QA testers – You hate us and we know it!

We don’t blame the programmers for hating us, I mean our appraisals are done by the amount of threatening notes we get by our fellow colleagues (at least that is what I would like to think). I will tell you why? You see our job is to be as mean as we can to the application we get. We have to break it in every way so that when the client finally gets it, the application doesn't behave badly no matter what. My life as a QA tester requires me to find bugs and errors in the code, document the same and send it to the programmers to fix (now you understand the threatening notes). Finding bugs isn't easy, it’s a tedious process and we have to follow a billion step test plan to see if we can cause an error. Once we get an error we have to write a report on what the error is and what we did to get it. And the process goes on and on following the endless test plan.

 

So whenever you buy any application you can thank us the QA testers that sold our souls so that the app you bought would work without freezing up on you. And if it does break, don’t get too upset because sometimes the users or our clients are able to do things that are not even mentioned in our billion step test plan (It’s nothing to be proud about). All there is know is we the QA testers—Santa’s little helpers of the IT world are the ones that are responsible for getting your app as close to perfect as possible.

Source: Online -- Goa

Intern stories at OPSPL

I can say that I am moody at times especially when it comes to repetitive tasks. Most people see me glued to the laptop at my work station with some 50 different tabs opened up at one go. Today was one of those days with endless directory submissions, same old blog posts, same old articles and same old comments.It does get monotonously frustrating. But then something changed...

 

I got a mail. Don’t get me wrong I usually get a lot of newsletters, and subscription mails. But this was different. It was a comment on a thread I had started for a client. I had started a thread on a forum about some helpful tips offered by our clients business. The comment was a simple thank you note, my post helped someone in some part of the world and the person thanked me. I know its not a lot, but it just made me realize that every business, every service offered helps someone out there, and I help them connect.

It reminds me of a story one of the US presidents walking into NASA and asking a cleaning operative what his job entailed.  The man answered that he helped put a man on the moon. I may be an Intern right now but I know I play an important part. I connect people. Well one thing for sure is that it did change my mood to a more upbeat note.

For my readers out there if you do have an office story feel free to share them here.

Source: Online -- Goa

Life of an SEO / Social Media Intern

Hello my name is Vanessa, and I am an SEO / Social Media intern at Online -- Goa.  My day starts with hitting the snooze button the fifth time before finally waking up and dashing through my morning chores. I wait for my car pool buddies to pick me up after incessantly calling them to know their whereabouts.

I reach the office by 9:30 am and the first thing I do is run for my cup of coffee to get my creative juices flowing. I start my work by first checking my mails. Nothing new today other than a few SEO related links sent for reference by our Director. I check the ranking of the page I am currently working on, its up by 5 %. In my head I am dancing like an oompa loompa. I show off

around a bit until I get bogged down with more work (serves me right for showing off).

Honestly though I don’t mind it, I love my job. My company treats me like family and however nerdy it may sound I love being here.

For a couple more hours I do some link building, posting on blogs (praying and hoping that all the generous bloggers out there don’t moderate my post) I try and make my posts interesting and helpful. I write a few blogs for my projects, get them approved for publishing.

The rumbling in my stomach tells me that it’s time for lunch and so I peel myself off from my screen and grab a sandwich or whatever my colleagues have got for me today. After lunch I meet with the designer and discuss about the content for website of another client. Then comes my favorite part blogging and social media networking. Here I research on related interesting content for our clients social networking pages. Every like or share of my content gets my pulse racing.

New strategies are made, goals are realized and knuckles are cracked. Reports are generated in the background while designs and content are tweaked in the foreground. Its 7 pm and the end of the day draws near; project tasks are updated and notes are shorthanded in the continuous life cycle of an SEO-That’s me!

Source: Online -- Goa

A day in a life of a Programmer

Ever have one of those days where your eyes are sore and body is completely exhausted. But just then an idea hits and your mind is racing.” Should I turn on the laptop? Or Should I just wait till the next morning?”. In a programmers life it doesn't matter if it’s the day or the night.

Tonight its just one of those moments where I wished I could do an all nighter without winding up in a hospital. My mind is running at 1 GBPS speed while my body is saying Byte me. The blinking light from the laptop puts me in a siren like trance, slowly calling me towards it. I muster enough will power to shut it down. Then the Smartphone next to me beeps with the latest updates from code developers. Some poor soul in trouble with a code in some part of the world.

With thoughts like this sleep is the last thing I am going to do. I am pretty sure this is going to render me completely useless at work tomorrow. Nothing few cartons of Red bull can’t help. By now I am pretty sure my body is 50 % redbull and the rest water and other mushy stuff.

I start counting sheep, drink some milk, repeat it in the hopes that soon dear sandman would stop by.. But its pointless so since I tried everything I could, I give in. I open up my laptop and start working on that widget while sorting a few bugs out.

I don’t know what time I slept but I made it. And the next day woke up groggily to begin a new day at the office with the love of my life. I  am not kidding when I say I love coding. But that being said, I know I need to prioritize the essentials need in life, mainly sleep. I say to myself that today I am going to set a schedule for myself.  Set time for gym, reading, movies and other things I would like myself to be doing. One thing that consoles me and I know for sure is that.

I AM NOT ALONE!

Source: Online -- Goa