#AutomATAhon2020: Hackathon for testers
Are you ready to take on the toughest test automation challenge?
#ATAGTR2020 is continuing the #AutomATAhon tradition that was started for the first time in 2017. This is the 4th edition of the competition. Meant for testing community to participate in an automation challenge (Hackathon)
In-fact the competition is meant not only for the testers but all the testing organizations too.
So, if you are into automation and you are ready to show case your and your organization’s automation capability this is the competition to be a part of.
Remember there would be live application scenarios and live automation challenge up for grab. Jury members would be there to evaluate and more over you get to participate in #ATAGTR2020 as conference delegates.
#AutomATAhon Details
This will be held on 5th December 2020 and will act as a pre-cursor to #ATAGTR2020
Date: 5th December 2020
Timings: 1:00 pm – 7:00 pm (IST)
Agenda:
1:00 pm – Introductions and Rules
1:30 pm to 5:30 pm – AutomATAhon (live application, live testing, live automation)
5:30 pm to 6:30 PM – Discussions
Registration fees: INR 1,000/- (+taxes)
Note: This is an individual event, no cap on the number of individuals from a particular organization. This fee entitles the associate conference pass to #ATAGTR2020 for both the days.
I have accepted the #AutomATAhon challenge, would you like to compete with me ?
Vishal Kantibhai Parmar
Functional & Automation Test Analyst
Paul Mason Consulting
Hitesh Prajapati
Functional & Automation Test Analyst
Paul Mason Consulting
Monesh Varshney
Testing Manager
Amdocs
Bansri J Patel
QA – Functional Automation Test Analyst
Paul Mason Consulting
Lakshmirao Varam
Software Engineer
Amdocs
Alok Mishra
Automation Architect
Amdocs
Manoj Gupta
S/W Test Manager
Amdocs
Onkar Mirajkar
Software Test Manager
Amdocs
Nimesh Bhatt
Sr. Functional and Automation Test Analyst
Paul Mason Consulting
Bhumika Makwana
Functional & Automation Test Analyst
Paul Mason Consulting
Avinash Pingale
Software QA Engineer – Automation
BlueConch Technologies
Mukund Zalke
Senior SDET – FullStack QA
BlueConch Technologies
Niket Shinde
SEDT Lead
BlueConch Technologies
Mintu Mukherjee
Senior Automation Engineer
BlueConch Technologies
Ranjit Prasad
Associate Leader – QA Automation
BlueConch Technologies
Nilesh Sonwane
Senior SDET
BlueConch Technologies
Vijaykumar J
SDET
BlueConch Technologies
Smruti Pawar
Senior SDET
BlueConch Technologies
Ravikant Sinha
Senior Manager
VOIS
Mandeep Kumar
Test Manager
VOIS
Priya Patil
Deputy Manager
VOIS
Sameena Shaikh
Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
VOIS
Veena Patil
Manager
VOIS
Chancha Lala
VOIS
Abhishek Chintamani
VOIS
Sunil Bharde
QA Automation Lead
VOIS
Umesh R.
Deputy Manager
VOIS
Niranjan Maddiboina
Deputy Manager
VOIS
Aishwarya Desai
Assistant Manager
VOIS
Ajim Inamdar
Assistant Manager
VOIS
Sanjay Kishanrao Chatlure
VOIS
Mayur Narnaware
Assistant Manager – Automation
VOIS
Mahesh Dube
VOIS
Sahana Kini
Automation Test Analyst
VOIS
Sucheta K.
Assistant Manager
VOIS
Nitish Kumar
Senior Test Automation Engineer
ZenQ
Sangeetha Natarajan
Senior Software Test Engineer
InfoVision Inc.
Arif Shaik
Assistant Manager
VOIS
Keerthy Ramachandran
Performance Engineer
VOIS
Mrinal Halder
Test Architect(Testing Expert)
Amdocs
Nandkishore Agrawal
Sr. ETL Test Engineer
Amdocs
Chanchal Bhattad
Senior SDET
BlueConch Technologies
Mahathee Dandibhotla
Test Automation Consultant
Infosys
Mannava Siva Aditya
Senior Developer
Thomson Reuters
Mayur Chitnis
Software Testing Specialist
Amdocs
Gowtham Kandanuru
Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
Legato Health Technologies
Arun S Kumar
Lead Senior Automation Test Engineer
QAMentor
Amit Dewan
Director of QA Automation Education
QAMentor
Ragini Maney
Lead Senior Automation Engineer
QAMentor
Vinayak Walhe
QAMentor
Anand Dhakne
QA Engineer
QAMentor
Pravin Telkar
Sr. Software QA Engineer(ISTQB Certified)
QAMentor
Ankit Arora
Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
QAMentor
Jayvant Devare
QAMentor
Srinivas Somayajula
Automation Test Engineer
QAMentor
Bhanu Teja V V
Test Automation Engineer
QAMentor
Krishna Kamakshi Brahma
Software Test Engineer
Qapitol QA
Alok Singh
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
eQ Technologic
AutomATAhon Leaderboard Points
| Sr. No | Organization | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vodafone (VOIS) | 38,000 |
| 2 | QAMentor | 20,000 |
| 3 | QualityKiosk Technologies Pvt Ltd | 20,000 |
| 4 | BlueConch Technologies | 18,000 |
| 5 | Amdocs | 16,000 |
| 6 | Paul Mason Consulting | 10,000 |
| 7 | ZenQ | 2000 |
| 8 | InfoVision Inc. | 2000 |
| 9 | Valuemomentum | 2000 |
| 10 | Thomson Reuters | 2000 |
| 11 | Legato Health Technologies | 2000 |
| 12 | Qapitol QA | 2000 |
| 13 | eQ Technologic | 2000 |
Note: These points will be added to the overall leaderboard points when the competition winners are announced.
Jury
Jyoti Shah
Test Lead
Wipro Limited
Asmita Parab
Senior QA Manager
BlueConch Technologies – UST Global Portfolio Company
Sumit Mundhada
Test Automation Lead
Vodafone, VOIS
Anurag Gupta
SW Test Line Manager
Amdocs
Vimmi Walia
Senior Manager, Quality Assurance
Nagarro
Prasad Watve
Head NextGen Services
TietoEVRY
Rutvik Mrug
Associate Director
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Minesh Upadhyaya
Chief Operations Officer
QA InfoTech
Aditya Garg
Steering Committee Member
Agile Testing Alliance
Anukool Chaturvedi
Test Automation Lead
IVL | InfoVision Labs
Anand Vyas
Principal Consultant
MLDS
- Winner of the competition will be rewarded with INR 10,000 (Ten Thousand Indian Rupees) Cheque (The winners will be announced by 20th December 2020.
- Winner will also receive a certificate and trophy.
- 1st Runner’s up in the competition will be rewarded with INR 5,000 (Five Thousand Indian Rupees), Certificate and a Trophy.
- 2nd Runner’s up in the competition will be rewarded with INR 3,000 (Three Thousand Indian Rupees), Certificate and a Trophy.
- Everyone who registers for the event will be showcased on the AutomATAhon page on the website and will also garner 2000 points for their respective organization on Leaderboard
- Winner, 1st Runner Up and 2nd Runner up will garner 10000, 5000 and 3000 points on leaderboard respectively.
- GTR 2020 Leaderboard : https://gtr2020.wpcdn-b.com/leaderboard/
- All associates registering for AutomATAhon will get entry to #ATAGTR2020 (both days) at no additional cost – Please note, the entry to the ticket is only for the associate who has registered for the AutomATAhon and non-transferable in nature.
- All the associates will receive participation certificates.
- It is a time boxed event - which means a fixed duration will be provided to all the participants to solve the challenge
- It is an individual event.
- There is no cap on the number of registrations from a particular organization
- Problem statement will be provided to all the individuals at the start of the event along with hook to a GIT repository. Participants have to automate the problem statement and hook with a CI system like Jenkins.
- Use case on API Testing, UI and Functional Testing on multiple browsers, Reporting and other use cases may be there.
- Participants will have to solve the challenge on their own laptops keeping their video camera on.
- Participants can use any tool or internal framework as long as they move the code into the GIT repo as per the scheduled time. Participants have to make AutomATAhon code repo as their collaborator so that Jury can take a look at the codebase if the need be.
- Participants need to record the automation solution in action using phone or any other software (like zoom / meetings software etc) and upload on google drive with in the challenge duration
- Participants also need to create an Automation Test Strategy during the challenge duration.
- Participants need to have a good internet bandwidth during the competition.
- The competition will be hosted using Microsoft Teams, you need to ensure that you have access to Microsoft Teams from your laptop and you need to turn on your video camera during the entire event. You should have stable internet connection during the competition.
- Evaluation will be based on following points.
- Quality and stability of automation
- Ability to modify tests (changes, addition and deletion of test scenarios)
- Speed at which changes can be incorporated
- Speed of execution
- Maintenance effort required for automation
- Integration smoothness with CI tool
- Integration with other shift left / continuous testing tools
- Speed of solving the challenge (time stamp of the final code push in the repository) will be used as a tie breaker in case the marks are equal
- Jury will select the top 5-7 entries. Live demo of the solution will have to presented by all the selected the top entries. Jury will decide the top 3 winners based on this final presentation and the marks obtained during the evaluation.
- Jury’s decision would be final.
