2017 Software Testing Employment outlook trends

With the development of China's IT industry and the maturity of software market, people's expectation of software function is more and more high, and the quality, performance and reliability of software are becoming the focus of people's attention. Almost every medium and large it enterprise needs a lot of quality control, testing and documentation before it is released.

　　Software Test Engineer, the most extreme shortage of talent in the IT industry at present. China's software industry is adding about 200,000 new job opportunities each year, while companies and schools have trained less than 1/10 of the demand, which is still widening the gap between demand and supply of testing talent.

Software testing at present the best choice of employment, with "high status", "High treatment" of the "double-high" status title, the future is bright, and the employment threshold is low, the talent demand is big.

After investigation, China's software testing industry in 2017 showed the following major trends:

1 Employment Competition Small

Software test engineers are now becoming a new bright spot in the IT industry, not only because of the high salaries of its employees, the rapid increase in personnel demand, but also the industry's good future development prospects are affirmed. According to the National authoritative Department statistics, the Chinese software talent Gap, 30% of the talent for software testing personnel.

Software testing as an important part of software quality control, has been more and more attracted the attention of domestic software companies, resulting in the demand for software testing personnel to heat up, but, because our country enterprises for software testing technology in the software industry in the important role of understanding late, therefore, this aspect of professional and technical personnel in the country is still rare, The gap between talent supply and demand exceeds 200,000, which has become a bottleneck for the development of China's software industry.

According to the recruitment website 51job data, software testing engineers will become the most scarce talent in the 2017, the demand for such jobs is mainly concentrated in coastal developed cities, including Beijing, Shanghai's demand accounted for 33% and 29% respectively.

At the same time Chinahr released the latest issue of it workplace popularity rankings, it talent is still the largest demand for enterprises, as an important part of the software development process, software testing positions gradually "surfaced", and with its huge talent needs and broad career development prospects increasingly become it career in the big hot.

2 Career Development Direction

Due to the particularity of the work, testers not only need to test the quality of the software, but also for the software project, management, pre-sale, after-sales and other fields to be involved. In this process, the testers not only improve the professional software testing skills, but also access to all walks of life, project management, communication and coordination, market demand analysis and other capabilities can be very good exercise, thus for their diversified development laid the foundation.

After the software testing post baptism of talent is often the industry's generalists, more than other IT talent has more plasticity, in technology, management, markets and even other non-it areas can be well developed.

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3 The more old the more popular

The life of a software tester is like a doctor's life, with the rich accumulation of professional experience and clinical experiences, to a certain age they can know where the problem is by "palpation". Therefore, it is said that software testers and doctors are the least need to use "youth" to ensure and continue their career life.

The change of the status of software testing engineers is the result of the development of the information industry and the deepening of the software enterprise itself and user maturity. ”。 On the one hand, computer use is becoming more and more popular, more and more fields use computer, especially some important areas such as defense, banking, finance, pass, aerospace, etc., they have high requirements on software quality. At the same time the occurrence of some major accidents, also caused people to the software quality concern. No doubt, after a long period of ignorance and dispensable, software testing engineers have become very popular now.

4 High salary not discussed

Software Testing engineer as the gatekeeper of software quality, its function is to ensure that the software delivered to the customer's hands is reliable and easy to operate. From product definition to product development to product maintenance, software testing is not. However, due to the importance of software testing is fully recognized in the past two years, the university education and enterprise training has not been followed, resulting in a severe shortage of software testing personnel, the emergence of running, rapid improvement of the state, pay is also gradually higher, excellent software testing talent annual salary of up to 100,000, or even 200,000 or 300,000 or higher.