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Speakers’ Background Vidya Viswanath Sundaresa Subramanian G |
Risk Identification — First Step for Managing Risks in Testing Projects Vidya Viswanath — Senior Test Manager — Infosys Technologies Sundaresa Subramanian G — Test Manager — Infosys Technologies |
After working in domains including Banking, Insurance and Telecom, and with more than 7 years behind her in testing, she is today a Senior Test Manager in Infosys Technologies Limited as an integral part of the Independent Validation Services team - Banking and Capital Markets domain. Vidya’s forte has been in strategizing and delivery of complex testing projects, providing testing solutions, process assessment, risk management, metrics, and project management. She enjoys delivering service, implementing change, and strengthening teamwork. She believes that excellence can be achieved by using a fine combination of product and technical knowledge, intuition and empathy. Vidya was born in Mumbai where she completed her schooling and college and later earned her MCA from SNDT University, Mumbai in 1992. Vidya can be contacted at vidya_v@infosys.com.
He has good exposure to testing life cycle and has worked on various Configuration Management Tools, Defect Loggers and Project Planning & Management Tools. He has quite good experience in working with DSP Processors, Programmers, Emulators, Power System Tools and Embedded Work Benches. He has worked in various domains like Embedded Systems, Automotive Domain, Energy and Power Sector, Digital Signal Processors, Microcontrollers and Banking Domain.His major responsibilities were test management, test planning, reviews, designing test scenarios, Metrics collection, Coordination from Onsite and conducting In-Vehicle Field Testing. He has traveled twice to US on Onsite Assignments for In-Vehicle Validation Testing and transfer of Current Model Projects to India. He has also traveled to Germany to participate in In-Vehicle Testing for a world-leader Automotive OEM Company. He has contributed to the project team by guiding them with a roadmap for testing and also as a Project Software quality advisor with key areas being Defect prevention and Configuration Control. He believes that excellence can be achieved by the eagerness to learn new things and the attitude shown in implementing the Learning’s during work. Born and brought up in South Tamil Nadu, he earned his Bachelor of Engineering Degree from Manonmanium Sundaranar University, in 2001. Sundaresa can be contacted at ssubramanian_gv@infosys.com
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Abstract: “Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle” states that if one parameter is measured accurately then the other parameter goes less accurate. Uncertainty in IT field directly relates to the Risks that we could face in a project. But unlike Physics, the more risks we find out in a project and the ways to mitigate them the project parameters (performance, quality etc.) become more predictable. There is a lot of uncertainty in all our projects which translates to risks — deviations or possibilities of failure. A key element of uncertainty and risk is defining the decision criterion that is most appropriate for the question at hand. This can be done by qualitatively and quantitatively assessing risks. An essential element of software engineering risk management is the conceptualization of potential risks to a project. It is the basis of risk analysis and, even more importantly, it strongly influences how risks are communicated and understood by participants in a project. Audience: The Content: This paper attempts to define a framework that governs the Risk Identification -IMMUNE
Also as an evolution of our thought process we have given case studies from some of the testing Projects to see how Risk Identification applies to them.
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Backed with a rich IT experience of more than 12 years, Vidya Viswanath has been part of development teams and state of the art software testing teams playing roles including those of a trainer, software engineer, consultant, test manager, senior manager and Head Operations. She started her career with coding in 3GL programming languages progressing on to work on several RDBMS.
Sundaresa Subramanian is a Test Manager with Infosys Technology Limited (NASDAQ: Infy) and part of Independent Validation Solutions Business Unit. Before Infosys, he was involved in strategizing and delivery of testing projects for the past 3 years in Automotive Multimedia Domain and before that he was involved in Research and Development of Digital Signal Processor based Embedded Applications for about 3 years. He is conversant with testing methodologies and processes and has acquired significant experience in Manual Testing that includes System, validation, Regression and UAT testing in Automotive Embedded and DSP Domain.