The document provides an overview of the Indian IT industry and software testing market. It discusses that the Indian IT industry size is between $90-100 billion annually with around 26-30 lakh employees. The software/hardware segment employs around 20-22 lakh people and the testing market size is growing from 2.5 lakh testers to around 5 lakh testers annually as companies shift to a 5:1 developer to tester ratio. The document recommends new graduates in software testing prepare for interviews, gain experience in different testing areas, and work towards management roles over their career.

1. Welcome to Software Testing
• The software market size
• Testing market size
• Strengths and weaknesses of freshers
• Your target companies
• 2-months practice before attending
interviews
• Roadmap

2. Indian IT Industry Size
• 2012 revenues between $90-$100bn
• Employs around 26-30 lacs people
• Includes Software, Hardware, Implementation,
Support, BPO
• Around 20-22 lacs people in Software/Hardware
and 6-8 lacs in BPO
• IT has created a major indirect employment of 3
times that of its own size, i.e. indirect jobs to 80-
90 lac people
• Major support segments include real estate,
travel, catering, aviation, hotels

3. Software Segments
• This segment has been divided in verticals and horizontals
• Verticals (industry or domain based)
– Banking, Finance, Securities, Insurance
– Healthcare, Pharma
– Manufacturing, Logistics
– Telecom
• Horizontals (technology based)
– Microsoft dotnet etc.
– Java
– IBM Mainframe
– Internet apps - Php, Python, perl, ruby
– Mobile development
– Databases
– Packaged software such as SAP, Oracle Apps, etc
– Embedded systems

4. People Distribution
• Assume a total strength of 25 lacs people in Software
• Distribute these people across all 10 major technology
areas evenly (just for calculation only; MS .Net, Java,
IBM Mainframe take 50% of people and rest all
technologies share rest 50% of people in real time)
• Equal distribution gives around 2.5 lacs people in each
technology
• Assume a growth of 10% every year for the industry.
This means we need to have 2.5 lacs (10% of 25 lacs)
more people in the next year
• This indicates we need 25000 new people every year in
the 10 major technology areas

5. Testing Size
• Indian companies previously used a developer to tester
ratio as 8:1 or 10:1
• This means out of 25 lacs total software employees, only
2.5 lacs are in testing currently
• With more and higher quality expectations from
customers, the ratio comes to 5:1 or 6:1
• This means in all new recruits of 2.5 lacs, we need
around 50,000 freshers every year and not just 25000
like previous years
• Out of the 50,000 fresh recruits every year, 20000
happens based on campus interviews and rest 30000
happens thru off-campus interviews
• Do you want to be one among that 30,000 for the year
2013?

6. Strengths of fresher community
• Free mind, can be trained in any area
• Young and Energetic
• Available in plenty across the country
• Not afraid of traveling, relocating
• Less commitments compared to a 30-year
old person
• Willing to grow fast
• Loves technology

7. Weaknesses of fresher community
• One recent survey published in newspaper shows only
5% is employable
• http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/m
• Majority of the crowd lack good communication skills –
this is very important – you cannot ignore this
• Always in a hurry, planning job hops frequently
• Under a hyped-influence about the industry
• The number of people faking their experience is
increasing day by day – a nation-wide integrity issue
• For the majority, the goals are defined in monetary terms
rather than value and knowledge terms
• Pressure from parents

8. Your Target Companies
• What do you want?
– Money
– Brand
– Learning
• You have the choice to work for top-50
companies or for a smaller company
• A smaller company provides a better and faster
learning environment
• In a smaller company your identity is established
better
• Challenges are more in a smaller company;
challenges make one to learn better and faster

9. Interview Preparation
• Do not hurry – you had waited so long
• Give 50-60 days of final push
• Every important technical term - you must be in
a position to talk 3 sentences (example: what is
bug report?)
• Every day take a simple analytical reasoning test
– 30-50 questions. You must get used to it (visit
www.openmentor.net)
• Practice interview every day with friend
• Basic OS actions, basic database actions, basic
web server (tomcat) actions – you must know

10. Roadmap
• A tester needs to go thru 3 flavors –
functional testing (manual), test
automation, performance testing
• When you gain more project experience,
move up to be a test lead
• When you gain more people and customer
handling experience, move to be a test
manager