How to Start as a Test Engineer for a 29 yr old?

I am a software engineer with 3 years of experience .For the first two initial years I was working as a QA in one of the good product companies with a very sorted work life balance . I had recently switched to a BE role in a startup I am very much lagging behind here because of my QA background ,the people here are very much talented and are great problem solvers .How do I reach that level ? I have been struggling to keep up with the pace here and finding it difficult to approach the tasks,even though i have been giving so much of time to work . And the TL in my team have a certain amount of expectations and hence they don't help according to that .(which i feel is fair) How should I approach this and level up here Anyone with a similar background and story please share your experience :) Any advice would really help

Hello, I've 6months of Internship + 19 months of Full time experience as QA and my skills include Manual Testing. Skilled personally on Automation Testing. Skills: Manual Testing and methodologies Personally skilled on Automation Testing with Rest API, and Selenium Webdriver Frameworks: TestNG, CI/CD: Jenkins. Dedicated and punctual to work and looking for more growth opportunities. Please provide referral/if any suggestions. Thanks!!

Hello Everyone, one of my known is struggling for job from 2 years post pandemic. He is having 1 year of QA experience. Any entry level job is fine for him to restart his career. If you have any opening, please letme know. Thank you for you help! FYI. I have already tried in IBM but no luck.

I am currently working as QA at Keysight technologies which is a Electronics company, mainly focusing on automation with basic python.But I want to switch as backend developer, should I gain expierience of year as QA or join startup immediately at any pay?

What was your first ever CTC and what's your current CTC with YoE? I'll start - 1.6 to 9.8 in 4 years. This post is intended to give hope to freshers and motivation to experienced folks.

Hi guys, As a fresher I joined CG, where I got trained and have 2 year experience in software testing, but from beginning I had interest in development, I requested many times to manager but no proper response. And now I got laid off. Currently searching job as a software tester, it's been 6 months no proper interview call getting scheduled I'm very confused should I continue with testing profile or this is the time to upskill and look for dev role I have enrolled in full stack course too. Please give me your opinion on should I continue job hunt for testing or start new Journey as full stack developer? Thank you

Hi all, I m currently an automation tester at cognizant with 2 yrs of experience. I need referral and advice on how to do my first switch as I m finding it hard to switch these days. Thanks

I am 24 grad ( btech ) . Joined a company as a intern in 4th year . 9 months they gave training as etl pipeline and sql ( not Interesting but not bad also ). So after internship , I got converted but I then transfered to qa team of a different project. They told That I need to do manual testing for 6 months. I asked the reason , they told that for now they couldn't get approval for a concrete role for me for data engineering. I feel like resigning but I don't have offer . What to do ?

manual QA won’t take you far. A) If you’re fresher from Tier 3 college: Take elitmus test and apply for QA job. Best time for fresher to get jobs as lots of companies hiring fresher/interns/0-2 YoE guy. B) starting a career in QA/junior QA: 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. Start with either UI/API not both. 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(Google it) 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. 3.5 LPA to 67 LPA as QA in 7 years as Automation QA. All the best. Feel free to ask questions.

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?