3 Attitudes of a Project Manager – Optimist, Pessimist and Realist

Project management is a complex role to play. The project manager does the requirements gathering, feasibility studies, planning, execution and risk mitigation. In the endeavor, the manager has three different takes – optimist, pessimist and realist. Well, how can the same person have three different attitudes? This is both exciting as well as challenging.

Testing Interviews

Testing interviews are very tricky. It comprises of evaluating your communication skills, behavioral aspects, attitude, aptitude, customer focus, sensitiveness towards end user's perspective, capability to understand complex and varied nature of documents, capability to produce clear and concise reports, knowledge of processes and standards; apart from the other technical skills.

Technical skills really depend on the job requirement. In general, software companies expect you to be aware of Operating Systems, Databases, Web Servers, App Servers etc. I'm reiterating that the job requirement can vary from project to project, company to company. If you are in niche domains such as mobile testing, network protocol testing or mobile chipset testing you need the domain knowledge well. With certain products domain knowledge also helps a lot. For example, for a product in banking and financial domain, you need some understanding of the domain. It helps in understanding the workflow and the terminologies used in the product.