A product manager hired a candidate for an independent testing project based on evidence found online of the candidate's passion and experience. The product manager discovered the candidate had maintained a blog about the required testing tool for 5 years, submitted bug reports to an open source project, and provided technical help online, demonstrating problem-solving skills and experience. By exploring the candidate's online contributions spanning several years, the product manager found proof of the candidate's passion, skills, and experience in testing.

1. Working With Passion By Tushar Joshi Infospectrum India Private Limited

2. Independent Testing Project Once upon a time, we got an Independent Testing Project Resumes were sent for approval 4 people were chosen One resume was exceptionally praised and hired for minimum one year. One person got Extra attention Extra praise Credit for grabbing the project

3. Extra Attention - Reasons When asked why Product Manager chose that one person he said: This person is passionate about his work His experience in the technologies that we need is proven He is a problem-solver He has demonstrated good working and writing skills Product manager got only the resumes… How was he so sure about his verdict? How could the say that the person prove all the things mentioned by Product Manager? Was the product manager biased?

4. Product Manager’s Technique For others, there were no interesting links For one person, the results were interesting In next few slides, let us discuss what the PM found about the candidate …

5. Evidence of Passion He has a blog about Bugzilla: the tool we use for defect management He has started this blog 5 years ago He has posted interesting tips and tricks that only an experienced tester can do His passion reflects from his blog

6. Evidence of Testing Experience It was found that NetCAT is a community testing program People have tested an open source software and submitted bugs He submitted 25 bugs in that program The bug reports were online to examine and they were neatly written

7. Evidence for problem solving The questions he has asked on forums were 5 years old After one year, he has even answered two of his own questions He has helped some people by answering technical problems

8. Evidence of testing documentation I saw he has contributed test plans to an open source project The test plans were on the wiki of the project The test plans were good and as expected from an experienced tester

9. Evidence of technical writing He had contributed tutorials for an open source tool The writing was clear and to the point The history of that wiki page showed this person’s name

10. Evidence of logical thinking He has added many presentations to Slideshare.com The presentation was about testing methods The points were original and interesting This reflects his passion.

11. What about others? Were they not good? They may also be very good, but this person has already proved it Can’t this be fake and purposefully created? The internet pages were spanning 5 years back. People cannot make up or pretend for so long. But you agree that others may also be good! Yes, but we are dealing with internet, browsers and technology, and this person has used it with passion. This shows extra energy he is putting in his career This presentation is the intellectual property of Infospectrum India Private Limited. Any unauthorized use, dissemination of the information, or copying of this presentation, in whole or in part, without the express written permission of Infospectrum India Private Limited is prohibited. Please send an email to info@info-spectrum.com to obtain written authorization

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14. What Next? Make a plan for including all these in your career growth Create a blog for your topic Consistently post on it Join mailing lists of your topics and follow them Ask questions and reply to questions on mailing lists Check open source projects Contribute test plans Contribute bug reports Contribute tutorials and articles on their wiki Create presentations Share them on SlideShare This presentation is the intellectual property of Infospectrum India Private Limited. Any unauthorized use, dissemination of the information, or copying of this presentation, in whole or in part, without the express written permission of Infospectrum India Private Limited is prohibited. Please send an email to info@info-spectrum.com to obtain written authorization

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16. References Google Alerts http://www.google.com/alerts Blog Providers http://www.blogger.com http://www.wordpress.com Open Source Projects Providers http://www.sourceforge.net http://www.freshmeat.com http://code.google.com Presentation hosting http://www.slideshare.com White paper hosting http://www.scribd.com Forums http://www.stackoverflow.com

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