ITS Engineering College : Workshop on “Software Testing” by Mr. Vipul Kocher

On Jan 12, 2015

Workshop on “Software Testing” by Mr. Vipul Kocher (Co-Founder, SALT -School of Applied Learning in Testing and President, Indian Testing Board)

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Information Technology organized a Workshop on “Software Testing” on 10^th Jan., 2015 at Naidu Hall, ITS Engineering College. The Programme started at 11.30 hrs by lightening of lamp by Dr Vineet Kansal, Director ITSEC, Mr. Vipul Kocher (President, ITB), Mr. Mahesh Bakshi (Sr. Manager, ITB), Dr. Ashish Kumar (HEAD IT), Dr. Shailesh Tiwari (Head CSE) and other faculty and staff by offering prayers to Maa Saraswati. A bouquet of flowers was presented by Dr. Vineet Kansal to the Chief Guest, Mr. Vipul Kocher, Co-founder SALT and President Indian Testing board.

Mr. Kocher is working in the area of Software Testing for the last 15 years. He had worked at various senior positions in many leading IT organizations including Adobe India.

Mr. Kocher addressed the 3^rd year Computer Science and Information Technology students in choosing the right skill set so that they become industry ready. The workshop was conducted in an interactive manner and students were curious to know about choosing the right skill sets. The student asked about the skills required for the web designer. Mr. Kocher cited some of the good examples to motivate the students. He told the students that how much difficulty he faced during his campus placement at I.I.T. Delhi. Since, earlier there were not too many opportunity and it was very hard to prepare themselves as per the industry demand. However now it has become very easy with the availability of internet.

Mr. Kocher along-with his team will prepare the students for ISTQB and SALT certification. The certification is a recognition of one’s capabilities in the field of Testing. The industry considers the certified student like an experienced profession in the field. There are more than 70,000 ISTQB certified professionals in India. Almost all the companies are part of Indian Testing Board (ITB) which conducts the ISTQB certification.

The workshop was conducted under SOPAN, An industry academia initiative at I.T.S. Engineering College, Gr. Noida.

Dr. Shailesh Tiwari, Head CSE specially thanked the Chief Guest for sparing time and sharing his valuable thoughts.

Finally, Dr. Ashish Kumar, Head IT concluded the event with thanks to all the faculty of the Department, students and staff for attending and successfully organizing the workshop.

This program was coordinated by Mr. Sandeep Kumar (AP, CS&E) and Mr. Arun Rai (AP, CS&E).