Test Analysts fail IT projects (1) Load and performance testing is a significant part of the Agile development process.
Before now, Testers could not match the technical level of the development teams whose applications they test.
For this reason and conventionally too, Agile has been limited by the principle of having teams physically co-located.
Load performance testing goes beyond click and run, record and play and all other convenient auto testing paraphernalia that could invariably diminish the skill set of tester.
There is need to identify how to work around these limitations both from the perspective of Agile and load testing technical demand.
If a tester is too satisfied with his level of skill set, especially when programming is not involved he is unfortunately not reinforcing his market value.
New modus operandi, approaches, and techniques with tools are enabling yielding Test Engineers to adopt a more technical, proactive role, helping companies to be more flexible and efficient, increasing lifecycle productivity and reducing costs.
Now IT consulting companies like Deltek Solutions UK can put together teams with their skilled and dependable developers without taking cognisance of physical location, and yet meet up with daily and monthly expectation.
There are a host of requirements in this circumstance; • The need to increase the delivery of more valuable test results with proactive data that will further enhance development • The need for Testing Engineers to rise up to the challenge by helping the facilitation of the Agile Process • The need to have continuous analysis of the progress report of any project by the management in order to make reliable informed decision • The need to be able to cope with Agile development where distributed teams are involved either locally or internationally.
• The need for Testers to be in the control of source deliverable in order to assert their authorities • There is also the need to have exercises that are more technical during interview in order to drill the interviewees so that the ideal and competent Testers are separated from the opportunists.
• The involvement of Testers in projects right from the Project Initiation stage will be a panacea for circumstances where there is gap in communication.
Gap in communication can lead to the development of the wrong product and the Tester will test/validate the wrong Today, many job seekers with no Information Technology backgrounds are filtering through the ineffective apparatus of IT recruitment to become System Test Analysis by misinforming their recruiters.
There is no harm in genuinely applying for a System Test Analyst role with no experience at all.
Where a job seeker seeks to acquire experience that will help build a career in software/system testing is an effort worth commending.
When the motive is to become a tester at all cost just because it is an IT field that is easy to pick up a career if CVs are tweaked and posted on jobs sites like, whitedrum Scot ads and jobserve is just unprofessional.
One reason why Agile, V-Model, and other software development methodologies is failing in most organisations is because somehow the software validation and quality assurance tasks fall on the shoulders of some Auto and manual Testers that are not up to the challenge.
It is a certainty that bugs will escape through development into production if a Tester lacks the fundamental analytical skills required to validate an application.
The question here for organisations managing IT projects is not how much they have spent on the Test Analysts rand the process of quality assurance but how much time have they spent on separating the qualified Analysts from the desperate job seekers seeking a Test Analyst role at all cost.
This question is crucial as if unanswered realistically could mean the genesis of projects destined to fail.