Looking to Recruit a Tester

You have a vacancy or you may just want to breathe new energy into your test function. The logical option appears to be a new Software Test Engineer and you would like them sooner rather than later.

The employment of a UK Test Engineer is going to cost an organization between £250 and £300 per day, ignoring the cost of recruitment. Why do this when you can have a four man offshore team for the same price?

Think of the difference that you can make with a four man team, in comparison to the one UK resource that you are currently seeking. Stop your own team members from having to do the mundane tasks. How many times do you see the look of pain appear on someone's face at the prospect of having to perform more scripting? Umpteen permutations of the same thing – yawn!!!! Relieve the boredom and place the work offshore. Then start thinking about what the rest of your team can do, now that so much repetitive work is out of the way.

This paves the way for your current team to:

- Increase the innovation and use the time to find ways to improve the department's capability.
- Find time to work on the processes that always take second place to the projects.
- Increase the throughput of work and stop being seen as a bottleneck to progress.
- Apply more resource to existing projects and increase the coverage of testing.
- Increased staff satisfaction resulting in greater resource and knowledge retention.

Ultimately you have already invested in your existing team and they will relish the opportunity to move away from the tedium and onto more interesting and stimulating work. This will increase the job satisfaction and naturally improve team morale.

If this can all be achieved at the price of one permanent resource, can you really afford not to try it?

TCL India will provide a four man team, comprising a lead and three test engineers for £300 per day. You will have a single point of contact offshore and TCL India’s UK Management will ensure that the function works for you, lending our wealth of experience in offshore working. This can be put in place very quickly and you can start realizing the benefits of having four people instead of one.

E-mail : Grant.Obermaier@TransitionConsulting.co.uk

or Mick.Morey@TransitionConsulting.co.uk

If you have come across this as a result of looking for work, we will shortly be recruiting in India and currently looking in the UK. Please feel free to e-mail your CV.