Reply to: Rate card fun….

[DiscoStu]

This will depend upon the sector. For what I do, those rates are on the high side. I wish I could expect to get 400 a day as a senior engineer.

tim

They're not the rates he'd be paying contractors, they're the rates he'd be paying a consultancy for their permies.

[tim123]

Are you having a giraffe?

Multiply those by 3 if it's Jim Smith Consulting Ltd., .

This will depend upon the sector. For what I do, those rates are on the high side. I wish I could expect to get 400 a day as a senior engineer.

tim

[milanbenes]

Hi Roots,

yes keeping on top the new fangled .Net is priority number 1 but I've dragged into supporting the LoadRunner peops with their stuff from the .Net side which got me thinkin about a plan c

Winston, you are not far out there

Milan.

[Churchill]

I thought you now had a rock solid lucrative Plan B in place ?

He had to dig it out for his swimming pool.

[rootsnall]

let's say plan c then

You've just given it all away ! I have carefully deleted the details from this post.

Surely all your efforts should be going into keeping on top of your new fangled exploits !?

[Clippy]

How come they're trusting someone so ditheringly inept to negotiate these things?

Because the previous guy who did this has now retired.

[Chantho]

Got a consultancy in tomorrow, aim is to thrash out a rate card for testing resource.

I am assuming short work has a higher rate, and longer term will have a lower rate.

Any heads up on the type of rates I should be looking for.

Levels I am thinking of…..

Test Analyst
Senior Test Analyst
Test Manager
Automation Tester (QTP / WR)
Performance Tester (LoadRunner)

About £300 / day, or 10 rupees, whichever is less. HTH

[milanbenes]

roots,

let's say plan c then
Milan.

[DiscoStu]

I thought you now had a rock solid lucrative Plan B in place ?

Even more lucrative now potato prices are rising.

[Dow Jones]

Why not?

I was thinking....
is there a possibility to buy my own Mercury Loadrunner and go into companies connect it to their systems and do load testing for them ?

Do the analysis, document the business processes, record them into Loadrunner, install all the probes for diagnostics and voila

plan b ?

Milan.

Most clients don't have in-house performance testing, they use big name consultancies. We paid recently £ 4k to one for a 2-day job. Not sure if you can do 'penetration' testing due to security isues, but you should be OK for a client/server app testing.

[rootsnall]

plan b ?

Milan.

I thought you now had a rock solid lucrative Plan B in place ?

[milanbenes]

I was thinking....
is there a possibility to buy my own Mercury Loadrunner and go into companies connect it to their systems and do load testing for them ?

Do the analysis, document the business processes, record them into Loadrunner, install all the probes for diagnostics and voila

plan b ?

Milan.

[The Master]

Consultancy - not individuals. In my experience consultancy rates (where they use permies) tend to be a little keener - maybe just the quirks of where I have contracted though.

In that case your experience is highly unusual I would suggest. Consultancies are nearly always more expensive than individual contractors.

[DimPrawn]

Don't mean to sound harsh Wilmslooooooooooooow, but I wouldn't put you in charge of a shopping trolley, let alone hiring a consultancy for an IT project.

HTH

[Wilmslow]

You mentioned a consultancy that is coming. Are these consultancy rates or individual contractor ones? They sound OK for the latter, but will you get someone from a consultancy on those? Doubt it

Consultancy - not individuals. In my experience consultancy rates (where they use permies) tend to be a little keener - maybe just the quirks of where I have contracted though.