testing.



CONTACT DETAILS
Parul Singh , QAI, +91 9868729412 , parul.singh@qaiglobal.com
Mohan PSK, Edista Testing Institute, +91 9986800795, mohan.psk@edistatesting.com

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