There are some myths about
software testing as a career path:
Testing is monotonous and boring task. There is no coding involved. The growth path is not as good or well paid as developers. Only Computer Science and IT engineers can join this career path. Testers are always treated as secondary work force compared to developers.
All engineers from all branches, PG students with MCA, MCM and MCS can join as a Test Engineer.
ET & C and Electrical engineers have always as edge in testing embedded systems thoroughly.
Since only 30% freshers join this path, the competition is less and demand is more. The growth path is pretty stiff and fast compared to the developers. Test Engineers move to Senior Test Engineer and Test Leads role in 6+ years.
Today’s testing have become so complicated and demand for early marketing the products is so high that industry has to use Automation test tools, Performance, Load testing tools which provide a great opportunity to do coding, scripting and writing programs. Sharp and intelligent test engineers pick up these skills very fast. Market demand for performance and Load testers for specific tools used in the industry is very high. It’s very difficult to get performance, automation test engineers with right skills and expertise on specific tools and hence is very well paid.
Testing is monotonous and boring task. There is no coding involved. The growth path is not as good or well paid as developers. Only Computer Science and IT engineers can join this career path. Testers are always treated as secondary work force compared to developers.
All engineers from all branches, PG students with MCA, MCM and MCS can join as a Test Engineer.
ET & C and Electrical engineers have always as edge in testing embedded systems thoroughly.
Since only 30% freshers join this path, the competition is less and demand is more. The growth path is pretty stiff and fast compared to the developers. Test Engineers move to Senior Test Engineer and Test Leads role in 6+ years.
Today’s testing have become so complicated and demand for early marketing the products is so high that industry has to use Automation test tools, Performance, Load testing tools which provide a great opportunity to do coding, scripting and writing programs. Sharp and intelligent test engineers pick up these skills very fast. Market demand for performance and Load testers for specific tools used in the industry is very high. It’s very difficult to get performance, automation test engineers with right skills and expertise on specific tools and hence is very well paid.
Over the last one decade the profile of software tester has undergone tremendous changes. Testing has become show-stopper for several application/product implementations and business has realized the importance of structured testing of applications before release.
Testing has created several levels and types and specialization in these various types of testing has increased the intrinsic value of a software tester. From being a monotonous test case executor, several career options have evolved in front of the testing community. The following diagram depicts the various options available to a software tester.
Of late, testing is looked after as a good
professional career for many of the aspiring youths. As mentioned above, from
being test engineer one can move to senior test engineer, test lead to test
manager; else can become QA lead, QA Manager. The options available in the
testing tools side are enormous. There are numbers of functional, performance,
security testing tools besides test management tools like Quality Center from
HP, CQTM from IBM etc.
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