Job Portals holds Fair for Software professionals

Hyderabad, Oct 6: Testing Jobs Portal www.jobs4testing.com will organise here tomorrow Job Fair for Software Testing professionals for the 'first time' in the country to cope with the increasing demand for the testing professionals across the cross section of testing companies.

According to T V Radha Krishna, CEO, of Thatavarti Technologies Private Ltd the exclusive job fair was to create a platform for recruiters to interact with testing professionals and extend the offer on spot.

Supported by several industry majors like Polaris, Virtusa, Computer Associates and iGATE, the Fair was expected to draw about 25,000 software testing professionals.

Thatavarti Technologies, a city-based ISO 9001:2000 company and one of the leading players in the fast growing software testing market in India had in July launched the ebsite-www.jobs4testing.com, which it claimed it is the 'world's first testing jobs portal'.

Even as the worldwide testing market was an estimated 13 billion dollars the size of the testing market in India would be between Rs 150 crore to Rs 200 crore.

Mr Krishna said the recruitment in software testing was highest after call centres. India requires two lakh skilled testing resources by the year 2010, he added.

He said software testing was likely to enter the next level of maturity, demanding expertise in specific domains like embedded systems testing, real-time testing, healthcare systems testing, web application testing client server application testing, performance testing, connectivity testing, inter- operability testing and performance benchmarking.

Mr Krishna said Andhra Pradesh has great potential to capture these growing markets as 88 per cent of total testing engineers in India are from the state. He said after hosting an International Seminar from December 8 in Bangalore, the company planned to launch a magazine for software testing professionals, besides celebrating January 20 as 'Testers Day'-- on that date last year database worth 8 million dollars had crashed.

''Hence, we decided to give a call to the industry professionals to observe January 20 as Software Testers Day,'' he added.

The CEO said the company has also plans to launch ''International Forum for Software Testing Practitioners'', even while locating its R&D centre with International Testing standards with Rs one-crore investiment by 2007.

The company which posted Rs 1.7 crore revenue last year will ramp up its operation to generate Rs 18 crore business by 2008.

UNI