Software Testing Certification Courses, Career Details
Software testing is the process of exercising software to verify that it satisfies
specified requirements to detect faults; the measurement of software quality. Where
the actual behaviour of the system is different from the expected behaviour, a failure
is considered to have occurred. A failure is the result of a fault. A fault is an
error in the programming or specification that may or may not result in a failure.
A failure is the manifestation of fault.
Software testing is an empirical investigation conducted to provide stakeholders
with information about the quality of the product or service under test, with respect
to the context in which it is intended to operate. Test techniques include the process
of executing a program or application with the intent of finding software bugs.
The destructive nature of testing requires that the developer discard preconceived
notions of the correctness of his/her developed software. The data collected through
testing can also provide an indication of the software's reliability and quality.
Though testing cannot show the absence of defect, it can only show software defects.
Some of the testing skills include understanding project life cycle, testing concepts,
knowledge of testing types, programming languages familiarity, database concepts,
test plan idea, ability to analyse requirements, documentation skill and testing
tools.
Certifications
Course for Software Testing:
- Testing Web Applications.
- Software Quality Management.
- Database Testing.
- Exploratory Testing.
- Testing XML
Eligibility:
Candidate can join any 4 months duration software testing course or can do
diploma in software testing which is typically of 6 months to 1 year. Software testing
training course requires in depth knowledge of SDLF, out of box thinking, analytical
skill and some programming language skills apart from software testing basics. QAI,
ASQ, ISQTB and several other institutes are offering testing specific certifications.
Career Options:
There are a lot of options for test engineers. They can progress from a test
lead to a test Manager; they can also become QA (Quality Assurance) lead, QA (Quality
Assurance) Manager. There are number of functional, performance, security testing
tools besides test management tools like Quality Centre from HP, CQTM from IBM etc.
SOA testers, security testers are on the increase. There is dearth of skills in
test automation areas - scripting skills in the tools languages like VB, Java and
other scripting languages like Perl, Shell, Python etc., Technical resources with
capabilities to evaluate automation tools, create automation framework and reusable
components are on demand.
Scope:
India is on its way to becoming a leader in the software testing market with more
and more companies outsourcing their software testing services to India. Over the
last few years, the Indian players have proved that they can offer testing services
at low cost. Testing is now comparable with other IT services in terms of billing
rates and compensation levels of testing professionals. The testing service market
in India is booming with the rapid expansion of Indian IST firms.
The worldwide software testing market is at $13 billion and the global market for
outsourced testing services is estimated to be around $6.1 billion, of which India
is expected to corner a 70% share. India will require around 18,000 testing professionals
every year over the next three years to fulfil the demand seen in the software testing
market.
Remuneration:
A Software tester can get anywhere between Rs. 35,000 – Rs. 40,000 on completion
of the course.
Software Testing
Companies List:
- Alliance Computers Telephony (I) Pvt. Ltd.
- Allied Testing, LLC.
- BenTech Computer Consulting, Inc.
- BugHuntress QA Lab.
- CRIM Software Test Centre
- Cyber Consulting, Inc.
- Infostretch Corporation.
- Insight Test Services Ltd.
- TelSoft LLC (Marcus T. Franklin).
- Pentagon Computer Consultants Ltd.
List of Institutes
for Software Testing Training Course in India:
- SEED InfoTech, Pune.
- Edista Testing Institute, Delhi.
- Vyom SQTL Labs (SQTL) Pune.
- C.M.S Computer Institute, Mumbai.
- Balaji Institute of Information Technology.
- VCSinfotech.
- STC Technologies, Chennai.
- SQTL.
- Tej Technical Services, Delhi.
