SAN FRANCISCO, May 03, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- test IO, a leader in crowdsourced software testing, today announced that it was named the winner of a Bronze Stevie® Award as part of the 16th Annual American Business Awards®. test IO was recognized in the New Product or Service of the Year - Software - DevOps Solution category for its ability to seamlessly integrate crowdsourced QA testing into development workflows, as well as for the launch its QA service for Jira, a plug-in for the Atlassian Marketplace.
“With such strong competition this year, we are honored to take home a Stevie for Product of the Year in our category from The American Business Awards,” said Philip Soffer, CEO of test IO. “This award serves as additional validation that DevOps and human-powered software testing complement each other. To ensure that their products work for actual customers, companies need the unbiased eye that human beings bring to QA testing, but they have to be able to access those testers at scale when they need them. test IO makes it easy to meld real people with sophisticated technology -- all at scale and speed.”
test IO’s award-winning solution enables real-world testing on thousands of devices, promising no more QA bottlenecks. It does this through an easy-to-use platform (without any people management overhead) that provides access to thousands of on-demand QA professionals with real devices that they use for testing under real-world conditions. test IO also offers faster releases through a simple test setup that yields results in as little as one hour.
The American Business Awards are the U.S.A.’s premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small. This year, more than 3,700 nominations from organizations in virtually every industry were submitted. Additionally, more than 200 professionals worldwide participated in the judging process to select this year’s Stevie Award winners.
This year’s judges described test IO’s solution with comments such as:
- “test IO is an innovative solution for making rigorous testing accessible to most firms.”
- “The best part of this innovation is detailed bug reports including screenshots, screencasts and reproducible steps, and seamless integration with existing bug-tracking tools and processes. Impressive idea.”
- “These types of innovations are the need of the hour, considering the increasing cost of testing and availability of testers. The launch of its new JIRA offering has added capabilities in support of testing. Great work and innovation.”
“The nominations submitted for The 2018 American Business Awards were outstanding. The competition was intense, and those recognized as Stevie Award winners should be immensely proud of this accomplishment,” said Michael Gallagher, president and founder of the Stevie Awards.
Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word meaning “crowned,” the awards will be presented to winners at a gala ceremony at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York on Monday, June 11. Tickets are now on sale.
Details about The American Business Awards and the list of 2018 Stevie winners are available at www.StevieAwards.com/ABA.
About test IO
test IO pioneered and specializes in crowdtesting for agile software development. Over a hundred customer-obsessed organizations -- and their developers, quality assurance engineers, and product managers -- rely on the power and flexibility of test IO’s self-service crowdtesting platform to ship their software faster with the quality their customers demand. Founded in Berlin as testCloud in 2011, the company has offices in Berlin and San Francisco.
About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in seven programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 10,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 60 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.
Sponsors of The 2018 American Business Awards include HCL America, John Hancock Financial Services and SoftPro.
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