Balendran's Blogs

                              Hiring for success It goes without saying that you hire great people and they build a company for you. Here are three points to consider when you are hiring, particularly if you are hiring to build your first product. 1. Don't hire someone if you would not work for them This has nothing to do with how smart the person is; it is all about the attitude and personality. This is the philosophy Facebook adopted in their early days and Zuckerberg publicly admitted that he did not hire people if he thought he could not work for them. If you hire B grade players they would end up hiring C grade players and the quality continues to drop. Pay attention to equal employment opportunity laws and make sure you clearly state your requirements in the position description. You will be asked for feedback from candidates with qualifications and experience meeting the selection criteria but eventually failed to make it. 2. Hire the smartest people and get o

                          Next Generation Testing Leadership Summit in Melbourne As the mobile devices and Internet of Things are reshaping the landscape for testing and QA, the Next Generation Testing Leadership conference in Melbourne on the 27 of May 2015, would feature discussions and workshops on a range of topics including future of testing, mobile testing as well as cloud and IoT testing. When productivity and time to market determine whether a product would survive, it is absolutely important to make sure that quality does not take the back seat. Rapid innovation in technology and applications place enormous pressure on testing to keep up. The next generation testing will demand tools to test sophisticated applications in the areas of connected homes and smart cities. I am delighted to be part of the conference and champion the cause for non-traditional methods to QA. Check out the agenda and complete list of topics here. http://www.nextgentesting.org/melbourne/201