PMI Trivandrum, Kerala Chapter
11/1/2009In these times of IT budget cuts and near-zero discretionary spend, Quality Assurance (QA) as a function has become a soft target for cost drive-down measures.
QA managers and validation service providers are challenged to reinvent themselves to ensure significant reduction in the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of applications. To overcome these challenges, QA organizations are adopting different approaches, like QA Center of Excellence as a shared service, specialized testing CoEs, focus on non-functional testing, and early lifecycle validation.
In his session, Harish T. Krishnankutty, Group Test Manager with the independent validation solutions unit in Infosys Technologies Limited, covered the details of each of these approaches and the experiences of organizations that have successfully adopted these. He also presented a bird’s eye view of the recent trends in the validation industry and led a discussion on the challenges that these pose to managers in the areas of QA and validation. This session was attended by over 100 professionals in and around Tiruvananthapuram.