What this blog is about ...
Every blog should have a purpose and the audience gravitates towards the content when they identify with the purpose themselves. This post is my attempt to outline the raison d'être of my blog.
A lot of you may have been following my earlier blog at testingreflections.com here : http://www.testingreflections.com/blog/76
That one was a technology focused Performance Testing blog. This time, I intend to paint on a larger canvas.
For those who came in late, a little something about myself:
I have spent over 13 years in the software testing industry, working for top consulting firms in India, the US and Europe. This has seen me work in different geographies like the US, the Netherlands, France, Germany, the UK, Japan and India.
Specifically, over the last 5 and half years, I had the opportunity to build a testing service practice at one of the largest European consultancy firms. A practice that was focused on offering testing services to the financial industry - namely, large banks, insurance companies, capital markets firms etc.
It's been a roller coaster ride, with my work spanning everything from hiring good technologists, creating the business case for top management, advising and consulting with top client CIOs to managing projects and selling services. Of course in the inital couple of years, I pretty much did everything from waiting on tables to cooking the food (metaphorically speaking!).
Some of the most interesting work in the last couple of years had had me running a Services Innovations team focused on creating testing services for the financial industry. It has had quite an impact to our bottom lines, since the Test Assessment service offering that I designed had opened doors to some $24 million worth of new business for the company.
This blog is to share the experience of creating a testing services practice, setting up Testing Centres of Excellence (TCoE) / Test Factories that leverage talents from multiple geographies, the hows and whys of creating business cases from a services viewpoint and some crystal ball gazing on my part.
I'm no Alvin Toffler, but I think the Software Testing profession is in flux influenced by technology changes, consolidations in the tool vendor space, the mushrooming of open source techniques, process models, tools and of course, newer business /regulatory pressures. It will be my endeavour to outline how this will influence our world.
A lot of you may have been following my earlier blog at testingreflections.com here : http://www.testingreflections.com/blog/76
That one was a technology focused Performance Testing blog. This time, I intend to paint on a larger canvas.
For those who came in late, a little something about myself:
I have spent over 13 years in the software testing industry, working for top consulting firms in India, the US and Europe. This has seen me work in different geographies like the US, the Netherlands, France, Germany, the UK, Japan and India.
Specifically, over the last 5 and half years, I had the opportunity to build a testing service practice at one of the largest European consultancy firms. A practice that was focused on offering testing services to the financial industry - namely, large banks, insurance companies, capital markets firms etc.
It's been a roller coaster ride, with my work spanning everything from hiring good technologists, creating the business case for top management, advising and consulting with top client CIOs to managing projects and selling services. Of course in the inital couple of years, I pretty much did everything from waiting on tables to cooking the food (metaphorically speaking!).
Some of the most interesting work in the last couple of years had had me running a Services Innovations team focused on creating testing services for the financial industry. It has had quite an impact to our bottom lines, since the Test Assessment service offering that I designed had opened doors to some $24 million worth of new business for the company.
This blog is to share the experience of creating a testing services practice, setting up Testing Centres of Excellence (TCoE) / Test Factories that leverage talents from multiple geographies, the hows and whys of creating business cases from a services viewpoint and some crystal ball gazing on my part.
I'm no Alvin Toffler, but I think the Software Testing profession is in flux influenced by technology changes, consolidations in the tool vendor space, the mushrooming of open source techniques, process models, tools and of course, newer business /regulatory pressures. It will be my endeavour to outline how this will influence our world.
Quite inspiring,
Keep up the good work,
Thanks for writing, most people don't bother.
Reply to this
I want to express my admiration of your writing skill and ability to make reader to read the while thing to the end. I would like to read more of your blogs and to share my thoughts with you. I will be your frequent visitor, that’s for sure.
Reply to this
your experience in Japan was? They are incredibly stringent with software testing there, to the point that they stifle innovation (as the burden of testing is often too great).
Reply to this
concord replica jogging watch Not all digital sports watches have an interval timer or multilap session storage ability so be sure to check the feature list closelyMost 30 fake lv watches 50 and 100 lap Timex Ironman watches deliver on all these features as do the entry level Polar RS watches Nike Triax Adidas Adistar and Vent MiniMaxi watches from New Balance fake rolex replica watch tag heuer replica fake bvlgari watches Runners watches have a minimum benchmark of distinguishing features that meet runners'
Reply to this
Nice, I want to book RSS feed for this page
Reply to this
Well, this is my first visit to your blog! We are a group of volunteers and starting a new initiative in a community in the same niche. Your blog provided us valuable information to work on. You have done a marvelous job!!!
Reply to this
Useful information ..I am very happy to read this article..thanks for giving us this useful information. Fantastic walk-through. I appreciate this post.
Reply to this
Nice post. I like the way you start and then conclude your thoughts. Thanks for this information .I really appreciate your work, keep it up
Reply to this
Fascinating read. Very interesting! This one is really an attractive piece……..worth to be chosen for the hot content list………………keep it up……
Reply to this
Nice to be visiting your blog again, it has been months for me. Well this article that I've been waited for so long. I need this article to complete my assignment in the college, and it has same topic with your article. Thanks, great share.
Reply to this
Thanks for taking the time to share this, I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic. If possible, as you gain expertise, would you mind updating your blog with more information? It is extremely helpful for me.
Reply to this
Its really wonderful and watchable. I like to share it with all my friends and hope they will definitely like it.
Reply to this
Very significant article for us ,I think the representation of this article is actually superb one.This is my first time to visit your site.I definitely bookmark it for sharing with my friend.
Reply to this
I have been through the whole content of this blog which is very informative and knowledgeable stuff, So i would like to visit again.
Reply to this
Nice article, I am a big time fan of your site, keep up the nice work, and I will be a frequent visitor for a very long time.
Internet WiFi de alta velocidad
Reply to this