You are the Best Judge of your own Capabilities & Potentials. No one else knows about you more than yourself. Try to Introspect & Discover yourself the Qualities / Potentials / Experience & Confidence you possess, & honestly try to assess the slot where you deserve to be placed as on date; from where upon you can improve to be an Excellent Manager of tomorrow. Here is a practical tool to introspect & know as to where you stand as a tester. This methodology can help you improve your testing abilities & excel in your career in testing. What you need to do is? Step -1: Carefully go through the following twenty-five questions or situations. Step -2: With a cool mind, try to figure out, if any situation or question fits on you as on date. If Yes !!! – Allocate "1" – Mark, otherwise allocate "0" – Mark against that question. Step -3: Continue allocation of marks till the end of questionnaire. Most Important – Please don’t jump to the end of the questionnaire to see the score calculation methodology; which could otherwise impose a bias in your assessment. Now carry on with the self-assessment exercise: Q. 1: Am I able to verify & say that it is possible to accomplish a particular task that appears difficult to many? Q. 2: Am I able to detect problems either in the process or the product faster than many? Q. 3: Am I able to identify & prevent potential problems before they come to the surface? Q. 4: Am I able to look back as to how the problems & bugs ended up in the product? Q. 5: Do I have understanding of general technologies in using & implementing my product? Q. 6: Do I have an attitude to break the things by which I may be able to learn more? Q. 7: Do I have an inquisitive mindset of asking questions especially the right ones, with an objective of learning? Q. 8: Do I optimize scarce resources & focus my attention on where I can find bugs? Q. 9: Do I have a habit of creating my own set good questions about the software and then looking for their answers? Q. 10: Do I tactfully react over the possible cause of the bugs or likely source of the bugs? Q. 11: Do I tend to go deeper into the code of the application prior to testing & restrain any impulse to use ad-hoc techniques and simplistic tools? Q. 12: Do I tend to understand as to how the users will exploit the program's features & the type of errors they are likely to make? Q. 13: Do I have an average intelligence but a high caliber as a tester? Q. 14: Do I tend to capture minute things usually ignored or missed by many? Q. 15: Do I tend to look for major or minor symptoms compared to bugs? Q. 16: Am I socially smart & diplomatic having good inter personnel skills to deal with programmers, especially the senior ones? Q. 17: Do I avoid reaching compromises and consensus in an effort to be socially adept smart? Q. 18: Do I prefer to use files, databases & checklists etc. compared to depending upon my razor sharp memory? Q. 19: Do I believe that I too can make mistakes, hence tend to double-check my findings prior to reporting? Q. 20: Am I organized & report my bugs accompanied by facts & evidence in support? Q. 21: Do I believe that manual testing is error prone & try to devise my own ways to reduce such methods may be by some sort of automation? Q. 22: Do I maintain a good standard of behavior? Meaning thereby total restraint on finger pointing, laughing at something found odd, undermining other persons work. Q. 23: Do I tend to perform test inspections in a way programmers do their code inspection? Q. 24: Do I have an appetite for applicable technology? Q. 25: Do I tend to dig out problems in the code by cooperating with developers aiming to identify further issues? Read the full article & your scorecard at: http://www.softwaretestinggenius.com/articalDetails.php?qry=769