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Starter pack on Penetration/Security Testing for newbies
As an experienced Tester, recently I have been endeavouring to grow my Penetration & Security Testing skills. As with any new skill-set the journey can get overwhelming very quickly , because of the vast number of concepts, new terminologies, lack of dedicated mentorship and research sources . Based on my learning and explorations over the… Continue reading
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Testing is “easy”
Testing is easy, you just have to ….. 1. Elicit user needs from missing or no requirements (usually in a single Tester Team) 2. Be great at analytical thinking and detecting your own biases 3. Analyze and understand end to end architectural risks 4. Analyze and understand end to end business process 5. Be resilient in… Continue reading
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Organisational QA/Testing smells
On the lines of “Code smells” , QA/Testing related smells in my experience, fall into these 4 broad categories (of root cause(s)) Apathy – Disregard for Testing as a function/craft Hubris – Talent or position driven blindspots that lead towards flawed decision making Ignorance – No one has shown them how to do better or… Continue reading
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Quick starter – Web automation using Playwright
Playwright is a (relatively) new kid on the block, joining several others kids already on the block, that are the JavaScript based automation frameworks. I learnt about it from a mention on Twitter and thought to give it a whirl. This post is purely meant to be a sketchy guide on getting started with it… Continue reading
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Lessons learnt from a POC to automate Salesforce Lightning UI
My recent client work has been on testing a migration(data & business processes) to Salesforce CRM platform. As part of Test execution, I took the initiative to build a POC to exercise automation of Salesforce both by interacting with the Lightning UI and the APEX Salesforce API interface. This post is to share the hurdles… Continue reading
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A genteel peek into GitLab CI/CD
My CI engine of choice & experience as a Tester has been Jenkins. One of the strategic projects in the pipeline at my current client is to adopt GitLab as a solution for SCM,Continuous Testing and potentially Continuous Deployment . And that project involves porting a Test Framework ( that I was fortunate to lead… Continue reading
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Pen Testing reconnaissance 101 : Using NMap,Tor and ProxyChains
Learning objective : How can you perform reconnaissance on a remote target to check which ports are unsecured for possible exposure to network attacks? Step 1: Create or choose an off the shelf Network Port scanner. Based on my research and talking to more experienced peers in this space, I choose Nmap ( https://nmap.org/) ,… Continue reading
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Reflection :: The toll of Leadership and an year of being self employed
I have been very fortunate to be in leadership roles for 8 years now, ranging from Team Leadership, mentoring, to leading a practice (business line) of extremely competent Testers. It has been in the top 3 fulfilling experiences of my professional & persona l life. Seeing individuals succeed with (some of) your assistance, advise and… Continue reading
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Python 3.x – Using sets to parse log data
Testing problem: As a output of a data transformation program, I had a large excel sheet ( 100 ~ 200 MB) of error logs to sieve through manually to look for error codes. These error codes were supposed to be compared against an expected set of error codes, to ensure that the program was capturing… Continue reading
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Heuristics for debugging integration problems
Outstanding Testers (that I have had the chance to work with/coach) did not just “report that there was a fire” , they were skilled at investigating and communicating – How long the fire has been burning ? What is the scale of impact ? Which areas are affected vs not ? What is the nature… Continue reading
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About Me
I’m Sunjeet Khokhar
An experienced People Leader,Practice Lead and Test Manager .
I am driven by the success of people around me, am a keen student of organisational behaviour and firmly believe that we can be better craftspeople by being better humans first.
the reluctant tester 