1) Most of the people here will ask you "what tools you know?" if you say you are a tester and not given a product how will you test something. 2) Most of the people here are confused with the testing terminology. Regression testing which basically is a selective re-testing is misunderstood as executing all the cases. 3) Many of the people I know put fake experience and enter MNC's thereby decreasing the quality of the product. 4) There are more Testing Institutes than S/w companies in India which teaches Testing tools and claim as testing course. 5) Some companies make the developers to do system testing apart from unit testing for lack of funds to hire a Testing guy. 6) Even MNC's are not clear about the position they offer .. Some companies are confused between QA and Testing. 7) A QA engineer does testing in the current company and sometimes Testing people are asked to look at the process which is a QA role. 8) If you join some indian students yahoo groups most of them would have a query from 10% of the people of the group asking whether to join a testing course and the money they will get back. 9) Testing is more of an attitude game and not a profession either. 10) Every company should spend a day or two testing the products for those scenarios which dont appear in the test plan/cases before User Acceptance testing. 11) Rarely you can find a good quality tester in India because every tester wants to go to development feeling there is more money there and more travel opportunity. 12)I have seen many people skip cases. What is the use of writing a case when people testing it skip. 13) I have also noticed people writing duplicated test case. 14) Test data is another important aspect in testing which most of the companies constrain themselves if it costs a few $. 15) When the devoid testers become leads/mananger their management prinicples contribute to the degradation of the quality. 16) Testers here are rarely allowed to undergo the training what the developer undergoes which is not a good sign for the quality of the product. 17) Freshers are hired and directly given test cases and are asked to execute.No company nor these freshers worry that they should understand the domain/technology before they get hands on something. 18) I am a tester by virtue and not by profession.Every other team member wants to jump to development or something else soon. 19) All interviews in india today for testing has one question in common "why do you like testing and will you be in testing for a long time ?" Gosh ! look at the poor state of my virtue.