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Testing Scenario in Brazil
This document summarizes the testing scenario in Brazil. It provides biographies of two Brazilian testing professionals, Sarah Pimentel and Elias Nogueira. It then compares the sizes of South Africa, Brazil, and the city of São Paulo. The document outlines Brazil's general IT scenario and lists some multinational companies with presences there. It provides estimated salary ranges for various testing roles in Brazilian Real and compares them to South African Rand. Finally, it lists some testing-related blogs, discussion lists, events, and initiatives like Rails Girls and Testing Dojo BR happening in Brazil.
Testing Scenario in Brazil
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- 2. @sarahpimentel IT 11years Testing 7 years Currently working at Locaweb SAP, General e-commerce solutions, hosting Ruby Previously on HP and also attended projects for DELL and Motorola http://about.me/sarah.pimentel
- 3. @eliasnogueira IT 14years Testing 5 years Currently working at HP Application Lifecycle Management Quality tools consultant Automation consultant (Selenium) http://about.me/eliasnogueira
- 4. Brazil, São Paulo,South Africa South Africa Area: 1 mi km2 (25th) Population: 50 mi Brazil Area: 8 mi km2 (5th) Population: 193 mi São Paulo Area: 1.523 km2 Population: 11 mi
- 5. General IT Scenario From 2012: 1,2 millions of IT professionals From 2009: 62.843 companies
- 6. Multinational Companies IBM HP Microsoft DELL ThoughtWorks SAP TATA Accenture
- 7. Testing Salaries TestAnalyst Quality Auditor Test Engineer (Automation) Leader/Manager/Director Tester (executor) Others (Cristiano Caetano’s research from 2010)
- 8. Testing Salaries 1 SouthAfrican Rand 0.21 Brazilian Real Test Analyst Rio de Janeiro – R$ 3.4k – RAND 15k São Paulo – R$ 3.1k – RAND 14k Test Analyst Junior – R$ 1.9k – RAND 8k Senior – R$ 4.0k – RAND 18k (Cristiano Caetano’s research from 2010)
- 9. Requested Skills Basictesting skills (create test plans, test cases, execute test cases, open defects, elaborate defect reports) Some SQL (find the data you need, build data to test) Test Automation (some development knowledge, specific tools)
- 10. What we’ve beendoing…
- 11. Blogs Sarah’s: http://ensaiosdeqa.blogspot.com/ Elias’: http://sembugs.blogspot.com.br/ Other Brazilian blogs: Camilo Ribeiro: http://www.bugbang.com.br/ Leonardo Galani: http://keeptesting.com.br/ Fabrício Ferrari: http://qualidadebr.wordpress.com/
- 12. Testing Discussion Lists DFTestes – 2771 members Testadores ~ 301 members Other local small discussion lists
- 13. Testing Events TDC – The Developer’s Conference ~ 7500 Agile Brazil ~ 1000 Test Day ~ 500 Brateste (ALATS) ~ 200
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