Featured Interviews

Joel Montvelisky - QA Manager, Product Architect & Co-Founder, PractiTest

Can you tell us a bit about yourself and what you do?
My name is Joel, I was born in Costa Rica and I now live in Israel with my wife, 2 kids and a dog. I am a Testing Professional. This means many things: sometimes I am a tester or a test manager, other times a testing instructor or consultant, and you can also see me as a regular testing blogger, testing lecturer and the Product Architect for PractiTest. The main link for all my tasks is the fact they are centered around the world of Testing (and so they have been for the past 13+ years). Tell us brief about PractiTest (Test Management Tool) and how it will be useful for a Software Test Engineer? PractiTest is already helping a large number of Testers and Organizations around the world to manage their Testing and QA Process, making the work of the tester more focused and professional, letting them concentrate on their applications and not on the managing tasks for their test documents or isolated bug tracking systems.                                                                                                                                                              ....View Interview
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Josephine Attala P.Ledesma - QA Manager, Air Cargo IT Solutions

Can you tell us brief introduction about yourself?
I am a Quality Assurance Manager, Test Analyst, Business Analyst and a Trainer rolled into one. I started my career as a Credit Policy Analyst and then transferred to the Branch office to fill up the position of New Accounts clerk in a Commercial Bank. I got a breakthrough to work for the world’s leading Semiconductor Company in 1995 to join the Manufacturing team. It’s from operations where I started to learn the passion for Quality Improvement being an active member of the Process Control team for Manufacturing, which later paved way for me to take more responsibilities and challenges and take active roles of becoming a Technical Training Officer, Manufacturing Systems Engineer and Operations Business Analyst. Most of the projects I have lead and implemented are focused on inventory management system such as Materials SAP/R3, Advanced Planning Solutions and In-house Cycle Count tools.                                                                                                                                                              ....View Interview
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Milind Limaye, Author of Software Testing and QA Books

Can you tell us brief introduction about yourself?
I am a mechanical engineer, cost accountant, quality consultant, project manager. I have started my carrier as a mechanical engineer and soon started working on production planning, cost control, financial management, and quality management. I remember way back in 1992, when I have designed and developed inventory management, purchasing, finance management system on FoxBase. The system was used for almost 4 yrs before it was replaced by MAPICS. I have worked on several ERPs like MAPICS, SAP, BaaN CIV, MFGPRO. I was an area expert for Manufacturing, Cost control, Industrial engineering, Marketing and Sales etc while implementing those ERPs. I was a management representation for ISO9001, ISO14000, BS18000, ISO27000, ISO20000, CMMi. I shifted to software in the year 2000. I have worked as CEO, Quality Manager, Project Manager. I have installed quality assurance as well as quality control functions in various organization. As a test manager, I have worked for few Microsoft projects. Milestone as a test manager was handling a testing team for Windows 2003 OS.
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Satish Jawale | Co-Founder | CEO | Auctus Software Pvt. Ltd.

1. Can you tell us more about yourself?
I’m an analytical consciousness with a heart. Cosmopolitan is what defines me best. Love to be in with team, talkative and very strict. I’m currently co-founder and CEO of Auctus Software Pvt. Ltd., served Managing Director of eWay Software (P) Ltd. Professionally I have worked mostly in Mumbai for US, UK and German clients for 8 years.

People I admire: Arya Chankya -Cāakya was adviser to the first Mauryan emperor. Chandragupta, An architect of his rise to power.
Gautama Buddha - For His Infinite kindness even for little animals
Krishna - He who gave discourse of Bhagabad Gita (Coronet jewel of Hinduism) in the middle of war
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose - For his love for India, for everything he stood for all the martyr’s who gave their life so we could live a life of freedom

2. How did you get the idea to start an own company?
I had a dream to be businessman since my childhood, well, it wasn’t a witty an Idea, I organized people, good people whom I can trust and depend entirely. From different fields I believe my team. We decided and we started on by organized manner.
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Ashwin Palaparthi, Testers Desk

I am Founder of ValueMinds. I started career in 1992 (when I was 13 years old), spent 7 years in running a local courier/logistics business in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India; and then entered IT. Self taught programming and served as an IT trainer for 3 years. Served as a technical architect at Zeneb for a brief period to build a J2EE product. it then spent 5 years at AppLabs, both in US and India , handling technology solutions and presales in Software Testing. Managed several complex testing projects while at AppLabs and architected customized test harnesses for its clientele. Left AppLabs while serving as an AVP/Principal Architect to found ValueMinds. I live TestersDesk.com at ValueMinds and also consult/train on special areas in Software Testing like Advanced Tools in Testing and Security Testing.

I am deeply passionate about Product Innovation, Test Engineering, Software Architecture, Teaching and Music (both listening and composing; for example my recent album Nuvvo kala in telugu is a reflection of that!).
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