Software
testing job has same scope as software development in India. Everything that is
developed is tested before it is deployed into production. It may be System
Test, Integration Test, Acceptance Test, Regression Test, Automation Test,
Performance Test, Network Test, and the list will go on.
An
Automation tool knowledge & business domain knowledge would be very much
handy to excel in the Testing field.
Traditionally, India
has been hub of back support office of global IT companies. Market is evolving day by day and lot of companies are sending software testing projects to India.
This has led to companies who deals only in testing projects.
Scope is good. Learn some automation
tool then it would be better. Most of the jobs in the market are more towards test
automation.