“Skills and Characteristics of a Good Tester, and Few Career Options”

Copyright: Arunkumar Khannur
ISQT Bangalore
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“Skills, Characteristics of a Good Tester,
and Few Career Options”
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Mr. Arunkumar Khannur,
ISQT Process & Consulting Services Pvt. Ltd. , # 732, 1st Floor, 12th Main,
3rd Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore - 560 010, INDIA
Phone:+ 91 - 80 – 23012501 to 15, Fax.No:+ 91-80-23142425
email: khannur@isqtinternational.com

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Pre-note
In current IT business scenario, to deliver any service,
every software enabled system shall work under
– a complex environment driven by content-computation-
communication-connectivity (4Cs) which are more and more
driven by high-impact technologies such as Social, Mobility,
Analytics and Cloud (SMAC Stack).
This scenario is posing greater potential to redefine the
quality assurance with a cost effective and on demand
pay-per-use systems.
In order to address this and also to release software
system that works as required, and continue to work
with manageable risks, we need to look at software
testing from different dimensions and view points.

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Agenda
Skills and Characteristics of a good software tester
– Skills and Competencies required to be a Good Software
Tester: Knowledge, Functional, Technical, and Softskills

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Tester’s Characteristics

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Factors that Separate Performers from
Non-performers

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Know how: What Knowledge and Skills Are Required?

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Personal Traits

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Know-hows
Inspired by Ram Charan’s
“Know- How” Book

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Balancing Personal Traits with Know-hows

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Four Principles that Promote Effective Collaboration

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Providing Organizational Value to Knowledge Assets
Knowledge is becoming the one critical factor of
production
Two incarnations:
– Innovation
 Knowledge applied to something new is
– Productivity
 Knowledge applied to existing processes, services and
products
The challenge is to reuse it before it goes out the door.

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Creative Thinking & Innovation: The Act of Creation
Thinking Styles

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Career Options in Software Testing

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Agenda
Career Path in Software Testing
– Myths surrounding Software Testing Career
– How to grow in software testing as a career?
– Career Paths
– Preparing to succeed
– Is there growth in competency and salary package?

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• Error Proofing (e.g. Borland
Together Architect)
Wants/Needs
Expectations
Analysis /
Define Requirements
Technical /
Architectural
Design
Detailed
Design
Construction
Unit Testing
Component
Integration
Testing
Acceptance Testing
Requirements
Document
Design
Documents
Release Control
Design
Documents
• Ambiguity Analysis
•
Risk Analysis
• Functional Modeling
• Requirements Traceability
• Simulation Modeling
• Environment Validation
• Red Teams
• Performance
• Code Complexity Analysis (e.g., Borland
Together Architect, McCabe)
• Error Proofing (e.g. Borland Together
Architect)
• Application Behavior Testing
• Technology Tailored Unit
Testing
• Keyword-Driven Testing
• Automated Test Case
Development
• Automated Testing
• Post Production Sev 1
Root Cause Analysis
Documentation
Code
Controlled testing
Environment
Performance Testing,
Analysis
and Tuning
System Testing
• Red Teams
• Pre-Sales Delivery Review
• Project Quick Start
•Operational
Readiness• Security Testing
• Simulation Modeling
Testing Activities.. Superior Way

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Career Path for Software Testers

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Career Path - Test Management

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Career Path - Test Process Improvement
TMap® Next and TMap® methodology are from Sogeti.

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Career Path - Test Automation

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Test Automation Tools

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Career Path - Test Domain Expert

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Career Path – Performance Testing

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Career Path – Usability Testing

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Career Path – Security Engineering

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Career Path – Reliability Engineering

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Career Path – Interoperability Engineering

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Career Path – Compliance Engineering

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Career Path – Test Engineering

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Other Career Options
Test Environment and Data Preparation
Test Methodologist
Test Functional Consultant
Subject Matter Expert in Software Testing

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Thank You, Any Questions???Thank You, Any Questions???

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Thank You

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