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QA is probably your quickest path towards a job IMO. If you're willing to do manual testing but has some capability to do automated testing you can bring some r
by redmattred 12y ago
QA is probably your quickest path towards a job IMO. If you're willing to do manual testing but has some capability to do automated testing you can bring some real value.
- pbhjpbhj 12y agoCan anyone that agrees about QA be more specific - like practical courses, companies that would be likely to be hiring, ...
- peterwwillis 12y agoI can't recommend anything specifically... practically any book that describes black box testing will tell you everything you need to know. You learn 99% of it on the job. The only prerequisites are basically word processing and internet skills. Anyone who charges money for a product or service, produces a physical or software product, or supports different use cases will have some kind of QA. Often medium-to-large web companies have QA departments to make sure design changes don't blow up the site for different users. Different industries do QA differently (for example, medical device QA or anyone supporting ISO 900X is more rigidly structured and policy-driven than web dev QA).
- slowernet 12y agoI agree that QA and support skills are in demand, geographically portable, and will help develop empathy and understanding for the perspectives of both software engineers and end users.