How to Become a successful Quality Assurance Engineer?

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How to Become a successful Quality Assurance
Engineer?
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Learning Objectives

• Get all the skills
• Be qualified and certified
• Get Lucrative Salaries
• Be industry-Ready

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What are the qualifications required?
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Get all the skills

• Usually, employers ask and expect a bachelors
  degree from software quality engineers or quite a
  similar certification completed by the
  professionals.
• The certification or degree is a proof that you
  have enough fundamental skills to be a software
  quality engineer.
• Even your existing organization may also ask you
  to join the course in software engineering.
• So, you are strongly recommended to have any
  qualification and join the QA certification
  course to become a successful quality engineer.

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Get Lucrative Salaries
Salary of quality assurance engineer also depends

• Your experience levels
• Education and Certification
• Your working industry
• Responsibility level expected by your employer
• Your working region
• Many other factors

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Be qualified and certified

• Qualified and certified
• As far as experience is concerned then if you
  belong to any software industry or you are from
  the computer science background or any other
  related field.
• Either you start from your career in the
  entry-level/junior-level field or you
  wanted to scale-up your skills, still, you can
  become a quality engineer.
• A number of companies also accept your working
  experience of a few months in the relevant field.

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Be industry-Ready
The key responsibilities of QA specialists
include developing high standards for software
quality and to track the metrics.

• To create automated test plans by using a variety
  of tools
• To perform black-box testing as and when required
• To develop automated testing systems that can be
  used by commercial scripts, tools or datasets
• To resolve any issue that is found in the testing
  step.
• To provide consultancy to other departments of
  the company

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Five Career Options for QA Professionals

• Product Manager
• Role as DevOps Professional
• Customer Experience or Service Provider
• Enterprise Architect Professionals
• IT Management

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Product Manager

• QA professionals can become a successful product
  manager that can review and analyze software
  repeatedly and by this, they can develop a deep
  understanding of the process to make software
  better.
• QA professionals focus on the development and
  launching of the new products.
• Even QA professionals can easily move to other
  areas of the organization and become director of
  global business organizations.

Product Manager
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Role as DevOps Professional

• Software testers can view the development process
  and can become product stability or good release
  manager in any company that follows DevOps
  approach.
• DevOps basically follow a holistic approach for
  development and delivery of any software.

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Customer Experience or Service Provider

• QA professionals can enhance and improve the
  customer experience and provide valuable service
  to the clients.
• For QA professionals their consumer or customer
  comes first, so any position for customer service
  comes at first.
• We can say that software testers are the voice of
  customers.
• As there are a number of customers and hence they
  expect quality service by the organization, which
  they hire for the software development.

Customer Experience or Service Providing
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Enterprise Architect Professionals
The enterprise architect is an imperative role
for the professionals and they are responsible
for developing and architecting an enterprise
level software.

• They are Experienced QA professionals can exhibit
  perfect skills that are required for the
  architect role.
• QA professionals can be a great candidate as
  architect for enterprise and provide better
  service to them.

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IT Management

• Though QAs may join IT organizations in another
  role, still they can become an IT professional
  and manage the IT task perfectly.
• Here they can adopt a number of roles as IT
  Manager.
• At that level, there are a number of decisions
  that need to be taken and for that QA engineers
  can support them.

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Final Words

• QA professionals have to overcome all obstacles
  to be a successful IT professional.
• By having all the required essential skills, they
  can easily become qualified and expert
  professional.
• In order to maintain the quality of software,
  organizations have to hire QA professionals and
  they provide quality service to their
  organization.
• So, they are the pillars of IT industries with
  immense job opportunities in the software field
  and lucrative salary options too.

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