Student Talk - Pandian - Software Testing
The thirst for knowledge, skill development and being able to
get into the IT bandwagon quickly were prime reasons to fuel Pandian’s passion
to join software testing course in Metaforum Technologies.
1. What made you choose the course and Institute you did?
I had
5+ years of experience in insurance domain with a private company. I came to
know there are lots of testing projects with major insurance clients in
Chennai/ India. So I thought of learning
Software testing and get into IT sectors by leveraging my existing domain knowledge.
As far as choosing an institute, I attended few demo classes from no of institutes and impressed with the trainer
available in Metaforum Technologies.
2. What made you choose the software Testing?
I have no prior programming experience. I neither have computer
science background. Since I had domain knowledge on insurance, I thought a
course on software testing will help me land a job in Testing projects of
insurance clients.
3. In what ways has this course value added to your career? What
kind of opportunities would you say this course has presented to you?
I
obtained hands on knowledge on popular testing tools. Also I learnt complete
software development life cycle. I gathered live project experience from
trainer. I would say this training helped me very much in terms of
understanding IT culture and gave me the confidence to pursue my career in IT
4. How do you manage your time working and studying?
I had
flexible timing in Metaforum Technologies. I opted for week end batches and
sometimes early morning batch to rush things up, without the training affecting
my regular work.
5. Was there anyone who motivated you through the challenges of
completing the course?
My colleagues
in office motivated me a lot. Special thanks to trainer for adjusting with my
complex timing requirements.
6. How would you describe your experience at Metaforum
Technologies?
Excellent.
Right from counseling in terms of choosing the correct testing tool and
delivering and follow –ups, my experience was really good.
7. What would be the one thing you’ll say to other / prospective
students ?
Testing course in Metaforum Technologies is highly recommended.
Software Testing Training in ChennaiStudent Feedback - Software Testing
1. What made you choose the course
and institute you did?
I
wanted to pursue a course on software testing tools , so that it will be of a
great help during my placements. I knew that Metaforum Technologies at Chennai
could give me a customized course that I could finish quickly.
2. What made you choose the route of furthering your studies
with a institute ?
I think a crash course at a
institute would help me during my campus placements
3. In what ways has this course value added to your career /
personal development? What kind of opportunities would you say this course has
presented to you?
I think
my Trainer Mrs. Kavitha was kind enough to share real-life examples in the
working world, thereby allowing me to embrace the realities of the working
world and what kind of person I would be as an employee in a company.
4. How do you manage your time
in college and institute at the same time?
It was
a challenge to manage time for college and institute. But my institute had a
flexible time slots, so I was able to manage.
5. Was there anyone who motivated you to take a crash course on
testing?
My Professors
and Seniors motivated me to take up this course.
6. How would you describe your experience at Metaforum
Technologies?
I could
say that my experience at Metaforum Technologies was memorable because I spent
most of my time learning various software testing tools hands – on with a live
project.
7. What would be the one thing you’ll say to other / prospective
students?
Training in this institute is
really hands on with live projects. Trainers are all experienced and motivated
to share their knowledge with students.
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Placement - A One Word Mantra
Hello Everyone, this is second in line of our series of blogs on placement. Hope this will be useful. Special thanks to Mr.Satish Kumar, ABAP consultant, NTT DATA, Chennai, our well-wisher.
Introduction:
Placement, a single musical note that is used by some to
make the youngsters to dance for their tunes.
The most unfortunate scenario is to find youngsters to fall in their
trap. This clearly states that youngsters in search of their aspiring Job fails
to build their own path towards it and starts following some paths suggested by
others, later they will realize that this was not the destination they desired
to reach. In short they hand over their dream to someone else and expect them
to construct in exact way they wished to which is never gonna happen. Hope no
civil engineer is reading this blogJ
Technically, if you dare to dream then try building your own
original path version to it rather using some cracked version because later you
may realize that you don’t have an option for auto upgradation.
In this Blog I would like to enlighten you all the truths
and facts behind getting a job and in reaching our desired positions in life.
Know Your Fight:
Its better to know your fight before you start it. The art
of winning a fight doesn’t depend on choosing the right fight but rather in
choosing the right weapon. Again the chosen weapon will get its full credit
only when it is used by the right person. Yes, you are that person and the
technology that you choose is the weapon to fight against this world full of
techno war.
It’s always better to know your strength before choosing the
technology of your choice. Explore the options; know the one which can help you
best and then suit up yourself with it.
What is a Right
Placement?
Right placement depends on how much leverage that the Job
provides in achieving the next level. Your profile must always be in search of
upgradation just like technologies. Right placement will hold all these
attributes. Don’t get faked by false promises given by few institutions. There
is a lot of difference in swimming in a pool and in a ocean. A good job is not
the one that pay you but the reality of the job lies how much rich does it make
you through knowledge. Sadly “Most of us are eager in earning
rather learning”. Earn a job only through the knowledge and talent
you posses. Only this attitude can help you holding it. The right Job should
help you in building a career out of it, rather serving you for a couple of
years.
Statistics:
We all know the statistics about the freshers joining in IT
industry but do you have any idea on the percentage of the drop outs? It is
also dangerously high. And that’s the exact reason for huge opening for
freshers every year. What do you think the reason for such a surge? It is all
because of the wrong choice that they have made earlier. We all know “Well Begun
is half Done” but most of us really forgot that the remaining half is yet to be
done. A good start in the career can impress others but only an accomplished
career will make people to follow your path. Be a light for your path rather
closing it completely.
Acceptance of
being in Fight:
The foremost mistake that everyone commits is getting into
an ideology of mission accomplished , once we get our offer letter. What we
fail to understand is we have just begun our battle in this technological world
war. Understand and more importantly accept the fight, learn and know your
work. Keep working with a hope of understanding new things rather hoping to get
it completed somehow. Enrich your ideas and to do that make yourself rich in
knowledge first.
Conclusion:
Being said all these, it depends on each and every
individual to extract out the real value of this blog. If there is one factor
that brought you till here in this blog, it is your thirst for knowledge.
Ensure that you have an unquenchable thirst with respect to knowledge.
Hope this blog will serve as a spark to lighten your forever
glowing career. Its well known that Hardwork will always be answered but ensure
you work hard in the right path. To conclude,
“Know , Understand and finally Accept
the Fight”
Posted by Satish Kumar
Balasubramanian
Senior ABAP Consultant
NTT Data
Chennai
satishprince16@gmail.com
100% placement !!! Myth or Reality?
Job placement,
especially when it comes to freshers is a puzzle to solve. Thanks to
mushrooming engineering colleges/Software Training institutes, India has become
a country, where people first become engineers and IT professionals, then
figure out what they want to do in their career / lives! Here is our view on
100% job placement stories.
Next flock
Come June, another
batch of engineering students will be passing out of college. Given that
hardly 20% of them are employable, next step for them is to start searching for
courses with training institutes. Thanks to the lower level entry barrier, every
corner of the town / city is filled with institutes claiming “100%
placement assurance” | “We guarantee you a job” | ” Join our course, walk
out with a job offer” etc. How much truth is there in such job placement
advertisements? Let us have a look.
Profile of an engineer
Here is how these
institutes see a typical profile of engineer who is looking for a job
placement:
1. Graduated from a tier-2 or tier-3 engineering
college from a town / city
2. Has no clue about problem solving. Somehow got
into or pushed into engineering because of societial / parental pressure etc.
3. Can hardly communicate his views to others
4. Has very high expectation job placement with a
plush IT company with six digit salary. He strongly believes that he deserves
that, even though he has not written more than 10 lines of program in any
programming language on his own
With such a backgound
when they walk out of college the 100% job placement creates a wave in their
minds. This is mainly because such messages makes them believe that all it
takes to hand in a high paying job is just a 2-3 months affair. The story
goes further where they get cheated by such institutes without any job
placement. They forget the fact that if 4 years of engineering can’t get them a
job, how come a institute with a 3 month training program can do that?
Job placements – top institutes no different!
Cut to so called top premium
institutes with accreditation (Don’t ask accrediting agency !!!). We hear
some of these institutes send their students to interviews in few companies and
some of them are getting placed also ( don’t worry about what type of company)
and put their reviews in YouTube( who knows if they are real reviews). This
makes most of them believe that these institutes are great career launchers. The
reality is different there also. Even in so called premium institutes more than
50% of the students pass out of the campus without having a job placement. It
is not a institute’s mistake, but an individual failed to meet expectation of
the company in some form or other( For god sake, please understand that) . If a
engineer from top notch engineering college can’t get into campus job placement
how come anybody can get into a job directly. Every student needs perseverance.
Bottom line
So the bottom line is
– If an individual doesn’t meet entry criteria for a job placement, he doesn’t
get selected, irrespective of the type of institute including ours. Rather we
can go ahead and say nobody ( certainly us, can give a job guarantee to
anybody. Agreed, finishing schools (called as training institutes) play a vital
role in bridging the gap. However bridging the gap is not very easy given the
so much of limitations with engineering students as mentioned above. It
requires a very systematic and step-by-step and careful approach to make an
individual employable. That is what one should expect from these institutes.
Our journey
Its been a very interesting
journey for us in Metaforum Technologies by going through this cycle. However
we have a clear view about how we are going to approach this challenge. In
alignment with our training philosophy of ‘coach’ and ‘applied learning’ we
take the training approach as follows:
1.
Engineers should solve
problems – IT is not very different. To start with we build a strong base
by making individuals to convert a given problem statement into working
program. In such approach more than 80% of the time is spent time with analysing
the solving the problem on paper before jumping into writing code.
2.
Once the base is built,
the next step is to apply into various scenarios. Say in case of Java, its
about using it for writing a web based application that runs out of a server
etc.
3. Shaping up behavioural skills is a parallel
activity. Be it in terms of discipline, communication, openness etc.. by taking
a long term view of the career. This requires constant monitoring of
individuals and providing them with timely feedback on how they can work on
these individual skills. Apparently putting them across working professionals
(via our industry mentors, one of our mentor Mr. Raja is a patent holder), we
are able to see significant changes in shaping up behaviour
4. During the process not everybody is equal.
Some might do well and some might not. In such cases taking continuous
improvement approach helps. In case an individual lacks in a specific area,
providing additional coaching and support in that area has helped them to come
out of it by building lot of self confidence
Conclusion
We are not
recommending above mentioned steps is a sure short receipe for making an
individual job ready. However we have seen very positive results in terms of
job enablement by successfully converting college students into working
professionals. Based on our experience we can say that it takes time (atleast 4
to 6 months) to transform individuals during which they need to be co-operative
and working hard. Thats the only simple and sure shot way to achieve job
guarentee rather than taking any short cut steps.
In the mean time watch
out if anybody says 100% job placement guarantee, because we clearly know what
it takes to get there!
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