Knowing something specific in QA (Load/Automation testing) can get you a good job in most of the IT services in India. Please dont join a training institute that will teach you that because you are just going to end up paying the training institutes and not getting much in return (including the "guaranteed" job placements).

Id also recommend attending some tech events -- Chennai Geeks (http://blog.chennaigeeks.com/) or ilugc (http://www.ilugc.in/). You will get a chance to meet people who have startups and would be ready to take your services, maybe for a lesser salary than what you get at big SIs. But what you learn there will definitely help you in the future.

Good luck!

Maybe the Indian "hackernews" can help you too: http://hackerstreet.in/

Join a bigger outsourcing companies like TCS, Infosys, Wipro or HCL. There are jobs galore for people of all skill's in these places. If you have some knowledge on automation and scripting for the automation testing it will help your job search very well.

It seems like people from your area do very well on elance.com and rentacoder.com

Why don't you check it out and see what kinds of projects dominate, and learn those technologies.

Note that they do well because they charge seriously low-ball rates. The wages are probably good after the currency conversion compared to what's available in India, but don't go in expecting to find any decent-paying jobs. This might be a good short-term fix, but I wouldn't expect it to provide stable income for 5-6 years anyway, and the income will probably not be very good, especially since you will be competing with other offshore'd developers. Practically the only reason anyone uses offshore coders is because they cost 1/3 what American coders cost.

The original poster is from India, not America.

I'm aware; I was working under the assumption that he'd want decent wages even though he is India because 1) he has expensive medical things to pay for and 2) because he wants a stable income for 5-6 years, seemingly something salaried or professional-level. You don't usually get those kind of rates on Elance et al. I wanted to point out that it would be especially hard to him to get good rates on these sites, since if someone is willing to pay a respectable wage, they usually don't want to use an offshore developer.

Hi,

You could consider Aricent as a company to apply for; Alot of european compnies are outsourcing to Aricent most of software and firmware development. I work for one of the largest mobile equipment provider; i was a firmware developer and now i was forced to switch to another kind of activity because all the development activity was given to Aricent. Hurry up, maybe in few years all this activty will move somewhere else in the world.

Drop me a line if you need help learning Ruby, or Rails. I will be glad to help you.

sent you a mail. please check when you get free time.

I had answer your email.

Where in India?

Maharashtra, Nashik.

Go for it.