Congratulations to your sensitive reflex nerves. This is not an illusion, but an objective fact that is currently happening in the IT circle!
The reason is nothing more than four words:
【Supply】【No】【Should】【Request】
The following Huizhimei analyzes its internal logic from several dimensions:
1. Software testing requirements
For the moment, compared with other IT positions, software testing has low barriers to entry, low competitive pressure, and no gender discrimination.
Among the current more than 6 million software practitioners in China, no more than 600,000 people can really take up software testing positions, and the job talent gap has reached 300,000, and there is a 20% trend of increasing year by year.
The extreme scarcity of talents makes many IT companies have to delay or even stop their projects, which has a negative impact on corporate development, but it has a positive effect on talent employment-software testing started late in our country, and independent testing departments are set up for testing personnel. The strong demand is mostly large and medium-sized IT companies with unique vision.
Software testing talents do not need to accumulate experience in small companies to obtain entry passes to well-known companies, and their starting point is higher than other professions of the same kind.
In addition, if the software development field is compared to men's singles, then the software testing field is mixed doubles. Due to the special nature of their work, software testers tend to prefer serious, patient, meticulous, sensitive, and other personality elements, which to a certain extent are consistent with women's personality temperament. (It is understood that the proportion of software testers in many IT companies has become more balanced, and even female employees have become the mainstream.)
Hui Zhimei has to emphasize one point here: For students who are interested in switching to IT software testing engineers, they must not be taken lightly because of the low threshold and low competitiveness!
After all, the IT industry is always innovating and developing with various application scenarios at any time, and technical skills are also updated in real time. It is even more rare to become a test talent with a rich knowledge system and comprehensive skills. Therefore, you must correct your learning mentality and blindly. Being content with the status quo will only be eliminated by newcomers!
This is also the "soft power" that Huizhi Power Academy has repeatedly emphasized in the training process of each IT student (by no means limited to the immediate "hard power" skill improvement), it is related to how far the student can go after entering the workplace , Can you overcome the bottleneck of the 35-year-old workplace? (Have you ever won by fighting young people????)
2. The tuyere effect of large companies
Inspired by the entrepreneurial call of large companies that "a pig can fly on the wind" , when unicorns appear on the track in various fields, under the blessing of capital, many followers will inevitably appear immediately. Due to the pressure of digital upgrading demand, the trend of intelligent transformation and upgrading of traditional industries has become an irreversible trend.
If you want to get a share of the trend of 5G, artificial intelligence, big data/cloud computing, etc., you have to ask companies to increase the research and development and popularization of intelligent applications, which brings about the demand for software test engineers. It also naturally rises.
As a member of the Internet industry, everyone should understand what user experience means to product brands. Under the fierce competition and the cruel elimination mechanism, we want to get rid of the opponent’s trailing early, smooth operation experience and sceneization. Personal satisfaction of needs is the fundamental.
At present, with the gradual increase in the cost of new platforms (100+/person), if you want to harvest, retain, and fight for the spread of platform users, the user experience will inevitably be placed in the first place.
360 lines, there are vents in every industry, and a large number of start-ups will inevitably be attached to the vents. Among them, how big the gap in the demand for soft test engineers is, we can imagine~~~
3. Demand for high-end elite talents
Compared with other IT positions, the biggest advantage of software testers is the diversification of development directions .
Due to the particularity of the work, testers not only need to test the quality of the software, but also involve in the establishment, management, pre-sales, and after-sales fields of the software project.
As shown in the figure below, in the development process of the IT workplace, software test engineers not only improve their professional software testing skills, but also have exposure to all walks of life. Project management, communication and coordination, market demand analysis and other abilities can be well exercised , Thus laying the foundation for its diversified development. (Low cost of secondary transfer)
Talents who have passed the baptism of software testing positions are often generalists in the industry. They are more malleable than other IT talents, and can develop well in technology, management, marketing and even other non-IT fields.
High-level development direction of soft test engineer workplace
Research data shows that 51% of software testing practitioners are engaged in manual functional testing, followed by test case design, with a proportion of 16%. The proportion of practitioners engaged in test management, functional automation testing, and performance testing is equivalent.
66% of the software testing practitioners in Huizhi Power Academy are concerned about the business knowledge of the application software industry, followed by telecommunications/Internet services, with a proportion of 42%, software outsourcing, typical industries (finance, banking, insurance, etc.), telecommunications/Internet systems And the caring rate of equipment is 31%, 24% and 24% respectively.
In addition, it is inevitable that certain development technologies will be exposed to the advanced path of software testing, and the boundary between the two has also begun to become less clear. For programmers engaged in development, it can be regarded as an increase in a certain amount. Put pressure, who said that there are too many skills but not pressing down!
4. Specialization in social division of labor/technical industry
It should be noted that what we currently lack is not IT people, but IT elites and elite institutions that incubate IT elites . At present, there are no special software testing majors in Chinese universities, and the talent needs of enterprises mainly rely on the cultivation and incubation of various institutions in the society.
Software testing actually runs through the entire software project : from requirement analysis, function point coverage, system analysis, code development, to the final test and acceptance.
Therefore, software testers must have rigorous logical thinking skills, comprehensive technical skills, strong sense of responsibility and teamwork spirit, and excellent communication skills.
All of the above qualities can be obtained after special training. This is one of the reasons why Huizhi Power College is currently cooperating with major universities.
On the one hand, it combines the business project pool of the IT school to give students more understanding of practical training projects on the basis of university theory;
On the other hand, it has also done pre-planning to improve the educational strength of colleges and universities and the talent graduation & employment channels to ensure that outstanding and efficient graduates can enter Internet companies more smoothly and realize their dreams of high-paying IT. (Excellent talent is always a scarce resource)
At present, there are three main types of training institutions for software testing talents in China: enterprises, colleges and universities, and IT training institutions.
Here is also a simple analysis and interpretation:
▶ Most of the talents cultivated by enterprises are software developers who have explored themselves through participating in the project. Due to the lack of a comprehensive understanding of software testing, they need to be further improved in terms of testing thinking, skills, thinking styles, and communication skills.
▶ The talents cultivated by colleges and universities have certain theoretical knowledge, but have poor hands-on ability. They need to be trained after entering the enterprise and cannot be employed immediately.
▶ Training institutions can make up for the shortcomings of the first two methods. Through theoretical explanation, computer operation, case study, project practice, etc., trainees can systematically improve the professional qualities of software test engineers.
In the future, more and more students from universities and even key colleges will participate in IT training, which will gradually improve the comprehensive quality of software testing talents provided to the IT industry.
It is precisely because of the development and problems in the field of software testing in China that the state promulgated relevant policies in a timely manner, demanding vigorously training software testing talents. In the document [No. 124] jointly issued by the Ministry of Information Industry and other five ministries and commissions, it is clearly stated: "Speed up the training of software testing talents and carry out research on software evaluation technology...form a software evaluation guided by the government, participating in the society, and effective supervision and management. System. "
As an important base for the training of software testing talents, professional training institutions will rapidly rise to scale with their professional training systems and sensitive market insights to deliver more talents to the software industry in China.
The deepest feeling should be that after the 2020 Spring Festival epidemic, the employment and salary increase of the students of Huizhi Power IT Academy after the epidemic has reached a new high, showing an amazing "counter-industry/counter-cyclical" growth, which can be described as the unique scenery here.
The picture below shows the employment news (partial) of IT students on the Nanjing campus of Huizhi Power College, from which you can get a glimpse:
Software test engineer employment news
In addition, in the column of this issue, Hui Zhimei also conducted in-depth interviews with teachers and recruitment companies in Nanjing campus to confirm the popularity of software testing from various dimensions.
Well, interested partners can review the previous tweets by themselves "Special Interview with High Salary Employment on Nanjing Campus of Huizhi Power College"
5. About salary and benefits
Seeing this, you may still have a question: the over-prosperity of the industry will inevitably be accompanied by the breeding of bubbles, so in the future, for programmers with surplus talents, how to avoid the risk of being dismissed in the workplace?
It just so happens that Huizhimei actually mentioned this topic in a column before! ! !
In this article, we have made a detailed analysis and analysis of IT programmers (and their salary levels) employed in the workplace from the 7 dimensions of [ambition] [time] [platform] [skills] [resources] [trends] [luck]. In the IT boom, if you want to avoid being ruthlessly eliminated, it is best to prepare for it as soon as possible!
