Comments on A Rapid Tester: Surviving a downsizing

Hi Pravin, Let me first apologize for approving t...

2009-10-28T16:02:52.239+07:00

Hi Pravin,

Let me first apologize for approving this comment so late.

Your situation was very unfortunate, and I hope you have overcome your problem. From what you have said I can't determine if your company had changed its priorities. Did their attitude change towards the Test Team in general, or was it towards specific testers. Budget cuts during such times are normal, and that may not necessarily mean that a whole team would be laid off. It is important to understand the expectations of your management. Do you know what those were? Do you think some of those expectations were not fair to you or your team?

Hi, Yes testers are the target during the financi...

2009-07-29T13:02:43.073+07:00

Hi,

Yes testers are the target during the financial crises. I like to share my experience. We were hired as QA Engineer. And we were doing well. Management was happy. Then our company fall on financial crisis. And all on a sudden we found that company is not paying much attention to QA team. So I have to fire myself from that company before they did this to me. But the thing is I became upset and frustrated and less confident. In this case what should we do?

Pravin.

Hi Nice blog with good content. Please share your ...

2009-05-18T14:30:00.000+06:00

Hi
Nice blog with good content. Please share your real time experience. So that it will be advantage for new bees.

Hi Sajjadul,The time gap between the January post ...

2008-11-22T14:47:00.000+06:00

Hi Sajjadul,

The time gap between the January post and the next posts at regular intervals from September was worth the wait.

I liked this particular post 'Surviving a downsizing' so much that I think it's a good read for all the testers in my company who are in constant fear of downsizing.

This also taught me another lesson.
Instead of reading/watching your blog for updates, if I had added your blog in the 'Blogs I follow' page, I would have known immediately when your posts are published.

Regards,
Ajay
www.enjoytesting.blogspot.com

Sajjadul Hakkim,When you say, the organization may...

2008-11-21T23:51:00.000+06:00

Sajjadul Hakkim,

When you say, the organization may not recognize the value of a tester, it may also include a scenario where the employer recognizes the skills of the tester but the value he provides may not be what the employer needs at the moment.

Absolutely right. I have mentioned based on this:

I do not work for employers that do not value my testing skills and my contributions. I would advice other testers to do the same.

Yes there are many scenarios that we can consider:)Depends on the situation.

-Bhargavi M

Bhargavi,When you say, the organization may not re...

2008-11-21T22:06:00.000+06:00

Bhargavi,

When you say, the organization may not recognize the value of a tester, it may also include a scenario where the employer recognizes the skills of the tester but the value he provides may not be what the employer needs at the moment. For example, it could be that the tester has superior knowledge on security testing, but during a financial crisis management may decide that this skill is not that essential, at least until things get back to normal.

Thanks for your input.

Testers may actually have an edge in this case, si...

2008-11-20T20:02:00.000+06:00

Testers may actually have an edge in this case, since they would probably know about the business domain, about customer issues, about the overall product infrastructure, about product usability, about recommending important new features etc.

True.

I liked the way you have put all the points in this post.

The value a tester brings to the team

Trying to apply to everyone who is working in an organization,

“All the people who try to/brings value to the organization would have less chances of moving out of the organization during any financial crises. However if there are exceptions on two situations mainly:
1. If the organization does not recognize the value you provide.
2. If the organization cannot meet the budget.
“

Am I right?

Really a nice post especially, to the people who are more worried about downsizing and it can help in motivating them.

-Bhargavi M