Can't you really do it when you are 35 years old?

35 I can't work at the age of , It's just an excuse .
　　 Capable , Can still develop well in this industry , Can't do it , Destined to be higher and higher by waves , Shot dead on the beach .
　　 If you reach this age , Not to the level of Senior Test Development Engineer or architect , Then it's really hard to do .
　　 If you are 30+ In the age of , It may not be so obvious , however 35+, You will face another level of competition .
　　 Simply speaking , It's age , But the ability didn't go up .
　　 You don't have 10 Years working experience as a test engineer , You're just a year's work experience 10 year .
　　 This is the most helpless . If so , Enterprises might as well recruit one 2-3 Years of experience , young , Resist making .
　　 Some time ago, I also released several positions in the circle of friends , The ant gold dress 、 Cheetah, etc ,35+ People are their favorite , But the ability must match . The treatment is directly enough , Yearly salary one million , It depends on your ability .35+ People who , Have CI/CD Ability 、 Continuous integration 、 Continuous delivery , Understand test development , Understand test operation and maintenance , Code savvy , It's really hard to recruit . Tell the truth , up to now , They haven't found the right person yet . So if you're worried 35+ In the age of , That means your ability doesn't match your age , intuitive .
　　 The current trend of the whole industry , With continuous integration 、 Continuous delivery 、Devops The popularity of , Especially big companies , It's all about test and development , Outsource a large number of manual tests . At the same time, the relationship between testing and development and operation and maintenance “ wall ”, Is also gradually breaking . You know, as you heard about test development （ Add shift left , Quality assurance in R & D phase ; Move right , Post release quality monitoring ）、 Test operation and maintenance , And many companies directly let developers do testing .
　　 Let's talk about the different level The basic abilities of the test engineer
　　 first ： We call it a tester / Test Engineer
　　 Say it frankly , It's hard work . Benchmarking is Baidu's T3、T4, Ali's P5, Tencent's T1-T2. The main job is demand analysis , Test plan , The test strategy , The test execution , It's all business testing . Of course, you can master some fields of knowledge , For example, you test unmanned vehicles , What is the business of unmanned vehicles , I measure AI,AI What is it? , I'll test big data , What is big data , It measures e-commerce , What is the architecture of e-commerce system , Business knowledge is to understand . Another is to take the outsourcing team , Some outsourcing teams may be handed over to this group of people to take . It is mainly to manage these basic business testing work .
　　 the second ： Test Development Engineer
　　 Now the first level I don't know how to recruit , Most of them are from the second level Start recruit . Once you mention test development , You must know R & D , Understand the test , And have a certain ability to work in depth . From this level Start asking for your programming skills ,Java、Python、shell、SQL, That's the bottom line , Then business testing .
　　 These people will still be responsible for part of the business testing . The boss will according to your ability , Give you a proportion . You are very capable ,80% With the technological ,20% To do business , If you are not strong , It would be 80% To do business ,20% Participate in some technical . If your skills are too low 了 , It would be 100% Do all the business tests . So this time will be divided into reasonable time according to your ability . The requirements here are higher than just now , Client's UI test , Interface test of the server , Performance testing , Basically belong to this category .
　　 During the interview , Performance and non functional testing , It may not be a major pilot , Mainly in automation and programming ability . That is to say, at present, everyone goes out to find a job , The level where you are most likely to get stuck . So here level Inside , Also work , That is, both business testing , Also do technical transformation , And write some automation , But it still focuses on business .
　　 Third ： Senior Test Development Engineer / Test Architect
　　 So to this level, Business testing has been very few , Not even at all , At this time, I am more responsible for the process management of the whole team . Process management system , White box testing system , Development of test tools and test platform , Another is quality control , There is also a quality management . Usually in a team , There will be a test management , add 1-2 A Senior Test Development Engineer , Or call it a test expert . He will build the whole continuous integration system . Continuous integration 、 White box testing 、 And the development of some platforms , These people will be mainly responsible for . Then he'll take 2-3 A test development engineer , These test development engineers follow him to learn , While doing business . Then the rest of the work , Give it to outsourcing companies or school recruiters to do .

therefore , Under the current industry situation and technology development trend , If you're a tester , But it has not reached the bottleneck of age , Let me give you some advice ：
　　 One 、 Avoid outsourcing companies
　　 Based on industry influence , Companies need to cut costs , Will prefer to use outsourcing . The result of large companies using outsourcing is that the outsourcing market will further develop , These developments will further promote the process of layoffs . If outsourcing can do a lot of things , The price of outsourcing is relatively low , Obviously, many low-level jobs are more inclined to use outsourcing .
　　 The essence of outsourcing company is a company that earns scissors by providing cheap labor . The income you get , It has been deducted in part . So you enter such a company , There is no way to reach the core of the business , The company will not provide good training , There is no good experience , Nor has it entered deeper testing practice , Therefore, the growth here will face development difficulties .
　　 If you're in an outsourcing company now , I suggest you stay for a year or two and leave immediately , Don't stay too long , Otherwise, we will face great development problems in the future . Even if the salary is relatively high in a short time , But remember that this is not your final destination .
　　 Two 、 Enhance the core competitiveness
　　 Technical ability ： Programming ability , Automation , Architectural capability .
　　 First, programming ability , You're in the testing industry ,Python and Java, These are two basic languages to learn . These two you have learned , The requirements of any company can be matched . If you want to do better , You can touch go Language . Most companies even ask you to speak a new language , I'll see if you can Python perhaps Java.
　　 The second indicator is automation , Automation measures whether you are highly productive in this field , As a test engineer , The key is UI Automation , Interface automation , And continuous integration , Continuous delivery . These are your core competencies . among UI automation , Interface automation and continuous integration , It is the basic ability of Test Engineers . Go up again , That's continuous delivery ,Devops, Some white box capabilities , Test the monitoring ability , More capabilities go deep into R & D and operation and maintenance , Therefore, architecture capability is a very important assessment indicator here .
　　 Domain knowledge ： Architectural capability , Business area , Data awareness
　　 Soft power ： communicate , management
　　 3、 ... and 、 Career choice
　　 Preferred famous enterprises , Big factory , first-tier cities
　　 Don't ask why
　　 Four 、 Education construction （ Academic construction is a long-term thing ）
　　 Non undergraduate students need to pay attention to improving their academic qualifications
　　 Undergraduate students pay attention to ability and resume
　　 On the whole , Don't complain , Improve your ability , The current gap in the testing industry , In test development , Work hard ！
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