Author: James Pulley (www.powertest.com)
Text pulled out from LoadRunner google groups.

Geography is not destiny. Were that so I would likely be sitting on a farm
tractor bringing in a crop of cotton or tobacco. There are incredibly
competent LoadRunner/Performance testing professionals located all over the
world, India included. What draws the ire of many in the profession,
where I am just one individual willing to call it out, is that there are
many people working in the profession who lack the primary skills to be
successful. Yes, we can answer a question of how to lay a brick, so to
speak, but we really should be working with architects who have already
mastered these primary skills for construction. Such dramatically poor
skill bases damages the reputation of the firms providing the deficient
resources. The lack of success in performance testing efforts damages the
reputation of the industry. The lack of success with a given vendors’ tool
damages the reputation of the tool vendor. The low skill base contributes
dramatically increases the risk of deploying a new application into what
should be a very risk-averse discipline.

I should note that those individuals in India who are very skilled in the
performance discipline command rates which are equal to or higher than what
that same person would receive for superlative services anywhere in the
world. The market for solid performance testing skills is fairly uniform
no matter where you acquire those skills. So….for the price leaders
that do not train, do not mentor, toss your employees to the proverbial
performance test wolves and attack the very value foundation of the
profession to seek to draw revenue from, if you would just hire a little
more carefully, invest in proper education and mentoring, adhere to all of
the tenets of the software licenses for the software that you use (even if
you don’t like some of the restrictions) then you too could bill at a much
higher rate than what you currently command and you would have industry
professionals clamoring to be a part of your organization where they could
learn and expand their skills. Recruitment costs down, Bill Rates Up,
Margins Up, Customers better served, Total amounts paid by customer
engagement hold steady or decline due to improved efficiencies, Employees
higher up on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, Vendors tool not tarnished by poor
implementation skills. Seems like a Win (employee), Win (organization),
Win (customer), Win (vendor), Win (industry) to me.