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Quality Engineering – A mindset to reckon with over the next decade

Conference Plenary at STeP-IN SUMMIT 2012 (February 2012)
Sudhir Patnaik, Director of Engineering & Operation, Intuit India Development Center

In the last decade or so, in the journey of the Indian Software Testing Industry, a large section of the testing community has been focused on functional testing or what we refer to as “Black-box testing” that also encompasses, performance, stress and other types of testing relevant for the application under test.

Enterprise Mobility Conference - Welcome Address

Welcome Address at Enterprise Mobility Conference (July 2012)
Dr. Pradeep Waychal, Head – Innovation Centre, College of Engineering Pune

Pradeep Waychal has close to 30 years of experience in renowned business and academic organizations. He is the founder and head of Innovation Center of College of Engineering Pune. Prior to that, for over 20 years, he has worked with Patni Computer Systems. He has led large international business relationships and incubated Centres of Excellence for business intelligence, process consulting and verification and validation. He has headed the corporate product & technology innovation; and quality & delivery innovation departments. He has designed and delivered successful workshops in the areas of problem solving, project management and innovation management. Pradeep was on the apex senior management group before proceeding on to pursue his academic, research and social interests. Before Patni, he worked at IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, SGGS College of Engineering and Crompton Greaves R & D Electronics.

People Development: Approaches for Tomorrow’s Test Organizations

Paper Presentation at STeP-IN SUMMIT 2007 (January 2007)
Sai Chintala - Vice President, Technical Services, AppLabs Technologies
 
Test organizations want to select and develop people with the competencies to become smart testers. For this, they look for the ability and agility in individuals so as to become great testers, and the willingness to work hard to create a great test organization. But can an organization make its testers smart enough to take on tomorrow’s challenges? And what does it take to build and sustain a future-ready test organization? How to create an organization that will set the culture of cultivating future leaders?