<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14271636</id><updated>2011-04-21T17:57:16.952-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Prasanna Kumar's mini World</title><subtitle type='html'>Welcome to my Professional Home</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://prasanna-kumar.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14271636/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://prasanna-kumar.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Prasanna Kumar</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15726227411519984102</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_tj-TBLjME7M/R33eikltZII/AAAAAAAAADU/ndRfW2WImdE/S220/Pras1.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>4</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14271636.post-112077401590911654</id><published>2005-07-11T14:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-11-14T01:44:23.140-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Who am I?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Not Jackie Chan for sure :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ul  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt;Name :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt; MVVSD Prasanna Kumar &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt;Well Known as:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt; Prasanna &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt;Proud to be : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt;an &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt;Indian &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt;Top Accolades:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt;1. Gold Medal in Diploma &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt;2. University 5th Rank in B.tech. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt;Current Field&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt;: IT - Quality Assurance &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt;Job:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt; Engineer - Quality &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt;Usual Question for me:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt; Why did you join QA when you are so young? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt;My Answer:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt; To face the Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;I will answer the FAQs here itself&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt;What is your full name?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt;Aaah..dont ask me that.....I have to go back to the old Hindu mythology!! Almost all the Hindu Gods are included in my name. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt;What challenge did you face?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt;Proving my decision to start my career in Quality Assurance right proving people's belief that "QA is boring" a myth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Well, is it really a big challenge?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt;Yes! But, that's not all! Understanding the Software Development Life Cycle without prior experience in it &amp;amp; being fresh to the QA team questioned my ability to withstand the resistance from the project teams. I did face problems. But I've reasonably succeeded. I've seen teams who initially resisting QA realizing it's importance as time progressed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14271636-112077401590911654?l=prasanna-kumar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14271636/posts/default/112077401590911654'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14271636/posts/default/112077401590911654'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://prasanna-kumar.blogspot.com/2005/07/who-am-i.html' title='Who am I?'/><author><name>Prasanna Kumar</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15726227411519984102</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_tj-TBLjME7M/R33eikltZII/AAAAAAAAADU/ndRfW2WImdE/S220/Pras1.JPG'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14271636.post-112111102604261494</id><published>2005-07-10T12:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-07-12T04:45:30.906-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My Contributions to QA</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="www.CSQA.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;color:#000000;"&gt;CSQA Site&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) from QAI, USA is one of the highly rated software certifications in the world. There is a lot of dearth of material for this certification which made me to start my own site on CSQA offering free course study material from my own collections through this site. As Philip Crosby said, Quality is Free!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.CSQA.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;www.CSQA.blogspot.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ITsQualityAssurance.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;color:#000000;"&gt;Blog : ITsQualityAssurance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;This is my musings on Quality Assurance. Lots of info on QA is packed out here. Dont miss this it out if you haven't visited this site yet! Check this link:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;           &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ITsQualityAssurance.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;www.ITsQualityAssurance.blogspot.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14271636-112111102604261494?l=prasanna-kumar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14271636/posts/default/112111102604261494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14271636/posts/default/112111102604261494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://prasanna-kumar.blogspot.com/2005/07/my-contributions-to-qa.html' title='My Contributions to QA'/><author><name>Prasanna Kumar</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15726227411519984102</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_tj-TBLjME7M/R33eikltZII/AAAAAAAAADU/ndRfW2WImdE/S220/Pras1.JPG'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14271636.post-112111248196603476</id><published>2005-07-09T12:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-07-11T13:08:01.970-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Social Responsibility</title><content type='html'>My professors &amp; friends, together have started a group called "&lt;a href="http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/AegisIndia/"&gt;AegisIndia&lt;/a&gt;" to help the poor students and we are successful in helping 4 poor students until now for their academica education this year and we started supporting bright children from a well established group of orphanages from Hyderabad. I got a great chance to moderate this group with the help of the other members.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You too can join the group through this link, if you are interested:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/AegisIndia/"&gt;http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/AegisIndia/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This would not have been a grand success without the following &lt;a href="http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/AegisIndia/"&gt;AegisIndia&lt;/a&gt; members:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Professors (mostly from &lt;a href="http://www.klce.ac.in/default.htm"&gt;KLCE, my alma mater&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr. KM Prasad; Prof. Habibulla Khan; Prof. Narasimham.PVRL; Prof. Raghunadhan.N;&lt;br /&gt;Subba Rao.K; Subba Rao.Y; Venkataram.N;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Friends&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anita Kasireddy;Aparna;Gayathri Devi;Jeevan Chand; KartikKiran Kumar; Manikandar; Pavan Kumar GV; Pavan Kumar.M; Raghavendra.Y; Rajesh; Rajeswari.B; Ramakanth; Ramesh.BV; Ranjit Kumar; Roopavani; SamuelWesley; Sanjay Deshpande; Shalini.Kyanam; Sivaram; Srikanth.V; Srinivasa Rao Dasari; Srivalli S; Subrahmanyam.A; Sunil Chowdary.V; Supriya.Nanduri; Vasavi; Vivekanand.Y; Zarine; Phani Vijay. P; Nagaraja Gajjala&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14271636-112111248196603476?l=prasanna-kumar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://prasanna-kumar.blogspot.com/feeds/112111248196603476/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14271636&amp;postID=112111248196603476' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14271636/posts/default/112111248196603476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14271636/posts/default/112111248196603476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://prasanna-kumar.blogspot.com/2005/07/social-responsibility.html' title='Social Responsibility'/><author><name>Prasanna Kumar</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15726227411519984102</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_tj-TBLjME7M/R33eikltZII/AAAAAAAAADU/ndRfW2WImdE/S220/Pras1.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14271636.post-112077439643463259</id><published>2005-07-07T15:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-13T10:32:37.766-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Contact Me</title><content type='html'>&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;       Ameerpet,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;       HYDERABAD&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;       PIN - 500016&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14271636-112077439643463259?l=prasanna-kumar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://prasanna-kumar.blogspot.com/feeds/112077439643463259/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14271636&amp;postID=112077439643463259' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14271636/posts/default/112077439643463259'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14271636/posts/default/112077439643463259'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://prasanna-kumar.blogspot.com/2005/07/contact-me.html' title='Contact Me'/><author><name>Prasanna Kumar</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15726227411519984102</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_tj-TBLjME7M/R33eikltZII/AAAAAAAAADU/ndRfW2WImdE/S220/Pras1.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
