I have tried to jot few words on IT and career, Points i have mentioned here are few, there are more career options when we go in details.

1. Your Career after Graduation in
IT
Right path for right People

2. Narayan Koirala
Software Engineer and SQA Professional
QA Manager @ BrainDigit IT Solution Pvt. Ltd.
You can find me on
Er. Narayan Koirala
twitter.com/narainko
facebook.com/groups/sqapro
narain@braindigit.com

3. What will you do
After your IT graduation?
?

4. Few Career Paths in IT
As
I.Developer (C, ASP.NET, Php, Java, Ruby, Python etc..)
II.Quality Assurance Engineer( Manual, Automation,
Performance, Security)
III.System/ Network Engineer (System Admin, Network
Admin, Security Analyst)
IV.Support Engineer
V.Marketing/Sales/SEO Engineers
VI.Designer(Design Engineers)
VII.Content Writer(Technical Writers)
4

5. Developer as Career
• Desktop Applications (C#, VB.NET, Java)
• Web Applications (ASP.NET ,php, Java)
• Handheld Applications(Android, ios, Windows phone)

6. Job Trends for Development Eng.

7. QA as Career
• Manual Test Engineers
• Automation Test Engineers
• Performance Test Engineers
• Security Test engineers
• Compatibility Test Engineers

8. Job Trends for QA Eng.

9. Scope of QA
1. More Developers, so more projects so more demand
QA professionals.(ratio 1 : 1 needed)
2. Increasing trend of IT.
3. Previously more companies were outsourcing , now
more companies are on own projects.(in case of Nepal)
4. Increasing no of technological platforms like
handheld(tab, ipad, smartphones), smart TVs, smart
watches

10. Design as Career
Design Engineers
Software Architects
1.More Development houses, so more projects so more
demand design professionals
2.What ever outsourcing , in house projects
3.Increasing no of technological platforms like
handheld(tab, ipad, smartphones), smart TVs, smart
watches

11. Job Trends for Design Eng.

12. Support Engineer as Career
1. Growing trend of IT
2. Software clients prefer using software with best
support facilities.
3. Both in case of proprietary and free software

13. Job Trends for Support Eng

14. Technical Writers as Career
1. Growing trend of IT
2. Technical Manuals are most useful and favored.
3. People prefer to read and know rather than ask to
others.
4. Both in case of proprietary and free software

15. Job Trends

16. What to do now?
?

17. Prove you have experience
immediate after graduation.
How?
Make your minor and major projects count.
Make them real time and usable (I know you can)
Follow the global IT trend like documentation,
development plan, test plan, release plan , change
management and version control plan. Follow SDLC
Try to show something more, you can continue your
minor project for a major project, or continue your seniors
project and take it to another height or improve its quality
or performance

18. Just do not stick with traditional college
management, library management.
Think something new and new doesn't
mean complex projects. It can be simple
but countable.

19. Participate in IT events
organized by IT groups like SQApro,
AspNetCommunity, Php Developers
Community, ROR, CAN, ITC,
OWASPNepal and so on
These groups are filled with people who
love to share what they have and I am
sure you will learn a lot.
Write your problem and it is solved

20. Proper use of Social Networking
Join professional groups of FB
Follow professionals on LinkedIn.
Follow professionals on twitter.
(Make Proper use of Social Media)

21. Keep working harder each day
And
Always run for QUALITY
(take your projects, studies, social contact parallel
And stay ahead of crowd)

22. If you have some queries related to IT career
Write me at
narishko@gmail.com
Thank You