Awards · recognition · milestones
Awards and recognition from the software testing community, and the stories behind them. Tap any photo to enlarge it.
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Honoured with the Best Presentation Award at HUSTEF 2025, a recognition shared with the testing community. The story even made it into a Kannada newspaper.
On receiving TestMu AI’s Top Test Manager Award · EuroSTAR’23. Open on YouTube ↗
Bangalore JUG Unlogged (YC S22)
Feels surreal, but yes, that’s me on a 50ft billboard on the iconic Times Square in New York City.
On 24 August 2025, my Topmate site was featured on a massive digital billboard in Times Square. Out of thousands of creators, landing in the Top 500 and watching my profile flash across a billboard in the world’s most recognised square felt absolutely surreal. Huge thanks and immense gratitude to Topmate for making their mentors shine globally.
Sharing your knowledge can take you places you would never imagine.
The extra hours spent mentoring, the effort put into learning, speaking and blogging, and giving back to the community: these are the small steps that have led to extraordinary opportunities.
QA Touch’s Global Tester’s Day 2021 was a community celebration of testers that ran for 40+ days. Prashant took the Test Champion title, and was also listed among the workshop speakers.
A different kind of trophy. In my free time I like to see how the products I use hold up when someone pokes at them. Whenever I found a security issue, I reported it straight to the team. These are their thank-yous. No exploit details here, just the certificates.
Responsibly reported
Second place at Cignithon, the testing hackathon by Cigniti, for testing the Myntra application. It ran on 4–5 September 2021.
Named People Manager of the Year at MoEngage in 2020 and again in 2021, for building high-performing teams and leading them with empathy.
Keynotes, talks, workshops and panels on testing, quality engineering and leading teams. Let’s talk.