The ongoing annual celebrations start off with a bang. Team QA InfoTech had a great Lohri celebration warming up to the bonfire, dancing to the tunes of the dhol and enjoying local hot snacks, amidst the strong winter waves in North India.

QA InfoTech is pleased to announce its partnership with ValidateMe to enhance the recruitment process. This partnership will help QA InfoTech in reducing the number of BGV (Background Verification) requests that it gets for its ex-employees. With this partnership we will be storing details of their current employees, validating documents of past employees and requesting background verification for prospective employees. Moving forward these requests will be addressed through the ValidateMe platform.

Prospective employers can directly go to ValidateMe and request the candidates to share their validated documents. Our ex-employees (and candidates) can keep their employment BGV profiles ready by uploading their previous employment records and getting them validated from their ex-employers. This would help all the prospective employers to do BGV in a quick, secure and cost effective manner.

Why ValidateMe?

One of the reasons why QA InfoTech chose to partner with ValidateMe is that they make the BGV process quick and secure by using blockchain technology. With blockchain technology, ValidateMe ensures that the documents uploaded on the platform, for BGV, will be accessible only to their respective owners and users (employer or employee) authorized by them. Even prospective employers will need authorization from the candidates to view their documents.

The ValidateMe platform dilutes the biggest drawback of using the likes of Google Drive, Dropbox and One Drive where all the documents on these platforms are accessible to the platform owners, who otherwise can misuse them. It addresses this challenge by storing the documents in a decentralized repository of distributed ledgers secured by blockchain which allows access only through an encrypted key.

With blockchain usage, ValidateMe keeps the documents immutable. The ex-employers can validate the documents and once validated, they cannot be altered even by the candidates. The prospective employers can then view the validated documents instantly without involving any third party. The conventional BGV methods which incurred high transactional costs and longer turnaround time will not be required as soon as more and more organizations come forward and adopt the product.

About ValidateMe

ValidateMe acts as a common platform for educational institutes, universities and organizations to share and store validated data secured by blockchain technology. The documents are stored in a decentralized repository of distributed ledgers secured by blockchain which allows access only through an encrypted key. Leveraging ValidateMe will cut down the average per candidate cost by almost 75%, organizations can enjoy maximum scalability with quicker delivery and 100% security with blockchain technology. For more information visit ValidateMe.

As with any other year, this year’s annual event was no short of color and grandeur. Grand performances, creative and fun stalls, exotic food, cheerful QAITians made Cornucopia 2019 yet another event to add to our memory lane.

We were invited to do a keynote, amongst other eminent industry leaders, and the talk by our Vice President, Rajini Padmanaban, on “Nurturing a Positive Mindset as a Tester”, was adjudged by the audience as the best keynote for the year. Also, our technical speaker Vikas Pethiya, who spoke on “Aero Attacks using Drones”, in the world of security engineering bagged the second runner up, across all the track sessions

QA InfoTech had a great representation at the annual QAI STC conference in Bangalore. Our keynote on “Nurturing a Positive Mindset as a Software Tester” was received well by the audience. Amongst a plethora of technical sessions, this was a much needed soft session that was an eye opener on the need for positivity in the quality fraternity.

Our track speaker Vikas Pethiya was adjudged the second runner up in the best of the best awards for his presentation on “Aero Attacks – simulating a drone based security attack on WIFI ranges”. Congrats Vikas! Way to go! The jury comments for him read – “This paper presents a comprehensive security solution and demonstrates the problem and the possible solution with the use of a drone. The importance of security testing has been clearly demonstrated. Thorough work by Vikas and well done!”

We are very excited to share that a number of our test experts have been chosen to present and be a part of the leading quality conference to be held in Bengaluru in Dec 2019. Our presentations will range a diverse set of topics across security, accessibility, localization engineering.

Festive season is a very exciting time at QA InfoTech. Independence day, Teacher’s day, annual Corporate talent event, or for that matter even birthdays of our employees continue to be celebrated with a lot of enthusiasm and participation.

Our annual technical fest Qualloquium 2019, was conducted this last week, with much zeal as with every other year. Speakers enlightened the audience on a range of testing and technology topics including security, accessibility, automation, performance and analytics powered engineering. It was a tight competition amongst the speakers in a packed hall for over three hours and the topics on Aero Attack by Vikas Pethiya and Speech Recognition for Accessibility Engineering by Ankush Garg and Ratnesh Singh, that emerged as winners for this year, with their talks and demos on where the industry is headed in these areas. Recordings from the entire event are available here.

QA InfoTech is excited to be participating in Pro Corporate League (PCL) since 2010. This year we are both participating and one of their primary sponsors. Read more »

The month of May is always special for us as we celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), the third Thursday. This year was no exception with the entire Accessibility team coming together to set up kiosks, panel discussions etc. Read more »