Meet this year’s winners, and hear how they keep raising the bar for quality.
Quality work is invisible when it goes well.
Nobody sends a note about the release that didn’t break. Nobody outside the QA team can name the person who caught the bug that would have taken checkout down on a Friday night. The better a testing team gets, the less anyone hears about them.
Every year on World Testers Day, we try to fix that for a few teams. This is the second year of the Testsigma Quality Awards. Nominations came in across every category, and each one carried a story that deserved more room than a form field gives it. These are the five we’re telling today.
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Best Use of Agents in Testing: IndusInd Bank
At IndusInd Bank, one of India’s largest private sector banks, getting a jar file cleared took longer than testing with it. Every dependency needed sign-off, every device went through procurement, and close to 36 manual testers had good reasons to be wary of anything that touched bank data. Digvijay Singh spent an hour a day for five days proving agentic testing with Testsigma could work, then took the case to each department in turn. Regression now runs on its own before the working day starts, and the report is waiting when the team logs in.
Best Use of AI in Testing: VFC
When a test needed changing at VFC, the company behind The North Face, Vans and Timberland, someone filed a request with an outside vendor and waited for the change. The vendor’s tool covered one product. The tests were written in Chinese. Jess Tang‘s team brought all of it in-house, with Atto and Testsigma Copilot drafting new tests and turning the Chinese-language ones into working automation, and an engineer signing off on every result before anyone trusts it. Checks that took days now run in about two hours. The testing is VFC’s now.
The Everyone Tests Award: Space42
Every new feature at Space42, the Abu Dhabi space technology company, added one more thing to check by hand before release, and the platform was adding features fast. Mark Angelo Casuco‘s team could see where that ended: slower releases or thinner testing. So they built the automation into the way everyone ships, and every change now gets tested as it lands, whether or not a tester is watching. More than 60% of the platform runs on automation four months in. Releases haven’t slowed down.
The Quality Bar Award: Spacewell
Three or four critical bugs a release were reaching the organisations that run their buildings and workplaces on Spacewell’s software. A QA team of four or five was testing several products inside two-week regression windows, and two weeks was never enough. Arun Subramanian‘s fix started with people: automation stopped being the job of two specialists and became the whole team’s. Critical bugs are down to about one a year. “We just have to worry about quality now, not automation.”
“Winning ‘The Quality Bar’ award is a proud moment for Spacewell. Working with Testsigma, our QA team has scaled automation across releases and cut our testing cycles significantly. This recognition belongs to them for their consistency and relentless effort. Congratulations to the entire QA team.” Ammar Mannan, CTO, Spacewell
Quality Champion of the Year: Yasna Adhikari, Hansard Global Plc
At Hansard Global, an international life assurance and savings provider, the tests were green. Whether the software was working was a separate question. The team had plenty of automation, but a pass only meant something had been found and clicked, and different people checked different things.
Yasna Adhikari changed what “passed” has to mean: the evidence has to show the right thing happened. Regression went from a month to about two weeks, and a green result is something the team can act on now. Her line on it: automation is not the same thing as quality.
“Yasna’s recognition as Testsigma’s Quality Champion of the Year is thoroughly deserved. She has been instrumental in driving the adoption and maturity of test automation within our organisation, consistently demonstrating a strong commitment to quality, innovation and continuous improvement. Her passion for delivering reliable, efficient testing practices has had a significant positive impact on both our team and the wider business. We are delighted to see her contributions recognised by the wider testing community.”
Mathew Oasgood, Test Manager, Hansard Global Plc
What They Say about the Future of QA
Read the five stories side by side and three things repeat, and none of them is a tool.
- Automation stopped being a specialist’s job: The wall between “manual tester” and “automation engineer” is coming down, and in every one of these cases QA got bigger in scope, not smaller.
- Regression turned from an event into a rhythm: Release cadence has outrun the two-week regression window at every company, and each of them answered the same way: run smaller, run constantly, find the problem while the change is still fresh.
- As automation grew, “passed” got stricter: This is the one that matters most right now. The volume of tests a team can produce has gone up sharply, with AI in the authoring loop for two of these five. The teams winning with it are the ones that raised the bar for what counts as a result at the same time.
Every one of these teams did the unglamorous part, release after release, in the part of the job where nobody sends a note.
At Testsigma, we believe testing should be inclusive, autonomous, and aligned with how AI-native teams work. That’s why we built an agentic test automation platform where anyone: devs, QAs, business professionals can contribute to quality. Where AI removes bottlenecks. And where testing moves at the speed of AI-generated code.
To every winner and every nominee: congratulations, and thank you. The recognition is well earned, and your stories make the case for strong quality practice in the AI era better than we ever could.
