Hello Freshers! Welcome to Software Testing
- 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