Testing Ask Me Anything - Careers with Srinivas Murthy
10th January 2023
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Srinivas Murthy
Principal Quality Analyst
Description
Srinivas Murthy works as a Principal Consultant for more than 14 years across various industries, domains, cultures and regions. Through these various roles, Srinivas has a strong influence on where the QA community can be taken to within the organisation at a global level and is hoping to share some of this knowledge with people outside the organisation and hopefully help people make an impact.
In this session, hosted by Gwen Diagram, Srinivas answers questions about Testing Careers, from our attendees.
Srinivas Murthy
Principal Quality Analyst
I am working as a Principal consultant at Thoughtworks from the past 14 years prior to which I was at Capgemini and Siemens
Apart from helping my clients deliver high quality software, I have also built the QA function within their organisations including recruiting and career progression. I represented GDS to co-create the DDAT QA job family which is now part of UK government departments
Within Thoughtworks, I run the QA community in UK and also a Global Community Lead for Thoughtworks QA community worldwide.
As part of these roles,
I lead conversations on revising and rebuilding the QA job profiles and the recruitment process globally.
I also lead the career progression at Thoughtworks globally having recently revised the archetypes and competencies for career pathways.
I spend time mentoring QAs at Thoughtworks
Over the years I have been a trainer multiple times for Thoughtworks University training over 200 graduates, along with revamping the course material
Recently I have also co-created an onboarding guide for new joiners to help them assimilate in Thoughtworks
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