To be a senior software tester, do you need to be a versatile person?

Before answering the question of whether you want to be a generalist, we should first figure out a problem, what capabilities should you need as a generalist?
I thinkas a tester, you should have four knowledge: testing fundamentals, industry business reserves, test tools and techniques, test management capabilities and experience.
The above four is also a reference for the test staff promotion, of course, we have to test the basis of the number of reserves, the other three is the direction of our efforts.
The test is based on what all testers should have, and the other three are proficient in a single trick, two of which can be called Masters, and three of them are proficient. Oh, my God!
Industry business knowledge, basically can be said to be called the industry, basically its business knowledge is not a year two years can be clear, such as finance, ERP, supply chain, game
Testing tools and techniques, the two major tests (performance and automation) have been good in this industry, as well as security testing, databases, web testing and even some other tests. Technology has no boundaries, and technology is always evolving.
Test management skills and experience, previously thought to be a generalist in management, understand some people but can not fine. And so later PMP big line of time, found that the original project management also has methods, will these methods with cooked work naturally done.
Now, ask: Dear friends, do you want to do all-rounder? Can you still be a versatile?
My answer is,Business, technology, management of the three major areas should have a reserve, not because of what they are not good at and give up, this is our professional advanced money, is the idea that Qiantu did not give up.
Speaking of now, I think I support is all-rounder of the idea, but this time is not the topic PK, so I do not need to explicitly support which point of view.
According to my years of experience, a person to complete the strategic goal of all-rounder, our industry may still have, but certainly not many.
Because society has achieved a high degree of division of labor and the characteristics of cooperation, each person's work limits his main application is a certain number of knowledge and skills.
If you are considered a member of the Tiger Balm type, you either become the company's number one character (Zhang Xiaolong level) or the member of a team Jigsaw who has a character that is not fixed.
In the NBA, the Tiger Balm player has not been the core of the team, except James, who has not been able to play five positions or the core members of the team.
today's mainstream culture tells us, to become the core of the team, to be more than a professional, with a professional to obtain the recognition of the team, with more energy to glue the entire team.

Finally quoted Han in the "wearing a cotton-padded jacket bathing" in a paragraph as a conclusion: if the present era can be all-rounder, that is the luck of examination-oriented education and the misfortune of this era. If there is, he is the king of the people, but unfortunately not, so we have to "all" character under the "King" to take away. The Times need only talent.

To be a senior software tester, do you need to be a versatile person?