Pradeep Soundararajan

I am excited to announce my first hire of someone from Journalism background into App Testing. She is joining us tomorrow. Her job is to find stories that are worth influencing. Trying out something new in the software testing space. This is awesome fun.

She is a mother of a 7 month old - will work from home and do part time as she nurses her child. No one has tapped the power of women at home effectively in this country. I hope I can create a million regular paying jobs.

Update : Check this out : We are creating 3 more jobs for Moms : https://lnkd.in/fCQC23b

I completed 18 years in Testing.

I am done creating success for myself.
The last few years has been all about facilitating others to succeed.
Success is not having everything in life.
Success is knowing what gift we have or can build.
Success is knowing what to give, how to give and whom to give.
Success is knowing the balance sheet of give versus take.

I am not done solving testing problems.
Some problems continue to exist from 2003 when I started.
New tools to solve an old problem is not advancement of the field.
Most people know what needs to be done.
They also know why they are unable to do what needs to be.
Building solutions that work under constraints is true advancement.

I am done working hard.
The only smart work we all know to do is more hard work.
I have screwed myself in the name of hard work.
I don't want my colleagues to become like me.
I want to see them do better than me.
I want their reportees to do better than them.
I want that to become a chain reaction.

I am not done creating leaders.
We have good and skilled engineers in this world.
We are bad at creating leaders out of them.
This is due to the culture in which we grow and work.
One bad feedback on us, we judge the whole world.
Leaders win the tournament and hearts even if they lose a match.

I am done trying to be the smartest.
Trying to be smarter puts us on an overdrive and overthinking.
It makes us the smartest dumbest person in any room.
It takes us to the top of the mountain and pushes us off the cliff.
When we are climbing we feel good. The fall is ooh aah ouch.

I am not done failing.
I won't be.
I don't want to be.
I never will be.

I am an intern in this world.
I am because of everyone.
I am done and undone.