1 year - a journey worth writing about…(this blog was written by me and officially posted in Cognizant blogs)..
What to tell, what not tell is the question that has been
bugging me since the day I sat down to write this blog. Should I talk about my
appreciations or my escalations, my triumphs or my trials…? Well at last after
tearing a few hairs, I decided to let go of such Shakespearean dilemma and just
focus on telling the truth.
Many of my academy friends compare their first day at
project with their first day at school, a feeling I could never relate to,
mostly because I don’t remember my first day at school anymore. The last
canteen lunch together with our friends, the promise to keep forever in touch
(the BFS people didn’t even know that they won’t have access to their phones!!)
everything reminded me of the last day of our college. We lamented that how
these are our last friends in the corporate world, rest all will be our
colleagues. God, I was wrong…
With both excitement and apprehension I stepped into the 9th
floor of Technopolis, the ever smiling face of our project manager greeted me
and then he introduced me to our track lead. Initially people were curious
about what was meant by TDC and who we were, but their curiosity was limited
and was easily satisfied by explaining to them about the new model that
Cognizant was trying. KT and hands-on started soon but just as I was getting
more accustomed to the workflow almost the entire track was disbanded… yeah I
know, it almost felt like scoring a duck on your international debut. Well for
better or for worse I was moved to a different track and have been more or less
been a consistent member of the team ever since.
I started testing the QE&A waters with executing test
cases. Then as I grew more experienced I slowly moved to test design phase. In
each of these I was constantly supported by a team who never grew tired of my
questions and was always there to help me out. Since I came from a non-IT background,
people encouraged and have been actively helping me to learn programming so
that I can move to the current hot sector in QE&A services – automation. Everything
was not rosy as it sounds, there were escalations, there were parts where I
messed up, there is no E-learning on how to handle client calls so when I told
something that was not needed, my team was there right beside me to point it
out, so that it does not happen the second time. In short I was given
challenges but not abandoned in front of them; if I stumbled I always had
someone to help me get back on foot.
Appreciations and escalations are a part and parcel of
corporate life. I am fortunate enough to be a part of a team that appreciates
me beyond my appreciations and escalations.
I am fortunate enough to be a part of a team that ensures talent gets
noticed and nurtured. I am fortunate to work among friends. I am not much
fluent in noticing the changing IT winds; but whatever may come, with this
team, I am sure we can overcome.
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