21/03/2023
No confidence in attending the interviews? Each passing week your dream job goes further away from you?
Smiths / program is designed to transform you into an automation engineer regardless of your current skillset and skill level. With a comprehensive curriculum designed out of rich experience in the industry and mentored by an industry SME (Automation Leads & Architects), you shall be placed in your dream job finally!
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About our Trainer:
Mr. Velu has 20+ years of experience in the industry, with core expertise in , Automation and . Managed several projects and programs with blue-chip customers over the decade.
A passionate Quality Trainer worked in large workforce transformation programs and with individuals of all experience levels from the testing community.
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11/02/2023
Where is my spot in the changing landscape of Test Automation Tools?
Our world is shaped by technology, at a speed never seen before. Technology itself is rapidly evolving. Put simply: Technology while chasing many, is also outrunning itself now and then!
In context, Software Testing has evolved much faster over the last few years than over the previous one and half decades. What actually happened? AI adoption. When AI can power other things, why not, Software Testing & Automation tools?
One can observe that sooner than later, the established non-AI open-source giants such as Selenium and its younger cousins (Cypress and Playwright etc) will have to share much of their space with the AI-powered commercial tools such Applitools and its younger cousins (Functionize etc).
Commercial test tools always coexisted with the open source tools - nothing new nor a tectonic shift. BUT, Open-source tools had and still have the lion's share for nearly a decade now. Scenario is set to change now. AI-powered commercial tools are slowly taking up the space currently with open-source family. Why?
AI-powered tools are effectively addressing classical problems such as brittle tests. Also a good show on rapid script development, a lot less maintenance overhead, allow less-experienced programmers using low-code/scriptless paradigms. In summary, they are showing how Test Automation can be "turbo charged". Speed means a lot for businesses in Digital Age. At least, businesses with deep pockets would not mind buying and trying these "turbo engines".
OK! What is in this for me as a tester or automation engineer?
Whatever your experience is, if you are an automation engineer or thinking of upskilling to become one, it may be a wise decision to learn one of these AI-powered test tool in addition to Selenium or Playwright. You will have an edge when you decide to appear in the job market.
02/02/2023
Software test automation is critical for tech companies to maintain a rapid rate of development and growth, as they would move slowly like sloths and snails without it.
To know more about Software Testing automation 1) help with learning,
2) Placement assistance,
3) Assistance with Interview preparation,
don't hesitate to call us today, at +91-81100 31800
15/12/2022
I am an accomplished Functional Tester. But, I am being looked at as "half-empty". How can I fix this?
Audience: Experienced functional testers (aka SMEs, aka Manual Testers) with 5+ years of experience who feel that they are left behind.
Let us admit that feeling. It is natural and human to feel low, indeed very low, when the career is not progressing, promotions are held back for years, job switch not working or even worse, not started. In general, it goes as follows :
"I am doing good at the workplace. I am the SME for the suite of apps. Go-to person for release testing, production nights etc. I get at least 2 to 3 customer appreciations every year. My job does not need anything technical. Whenever it needs, I write simple SQLs or macros to get that done. Beyond that, there are developers who helped me, still helping me and we are a team!
But, my year-end reviews 2 to 3 years in row now, makes me feel, I am incomplete despite my accomplishments. To be precise, I have DONE all that I have been asked to and appreciated too, for those.
The "gap" pointed out is that I am not technical. I am not able to automate those test cases of Sanity Test Suite! It seems unfair.
If the above were true in one way or another, read on. Yes, the world has changed - it is Digital Era! We have to be more than what we were. What does that mean? A 75+ year old got to learn how to use smart phones and make payments thru GPay or book Uber.
To become something it is effort and it goes thru a process.
1. Visualize what you want to be.
This does not mean that a Functional Tester should only become a Automation Engineer. She can also become UX specialist. He can become a Cloud or DevOps Engineer. Why not a Program Manager?
2. Assess your skills and potential to get to that role
For instance, you have decided to take up automation. First you need to assess your technical bent. This means, that you can code. Not necessarily you need to be a code warrior but the likeness to live with programming.
Here is the catch or that Catch 22. How can I assess myself before I enroll to a program? Isn't that a waste of time and money to discover that later? Here is where you need to either do some homework on your own - such as trying out snippet codes or choose a Transformation Partner, who works out an easy exit without taxing your time and money.
3. Work out the transformation roadmap
Sure you heard of this - "Rome was not built in a day". It is the same with humans trying to become someone - a dancer, an athlete or a programmer.
You got the Driving License, but can you drive confidently? Training will get completed in 2-3 months. You are likely to forget what you have learnt in the next 2-3 months.
To keep and hone your skills you learnt to the point where you are confident of applying in your job or in your next role either of these two MUST happen. You moved to that new role where day in and day out you are applying the skills you learnt or fitted the tail-end of your program with some internship. The internship can be a self constructed project also, not necessarily one with your training institute.
