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#AutomATAhon2025: The Ultimate Hackathon for Testers

One of the toughest and most challenging automation competitions is back! Are you ready to take on the challenge?

Be a part of #AutomATAhon2025, the 6th thrilling edition of this premier automation hackathon. First launched at GTR 2017, AutomATAhon has already seen five successful editions, with participation from 30+ of organizations and 200+ of passionate automation enthusiasts in the earlier editions.

Building on this proud legacy, we are excited to announce the 6th edition, designed especially for the testing community to showcase their skills in an intense automation challenge. In fact, this competition is not only for individual testers but also for entire testing organizations. The total prize money for this year would be INR 50,000. Also, Top 7 teams get Free entry to #ATAGTR2025

This is a team event for two members, perfect for those who want to demonstrate their, and their organizations’, automation prowess on a grand stage

If you are passionate about automation, this is the competition you simply cannot miss!

Competition Structure

This time there will be 2 rounds for AutomATAhon competition.

Round 1 – 8^th November 2025 (All teams will compete in this round)

Based on the performance, top 7 teams will get shortlisted for Offline round on 14^th December 2025

Round 2 – 14^th December 2025

Top 7 teams shortlisted will compete for the ultimate winner!

Registrations:
Registration of team starts from 14^th July 2025, please register below, the per team registration fees is of INR 7000/- (+ taxes)
Top 7 teams get Free entry to #ATAGTR2025

What will you get?

All the teams who register for the event will be showcased on the AutomATAhon2025 page on the website and will garner 4000 points for their respective organization on Leaderboard.
Top 7 teams (both the team members) will get a free entry to conference (ATAGTR2025)
All the team members will be given a participation certificate
Winning Team of the competition will be rewarded with INR 31,000 (Thirty-One Thousand Indian Rupees) Cheque, Individual winner certificates, Winning Team will receive a trophy on 14th December during #ATAGTR2025 award ceremony.
1st Runner’s up Team will be rewarded with INR 11,000 (Eleven Thousand Indian Rupees), Individual Certificates and a Team Trophy.
2nd Runner’s up Team will be rewarded with INR 5,000 (Five Thousand Indian Rupees), Individual Certificates and a Team Trophy.
3rd Runner’s up Team will be rewarded with INR 2,000 (Two Thousand Indian Rupees), Individual Certificate and a Team Trophy.
4th Runner’s up Team will be rewarded with INR 1,000 (One Thousand Indian Rupees), Individual Certificate and a Team Trophy.
Winning team, 1st Runner Up Team, 2nd Runner Team, 3rd Runner Team and 4th Runner Team will garner 15000, 10000, 5000, 3000 and 1000 points on leaderboard respectively for their organizations.
#ATAGTR2025 Leaderboard: https://gtr.agiletestingalliance.org/leaderboard/

Rules for #AutomATAhon 2025

It is a team event. Maximum members in a team allowed are two(2)
It is a time boxed event – which means a fixed duration will be provided to all the participants to solve the challenge
You can use any open-source automation tool(s). You do not need to setup the tool or framework on Jury machines.
Round 1 would be held over Zoom/MS Teams (Virtual) and Round 2 will be conducted live during Conference location in the form of a live Quiz.
Final Rankings will be based on 90% weightage from Round 1 and 10% weightage from Round 2
One laptop per team member is allowed and each team member should sign in from the same laptop that is used for coding/automation to the Zoom/MS Teams meeting
The competition will be hosted using Microsoft Teams or Zoom, you need to ensure that you have access to Microsoft Teams / Zoom from your laptop and you need to turn video camera showing both the team members during the entire duration of the event.
One team member must share the screen showing what is being done. You should have stable internet connection during the competition so that video sharing is not hampered by bandwidth. If the video is not shared, it may be a reason for disqualification.
Both the team members will be allocated a virtual room in the Zoom meeting; they must be present in that virtual room during the entire duration of competition. They can be physically present in different locations. Both the team members must keep their cameras on in the virtual room.
Jury members can ask other member also to share his/her screens on demand. One screen sharing (from one of the participants must be continuously shared)
There is no cap on the number of teams/registrations from a particular organization
Use cases on API Testing, Mobile, UI and Functional Testing on multiple browsers, Reporting and other use cases may be there.
Problem statements will be provided to all the teams at the start of the event. Participants would have to use their own private GIT Repo. Participants must automate the problem statement and hook with a CI system like Jenkins.
Participants must use their own Jenkins or similar CI tool setup. They can have the setup ready before the competition starts.
Team must move the code into the GIT repo as per the scheduled time. Last check-in time to the GIT repo would be considered as the final submission time. Participants may have to make ATA Jury member as a collaborator in case required.
Participants need to have a good internet bandwidth during the competition.
It is advisable to use personal laptops rather than company; the application used for automation challenge may be hosted on IP address which may not be accessible from company’s VPN or company provided laptop.
The server on which the application is hosted will be turned off after the time limit is reached, please ensure that the code check-in to git repository and execution readiness is achieved during the allocated time.
During the Demo section of the competition, each team has to execute their code from the GIT code base. A new test environment (new server) may be given for the test execution, it is recommended that the pre and post-test execution preparation should be planned for your tests to run seamlessly.
Evaluation would be done based on completion of tasks/challenges. On completion and successful execution of challenge you score full marks associated with that challenge and NO marks will be given if the challenge is not completed. Partial completion of tasks will get NO marks.
In case of a tie-on total marks both in the round 1 and round 2, the tie breaker will be based on two parameters, time taken to solve all the challenges and best practices followed
Speed of solving the challenge (time stamp of the final code push in the repository) will be used as the first tie breaker in case the marks are equal and then on best practices.
Jury members will not be evaluating the team members from their own organization.
Jury will select the top 7 entries or more for the final representation on 8th of December 2024
Non-participation of the teams during the conference (14th of December 2024) would be considered a reason for disqualification. All teams selected for final round hence must be present during the conference.
Jury’s decision would be final.