| Anita Kahate, SQA / Quality Leader,
Reshma Mane, Quality Leader and
Gaurav Oberoi, Software Engineer, L&T Infotech.
Measures of Test Effectiveness
Abstract:
Today’s enterprises need to conduct thorough functional testing of their mission-critical applications to ensure that all business processes work as expected. Testing requires a significant investment in terms of time and effort. Each year, companies spend hundreds of thousands of hours testing software.
Testing activity is distributed in phases in a typical waterfall model of software development. We have phases like Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing etc. The checkpoints required at each phase of software testing are in most of the cases mutually exclusive of each other. Ensuring Test Effectiveness requires monitoring, measurement and analysis of these checkpoints. Needless to mention all these would be possible if and only if the compliance of the defined checkpoints is carried out.
This paper will be useful as a reference to QA Team in any organization as well as any person associated with testing related activities. This can also act as a good input for Senior Management.
Speaker Profiles:
Anita Kahate
Anita Kahate works as a quality leader and SQA for Insurance projects, LNT Infotech, Pune for the last 2 years. Anita has overall experience of 5.5 years in Software Development and Quality in India and at customer locations.
Anita has worked on Mainframe and Java projects in the roles of Team Leader and Developer earlier. Of late, she has moved to the QL/SQA roles, and has played an important role in various certifications/audit related activities at organization level. Anita has contributed a lot in setting up testing processes at organization level and helping the testing teams to fine tune the processes based on project needs.
Her role involves helping the new projects to decide the list of processes to be followed. Conducting regular process checks. Conducting internal audits, Tracking audit findings to closure, conducting process related trainings, helping the auditors during external audits etc.
Anita is also involved in organization wide process related activities like coming up with new templates and documents, coming up with new processes, enhancing current processes, collecting metrics data, analyzing metrics data, baselining etc. She is also involved in helping the teams in carrying out defect prevention activity at project level.
Her achievements include many of the awards received at different stages of her career.
Reshma Mane
Reshma Mane is currently working with L&T Info Tech Ltd., as a Quality Leader (QL) for Insurance SBU projects for the last 2 years. She has completed her M.B.A. from Shivaji University. Reshma has overall experience of 4 years in Software Testing and Quality Assurance.
Reshma has worked on manual as well as automation testing tools in the role of Team member earlier. Of late, she has moved to the QL role, and has played an important role in various certifications/audit related activities at organization level. Her Strengths lie primarily in the areas of Software Quality Assurance activities involved in Process & Quality Management related to CMMI Assessment, ISO 9001: 2000 Quality Systems Standard and SAS 70 (Statement on Auditing Standards) assessment.
In her present role as a Quality Leader she is has all flavors of project as Development, Maintenance, & Testing to handle from Quality front. Where she is primarily responsible for ensuring the quality of the projects delivered to the customer.
Achievements at L&T InfoTech Ltd
- Rewarded with excellent performance annual award for year 2006.
- Rewarded with special achievement award for SAS 70 audit.
- Rewarded with special achievement award for CMMI Level 5 certification.
- Cleared Six Sigma – Yellow Belt certification.
Gaurav Oberoi
Gaurav Oberoi is currently working as Automation Engineer and Module Lead for a Software Testing project of an Insurance Intermediary. Gaurav has got overall experience of more than 3.5 years in IT. In these years he has worked extensively on manual as well as automation testing projects. He has also worked on developing key word driven frameworks, which are automation tool independent. Gaurav has thorough knowledge of Test Automation frameworks developed by L & T Infotech and he has implemented the test automation framework for functional testing in a number of projects. Gaurav is also providing consultancy to various projects within the Organization for implementing Key Word driven frameworks. Gaurav has authored number of white papers for various forums. He has done his graduation (B.E.) in Information Technology.
Gaurav has also worked as Quality Leader for L&T Infotech and handled external audits for CMMI and ISO. Gaurav has been working as a Business Analyst for a Reinsurance Intermediary based at USA in his previous assignment. Gaurav is ISTQB and INS-21 certified.
His achievements include various awards received by him on various stages of his career. Gaurav has been contributing to a lot of initiatives taken up by the Organization. He is actively involved in process improvement activities, which are conducted Organization wide. |
