uTest contest: winners from India
By Shalini Singh

US startup uTest.com was launched in 2007 with the aim of testing software for clients for a fee.  Utest has a base of thousands of permanent and freelance testers (many from India) servicing more than 400 clients around the world.  In Dec, 2011, uTest announced that they had received $17 million in funding.  This latest round brought the company’s total funding to $37 Million.

uTest clients include Google, Microsoft, Groupon, AOL, BBC, Bump and many others.

Like other collaborate efforts, uTest has number of ‘Bug Battles’ for its testers to work out problems with computing software systems.  Such competitions provide healthy rivalry between the individual testers and create a media buzz which is always good for business.  In an article published in 2009, I had reported on how an Indian Ranchhod Prajapati had won a ‘Top Tester’ award of $1000.  Ranchhod also won an additional $200 for detecting the ‘Best Bug’ in LinkedIn.  In 2009, another Indian, Jegan Surya won $200 for detecting the ‘Best Bug’ in MySpace’.

uTest has announced its 2011 uTester of the Year Awards

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Top honor for the 2011 award goes to David Honeyball from the United Kingdom!

David joined uTest in June of 2009. Since joining us, David has become a Gold rated tester in Functional, Load and Localization testing, as well as having achieved the silver rating in both Usability and Security testing. David also became our Top Test Team Lead in 2011, successfully leading nearly 200 projects alongside of uTest project managers.

The complete list of winners below has 2 people from India

- Most Valuable Tester: David H., United Kingdom
- Top Test Team Lead: David H., United Kingdom
- Top Android Tester: Elena H., United States
- Top iOS Tester: Bo V., United States
- Top Forums Moderator: Amit K., India
- uTester of the Year: Anand A., Australia
- uTester of the Year: Andy M., United States
- uTester of the Year: Arsiadi S., Indonesia
- uTester of the Year: Atul A., India
- uTester of the Year: Bo V., United States
- uTester of the Year: Brian R., United States
- uTester of the Year: Carl S., United States
- uTester of the Year: Jason Y., Canada
- uTester of the Year: John K., United States
- uTester of the Year: Moritz S., Germany
- uTester of the Year: Nicola S., United Kingdom
- uTester of the Year: Paul T., United Kingdom
- uTester of the Year: Peggy F., United States
- uTester of the Year: Shruthi P., United States
- uTester of the Year: Travis H., United States
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