Where should I start from? It seems like only couple of months ago that I got the on boarding mail! The formalities that we went through at Lalit. And the training's! Made such good friends with few people! Then my first project. Probably became the star of my GFT batch as I was the first one to get hardlocked! :D
First day of the project, leaving all my friends behind, I was quite nervous. But slowly it came to me that leaving people behind or people leaving you behind, is one of the most important things to learn from here! And I must say my hopes were quite dashed once I learnt that it was an internal infra project with no on-site component as such! :(
Nonetheless, learned a lot, made friends here too, and again few left; either to pursue higher education, new jobs or projects. I sucked at manual testing, but some luck and my lead pushed us onto automation. This is where I found the path I would follow for probably the rest of my IT career. And I am thankful to her for that. A year down; won an innovation contest creating an automation framework, got promoted, got an invite to join the dev team for showcasing my "dev skills" during the innovation contest. But refused, as I did not want to work on SharePoint.
The next year spend in polishing my manual testing skills and learning new things in automation. But soon figured out that to grow I needed to move on. Got Rolled-off from there and into an automation capability project, which again was an internal infra project! What Luck! Learned a lot about framework development, again made new friends but somewhere I knew I needed a jump. Gave a random interview and to my surprise cleared it with quite some ease. A month later I found myself putting in my exit! So here I am today, 27th of April 2018, receiving my last Accenture "Salary", remembering the first one that I received, on the 6th of September 2015! The excitement, that feeling of independence! I will surely never forget it! These little over 30 months have been full of memories, learnings and fun! And also some friendships for life...well, hopefully!
First day of the project, leaving all my friends behind, I was quite nervous. But slowly it came to me that leaving people behind or people leaving you behind, is one of the most important things to learn from here! And I must say my hopes were quite dashed once I learnt that it was an internal infra project with no on-site component as such! :(
Nonetheless, learned a lot, made friends here too, and again few left; either to pursue higher education, new jobs or projects. I sucked at manual testing, but some luck and my lead pushed us onto automation. This is where I found the path I would follow for probably the rest of my IT career. And I am thankful to her for that. A year down; won an innovation contest creating an automation framework, got promoted, got an invite to join the dev team for showcasing my "dev skills" during the innovation contest. But refused, as I did not want to work on SharePoint.
The next year spend in polishing my manual testing skills and learning new things in automation. But soon figured out that to grow I needed to move on. Got Rolled-off from there and into an automation capability project, which again was an internal infra project! What Luck! Learned a lot about framework development, again made new friends but somewhere I knew I needed a jump. Gave a random interview and to my surprise cleared it with quite some ease. A month later I found myself putting in my exit! So here I am today, 27th of April 2018, receiving my last Accenture "Salary", remembering the first one that I received, on the 6th of September 2015! The excitement, that feeling of independence! I will surely never forget it! These little over 30 months have been full of memories, learnings and fun! And also some friendships for life...well, hopefully!