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From Being a Software Engineer to a Model to a Happening Heroine!
She is already being touted as the next big thing in the Southern film industry and this is when she has just finished shooting for two movies, one of them in Telugu, releasing shortly.
Tapsee Pannu, a software engineer turned model turned actress is now apprehensive as well as elated as her first film Aadukalam is lined up for release in a few days. Born and brought up in Delhi, Tapsee is a qualified Computer Science Engineer whose passport to fame has been her winning the Best Skin award in the Miss India pageant.
When asked if it was tough for her to convince her parents to change fields, she says "my mom wanted me to enter films, my dad wanted me to do engineering, and I ended up passing with distinction. So I told him, 'I always did what you wanted me to do. I want one year to do what I want to do. If it doesn't work, I'll get back to what you wanted'." She was doing modeling while in college and moving on to films was a natural progression. "I quit a software engineering job for films. Now, there's no looking back," she declares.
In fact with her cute looks and bubbly personality, its hard to believe for many that she has a technical background. "One day, I saw Dhanush (her co-star) using an iPhone application which was developed by me in my final year of college and when I told him this, he was pleasantly surprised, but very proud," she smiles. She admits that she's a tech freak who's spotted with a new gadget all the time. "I can't use the same mobile phone or iPod for more than a week. I keep updating my gadgets," she adds.
Initially it was tough for her due to language problems and the fact that she is not trained in acting. But she's been a stage performer and had been learning kathak from the age of 4. Also, after completing her schooling, she was with Shiamak Davar's dance institute and was training to become an instructor! She did her Engineering from Indraprashta University (New-Delhi), and got placed at Infosys, but soon after got her first movie offer which she grabbed with both hands.
Now the bubbly actress has her first movie lined up for release and she has one request for her fans "just a few days to go, fingers crossed, guys, please love me in the movie," she says.
Here are some of the best shots of Tapsee brought exclusively for her fans on FaaDoOEngineers.com:
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Career Change Time? Consider Software Testing
The profession of software testing emerged in the early nineties when personal computers became more popular as they became more affordable. The fast-growing population of PC users created new opportunities for software companies as well as strong competition for the consumers business.
The new generation of software users quite naturally expected their applications to work as advertised. At the same time, market forces encouraged the fast release of new software often at the sacrifice of thorough testing. Defective software does not sell.
The software industry soon recognized that, to achieve success, they would have to set quality standards prior to release and create thorough end-user testing procedures in-house.
In 1992, I got my very first job as a Software QA Engineer literally by accident: an old friend introduced me to a small startup company in Newark where he worked at the time. My job there was to identify functionality and performance problems in a client-server database application.
I searched for fellow testers for professional networking; but I found none. I approached over two dozen software developers asking if they knew of anyone who tests software for a living. They had never heard of software testers and could see no use for them since they tested their own software.
I found myself wondering what growth potential, if any, there may be in this career. In particular, I wanted to know how much I could earn as a software tester. I approached our VP of Engineering with this question. He suggested that, if I stay with the company for five years and do really well, I might hope to make up to $40,000 a year.
A small group of developers who had heard this exchange were clearly skeptical. I read the look on their faces, "That'll be the day!"
In May of 1993 the startup I worked for collapsed. In the course of a week, there were five advertisements in the San Jose Mercury News for software QA positions. I sent a resume to each, which resulted in two job interviews the following week and one on-the-spot job offer.
My new employer was a multimedia startup. And guess what - that job paid 25 percent more than my previous one. Three months later I got a raise, which brought me to a $40,000 salary, exactly the projected five-year target thought to be unrealistic. My new employers were exceptionally successful. They sold the company profitably six months later. The new owners restructured the business and I was back in the job market again.
What I discovered in my new job search amazed me. Where I had found only five software quality assurance listings over the course of a week, I was now finding 10-12 listings a day. I had 3-4 interviews a week, sometimes two interviews a day, and received many offers within a month. The market had grown dramatically within a single year and the demand for software testers far exceeded the supply.
I chose the company that offered me strong exposure to automated testing, my passion at the time; but I could not help mulling over the amazing growth in demand for software testers and the equally amazing lack of supply.
In the mid-90s, software testing was still a new profession. Between 1994 and 1997, half of QA graduates of many small and big local QA schools became the first person in their companies specifically hired as software testers.
Today, most software companies have a dedicated quality assurance department with one or more managers and a staff ranging from junior testers to senior quality assurance engineers.
Before the recent recession, starting salary in QA was about $60,000 on average with 2-3 weeks spent on job search. Those who liked to change jobs every year or so as they acquired experience, saw their salaries grow to $90,000-95,000 within two-three years. When the recession hit Silicon Valley job market in 2001, there appeared to be no jobs at all for the inexperienced software tester.
But in the year 2007, the recession is over. On average, an entry level QA job seeker in Silicon Valley would get 2 job interviews a week. It seems to take only 3 or 4 interviews to land an offer. Finding a QA job today seems to be no more difficult than it was in the 90s.
Software QA is a unique job niche in many ways: Maturity is an asset in software testing unlike other IT fields. Maturity is easily marketed as patience, attention to detail, and tolerance for routine tasks, all of which are highly valued in software QA.
Whatever your prior education or work experience, it is likely to be an asset because there is likely to be software that specializes in your field of expertise. If you have experience in education, accounting, banking, publishing, workflow or contact management, sales, client relations, drafting, stock or bond trading, image processing, to name but a few industries, you will find software companies that target your field.
Testing software is basically about finding the discrepancy between the expected behavior of the application and its actual behavior. If you have an accounting background, for example, you are better positioned to understand what the expected behavior of a software application should be and how an accounting department would use it.
Testing is not a difficult concept to learn. We all have some experience testing something. We test new recipes, test-drive cars, double-check our change at the convenience store. In each case we are testing to see that the actual result meets our expected result.
Entry-level jobs in software QA do not require a computer science degree. The field covers a broad spectrum of technical proficiency. The niche is large enough to accommodate you.
We see individuals of all ages transitioning from H1B visas to green cards, for example, becoming two-income families and homeowners, and establishing themselves in their new country.
Software testing is definitely a consideration for college educated people of all the ages and professional background looking for a career change.
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Mikhail Portnov has been helping people changing their career path to
Software Testing field since 1994.
He is the founder and CEO of Portnov Computer School in Silicon Valley, which
has 2000+ successful graduates.
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