Education is the key to success and we all agree with this and have experienced it all the time. As a testing professional, it is vital for us to keep ourselves abreast of the latest tools and technologies being utilized across different types of testing.

If you have chosen testing as your career choice and conducting either of functional and non-functional testing, you are highly encouraged to upgrade your skills. As most of the testing experts would have mentioned that if you are not training yourself then you are bound to be sidelined in the ever fast and growing speed lane of achievers.

Organisations need to focus on learning and professional development as a continuous activity and not just a mere crash course just before starting of a project. I have seen organizations that have had dedicated learning and development team that takes keen interest in each individual’s career goals and align learning to it.

Learning goals need to be setup in the annual KRAs / CSFs of each professional so that it is included in addition to the client deliverables. Learning and Delivery go hand-in-hand as professionals will be able to deliver better if they are trained well and will boost their confidence to take up new challenges.

At vTEST, we have incorporated an annual budget for each of our testers as INR 5000 per annum over and above their annual salary. We strongly believe in the continuous learning process and motivate our testers to attend seminars, conferences, seek online and classroom courses, reach out to internal and external testers for support, write blogs on their experiences, contribute to the global testing community and all of this paid by vTEST. As responsible software testers, we love to educate and also get educated while we continue to deliver best quality software for our clients. Here’s a request to each software tester to create your own budget if not provided by the Employer but hop-on to the learning train and test better. Happy Testing and Happy Learning!.