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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 fourteen 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 , UNICOM, EuroStar and has spoken at several webinars. Her writings are featured in TechWell, Sticky Minds, Better Software Magazine. She has co-authored a book on crowdsourced testing , and was most recently nominated for the Testing Leader of the Year award, by UNICOM. She can be reached at rajini.padmanaban@qainfotech.com

01May, 2019

How Performance Testing Has Gained Prominence With Mobile Computing

Performance testing as an important non-functional quality attribute is no new player in the software development landscape. Read more »

26Apr, 2019

Why Real User Testing Is Inevitable In Accessibility

Role based testing is a valuable practice across all test disciplines. Areas of the product and associated quality attributes that have a strong user connect, have heavily relied on role based testing. Read more »

25Apr, 2019

How Mobile App Testing Is Striking A Balance Between Shift Left And Right

A lot has changed in the global QE landscape over the last 2 decades. As with any change, there are a number of change agents that trigger the shift – some of these could be user, market, product, economic drivers or a combination of some or all that together influence the change. Read more »

24Apr, 2019

Load Testing An Ecommerce Site – An Ongoing Saga

Given the digitization volumes today, load testing has become a critical non-functional area to ensure product readiness from a quality standpoint before go-live. Also, while testing in production is a valuable practice, organizations are taking up across quality attributes, this becomes especially important for load testing, more specifically for ecommerce load testing across websites and mobile applications. To understand this mix of pre and post release efforts, in greater detail, let’s take the case of Flipkart, as an example:

23Apr, 2019

Top Reasons That Make Automated Testing Critical

The title here may not fully make sense to several – it may almost sound like a no brainer to the extent that this is a given – why should this even be discussed? I want to pick this topic though for two reasons as below:

22Apr, 2019

Smartly Evolving Software Testing Practices

Evolution is a given in any domain. Software testing and quality engineering have a very key role in the product development landscape in safe guarding user interests and ensuring a product of exceptional quality is released. When this function holds such an important and dynamic charter to deliver on, it is obviously inevitable that it continues to evolve to ensure the efforts are smart, nimble and adaptable to the changing requirements.

16Apr, 2019

Security Testing for Critical Applications

Security Testing Services has been picking a lot of deserved momentum in the recent years. Organizations are very particular in ensuring applications are tested for non-functional areas too – especially app security, performance, accessibility, before going live. Mostly short test passes, security testing is taken up by a group of subject matter experts who test the application ethically for various vulnerabilities, to ensure the application is mitigated, should security attacks arise.

08Apr, 2019

Why Digital Accessibility is Imperative in the Travel Domain?

Data suggests that close to fifteen percent of the world’s population live with some form of disability or another. This is a significant number to not account for when digital solutions are engineered. Strategic Accessibility Testing and re-engineering based on results from the same, has been rising in popularity in recent times. Read more »

26Oct, 2016

Functional testing goes hand in hand with other test attributes

Undoubtedly functional testing is one of the areas where the most quality budget it spent. It is often even synonymously looked at with manual testing though automated functional testing is a huge area of focus in recent times. Besides these, the larger connect that functional testing has with other testing attributes is increasingly visible by the day. Performance testing for example is often built on core functional scenarios. Security testing checks for vulnerabilities along functional workflow paths. Usability and Accessibility are strongly interlaced with functionality in ensuring the functionality and interfaces are rendered in the most intuitive manner, accessible to one and all. Localization checks are also largely centred on functionality. Within the functional workflows also, the tester should consider varied standpoints such as architectural functionality, end user focused functionality, competitor driven functionality etc. With all this diversity just within one segment of an application, functional testing is that one core attribute that brings in a binding connect with not just other attributes but also between them. For example, during an accessibility implementation, let’s say on the login page, we also need to consider if the login functionality’s security angle remains intact. This is a simple example of how functionality brings in the binding connect between security and accessibility.

26Oct, 2016

Software Testing – a good candidate for shared services

In any organization while some services are provided vertically, some are provided in a shared model horizontally to make the most of the team’s capabilities, time thereby further enhancing the overall efficiency and productivity besides the reach and scale achieved. Specific to software QA and testing, certain attributes, especially the non-functional ones such as performance testing, security testing, test automation overall expertise around tools and frameworks, accessibility and usability testing have traditionally been good candidates for shared services. In certain teams, we have also been seeing the overall software testing itself including the functional aspects being extended as a shared service. This model has its pros and cons. Pros are primarily around a common/centralized test process, visibility for quality across teams, standardized test KRAs and metrics, easier adoption for new tools and technologies, good and in-depth knowledge of products across teams, better integration scenarios, better utilization of testers etc. On the flip side, the cons are around, packed and sometimes conflicting schedules, lack of tester availability at certain crucial times, compromised quality across products for the sake of accommodating all of them, lack of comparative processes between teams that can encourage a healthy competition etc. These are again not pros and cons that will apply as is to all teams. What is a con to one may actually be a pro to another based on how the team is structured and what its requirements are. Even if they are not a shared service in the truest model, a test center of excellence can be setup to cross share knowledge, resources and testers, tools etc. as warranted.

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