diff --git a/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/services/kinesis/clientlibrary/lib/worker/Worker.java b/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/services/kinesis/clientlibrary/lib/worker/Worker.java
index 3d73bd343..15529c2e0 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/services/kinesis/clientlibrary/lib/worker/Worker.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/services/kinesis/clientlibrary/lib/worker/Worker.java
@@ -14,18 +14,6 @@
  */
 package com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.clientlibrary.lib.worker;
 
-import java.util.HashSet;
-import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Set;
-import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
-import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
-import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
-import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
-import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
-
-import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
-import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
-
 import com.amazonaws.regions.Region;
 import com.amazonaws.regions.RegionUtils;
 import com.amazonaws.services.cloudwatch.AmazonCloudWatch;
@@ -40,11 +28,24 @@
 import com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.clientlibrary.proxies.KinesisProxyFactory;
 import com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.clientlibrary.types.ShutdownReason;
 import com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.leases.exceptions.LeasingException;
+import com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.leases.impl.KinesisClientLease;
 import com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.leases.impl.KinesisClientLeaseManager;
+import com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.leases.impl.LeaseManager;
 import com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.metrics.impl.CWMetricsFactory;
 import com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.metrics.impl.NullMetricsFactory;
 import com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.metrics.interfaces.IMetricsFactory;
 import com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.metrics.interfaces.MetricsLevel;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
+
+import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
+import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
+import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 
 /**
  * Worker is the high level class that Kinesis applications use to start
@@ -188,6 +189,8 @@ public Worker(
         }
     }
 
+
+
     /**
      * @param recordProcessorFactory Used to get record processor instances for processing data from shards
      * @param config Kinesis Client Library configuration
@@ -204,12 +207,33 @@ public Worker(
             AmazonDynamoDB dynamoDBClient,
             IMetricsFactory metricsFactory,
             ExecutorService execService) {
+
+        this(recordProcessorFactory, config, kinesisClient,
+                new KinesisClientLeaseManager(config.getApplicationName(), dynamoDBClient), metricsFactory, execService);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @param recordProcessorFactory Used to get record processor instances for processing data from shards
+     * @param config Kinesis Client Library configuration
+     * @param kinesisClient Kinesis Client used for fetching data
+     * @param leaseManager Implementation of lease manager; likely DynamoDB
+     * @param metricsFactory Metrics factory used to emit metrics
+     * @param execService ExecutorService to use for processing records (support for multi-threaded
+     *        consumption)
+     */
+    public Worker(
+            com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.clientlibrary.interfaces.IRecordProcessorFactory recordProcessorFactory,
+            KinesisClientLibConfiguration config,
+            AmazonKinesis kinesisClient,
+            LeaseManager<KinesisClientLease> leaseManager,
+            IMetricsFactory metricsFactory,
+            ExecutorService execService) {
         this(
                 config.getApplicationName(),
                 new V1ToV2RecordProcessorFactoryAdapter(recordProcessorFactory),
                 new StreamConfig(
                         new KinesisProxyFactory(config.getKinesisCredentialsProvider(), kinesisClient)
-                            .getProxy(config.getStreamName()),
+                                .getProxy(config.getStreamName()),
                         config.getMaxRecords(), config.getIdleTimeBetweenReadsInMillis(),
                         config.shouldCallProcessRecordsEvenForEmptyRecordList(),
                         config.shouldValidateSequenceNumberBeforeCheckpointing(),
@@ -220,7 +244,7 @@ public Worker(
                 config.shouldCleanupLeasesUponShardCompletion(),
                 null,
                 new KinesisClientLibLeaseCoordinator(
-                        new KinesisClientLeaseManager(config.getApplicationName(), dynamoDBClient),
+                        leaseManager,
                         config.getWorkerIdentifier(), config.getFailoverTimeMillis(), config.getEpsilonMillis(),
                         metricsFactory),
                 execService,
@@ -231,8 +255,6 @@ public Worker(
             Region region = RegionUtils.getRegion(config.getRegionName());
             kinesisClient.setRegion(region);
             LOG.debug("The region of Amazon Kinesis client has been set to " + config.getRegionName());
-            dynamoDBClient.setRegion(region);
-            LOG.debug("The region of Amazon DynamoDB client has been set to " + config.getRegionName());
         }
         // If a kinesis endpoint was explicitly specified, use it to set the region of kinesis.
         if (config.getKinesisEndpoint() != null) {