How you do QA at work and do your company employ seperate QA team/dev need to do everything
Hey guys, So i was asking questions to one engineer manager about quality analyst. I asked her how sdet as field in general as i already have 5 years of experience in QA field. Learning side by side coding for a next switch. She said do something else except QA as in her experience, her previous companies do not have QA team itself. So i am little confused as a career path. So wanted to ask how you guys software at your workplace and does sdet role will have significance in this market in future?
Namkeen
Stealth
8 months ago
QA here.
Yes, manual won’t take you far.
Learn a language and a tool for each domain like PlayWright/Cypress/Selenium from UI automation, RestAssured/Postman/Karate for API and learn about test planning, jira for test management.
And later on keep learning about CI tools like Jenkins/Azure/AWS.
Make yourself visible in common group instead of dev DM.
Communicate to PM/Design/Dev team for feature testing. Get yourself involved in PRD stage rather when dev give you build. Make team life easy by identifying friction/bottleneck in team and implement a process and reiterates.
P.S.- Don’t start with codeless automation tool to start with.
3.5 LPA to 67 LPA as QA in 7 years as Automation QA.
All the best.
Gossipking
Stealth
8 months ago
Thanks, that's mostly the plan. Will start with java and selenium. As it is hot in QA recruitment.
Can you please guide me . I am currently having experience in selenium and rest assured with 3 yoe . My coding is not that much good , and about to join product based company. Can you please provide me the reference material and roadmap that you followed . How you reached that stage so early.
We had QA but now we moved to No QA. Automation we write by ourselves. Some teams still have QA.
Gossipking
Stealth
8 months ago
So devs need to write E2E tests and accountable for every bug in their module? When you had QA , what were their roles and responsibilities?
Yes. Even RCA filing in case of roll backs.
They were responsible for manual and automation testing, release, RCA etc.
Gossipking
Stealth
8 months ago
So if possible, can you please let me know that did you work at big corporation/startups?
Yes we have QA and it’s very important role. But some companies don’t have they expect devs to do QA.
I would say QA would still be needed from a customer POV as that is tough to automate . So learn UI/UX well.
Also manual QA is a pain automation of tests is the only solution but that’s devs job. So might need to learn actual coding .
Overall future seems bit bleak for QA so good time to start moving towards actual development.
Gossipking
Stealth
8 months ago
As in frontend/ backend / devops kind of role ? i have tried frontend for few months (4-6). I got laid off due to less logical skills and company was not ready for investing time.But seeing the kind of market i am little fearful that i may not able to switch the domains. I am earning around 9 LPA
In my company, we have to do E2E testing before pushing any new feature. There's one or two testers hired for part time.