Awards, Wins & Kind Words

A running record of the recognition, community honours, and hackathon wins I’ve picked up along the way — plus kind words from the testers and teams I’ve worked with.

Each card links to the original certificate or note.

Awards
Contest Wins
Testimonials

Awards

Industry awards, community honours, and recognition from across the testing world.

EuroSTAR 2025 Best Tutorial Winner

A decorative wooden award plaque sits on a light wooden table next to a lush green potted plant. The plaque, titled "Jerry Weinberg Testing Excellence Awards 2021," honours Rahul Parwal as the "Rising Star of the Year."

Jerry Weinberg Testing Excellence Award 2021

This is to certify that Rahul Parwal has successfully achieved the MOT Community Certificate Awarded on: 15 October, 2024

Ministry of Testing Community Certified 2024

Xmind Ambassador 2026

Best Session Award - ifm engineering

Taqelah Talks - Speaker

ConfQ - Speaker

SPARKS Conference - Speaker

lambda test spartans highlight qa leaders like rahul parwal for their innovation and community impact

LambdaTest Spartan 2025

spotlight feature image from browserstack champions highlighting rahul parwal, an engineer at ifm.

BrowserStack Champion 2023

Best Auditee - QMS @ ifm

promotional image for the eurostar 2022 rising star award featuring the six finalists: robin gupta, rahul parwal, laveena ramchandani, pallavi sharma, indranil sinha, and kimberly snoyl.

Finalist, Rising Star Award 2022

Champs @ ifm 2025 Winner

Certificate awarded to Rahul Parwal for winning the Super Voice 2022 title and demonstrating excellence in public speaking, organized by Synapse QA.

Winner - Super Voice 2022

Customer Choice Award 2025 - ifm engineering

Contest wins

First-place finishes and podiums from testing hackathons and challenges.

certificate for winning cignithon hackathon by rahul parwal's team

1st Place - Cignithon 2021

certificate of achievement provided to rahul parwal for achieving 1st place in the "ACCELQ Automation Hackathon 2.0"

1st Place - ACCELQ Hackathon 2.0, 2021

certificate presented to rahul parwal for achieving 3rd place in the "ACCELQ Automation Hackathon" event on May 1st and 2nd 2021

3rd Place - ACCELQ Hackathon 1.0, 2021

certificate of achievement awarded to rahul parwal on winning 1st place for testing assembly application at cignithon

1st Place - Cignithon 2022

winners of moolympics #3 recognized for promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion through user experience design, featuring community members including rahul parwal.

3rd Place - Moolympics 2.0, 2021

a certificate presented to rahul parwal for winning moolympics 2021 and acquiring 3rd place.

3rd Place - Moolympics 3.0, 2021

Certificate of appreciation awarded to Rahul Parwal for participating and being featured as a super writer in Super Reads 2021, organized by Synapse QA.

3rd Place - Super Reads 2021

Certificate awarded to Rahul Parwal for outstanding performance at the Virtuoso Hackathon 2021, recognizing his contribution to the quality-first revolution in software testing.

3rd Place - Virtuoso Hackathon 2021

Certificate of appreciation awarded to Rahul Parwal for securing first place in the Zenquest Testing Hackathon for testing the Firecamp application, held on December 4th and 5th, 2021.

1st Place - ZenQuest 2021

Rahul Parwal and Bharath Muddada are announced as first-place winners of the AskUI Test Innovation Challenge 2022 Hackathon for developing a personal testing assistant tailored to testers' needs and context.

1st Place - Test Innovation Challenge 2022

UI Path hackathon certificate

5th Place - UiPath Hackathon

Testimonials

In their own words — colleagues, mentees, and peers. Click any card to read it in full.

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testimonial card by karim benkhiat
testimonial card from aniket keni
testimonial card from sunil kumar
testimonial card from srikanth
testimonial card from manjuntha
testimonial card from mrigank gupta

Recommendations

Letter of recommendation and appreciation for delivering a great session on Gen AI for the QA team at Lodgify!

Guest Trainer - Gen AI Workshop for Lodgify

Wall of Fame - Rahul Parwal

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