How valuable is Certification for QTP Testers?

HP has renamed the QuickTest Professional (QTP) as the Unified Functional Testing (UFT) software. UFT is used widely by organizations across the world for enterprise quality assurance. It also comes with a graphical user interface (GUI) that makes it easier for users to automate the regression and functional tests for both software applications and environments. So a testing professional can learn QTP to enhance his employment and career prospects. A software testing professional can even reap a number of benefits by obtaining HP-QTP certification.

HP conducts the certification exam called HP0-M4 in collaboration with Pearson VUE. The certification exam consists of 72 questions. The professional has to answer the questions within 105 minutes, and obtain a passing percentage of 75%. The certification exam is intended for all professionals who implement test automation by creating and running test, and analyzing the test results. So each tester has to invest both time and efforts to obtain the HP--QTP certification. However, the certification will definitely enhance his professional competence and career prospects.

Benefits of HP-QTP Certification for Individual Testers

Recognition of Professional Competence: The QTP certification is directly conducted by HP in collaboration with Pearson VUE. By awarding the certification, HP formally recognizes the individual’s proficiency in Unified Functional Testing software. Thus, the certification represents the professional’s in-depth knowledge, skills and professional competence. Many professionals try to clear the HP0-M4 exam to impress prospective employers by through enhanced professional competence.

Earn Respect: As a hugely popular test automation suite, HP QTP is used widely by many organizations and testers. So there are a large number of software testing professionals who are familiar with QTP. But the number of HP-QTP certified professionals is too small. So the professional certification earns respect and prestige for the certified QA engineers. The certification also provides competitive advantage to the certification-holders in the same field.

Better Employment Prospects: A constant increase is being noted in the number of organizations automating their software testing efforts. So the demand for HP UFT software increases is on the rise. But each company wants to hire testing professionals who hold HP-QTP certification. Many companies even prefer hiring HP-QTP certified testers during employee recruitment. There are also some large and reputable companies that have made HP-QTP certification a pre-requirement for employment.

Helpful during Appraisal: Like beginners, the experienced software testing professionals can also avail competitive advantage by obtaining HP-QTP certification. The prestigious certification, along with their professional experience and expertise, will help them in getting higher rating during performance appraisal. The certification will make it easier for them to get promotion and higher remuneration. They can even use the certification to effectively switch to large and reputable organizations.

Special Benefit for Consultants: The HP-QTP certification can also be valuable for freelance professionals and consultants. As these professionals have to impress clients to get the project, the certification will provide competitive advantage. The QTP certification is granted directly by HP who has also developed the UFT software. So the QTP certification makes it easier for freelance professional and consultants to establish a benchmark. For instance, when a consultancy firm deploys only QTP-certified testers, it will be easier for prove its professional competence and impress clients.

HP further allows software testing professionals to obtain two distinct certifications, i.e., Functional Testing 11.x and Advance Scripting using QuickTest Professional 11. Like individual software QA engineers, the HP-QTP certification is also valuable for organizations. The certified professional will help the organization in hiring the right QA engineers, and train the existing employees. Further, he will help the employer in optimize automation testing processes by establishing a professional standard. Therefore, most organizations, nowadays, prefer hiring testers with HP-QTP certification. To get maximum benefits of testing, you may consider hiring services of a custom QTP testing company.

We provide QTP automation services. If you would like to get your application tested by our certified software testing experts, please contact us at Mindfire Solutions.

QTP Testing – Where should you go when you need this urgently ?

First of all let us analyze what would happen if your software application is not regression tested when you fixed a minor change… Things can be smooth and run in your live production server and things can go wrong…Disastrously wrong because of one wrong fix at the wrong place which can mean total outage of your system from the live interconnected web world. But the costs of regression testing manually do not seem to justify itself. Hence it’s a catch 22 problem – You want to take up insurance but you don’t want to actually fall sick. So in this case, you would want to still do all the detailed regression testing for your application but you would like to reduce the costs to a minimum. The answer is QTP (Quick test pro). Quick test pro automated testing provides you with that flexibility of reduced costs and agility in your application. QTP has its own ‘record and play’ mechanism which runs your quick and minor development and run it every day without taking much time to assure you that everything are fine in your application and it will run without any error in your live server. If you have such situation in your day to day development work or your application break every alternative day when you fix few minor bugs then you would test once the Quick Test Pro (QTP) tool once and you can feel lots of difference in you development and testing cycle.

When we say about QTP, one of the most powerful automated regression testing tools in the market, we should be take the licenses cost in to the account. Although the cost of testing in terms of time, man power effort is low as compare to the manual testing but the license cost is bit high because of its sophisticated and high reliable features. If you want to try this QTP testing and don’t want to purchase high cost QTP license then you can get it in share basics. The best offshore location to have this type of automated regression testing of your application is QTP Testing India Mindfire team.

To address this concern Mindfire Solutions a leading offshore QTP Testing India hub, offers automated regression testing service on QTP Automation Testing in a very innovative way, In case you don’t have a QTP License in hand or your budget does not allow you to buy QTP license, we do have a special offer for you.

• You can use our license for your application to tested.
• Mindfire has QTP experts who will generate the QTP test scripts for your application every day or in the required interval of time and daily testing reports will be sent to you regularly, on your demand.
• For your future use, we can send you the test scripts. If you purchase QTP license at any future date, you can use those in future.
  
  

To know more about our expertise in QTP Testers India or to know more about our Offshore Software Testing or outsource a Software testing company, please contact us at sales[at]mindfiresolutions[dot]com or call 1-248-686-1424. We will be glad to help you.