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 Keyword Driven Testing

First of all – Why is QTP Testing needed? And then Why is QTP Keyword driven testing important at all? The main advantage of KDT (Keyword driven testing) is its low cost for maintenance. If there is a change to the test case, only the test case file needs to be changed and the startup and driver scripts don’t even need to change. Result – Quicker turnaround and less cost. To know what all components and files are present in QTP testing – let us take a look at it in more detail.

The basic components of QTP Keyword driven testing framework are the control file, the test cases file, the startup script, the driver script and the utility script. The control file is the key of the Keyword driven testing approach and contains the list of all the test cases which need to be executed. Test cases file contains the detailed steps in which order a test case needs to be executed. The startup script executes the first step and initiates the sequence. Driver scripts read checks for the presence of keywords and calls the specific utility scripts for specific functions.

Software QA Testing is an essential part of software development life cycle since it lets you measure your software quality. Without testing, there is no way to verify that whether your software works correctly or not. It has been long 12 years for Mindfire’s Software QA and Testing team to serve global customers as a trusted offshore partner for QA and testing services. One of key strength of our Software testing team is QTP Automation Testing and Descriptive programing in QTP. Having 6 years of experience in QTP and Descriptive programming in QTP, all our QA engineers are QTP certified. Our QTP team is well capable on both manual as well as automation testing. In the automation part our team is efficient in ‘record and play’ and QTP Keyword Driven Testing.

Keyword driven testing is a software testing technique that separates much of the programming work of test automation from the actual test design. Mindfire Solutions test automation and QTP testing team is very skillful in this technique to server our client to develop earlier and makes the tests easier to maintain. When a software application or a product coming to the QTP testing team, our QTP testing professional thoroughly analysis the flow of the application/ product with all relevant document and prepare testcase to execute. Our testing and QA lead is always in touch with the client to update the status of the project beside the daily work report and maintaining bug lifecycle.

Mindfire Solutions is a leading offshore company in QTP Keyword Driven Testing services. Mindfire’s QTP testing India vertical has rich experience in Descriptive programming and creation of testcase and test plan designing. We have severed many clients globally in different vertical and technology. We leverage our QTP testing expertise in different domains such as Content Management System (CMS), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), HealthCare industry, E-Commerce, Mobile applications etc.