1. SKILL ASSESSMENT OF SOFTWARE TESTERS Case Study
Learners need endless feedback, more than they need endless teaching. Is your current technical skill assessment capable of doing that?

2. Evaluating Skill is critical to building Competency!
And Knowledge is not Competency!
Knowing what / how to do is Knowledge!
Being Able to
Do it is SKILL!
Client feedback about the lack of practical experience of the required skills, even after individuals are trained & certified.
Demonstrating application of knowledge is critical. Knowledge based assessments are not adequate.
Increasing demand for technical skills in Automation, Scripting, Design, Performance, Security, and other technical areas
Non availability of case studies / real time scenarios which are representation of practical work.

3. MATURITY LIFE CYCLE OF COMPETENCY

4. WHAT DOES INDIA’s LEADING TESTING SERVICE PROVIDER DO TO IMPROVE THE SKILL OF 15,000+ TESTERS?
Engagement Highlights
Relationship since 2015
Assessments done 15,000+
Types of Assessment Functional, Automation
Testing Tools HP-ALM, HP-UFT, Selenium
Clear understanding of skill gaps is the first and critical step to build competency.
Benefits
Design Skill Based Assessment to provide feedback on their gaps in a real-time scenario.
Clear rating and grading of individual role specific skills with documented observations on the work outcome.
Schedule, evaluate, grade and provide feedback on proficiency of Skill for their testing team members.
Defined Process, Case Studies, Guidelines for technical skills evaluation on advanced and in-demand skills
On Time Structured Feedback of results in to enable planning of learning and development activities.
Flexibility to Ramp-up and Ramp-down evaluators to suit the demands and without affecting quality.

5. Organizational Environment
ROLE SKILL MAP
Skills
Set
Level of Involvement
Position
JOB
roles
Competency Clusters
Knowledge
Criterion
Performance
Foundation
Lead
Specialist
Manager
Competency
Dictionary
Career
Path
Designing Learning
Delivering
Training
Measure
&
Evaluate
Career Planning
Goals
Mgmt.
Staffing
Payroll
aids
Workforce
Competencies
Unit of Competence
Organizational Environment
Work
Force

6. HERE’s THE PROCESS Easy & Simple Prepare a role skill map Specify
Case Studies & Instructions
Candidate submits solution
Assessors
Review Solution
Grading & Feedback
Providing feedback on the specific areas of improvement
Defining the role, skills, proficiency levels, weightages is the main focus of this step
Identifying a real time scenario, providing inputs on the tasks, and giving them directions to submit case studies.
Supporting and following up with user for submission of solution.
Review of submitted solution vis-à-vis the ideal solution for specific evaluation parameters.

7. Skill Assessment Areas
Where will we be able to help with this solution?
Technology Domains 2 3 1
Web Applications
Mobile Applications
Functional Testing
Performance Testing
Test Automation Tools
Testing Requirements, Test Design, Test Execution, Reporting, Defect Management
Performance Scenario Development, Execution, Reporting
HP – ALM, HP – UFT, Selenium, JIRA, Cucumber, SOAP UI
Rational, Gherkin
Industry Domains
Banking, Financial Services
Insurance 4 5 6
Roles
Engineer
Continuous Testing
Testing Process
Test Estimation
Agile Methods, Test Driven Development, DevOps, Continuous Testing, Full Stack Testing
Testing Process, Testing Lifecycle, Agile Testing, Process Improvement, Standards
Testing Estimation, Planning, Tracking, Monitoring & Control, Reporting
Analyst
Architect
Manager

8. Sample Assessment Flow
How does it really look?
Role Definition
Evaluation Criteria
Outputs
Name Test Lead
Competency Estimation & Resource Planning
Skills Test Case Analysis
Test Case Points
Proficiency Level Level 2
Expected Level Level 2 (60 / 100)
General Criteria 10%
Understanding & Preparation
Documentation Standards
Overall Presentation
Understandable to end user
Test Case Analysis 60%
Inclusion of User Interfaces
Inclusion of Functions
Inclusion of Process Flows
Test Case Estimation 30%
Knowledge of the Process
Validation of Complexity Levels
Preparation of a schedule estimate
Final Score Card
Assessment Report
Recommended Learning
Expected Activities
Understand business requirements provided
Understand Test Schedule provided
Understand the template for Test Plan
Create a Test Plan for the project
Inputs
Project Document
Instruction Manual
Test Plan Template
Test Schedule Template
Procedure for Submission of Solution
Evaluation Scale
0 Not applied
Attempted
Applied / Achieved (50%)
Applied / Achieved (75%)
Applied / Achieved (100%)

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