The Barrier to QA Entry
Everyone can test these days. Upwork or Fiverr or any online freelance job portal is inundated with people offering QA services. Being hired by some company to become a professional QA has become more difficult.
Becoming a QA in 2018 is no longer about following pre-defined test scripts. Actually, after the first year of being a QA, it should be no longer about following those scripts.
I used to think Testing is just a controlled way of breaking things. It still sort of is.
From when I started my professional journey in Software Testing I’ve discovered that there is a whole different aspect to testing software. Now, with the benefit of years of experience, I know that there are different things to learn and infinite different aspects of being a QA rather than just making some software do what its not supposed to do.
There is the dealing with the broad range of personalities of the people that you professionally interact with as a QA, there is the understanding that the perpetual list of tasks at work is not going to stop growing.
But most of all there is realising that learning needs to happen — whether this is a professional goal such as learning to use a…
