SQS Software Quality Systems

The Quality Advocate 2008 Award

Amsphere and SQS are sponsoring The Quality Advocate 2008 award at this year’s Software and Quality Conference (SQC) 2008 (29th and 30th September, Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre, Westminster).

We are looking for the person who deserves recognition for outstanding performance in the field of software testing and quality assurance.

We are offering a prize of £1000 for the successful candidate and a prize of a Wii to the person who nominates the winner.

The person who is selected will have demonstrated most successfully out of all the candidates that they have:

Delivered the required quality software solutions by reducing the time and cost to test OR time to market.
or
Creatively added value to solutions by assuring quality throughout the life cycle and maximising quality with testing techniques and practices.
or
Adapted the approach to quality management and test management with strategies, tactics and the pragmatic use of tools.

The prize will be awarded at the conference and the winner will also have free entry to the conference.

Click here to make your nomination.

It couldn’t be easier to do.
Simply give us your details, the name and details of the person you are nominating and then in 50 words explain why this person deserves the award.

Once we have received all the nominations, we will contact you and the nominee to get more details to help make the final decision.

We look forward to receiving your nominations.

Nominations can be made from 6th August with the closing date on 12th September.

The judges' decision is final.

Last year the prize was awarded to Danny Dore of Boots for successfully adapting an innovative approach to testing that encompassed cost reductions, improved quality of live systems and tight quality control over deliverables of several vendors.

Danny Dore receiving his prize from Graham Perry
of Amsphere and
Bob Bartlett –
SQC UK Programme Chair