Orientation for beginners to IT
Orientation to JPACT 14
- What JPACT is?
- Take this beyond pure learning.
- Hands-on as an individual and with the team.
- Mob programming.
- Project atmosphere
- Job Placement and Certified Training
- Building your portfolio of skills.
- Training needs
- Core IT skills
- Coding
- QA
- Automation/SDET
- Project Activities
- Broken down into teams of 5-6 each.
- Categories of team division :
- Coders (java/python)
- Manual QA (doc, excel, anyaut, jira)
- Automation QA (selenium, frameworks)
- SDET (CI/CD and DevOps over Automation QA)
- Coordinators/Leads
- Documentation, Scrum Master etc.
- Teams are critical to work together and deliver.
- Teams interacting either on skype/slack.
- Team project challenge on tasks and assignments
- Every member will be at least part of 6 to 10 such project groups over the period of 3-4 months.
- JPACT as an end-to-end program ...6 weeks … 2xJPACT … repeating the program twice gives you immense confidence, skill, portfolio.
- Be prepared to have a full book of learning
- JPACT 13 is skipped.
- Team will work and connect daily as an agile practice.
- Team members from JPACT … @varkasa.com email addresses (for the ones working on JPACT actively) and get socially involved in LinkedIn.
- JPACT Daily call from 5 to 6p PT…M-F
- 60 minutes, 30 minutes of Mock Interviews/Coding Challenges
- Ideal for members who went through trainings recently.
- Great for new members to observe.
- Send the list of Questions a day before … so u can prepare your answers and code to show.
- Team project presentations … every team can show their progress.
- Get their challenges addressed.
- Certifications
- Training certificates … participate in a program.
- AACT / AACD
- Client Project Certifications - Intern … reference check available from both Varkasa and the client.
- JPACT 12 and earlier batches, get ready for certifications in the coming week. Online exam, project on various tech.
- Time and effort you can spend on the program.
- Intense program, requires a lot of participation.
- JPACT vs ITeLearn.
- All JPACT members must go through the ITeLearn trainings.
- Additionally JPACT members work on projects and certifications.
- JPACT 14 activities
- JPACT 12 and earlier batch members to repeat again.
Schedule :
- Daily JPACT 5-6p PT …
- LIVE Trainings … different times …
- LIVE as a team on Slack or Skype.
Questions :
- How for working members or with limited time?
- Training (choose specific ones)
- JPACT (be an observer or listener)
- No real projects on Python yet.
- AnyAUT is built on Java.
- We plan to create a version on Python too.
- Py members will work on the new AAXL on Py.
- For Selenium based projects,will Core Java training be provided in this JPACT program?
- Absolutely yes.
- JPACT batch repeats every 2-3 months.
- You can repeat any number of times during your access period.
- JPACT 14 session only 1 hour a day from 5-6 …. No training… interviews, project, client work.
- Trainings will be at different timings. Each one will have another webinar link.
- how would u help someone who never been in IT industry
- Repeat the JPACT and LIVE Trainings twice.
- 1st time, take notes, listen and observe. Finish like a NFlix, of videos or LIVE.
- Be an observer and small contributor to the JPACT activities.
- Come back to the next batch, go all in with hands-on.
- Go a little easier and know that at least 40% are in a similar situation.
- Placements post training
- Opportunities through Varkasa … build and promote your CV …
- WFH or remote … or may require locally.
- JPACT 11 and 12 batches should start immediately.
- Resume Check
- Reference Check
- Skill/Interview Prep Check
- CTH or FTE …
- Challenge is the current situation:
- When will it get back to normal.
- What happens after it comes to normal.
- What if there are too many profiles and too few jobs?
- Why you compared to someone else?
- GET BEST on SDET … Certifications and worked on latest technologies.
- Show case an ongoing project that you have been working through the lock down.
- Jobs may start remote and then onsite.
- Every experienced resource needs to resharpen and retrain before getting back into the market.
- All JPACT Members can send across their CV’s for our review anytime. 1-1 mock interviews.
JPACT 14 trainings :
- Core Java and Python
- Manual QA and AnyAUT Tester - 1-2 weeks
- Automation Frameworks
- SDET - CI/CD Jenkins, Git,GitHub
- DevOps - Docker, Kubernentes.
- API Programming, PostMan, Code Level, Build API test data.
Other Trainings :
- Mobile App Testing.
- Performance and Security Testing
- Data Sciences applicability into our QA and Automation World
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