A person graduated from college, that is, starting from the student era to professional transition, this transition is good, can realize the dream, reflect the personal value, if go bad, it will be misguided, there are lingyun ambition, lofty sentiments, inevitably a lifetime of melancholy.
Some people say that after graduation, lucky enough to enter software testing, is already the first step towards success. Indeed, in recent years, software testing as a new industry, is in the booming period, but also the IT talent demand list, one of the most popular jobs, many young people think this is the golden land of the workplace, are flocking to this. Low threshold, quick to start, no sex discrimination, so that many young men and women smoothly take the first step in the workplace. But after a few years of work, the voices of confused and bewildered emerged.
In the Career Development section of the 51Testing forum, many small partners to ask such as "How to go My Test Road", "Software testing 5 years, a little confused" and so on, there are many people spontaneously carry out some salary survey, work survey, the ultimate goal, or want to know exactly how to plan their career.
Looking at all walks of life in today's society, for individual career development direction, from macroscopic can divide into four groups, namely:
"Low management, low skills"-----General Workers
"High management, low skill"-----management route
"Low management, high skill"-----technical route
"High management, high skill"-----comprehensive route
Software testing career development direction, in general with the above common career development line, can also be divided into management routes, technical routes, management + technical route, only for the industry itself, has its particularity and meticulous. After all, software testing in China is not very mature, take the management route, facing is in the company testing process optimization, team management, no reference cases. Take the technical route, the company's testing priorities are different, technical complexity, the use of tools are not the same, the process is not uniform, do not know how to learn. Walk Management + technical route, but do not know the current industry for this kind of senior talent demand and salary treatment, growth slow risk high. And many ordinary engineers are immersed in mechanical duplication of the basic work, for other colleagues in other companies, only through day-to-day social understanding, which way to go, exactly what level they are now, can not be assessed, so for career planning is not according to.
51Testing every year, the software testing industry survey, statistics in the field of software testing at all levels, the relevant positions of the test colleagues work, salary, the company's Test team development, tool usage and so on, and all survey data for statistical analysis. Look at the results of the analysis, you can understand the entire industry last year, the level of peer technology, the company's Test team development trend. Only a thorough understanding of the whole test environment, you can more clearly understand their work, choose not only interested in themselves, but also a greater space for career development.
2014 is about to pass, the software testing industry has undergone a year of scrubbing, as a test of the army, you are currently satisfied with the workplace environment. What is your salary level? What changes have been experienced by your company's Test team. You are not in sync with this industry up. Participate in the survey: http://vote.51testing.com, let you clear career positioning, choose the most suitable for you in the career path.
