As a senior software test engineer, I have summarized that there are four general development directions for software test engineers. Below I will make a simple analysis of these four directions. Please enlighten me.
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with department managers. According to the situation of each company, the management positions directly related to the testers will be somewhat different. Generally, they are the test team leader-test manager-project test leader-test director.
The test team leader usually has a few testers under his hand, responsible for task assignment and personnel management. In addition to his own testing skills, he also needs to have management talents, which can be reasonably allocated to different personnel according to the current work content. It is necessary to understand the characteristics of team members and have strong communication and coordination skills, which can make the team work more smoothly.
The test manager generally manages the test department. There may be multiple test teams underneath. In addition to the strong technical skills, the test manager also needs to pay attention to the development and performance of the department. It needs to have a better understanding of technology trends and advanced testing tools and needs help. The team determines the research and use of test technology and test tools. It needs to have a good understanding of business requirements, identify project risks, be responsible for customizing test strategies and implementation plans, and be able to summarize, report, and timely feedback on the quality status of the project, as well as to team members The most important point of training is not only to communicate and coordinate the internal work of the testing department, but also to communicate and coordinate with other departments of the company.
The person in charge of project testing is mainly responsible for the quality assurance of the project.
The test director is the highest person in charge of the quality department and is responsible for the quality activities of all projects of the company.
Add a tester's transformation direction: project managers and product managers, if you have ideas, you can first understand what you need to do in these two positions and the skills you need to master. - Challenge senior software test engineers (technical experts)
Junior test engineers have manual testing experience, execute test cases, record bugs, and perform
regression testing.
Intermediate test engineers break away from the elementary level, have preliminary automated testing capabilities, and
improve automated testing scripts.
Senior test engineers have certain industry knowledge and can help develop or maintain test
or programming standards and processes, analyze software requirements, and obtain test requirements. Determine the corresponding test method for the test requirements, obtain the test strategy plan, and act as a consultant for other testers.
Senior test engineers have rich industry business knowledge. They can stick to programming languages, operating systems, network security and database, performance testing, etc., which means that when you can solve problems that the company cannot solve, then you become The technical mastery of others' mouths. - Software testing training instructor
If you are unwilling to engage in testing in the company, but don’t want to work in other industries, then you can choose training institutions. At present, most training institutions lack experienced software testing engineers. Hire you with a high salary. - Becoming a software testing writer (part-time) is
suitable for very few people. You need to summarize your experience in the industry and the specific projects you have done. Then you need a strong writing ability. All for most people In general, if you don't have the ambition to publish a book, don't think about this aspect of what I'm talking about.
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