Announcing The 2009 “uTester of the Year” Awards
Today, we announced the results of our 2009 uTester of the Year Awards. Our community is full of professional testers, which made the judging incredibly tough (I can’t believe how much the bar has been raised for testers over the course of 2009). This awards program, however, was designed to recognize those few testers whose testing skills, attention to detail and consistently excellent performance stood out.
The winners were selected by our community management team and project managers, and were based upon testers’ performance across several hundred test cycles for web, desktop and mobile applications.
Brian Rock from Austin, Texas was named the overall uTester of the Year. Brian joined uTest early in 2009 and brings 10+ years of software engineering experience to our community. Over the course of the year, Brian earned MVT (Most Valuable Tester) awards on multiple test cycles and also wrote a popular uTest guest blog post, “Software Testers: The Eyes of the Battlefield.” He consistently reports excellent bugs, communicates with customers extremely well, and is very engaged in uTest projects. Brian had this to say about his experience with uTest:
“Working with uTest challenges me to learn new applications and to solve new testing problems on different products every week,” said Brian Rock. “This keeps things fresh and exciting, and opens my eyes to see systems holistically and keep my defect localization skills sharp. This is what I enjoy most about working with uTest, and I am honored to be among this elite group of testers.”
The complete list of winners of is available after the jump:
- Most Valuable Tester: Brian Rock, USA
- Top Newbie uTester: Alexey Filippow, Ukraine
- Top Tester – North America: Joseph Ours, USA
- Top Tester – South America: Sofia Woloschin, Argentina
- Top Tester – Europe: Jyoti Sheth, Sweden
- Top Tester – Africa: Bahaa Osman, Egypt
- Top Tester – Australia & Oceania: Bryan Fisk, New Zealand
- Top Tester – Asia: Amit Kulkarni, India
- Honorable Mentions: April Xia (China), Atul Angra (India), Bernard Lelchuk (Israel), Brad Sellick (Canada), Dom Wolf (UK), Eman Nofal (USA), Eureka Lopes (USA), Jet Li (China), Omer Perry (Israel), Ranchhod Prajapati (India), Sweety Rumao (USA), Viacheslav Erofeev (Russia)
We congratulate and thank all of the 2009 winners and we look forward to even bigger and better things this year. The competition for the 2010 awards has already begun, and we’re amazed at the increased level of engagement, skill and experience that we’re attracting to our community.
Great and congrats to Brian Rock.
And congrats to you, Ranchhod. That’s quite an honor in your first year!
Congrats to Brian and all the others. And thanks for the honorable mention. It has been great working with uTest during 2009.
Now, if there was a category for Canadian testers…
Congratulations to all !!!!
Together we can and will make a difference
Congratulations to all !
Congratulations to all the winners !!!
Thanks
Vanita Hasija
Congrates to all of u
Congrats to all the winners! 2009 was one heck of year! I, for one, am looking forward to an even busier 2010 for uTest!
Thanks so much to uTest staff as well as the uTest customers for awarding me the title “Tester of the Year.” It’s quite an honor. I will try my best to be here next year
Although, there are so many excellent quality engineers at uTest! The running is going to be fierce this year!
Thanks again
Brian R.
Amit Kulkarni “My Bro” Proud to see you “Top Tester – Asia: Amit Kulkarni, India” You made us proud. Long Live King.
“JAHA PANAH TUSSI GREAT HO TOHFA KABOOL KARO”
Congrats to Brian Rock, Eureka Lopes and Sweety Rumao
You have done awesome job last year.
Congrats to all the winners! Way to go guys! Btw, did you know that, Software Certifications board has launched a Scholarship program for its Managerial level certification, CMST. You just have to score more than 80% in the written examination and get a 50% refund on the fee – http://bit.ly/qaistp
Congrats to all of you..Keep up great work
Congratulations to all of you.
All your hard work came out with flying colors.
All the best for future too.
With Best Regards,
Satya