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I’m not sure this is true - I moved from test to dev and then back to test. I definitely earn more money than I did as a dev and honestly from an engineering pe

by exdsq 5y ago

I’m not sure this is true - I moved from test to dev and then back to test. I definitely earn more money than I did as a dev and honestly from an engineering perspective I find it’s more interesting. While a developer might focus on web or desktop or embedded or games, I’m a developer that focuses on testing. Maybe you’re right for a subset of manual testers but I like to think there are very capable developers working in the QA realm.

saagarjha 5y ago
Just because there are QA testers that can do software development doesn’t mean all, or even most, can do it.
aaaaaaaaata 5y ago
What industry?
ThrowawayR2 5y ago
That's true in the software industry in general but games industry QA is very much different from that. The bulk of games industry QA is largely untrained, non-technical personnel manually executing test cases written by others and therefore wages are low and they are treated as completely fungible. (I'm not defending it, just describing it.) The article mentions hundreds of testers, so it's far more likely they're that type of tester rather than SDETs.
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