Ajay has completed 12 years of his software testing career and penned down his top twelve mistakes. In this talk, he has shared his top three mistakes and give a preview of his book please refer our linkedin post for session details https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/session-dozen-mistakes-software-testing-career-how-avoid-alliance/

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A dozen mistakes of my
software testing career
Ajay Balamurugadas
AVP-Delivery, Qapitol QA
Twitter: @ajay184f

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Where did I spend my
twelve years
Workshops, Meetups
Attended multiple workshops
Conducted workshops for
Indian corporates and
conferences
Online Community
Interacted with more than
2000 testers
Six books for testers
40+ online batches
Weekend Testing
Co-founder of weekend testing
Facilitated more than 120
sessions
Freelancing
More than 50 freelance projects
More than 500 days of testing
Companies
Startups to Enterprises,
2 testers company to 5K testers,
8 months release cycle to daily
production releases
Conferences
Asia, Europe, USA
Speaker, Facilitator, Keynote,
Workshop Attendee, Workshop Instructor
Professional
Summary

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Four Guiding
Principles
Limits are set in your mind
It is a crime to make the
same mistake
If you don’t experiment,
you will never discover
If risky, ask permission
If non-risky, do it first
and then discuss
1No mistakes - No learning
2Cost vs Risk
3Nothing is impossible
4Make new mistakes

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Categories of mistakes
01
06
02
05
03
04
Self
Related to my attitude,
learning, habits
Process
Loopholes in the system
which affected everyone
Management
Fights against management
Communication
My interactions with
stakeholders
The mistakes when I
was testing
Team
How my actions affected my
colleagues
Testing

5. 5
Top 6
mistakes
Automation and
programming
Lost interest
for 5000 INR
Wanted to help
everyone
Health
One man army
Overflowing cup

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And time for the launch...
leanpub.com/50mistakes

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Final thoughts
See if you can find out
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