System Thinking required for Developing Testing Workforce!
QAI, an organization facilitating Operational Excellence in organizations, participated in SOFTEC 2011 event conducted by Silicon India at Bangalore on 2nd July 2011. The conference promotes Software related Test Experiences by bringing together software test professionals, practitioners, experts, academicians, and service/product vendors to share techniques, methodologies, frameworks, experiences, and case studies to perform, manage, and automate Software Testing.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Pradeep C, Founder & CEO emphasized the challenges of the existing state of practice on the workforce selection, and the need for innovative Workforce Strategies for Creating Successful Test Organization. Pradeep engaged a highly interactive session on ‘workforce strategies for creating successful test organizations. This leadership track session focused on questioning the existing paradigms for capability and capacity development, and highlighted how a change of perspective can provide an innovative answer for the current problems faced by Testing Heads. The presentation focused on the need for doing structured assessments to determine and focus on the areas of improvement at an Individual and an organizational level. Additionally, the assessments need to focus on identifying the role specific capabilities for an individual using adaptive, intelligent assessment methods. Pradeep also reasoned that while the scientific design is not perfected, that his organization Edista is working on developing such a role based assessment framework for identifying the capability improvement needs. This model has already been implemented at various leading clients of Edista, he said. Today, QAI has assessed over 25000+ professionals in India, and have plans to expand the benchmarking base to 100,000 in the coming year, he quoted. The session was followed by an interactive Q&A session which covered various aspects of Software Testing, Test Management, Workforce development & strategies etc.
QAI & Edista Testing Institute stall was immensely crowded by the delegates wanting to know more about Assessments and Certifications and various other services available with QAI in order to give feathers to their current role and the organization associated.