Currently working in software testing for 8 years, it belongs to the level of senior tester! Now that people from all walks of life are switching to study software testing, I would like to give you some learning suggestions and advice.
Many fans told me that this year's market is very bad, I can't find a salary, can I really not find a job?
The "programmer saturation" and "programmer surplus" we often see on the Internet generally refer to too many "low-end junior programmers", and it is the same in any industry. The simplest jobs and the lowest-end jobs have the greatest competition. Because most people like to take the easy way and like to do simple things. Therefore, after the quantity has accumulated to a certain extent, but the demand has not kept up with the increase in quantity, it will cause congestion. The phenomenon is that many people think that they cannot find a job, or that the industry is saturated.
I told you without hesitation before that most of you will not stay in this industry for a long time in the future, because it is normal for a person to choose to change careers, and most people in any industry will not grow from young to It is inevitable that the old man has been staying in one industry. And the reason why most of you choose this now is not because of how much you love technology now, but because at this stage, choosing the job of software testing is the "best solution" for most people .
It’s because you don’t know what to do better at the moment, and there are many jobs for testing, and the wages are relatively high. The average salary in the IT industry in 2022 is 200,000 yuan per year (you can check this at the National Bureau of Statistics), and software testing is IT. The industry is the best to get started, so so many people choose to learn the test. But this is only temporary. Most of you will do other things in the future. You may find other better opportunities in two or three years, a career that is more suitable for you, makes more money, and you yourself like more. , so it is a high probability event for many people to change careers in the future (don't think that programmers will not change careers).
Therefore, judging from the current situation, it is impossible for many people to work in this industry for too long, because they cannot advance to the ranks of intermediate testers at all, and they will have the idea of changing careers after thousands of years. For many people, the current choice to take the test is just a "transition", let alone worry about things in the future. And those who can reach the level of intermediate and advanced testers generally really like this thing and are willing to spend time on research, and this can be felt by themselves.
Most of the testers in China are at the low-end level. Even if they have worked for four or five years, they may be parallel importers. This situation is very common. The current situation is that, in fact, many people are not real testers, but they are pretending to be programmers forcibly, because the salary of testers is still relatively high. From the perspective of ordinary migrant workers, testers do belong to high-paying industries, so everyone Naturally, we are willing to squeeze this way, even though we know that there are quite a lot of people at present.
If you are the kind of short-term "optimal solution", then you don't need to think about the future at all, because you may not be in this industry for a long time, anyway, you can't think of better things to do now, so choose to learn If you are the kind of person who wants to develop this industry for a long time in the future, then you should lay a solid foundation and advance to the middle and senior levels in the future. There is a serious shortage of people in the middle and high levels, and there is no competition at all. , competition only exists among the low-end juniors.
The intermediate and senior testers are all from the junior level, and there are constant exits from the junior level, and continuous progress from the junior level to the intermediate level. This is the process of talent flow in the industry. Therefore, it has no practical significance to say that testers are saturated or not, because any industry needs people to come in and people to leave. Some people find something to do that they like very much, and some people never find something to do that they like in their whole life, it depends on their own destiny. So students, don't think about the saturation of software testing. If it is saturated, then there is no industry that is not saturated. If you want to reduce competition, then stop staying at the bottom. As long as you stay at the bottom, there will always be a lot of competition. This is the reality.
A little advice from those who have been here
What I'm telling you is that software testing is not so easy to do. No matter what industry you are in, most of the current career changes are some relatively traditional industries, such as mechanical, electronic and civil engineering. Doing these majors for 10 years means a salary of 1W. And software testing can reach 1W in one year. This is the gap in the industry. It is because the gap is too big, so it is difficult to change. It is not to participate in a training class and just learn it by yourself. You need to pay money. and energy to take care of it patiently.
What I want to tell you is that if you want to learn this software testing, you must not believe that any offline crash training will give you a big picture. It tells you that they have a high employment rate and high-level teachers, which are all routines. Remember one sentence, everything depends on yourself. Nowadays, there are a lot of "recruitment and transfer training" fraudulent loans, so don't choose the kind of rhetoric that the monthly salary of offline crash training is more than 10,000 yuan. are all routines
Here are study suggestions:
Suggestion 1
It’s best to find a friend or classmate with good skills and take it with you, because you still need a guide in the early stage. I found a big guy on the forum when I was self-studying. When someone goes to show the way, The state of learning is different. It is indeed very efficient, and the learning is very directional, so those friends who are self-study, remember that there must be someone to guide you. this is very important
Suggestion 2
Because the technology is updated quickly now, many novices learn the relatively old tutorials. This is not acceptable. Now that you have learned it, you must learn the latest technology. Even if you have learned for a long time, but the technology you finally learned is not used by the enterprise, so it is a waste of time. So remember to learn technology must learn the latest technology. I have seen that the technologies that many people learn are not the technologies that enterprises need.
Recommendation 3
Remember to communicate more with professional people. There is a saying that listening to you is better than reading ten years of books. This is indeed the case. You can look up and think about a lot of things by yourself, which is no match for a word from a professional. So be sure to communicate and learn more with professional people.
Recommendation 4:
Watch less and practice more, how well you can master it. It depends on whether you are proficient in typing on the keyboard. So many people just watch videos when they are studying, just like watching TV, but in fact, learning like this is meaningless. So remember, if you want to learn well, you have to practice more
Recommended learning method: systematic video tutorials + correct learning route + someone to guide
Video Tutorials: For beginners, watching videos is the most common way to learn. Video tutorials will explain common knowledge in work, and videos are generally divided into chapters and sections. Each summary is about a knowledge point. relatively clear. But the video should be as complete as possible, preferably a whole set of video learning.
Learning route: Learning with a systematic learning route will get twice the result with half the effort. Arrange the learning time reasonably, and try to ensure that you keep learning every day, because learning big data to successful employment is not achieved overnight.
Some people guide: Most people cannot rely on their own ability to learn big data development very well, because they don't understand this industry and don't know how to learn it. The probability of getting a good job by self-studying big data with zero foundation is extremely low. So I suggest that if you really want to do this business, try to find a professional person to guide you. If you have any questions that you don’t understand, you can ask for advice directly, avoid detours, and improve efficiency.
