career building and skills development

Career Building and Skills

Development

Bahaa Farouk

Senior Software Developer

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AgendaSession ObjectiveOptimistic ViewIs IT an industry? If so what are phases?Let us Go !

ERP ConsultationQuality and TestingSoftware Engineer GuidelinesOther Career Paths

Short Success StoriesLast Words, Let’s begin

Session Objective

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Who are here today? Who are us?

Since …, 6, 4, 3, … etc years, we were here STUDENTS yes like you .And now we have something to say ….. What??“let us assist you!” that’s all!Hany, Walid, Mohamed, and Bahaa from different generations 2003, 2005, 2006Also we have different paths like: software development, testing, consultation.Not only those …others, more and more!

Session Objective (cont’d)

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Why are we here?

Sharing knowledge altogetherPut headlines and tips for career buildingBriefly exploring different IT jobs calling youClearing some fuzzy points in your mind

what are we expecting from you?

Be interactiveOpen your mind, do brainstorming with us

Optimistic View

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What is optimistic means?Now you have to answer! And I will hear

What are you looking forward to do?

Again same game! But I will hear and discuss you

Do you think it’s possible?Proceed in the same game! GAME OVER

Current and real statistics, view

Optimistic View (cont’d)

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Real Market View, facts!

Who is leading, managing, directing … etc!Vacancies are possible?New companies, and companies wideness!Vacancies are possible?New technologies and new fields … Vacancies are possible Your skills and your effortsYou will get opportunities

Optimistic View (cont’d)

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Real Market View, statistics and graphs Programming: �

Java,.net, PHP, C++, …..

etc25%

Quality & Test� -ing

10%

Web Design�8%

DB Administration�10%

Network �Administra-

tion20%

Tech. & Cus� -tomer Support

10%

Business �Consultation

10%

Pre-Sales�2% Teaching

5%

Is IT an Industry?

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What’s Information technology (IT)?

Study, design, development, implementation and support.Managing computer based information system: software applications and computer hardwareIT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to:Convert , store , protect process , transmit and securely retrieve information.

Is IT an Industry? (cont’d)

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Any industry has phases!Software development life cycle (phases)

Let’s Go!

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Testing and Quality

Software Engineering Others

Let’s Go! (cont’d)

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ERP Consultation

By “Walid M. Saleh”, Oracle E-Business Suite Project ManagerPure 5 years experience in consultation services in Egypt and Gulf.ITS Day Guest, and our dear friendWhat’s ERP?

system that is used to manage and coordinate all the resources, information, and functions of a certain business

How to be a consultant? Quick tips about this career!


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Quality and Testing

By “Mohamed El-Shenway”, Software Test Engineer - ITS

Pure 2 years experience in testing and quality control process.

What’s Software Testing and Quality?A primary purpose for testing is to detect software failures so that defects may be uncovered and corrected

How to be a tester?Quick tips about this career!

Testing and Quality


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Software Engineer GuideLines

By “Hany Mohamed”, Senior Software Developer - ITSMasters in Computer SciencePure 3 years in development activities and other 4 years in teaching and instructingDiscover SDLC!How to be a developer?And quick tips!

Software Engineering

Let’s Go!

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Other IT Careers

By “Bahaa Farouk”,Senior Software Developer and Solution Architect - ITSProject Management ProfessionalPure 5 years experience in software solutions development.Listing several uncovered careers.Quick tips on each

Others

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لالختالف ولكن االختالف للتميز

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.وجود لكلمة ”مستحيل“ فكل شئ ممكن

د/إبراهيم الفقى

المحاضر في علوم التنمية البشرية

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ERP Consultation

Walid M. Saleh

Oracle ERP Project Manager, PMP

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AgendaWhat is ERP ?ERP SystemsERP ArchitectureERP TiersOracle APPS Product FamiliesERP Sample Business ProcessesFunctional or Technical Cons.Skills Required For This CareerHow to be an ERP Consultant !

What is ERP ?!

Stands for “Enterprise Resource Planning”المؤسسات / األعمال موارد تخطيط

ERP is an industry term for integrated, multi-module application software packages that are designed to serve and support multiple business functions

من والمؤسسات للشركات متاكملة حلول يقدم برنامجوادارة المحاسبة مجال فى حلول الحلول هذه ضمن

بشرية وموارد المخزون

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ERP Systems

There are many different ERP systems e.g.OracleSAPGreat plainsPeople SoftBaanJ.D EdwardsAccess

Oracle’s ERP is second only to SAP in sales and its best of breed solution can be found in thousands of companies across the world.

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ERP Architecture Business Layer

Business Processes like: Financial, Inventory, Manufacturing, HRMS

Application LayerForms / JSP pagesReports

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ERP Tiers

User Interface Application LogicApplication data &

Database Logic

Desktop/Client Tier Application Tier Database Tier

Internet

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Oracle APPS Product Families

Customer

Relationship

Management

Supply Chain

Management

Manufacturing

Finance

Projects

Human

Resources

Workflow

Oracle Financials

Customer Relationship Management Suite

Project Management Product Suite

Supply Chain Planning and Management Suite

Manufacturing – Discrete and Process

HRMS Product Family

ERP Business ProcessesThere are many Business Processes e.g.

Procure 2 PayOrder 2 CashPeople 2 Pay “Hire 2 Fire”

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Procure 2 Pay

Cash

management

Payables/

iExpenses

Purchasing/ iProcurement

Accounting

General ledger

Payables/ Expenses/ Payments

Banks

Inventory

Requisitions

Inventory Activity

Accruals

Suppliers

Ledgers

UOMs

Order 2 Cash

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Invoices

General ledgerInventory

Receivables/ Revenue/

Receipts

Inventory transactions

Cash

management

Order managementReceivables

/iReceivables

Purchasing/

iProcurement

Reqs

Inventory activity

Interorg/

Shipments

Banks

Ledger

Items

UOMs

Customers

People 2 Pay

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HRMS

HR Information

General Ledger

Accounting

Payroll

Cash

Management

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Functional or Technical Cons.

Functional ConsultantUnderstands Business ProcessConfigure the system according to business requirements.Conduct Training sessions.Deliver Implementation documentations “AIM”Provide Support

Technical ConsultantUnderstand database / tables structureDevelop & Customize Forms /ReportsBuild interfaces for integration between diff. systemsData Migration via Scripts

Skills Required For This CareerTo be ERP Consultant you need the following skills:

Open minded to understand business Process.Ability to get the business knowledge from the business experts.Ability to interact with business experts& deliver training sessions.Ability to convince people to follow the standard business process.

For Functional Consultant, Ability to identify and understand the gap between business process and. standard application process and how to map it or think in a workaround to beat the gaps.

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Skills Required For This CareerFor Technical Cons.,

ability to understand the database background in a way that makes you able to customize any interface or solution provided by Functional Cons.

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How to be an ERP ConsultantTo be a Functional Consultant, You need to:

Understand the Business processes and application as well to map between them.Understanding the application functions very well to make the best use of it.Having a Technical database background will be a very good added value.

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How to be an ERP ConsultantTo be a Technical Cons.,

You need t0 having a very good experience in:SQLPL/SQLOracle FormsOracle ReportsXML, …etc

Trying always to have the latest technologies and update yourself with the new developing mechanisms.

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Discussion

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قبل ان تنظر للمظلمة .... لتكون

أســــــــــــعد

د/محمد عبدالرحمن العريفي

محاضر بجامعة أم القري بالمملكة السعودية

Testing and Quality

Mohamed Salah El-Shenawy

Test Engineer

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Agenda

SQM ?

The 10 major software quality elements ?

What makes a good test engineer ?

How to be on the track ?

What is SQM ?

Software Quality Management

Manage the quality of S/W development process and product.

Testing and quality.

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SQM

Basic steps in S/W development:

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The need of the business are identified

and recorded

The requirements are covered in

specifications, gradually breaking things

down into more and more technical details

Developers take the lowest level (more

technical specification) and write code to

deliver the functionality detailed in

specificationWe test the software

Requirement

Design

Code

Analysis

Test

Software development world.

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SQM Layers

Software Quality Assurance (SQA).

Software Quality Plan (SQP).

Software Quality Control (SQC).

SQM (Cont’d)

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Why SQM ? Two main goals:

Build quality to S/W from the beginning.

Keep the quality of the s/w during the SLC.

SQM (Cont’d)

Quality tasks, life-cycle periods, and goals.

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The 10 major software quality elements.

Standards.Reviewing.Testing.Defect analysis.Configuration management (CM).Security.Education.Vendor management.Safety.Risk management.

Software quality elements1- Standards

Necessity FeasibilityMeasurability

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Software quality elements (Cont’d)

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2- Reviews

(Formal, Informal, Walkthrough,

Inspection, …..)

Reviews and cost of change

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Reqs Des Code Unit Accept Use

Cost

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SLC testing


3- Testing

Testing in different SWLC

V-Model.

FLOOT.

Mapping SW Life cycle To Test Life cycle

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Testing in V-Model

Development

Levels

Test Levels

Requireme

nts

Analysis

Design

Code Componen

t Testing

Integration

testing

System

testing

Acceptanc

e testing

Acceptanc

e test plan

System

test plan

Componen

t test plan

Integratio

n test plan

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The techniques of FLOOT

Full life cycle object-oriented testing

Causes of Defects/Issues/Bug:

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Mapping SW Life cycle To Test Life cycle

Report Defects

Requirement Analysis Coding Testing Maintenance

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Simple BUG/Issue life cycle


4- Defect analysis

Interpreting metrics : testing progress

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Pass

Not Tested

Failed

What makes a good test engineer ?Communication.Good observer.Testing technique skills.Octopus mind.Leadership.Analytical and judging skill.Know Tools (automation, performance, IMS, …etc )

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How to be on the track ?

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Certificates

ISTQB

CSTE

CSTP

Other ...

Tools

Rational IBM Tools

HP load runner

…..

Software testing career path

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Source : http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com

Discussion

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ReferencesISTQB Foundation, Advanced syllabus.Artech House - Practical Guide to Software Quality Managementhttp://www.edistatesting.comhttp://www.softwaretestinghelp.comThe Object Primer 3rd Edition Douglas Baldwin and Greg W. Scragg Lan Sommerville 2004 Software engineering , 7th editionhttp://www.wikipedia.com/

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http://www.edistatesting.com/

http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/

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TAKE BREAK

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Software Engineer

Guidelines

Hany M. Abd El Mawgood


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Agenda

Who is software engineer?

How to be on the track?

What is expected future Career path?

Who is software engineer?

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Plan

DO

See

Plan > Market , System Analyst, Pre-

sale

DO > Architect, Design , Develop.

See > Quality

Who is software engineer?A person concerned with the software development process Gain titles like: Developer, Programmer, Software Engineer.Involved in coding and design activities.The Role is different from company to other according to company size.Use Tools/Technologies to develop required business needs.

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Technology Makers

Microsoft ( C family , .Net , SQL Server)

Sun (Java SE, JEE, JME)

Apache ( PHP, MySQL)

Google (Android)

More are exist and coming

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Technology Makers (cont’d)

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StabilityC#JavaC/C++Others

Market Use

C#JavaC/C++Others

Powerful

C#JavaC/C++Others

SDLC

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How to be on the track?Is programming only technologies?

No, programming concepts more important than Technologies.

Programming Concepts, like:Data Structure

Most important Algorithms (sorting, search, ..etc)Performance measures and Complexity

Software Engineering Software phasesLife cycleDetailed process iterationsObject Oriented programming

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Problem Solving

Where can I find problems? http://projecteuler.net/

How can I evaluate my self ? http://www.Topcoder.com/

Where can I find professional’s code? http://code.google.com/ ,

http://sourceforge.com/ 71

http://projecteuler.net/

http://www.topcoder.com/

http://code.google.com/

http://sourceforge.com/

http://sourceforge.com/

Career Advantages

High Salaries

Most Required

Change Life Thinking

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.Net Developer

C# basicsADO.NetASP.Net AJAXSQL Server ( DML , DDL )IDE (Visual Studio.Net)Windows FormsIO Streams

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Java Developer

Java Object Oriented, J2SE basics

J2EE

And other technologies like:

Struts

JSF

Hibernate

EJB

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C/C++ Developer

C++ basics

Win32

Com

MFC

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Career path

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Software

developer

Senior Software

Engineer

Programming

Analyst

Software

development

specialist

Senior Software

development

specialist

Software

development

consultant

Manager

System

Analyst

Senior System

Analyst

Sample Career Path:

• Positions and titles

• Through hierarchy

References

Java Tutorial

Java 2: The Complete Reference, Fifth

Edition (Paperback)

Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and

Development

Core Java

Feature Stories About java technology77

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/

http://java.sun.com/features/index.html

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من صاحب الصورة؟

د/علي مصطفى مشرفة

عالم فيزياء

عرف عن الدكتور مشرفة نشأته الدينية الملتزمة

والتي صاحبته في جميع مراحل حياته

ويوجد لمشرفة تمثال بمتحف الشمع بلندن ضمن

أفذاذ العلماء بالعالم

CULTURE AND

HISTORY

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Other IT Careers

Bahaa Farouk


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Agenda

Database AdministratorGraphic/Web DesignerNetwork/System Administrator

Data Base Administrator

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Who is?Person responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance and repair of an organization’s database.Development and design of database strategies, monitoring and improving database performance and capacity.

Where employed?Software houses, IT providersTelecom-operatorsBanking, Petroleum … etc, organizations.

Data Base Administrator

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How to be?Oracle DBAMS SQL-Server DBAIBM DB2

Career Path?Senior DBA SpecialistDB AnalystDBA Team LeaderService Delivery ManagerSupport Team Manager

Graphic/Web Designer

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Who is?Focus on visual communication and presentationCreating presentations of content through the World Wide Web, by way of a Web browsertext, images and forms can be placed on the page using HTML/ XHTML / XML tagsBefore creating and uploading a website, it is important to take the time to plan exactly what is needed in the website.Designing more complex media requires tools such as Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop … etc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML

Graphic/Web Designer

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Where employed?Software houses providing web developmentAdvertising and Marketing CompaniesCan be side hobby to girls

How to be?Talent artistic drawing Graphic Design ToolsWeb Design Tools HTML & JavaScript & XML …etc

Network/System Admin

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Who is?Network Admin: responsible for the maintenance of computer hardware and software that comprises a computer networkSystem Admin: maintaining servers or other computer systems, and planning for and responding to service outages and other problems. List of duties:

Analyzing system logs and identifying potential issues with computer systems.Performing backups.Installing and configuring new hardware and software.

Network/System Admin

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Where employed?Network services providersAny where network exist

How to be?Microsoft MCSEUnix AdminIBM AIX AdminCisco Network Admin CCNA, CCNP

Discussion

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Short Success Stories

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Last Words, Let’s Begin!How many of you willing to be:

Software EngineerERP Business ConsultantQuality Test EngineerDatabase AdminSystem AdministratorWeb/Graphic DesignerTeacher / InstructorSupport

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Last Words, Let’s Begin!Detect your skills and talents!Begin reading, studying, investigating, trying more and more. You have to do.Put your targets in linesList your current capabilities!Refer to trusted person can assist youYou can use this presentation to help youAlso you can use our contacts to be near of you.You will success no way “In sha2 Allah”

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Contact UsBahaa Farouk – [email protected] 3159 128

Hany Mohamed – [email protected] 4808 020

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Mohamed El Shenawy – ITS

[email protected]

010 7243 726

Walid M. Saleh – ITS Guest

[email protected]

011 4011 399

+971 50 9090 197

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