Hello Reader, Hope you're having a great day! This is the Fifth edition of the Newsletter I am writing for Software Testers on this platform. One common question I get in LinkedIn DMs is "How to Handle 90 Days' Notice Period". This article is mostly applicable to folks in India. The Companies in India has 90 days' notice period and QA folks often feel stuck in current job mostly in Service based MNCs. I have worked earlier in MNCs like HCL (5.5 years), Infosys (2.5 years) which has 90 days'...
4 months ago • 4 min read
Hello Reader, Hope you're having a great day! This is the fourth edition of the Newsletter I am writing for Software Testers on this platform. Usually, we think QA or Testing means only about Executing Testcases and logging Defects observed during the Testing phase in the Overall Software Development Lifecycle. The project maybe using the Water Fall methodology or the Agile methodology with Sprints (2 or 3 weeks). In my Newsletter articles, I would also discuss about Automation testing as...
5 months ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader, Hope you're having a great day! This is my Third Newsletter article on this platform. In my first two articles I wrote about My Journey as Fresher in IT Industry and Domain knowledge for Software Testers. You can explore them in the Email Signature for Previous Newsletter articles. In this article, I am going to share my Journey of Learning Automation Testing. In 2015, I had joined an Offline Training Institute in Chennai to learn the Core Java, Selenium Automation Testing, so...
5 months ago • 4 min read
Hi Reader, Hope you're having a great day! This is my Second Newsletter article on this platform. In my First newsletter I shared my journey as Fresher into IT industry and getting into the Software Testing role. You can read it later from the previous newsletter articles. In this article, why I am talking about Domain knowledge, you might be wondering. Although we talk about learning Technical Skills most of the times, when we work in a Software Project - we need to understand the Business...
5 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader, Hope you're having a great day! This is my First Newsletter article on this platform. Thought to share my story of getting to Software Testing role and it was not intentional. I joined HCL as a fresher in 2011, and I had no specific career plans at that time. I got trained into C# dotnet development in first 2 months at HCL and I thought that would get assigned to an development project, like every other fresher. But in Service based companies based on project needs they can assign...
5 months ago • 3 min read