Pradeep Soundararajan

Current

• Consulting Tester at Satisfice Inc

Past

• Test Consultant at Edista Testing
• Columnist on Expert Problem Solving at CNBC TV18
• Manager - Testing at TriVium Systems

• Senior Software Engineer at Emuzed ( now Aricent)
• Test Consultant at Motorola
• Innovator and Designer at Research and Development group of Disaster Alert System
• Test Consultant at McAfee
• Test Engineer at Celstream Technologies
• Test Consultant at Impulsesoft Private Limited

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Education

• Mookambigai College of Engineering
• James Bach School of Mental Martial Arts ( Software Testing )
• Kumarans

• St Pauls

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Pradeep Soundararajan’s Summary

I have failed so many times in my life that has helped me smile at new failures. Each time I failed, I came back as a monster. That's my experience.

I have been testing, arguing, coaching, consulting, speaking, writing, managing and thinking on software testing and problem solving. I assure myself everyday that I would continue doing them much better, each day, than what I did previously.

I am open to software testing challenges from any corner of the world. I am a kind of tester who is brave to stand up to the scrutiny. I accept and volunteer to share the information if I screw up. Well, you see I am a human who deals with other humans and humans are fallible. The world has been kind on me in providing lots of challenges.

I find problems ( or bugs, if you like ) that matter to you, your customer and to their customers. I test products and the environment around it.

I know the above information is so little and hence to get you more curious about me, here is a link http://testertested.blogspot.com or my e-mail : pradeep dot srajan [/at/] gmail

Pradeep Soundararajan’s Specialties:

"Thinking and acting appropriately" [ That's what any industry would need people for ]

Pradeep Soundararajan’s Experience

• Consulting Tester

  Satisfice Inc

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

  I test, coach, manage, consult, speak, write, practice, think, mentor and learn software testing and problem solving.
  
  As a Satisfice Tester, I get feedback about my progress as a tester from none other than James Bach and Michael Bolton. This helps me in making quantum shifts of betterment each time. Needless to say that I am my own harsh critique.
  
  I am an invited speaker at some of the biggest international conferences on Software Testing and Development across Asia, Europe and North America.
  
  I haven't witnessed any of my clients who hired me to test repent, except one who fired me - I found lots of bugs while he had actually hired me to cover them up and make the product look good. Please feel sad for me :)
  
  I am afraid truth sometimes is mistook as bragging and hence I'd just end the truth here. If you want to know more, I know you would consider writing to me.

• Test Consultant

  Edista Testing

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2008 — September 2009 (1 year 6 months)

• Columnist on Expert Problem Solving

  CNBC TV18

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

  October 2007 — August 2008 (11 months)

  I wrote a column for CNBC TV18 group on Expert Problem Solving

• Manager - Testing

  TriVium Systems

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 2007 — April 2008 (11 months)

  I test, mentor and manage testing for converge communication products and services groups apart from fostering an independent testing services team. The products that I tested and managed are ones like Voice Recording Solutions, Outsource Relationship Management products, BPO software solutions, call accounting solutions, and call management solutions.
  
  I speculate that I executed and managed India's first Session Based Test Management - pure Exploratory Testing project, in TriVium for a US customer who is a leader in E-learning software solution developer.
  
  I think I did a good enough job because the developers, senior management and of course the test team still welcome me back and are still curious to talk to me.

• Senior Software Engineer

  Emuzed ( now Aricent)

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 2006 — December 2006 (8 months)

  I was responsible for testing multimedia streaming solutions for a customer who is a leading Pocket PC hardware and software developer.
  
  I practiced Rapid Software Testing and Exploratory Testing that helped the company to gain great credibility with the customer and create a history. The history is that the customer never reported an issue that we had not found and this was achieved when Scripted and Exploratory was balanced, mixed and practiced.
  
  This experience helped me learn and practice rapid software testing on live projects.

• Test Consultant

  Motorola

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Telecommunications industry)

  May 2005 — February 2006 (10 months)

  I worked for Multimedia Engine Team helping MME team to help them set up a lab for 3G Multimedia Testing. This experience was phenomenal and gave me opportunities to test multimedia features for some of the top end phones that Motorola launched and is successfully running for their global market.
  
  I was fired by a manager there. The mission he wanted me to accomplish is "95% of the test cases *should* pass ASAP" which I could not accomplish because I found a lot of bugs.
  
  Thanks to the manager. My life turned downside up since then.

• Innovator and Designer

  Research and Development group of Disaster Alert System

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2005 — June 2005 (5 months)

  I along with my other friends who were passionate to innovate and work on new ideas, designed, developed and tested one of the solution to Disaster Alerting.
  
  This innovation that we carried out fetched appreciation from the Director of Indian Space Research Organization and by the Department of Science and Technology. This innovation was featured as a news in TV Channels and Leading news papers in several languages.
  
  It also fetched a word of appreciation from Infosys Chief Mentor Mr N R Narayana Murthy.

• Test Consultant

  McAfee

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MFE; Computer & Network Security industry)

  December 2004 — February 2005 (3 months)

  I helped a team to build a Live Virus Test tool using Perl. I utilized this experience to learn more than what I think I knew about security, virus, firewalls, and networking.

• Test Engineer

  Celstream Technologies

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 2004 — November 2004 (3 months)

  Although I thought I was hired to test products that they were to develop, I ended up testing nothing ( because the project didn't appear to start ) but I learned some of the key lessons of management, which is helping me today to manage testing fairly well and maintain a healthy relationship with my subordinates.

• Test Consultant

  Impulsesoft Private Limited

  (Wireless industry)

  August 2003 — August 2004 (1 year 1 month)

  I tested Bluetooth PC Software, world's first Bluetooth Stereo Headphones, Bluetooth gaming headset, Bluetooth Car Audio Solutions, Bluetooth Multimedia for Mobile Phones and Pocket PC's.
  
  I must thank people at Impulsesoft who provided me opportunity to work on some of their flagship products, individually and independently (without the usual bias of developers or scripts) that boosted my confidence to handle testing activity for any product in the future.
  
  I tested a version of a headphone that became the second highest selling ( then ) BT headphones apart from a futuristic version of headphone that I guess was too ahead of its time.
  
  Its hard to remember not working on a weekend or returning home as early as 10 PM when I was in Impulsesoft.

Pradeep Soundararajan’s Education

• Mookambigai College of Engineering

  B.E. , Electronics and Instrumentation , 1999 — 2003

• James Bach School of Mental Martial Arts ( Software Testing )

  Self Certification , Exploratory Testing

  James Bach school of Mental Martial Arts (Skilled Software Testing) is not a physical school but one that exists for those who are his student. James Bach is a Bucaneer Scholar where the world has a lot to learn from him. Watch out for a book soon to be launched - How I learn stuff - A book on self education.
  
  Those who pass through James Bach's school of Mental Martial Arts learn how to learn. Once they learn that they go beyond the concept of education in school and college.

• Kumarans

• St Pauls

Additional Information

Pradeep Soundararajan’s Groups:

Association for Software Testing
Context Driven Testing
Test Republic

•    Association for Software Testing
•    Software Testing - ISTQB/ISEB
•    Software Testing Club - the online software testing community
•    uTest - Software Testing Community
•    Software Testing and Quality Assurance
•    Software Testing & Quality Assurance
•    Quality Assurance Discussion Group
•    SHAPE Alumni
•    QA & Testing Group
•    Software Test & Performance Group
•    Toronto Workshop on Software Testing (TWST)
•    Test Republic - Ecosystem for Software Testing Professionals
•    Zappers
•    Innovate Testing
•    Exploratory Testing
•    Weekend Testers

Pradeep Soundararajan’s Honors:

* Thought Leadership Award for contribution to software testing in India 2008.

* Being a student of James Bach, Michael Bolton and Jerry Weinberg.

* National Level Winner for theory design of life saving wireless medical system.

* Voted as one of the best speaker in an international software testing conference.

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