Quality assurance is an integral part of software development and requires good quality professionals with a keen eye are needed to trace out stubborn bugs. While trends like Agile, DevOps, QAOps and scriptless automation tools are focusing on reducing the time to market, Big Data testing and IOT testing continue to pose challenges to testers and in turn test them for their caliber. On top of this, artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies are ushering in new era in testing as they help in speeding up the testing processes.