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About Rajini Padmanaban

As Vice President, Testing Services and Engagements, Rajini Padmanaban leads the engagement management for some of QA InfoTech's largest and most strategic accounts. She has over sixteen years of professional experience, primarily in software quality assurance. Rajini advocates software quality through evangelistic activities including blogging on test trends, technologies and best practices. She is also a regular speaker in conferences run by SQE, QAI STC ,ATA, UNICOM, EuroStar and has orchestrated several webinars. Her writings are featured in TechWell, Sticky Minds, Better Software Magazine. She has co-authored a book on crowdsourced testing . She can be reached at rajini.padmanaban@qainfotech.com

20Jun, 2019

Healthcare – A Great Playing Ground For Technology

Any new advancement in any discipline needs the right set of opportunities where it can be implemented. So is the case with technology advancements that need the right scenarios and use cases where they can be applied in, across domains. Read more »

19Jun, 2019

Top Five Tips To Effective Test Automation

While in any ranked list, the core points may be listed with justification, a lot of subjective inputs from the author do tend to come into the picture. Similarly when we look at the top five tips to effective software test automation, what may rank up as top five here, may not necessarily be top five for someone else. And there is no magic with a number five. It could be top three, top ten – to enable a quick read and to keep it as objective as possible, I am limiting this to top five. Read more »

17Jun, 2019

Getting Deeper Into Performance Testing By Leveraging APIs

API testing is a very commonly used practice in quality engineering. Lately, it is being used for functional testing not just by the quality teams but also by development teams as after unit testing, this is one that helps everyone catch issues faster and closer to the root cause at a very granular level. API testing while largely still functional in nature has been increasingly used for other non-functional areas too, especially security and performance testing. On the security front, for example, the OWASP which thus far mainlyfocused on top ten OWASP vulnerabilities from a web standpoint, has now expanded coverage to top API vulnerabilities too. Read more »

17Jun, 2019

Can You Afford Lack Of Quality?

What if a product under development was not given its due importance for quality? “No quality” is a very dreadful situation – I am not going to even get there – I am saying even “lack of quality” is a dangerous situation to be in. Today while being agile is important, end users are giving utmost importance to quality than ever before. They are ready to participate in the development process and be aware of specific feature cuts than having it all, with quality not up to the mark. What is noteworthy here is: Read more »

30May, 2019

What Is And Why Paired Testing In Accessibility

Real user centric testing goes a long way in ensuring a quality rich product on release. Today, end users are willing to actively partake right from the early stages of product development in providing valuable inputs to product teams. While this is a nice to have aspect that goes a long way in smart engineering from early stages, it is not really a mandate that all teams take on. There are however certain quality attributes where real user testing almost becomes inevitable. Accessibility testing, specifically web accessibility testing is one such quality attribute that is not fool proof without real users. As we know real users here are differently abled users, who may have issues with vision, hearing, speech, cognition, motor activities, as some of the core ones. Read more »

29May, 2019

Automating For Microservices Takes Us To The Grass Roots Of Testing

It is no denying that software test automation has evolved to play a very significant role in today’s world of continuous delivery and integration. Automation testing is what enables rapid, scalable and reliable testing, helping testers bring in a solid test strategy not compromising on quality despite the short and agile time to market. Read more »

29May, 2019

Mobile + Banking + Security – A Lot Of Critical Keywords In There

Testing to ensure applications are fully functional, meet the core requirements and user expectations has absolutely become the bare minimum today. There are a lot more critical pieces that a quality team and a product team need to ensure before sign off from non-functional requirements as well as compliance standpoints. One such area is app security or let’s say mobile app security or further still security testing for banking apps in the mobile world. A security breach today is a huge adverse hit from varied standpoints – client data, product reputation and often times even legal repercussions. Read more »

23May, 2019

Performance Test Practices For The Agile World

A lot has changed in today’s fast paced digital transformation scenario. In the world of quality, performance testing has become key from business, user, engineering standpoints. The performance testing strategy is evolving based on changing user needs and is no longer a silo of its own running in parallel to the Agile cycles. Let’s look at what are those core performance testing best practices that are driving the change in the landscape and giving this effort a true face lift: Read more »

17May, 2019

Performance Testing Within DevOps Practices

Performance testing as a non-functional testing attribute has typically been encouraged to be taken up after a product is functionally stable. This helps bring in focus on the core elements of performance be it load, stress, endurance, scalability etc., not having to bother about functional issues that may come in, along the way. Read more »

15May, 2019

Building A Continuous Testing Culture

Continuous Testing Approach is the in-thing in the software testing world today. It is spoken about a lot in the world of CI/CD specifically on how the software testing strategy can enable collective and continuous ownership for quality. Read more »

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