this PPT on "Careers in Software Testing" will provide you with detailed and comprehensive knowledge of careers trends in software testing. It will guide you through the path one should take with the appropriate skills and the roles and responsibilities of Software Test

1. Topics to be covered
 Types of IT companies
 Interview process
 Most recent software failures
 Important aspects to become software tester
 Key skills required
 Trends in software testing

2. Types of
companies in
Information
technology
1: SERVICE BASED COMPANY
2: PRODUCT BASED COMPANY
3:START UP COMPANY

3. Interview process
1: APTITUDE ROUND
2: GROUP DISCUSSION ROUND
3: TECHNICAL ROUND
4: HR ROUND

4. Questions

5. 1. A plane crashed on the border
of India and Pakistan. Where do
they bury the survivors?

6. 2. Tom's mother has three
children. One is named April, one
is named May. What is the third
one
named?

7. 3. Divide 30 by half and add ten.
What do you get?

8. 4. If a doctor gives you 3 pills and
tells you to take one pill every half
hour, how long would it be before
all the pills had been taken?

9. According to
NASSCOM, Software
Testing is growing
faster than the
overall IT industry
Expected $50
Billion by 2021
Currently $30
Billion

10. 1:In most
MNC Tester:
Developer ratio is
somewhere around
1:3
2:In Microsoft 1:1
3:In Nasa 3:1
4:Banking 2:1
RATIO OF
developers
and testers in
MNC

11. Software Failures

12. Yahoo reports breach
AMONGST THE MOST RECENT DATA BREACHES, ON SEPTEMBER 22, 2016, YAHOO CONFIRMED A DATA BREACH THAT EXPOSED ABOUT 500 MILLION CREDENTIALS
THAT DATE BACK TO FOUR YEARS. IT IS BEING CONSIDERED AMONGST THE LARGEST CREDENTIAL LEAKS OF 2016.

13. HSBC’s
major IT
outage
IN JANUARY 2016, HSBC SUFFERED A
MAJOR IT OUTAGE, AND MILLIONS OF
BANK CUSTOMERS WERE UNABLE TO
ACCESS ONLINE ACCOUNTS. THE BANK
TOOK ALMOST 2 DAYS TO RECOVER AND
GET BACK TO NORMAL FUNCTIONING.

14. HSBC
payments
glitch
IN AUGUST 2015, HSBC FAILED TO PROCESS ABOUT 275,000
INDIVIDUAL PAYMENTS THAT LEFT MANY PEOPLE WITHOUT
PAY BEFORE A LONG BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND. THIS
OCCURRED DUE TO A MAJOR FAILURE WITH THE BANK’S
ELECTRONIC PAYMENT SYSTEM FOR ITS BUSINESS BANKING
USERS, AFFECTING THE INDIVIDUAL PAYMENTS. BACS, A
PAYMENT SYSTEM USED FOR PAYMENT PROCESSES ACROSS
THE UK, LATER PICKED UP ON THIS ISSUE, LABELLING IT AS AN
‘ISOLATED ISSUE’.

15. About 6 lakh payments failed to get
through the accounts of RBS overnight
in June 2015, which included wages
and benefits. Bank’s chief admin
officer stated it as a technology fault
and there was no further detail on the
real cause. In 2012, about 6.5 million
RBS customers had to face an outage
caused due to a batch scheduling
software glitch, where the bank was
fined £56 million.
RBS PAYMENTS FAILURE

16. In July 2015, Co-operative Food
apologized to its customers
and promised a refund within
24 hours. The reason was a
‘one-off technical glitch’ while
processing the software that
resulted in customers being
charged twice.
CO-OP FOOD’S DOUBLE CHARGES

17. Amazon 1p
price glitch
ONE OF THE MOST KNOWN GLITCHES IN HISTORY,
AMAZON 1P PRICE GLITCH, WHERE THIRD-PARTY
SELLERS LISTED ON AMAZON SAW THEIR PRODUCTS
BEING PRICED AT 1P EACH. WHILE THE PRODUCTS
GOT DELIVERED, NUMEROUS SMALL TIME RETAILERS
HAD TO APPEAL TO THE CUSTOMERS FOR
RETURNING THE ITEMS.

18. Flipkart
apologizes for
Big Billion Day
sale fiasco
IN OCTOBER 2014, FILPKART, INDIA BASED E-COMMERCE
GIANT, SENT A NOTE TO ITS CUSTOMERS APOLOGIZING FOR
THE GLITCHES THAT TOOK PLACE ON THE BIG BILLION DAY
SALE. THE SITE ENCOUNTERED A HEAVY RUSH, WHICH IT
COULDN’T MANAGE, WHICH RESULTED IN CANCELLATION OF
ORDERS, DELAYED DELIVERY, AND MUCH MORE THAT WAS
BEYOND THEM TO MANAGE. WHILE THE SALE HELPED THE
ECOMMERCE GIANT GARNER A BILLION HITS IN A DAY, IT
WAS CERTAINLY A PR NIGHTMARE FOR THE BRAND.

19. There are three
important aspects
to becoming an
expert software
tester
1: DO CERTIFICATIONS
ISTQB (INTERNATIONAL
SOFTWARE TESTING
QUALIFICATIONS BOARD)
2: SOFTWARE TESTING
TOOLS: JIRA, SELENIUM ,HP
QUICK TEST PROFESSIONAL,
HP LOAD RUNNER
3: DOMAIN: BANKING,
INSURANCE,
MANUFACTURING, CUSTOM
ER RELATIONSHIP
MANAGEMENT, SUPPLY
CHAIN MANAGEMENT,

20. key
skills Required
1:BASIC PROGRAMMING SKILLS:
2: FOCUS: TESTING IS ALL ABOUT
DILIGENCE. TESTERS NEED TO BE
METHODICAL, DILIGENT AND
FOCUSED WHILE AT WORK.
3: PASSION: TESTERS HAVE TO BE
PASSIONATE ABOUT QUALITY.
SOME PARTS OF THE WORK ARE
REPETITIVE AND UNLESS IT IS
BACKED WITH PASSION AND
ABILITY TO SEE THE BIG PICTURE,
THE JOB CAN BECOME
MONOTONOUS
4: INNOVATION.

21. Testing in
each
phase

22. Automation
Testing

23. DevOps

24. Selenium
Testing

25. Scripless Test
Automation:

26. Artificial
Intelligence:

27. Robotic
Process
Automation
(RPA):