👒 🧙 👼🏽 Where do they come from in QA? 🤲🏼 🎥 🏏

Recently, there was an interesting online mitap at Skillfactory , dedicated to the tester's path. Something very similar was on the Geekbrains channel last year. Recently, they have been held with enviable regularity, many online courses and blogs cover this topic, fueling interest in the profession and inspiring people to try their hand at the career of a tester. Well, and buy a training course - do you have to start with something?

Similar materials have already been published on a variety of resources (for example, QA Academy and dou.ua ), but since everyone has different stories, we’ll tell a few more.

The story of one QA engineer - in testing from a photo studio

Sophia, tester:

I worked in the field of event services - organized events, managed an event company, a photo studio and a photo service in the hospital. The decision to change the profession was not easy, there were many reasons for this. Testing was not the first point, I had to go through a kind of “search for myself”, because the task was to find our place in life without losing our talent and brains. At first I wanted to be a database administrator, I learned SQL, but all employers lacked a programming language during the interviews. I learned Java at the initial stage and decided to try myself in Java development, but it didn’t. During the study of the language, I got acquainted with testing, and now it hooked. The knowledge that was at that time was ideally suited for the vacancy, plus there was a huge field ahead for further training and development. And a year later at work, I also study and develop,and this is the most important thing!

How did you study?

If we talk about testing - I studied thanks to a resource with free courses (not quite legal), I bought a few courses about git, linux, REST API, etc. on udemy. The most useful courses were Alexei Barantsev, Olga Kiseleva, Natalia Rukol. Books on testing are all good too, but more for theory and people who are used to getting knowledge from such sources. Before testing, I studied SQL on the portal sql-ex.ru , the Java language on javarush.ru .

Already wrote about training in the article “The Way of the QA Fighter”

What do you like?

At work, I really like involvement in the creation of the product, although the developers believe that they do everything :) I like that the work does not allow you to sit still, does not allow the brain to stagnate, due to the fact that you always need to be aware of new technologies and new tools . I really like to be part of a living organism - a development team where everyone knows how important it is to work together and together, and that the final result will depend on everyone at once and on each one individually :) I like that you can not only learn new technologies, but also right away apply them. I like that the standards of junior, middle, lead testing does not end, there is much to develop further in other related areas. I like that the profession is really in demand in the market, and if you are a good specialist, there are all the opportunities for a prosperous future,where there is no need to be afraid of salary reduction or cuts.

What do not like?

What I really don't like is the opinion that testing is a quick way to "get into IT." This is not true. Yes, the technical threshold is really lower, but testers appreciate not only dry learned knowledge, but a lively mind that can predict the behavior of real people, find circumstances that can harm the product, as well as a wide view of the world that can look at the product from different angles .

Without quick learning, literally “grasping on the fly,” entering the testing world will be very difficult. There is a lot of routine work in testing, and at first it does not like and disappoints. But when you are passionate about work, and know what you are doing and where you are moving, even the most routine task turns into your favorite work. Especially when there are good tools.

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also don’t like the fact that there is no unified knowledge base on testing or necessary for testing knowledge. Looking for all the information bit by bit, few people share the utilities. There are very few portals and forums for the exchange of knowledge, there are still very few.

Where do they come from in QA?

The story of one QA engineer - in testing from a photo studio

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