Life as a Tester...

When I got placed in one of the reputed company on 30th June 2004 I was so happy, it was a feel of achievement. Most of the Spartanz have placed & also most of the ITians also got placed. I was in the state of euphoria. There starts my dream... I thought that I'm going to build something that many people in the world will use it. I'll achieve something which nobody ever achieved. A usual dream every individual will have. :)


With all those dreams one year went on, beautiful final year of my college life.

Then come the D-day. I got the call to join on 20th June 2005. The thing which disturbed me most at that time was I got posting in Bangalore. While filling the resume I gave the preferred location as Bangalore with my friends just as fun. But only when I got the posting there I felt the pain.

Me, Yasar & Dharani, we all got the same joining date. When we got the groups split up on that day Me & Yasar was into Embedded Systems & Dharani was into Telecom. All of us were happy. Especially me because I'm so much interested towards embedded systems. And the training starts, it was really good & I learned a lot. After training we completed our exam (that was a big comedy & I have to write a separate post for that alone). The came the most devastating thing to my happiness that I'm into Testing & not going to develop something on embedded system. I felt like I'm in hell. I don't like Bangalore & now the work is also which I don't like. I want to do something to get ride of it but I don't find any way. Only think that I did was struggled a lot & got relocation to Singara Chennai.

Then without any interest my professional life started as a tester. I got into one project, when I saw the lab & the work the people were doing I had ok kind of mindset to work. So me & Manimaran were new members to the team. We got some stuff to learn & we started reviewing test cases. Then we wrote test cases with functional docs for 2-3 months. Then we get into work of testing at that it was total loss for the client to whom we were working so they planned to sell the company to another well known MNC.

When the whole acquisition was over the company already had a similar kind of project what we were working on so they scrapped the whole project & thought of integrating their product with what we were building. So they prepared a complete new requirement & came with proposal for another version of the project. And people in our team prepared SOW's & lot more stuff of architecture. But finally our client decided to give of the project & the whole ODC was closed. Now 60 people who were working in the project were free. Around 15 people from that team resigned the organization & few of them moved to other project. And few of them where on bench & I'm one of the unlucky guy. I thought that my life in bench will end soon... But it continued for 11 months. It's really horrible, I thought that my life itself gone, since the starting of the career itself going like this. Then took the decision to take a shift on December 2006 until that I never thought of shifting.

Just posted my resume in job site, got calls from some consultancies & finally got an interview call from one good MNC. Attended Telephonic interview on one Tuesday & got a phone from the HR that I'm through with telephonic & they wanted to me to have direct Interview. Attended Direct interview on following Thursday. On the same evening I got a call from the HR informing that I'm through with it & they sent me the soft copy of my offer letter. Everything happened in fortnight. I posted my resume on December first week & I got my offer before before 13 of that month.

At that time just need something to work instead of sitting idle. So I accepted the offer. But still I was not interested to leave my old company but if I'm still there then my life will be spoiled totally like stagnant drainage. Anyway I did a good move @ good time.

One of the many reason that forced me to leave that job was my big bosses over there never heard us. We have spoken many times but they were not at all ready even to hear what our problem is because they are already having huge mass in bench so they never care about us. As per one good saying "Employees are not leaving the organization, they are leaving their managers". In my case it's absolutely correct.

Then I joined the new organization in February 2007. Then got into work soon. Here too testing only [since I was already into testing & had experience in testing] but it was something different. I felt happy with the work that I'm doing day by day. I got to do some research on it. It's not just boundary value testing. It's pretty interesting. I'm working on top notch technology which is going to come sometime tomorrow. And many people will use what we are certifying so it's pretty challenging & going great as of now....