5-year-old Test Engineer - how to choose the next step?

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Preface

One 、 Can we continue the test ？ The answer is No

Two 、 Can I change my career to development ？ The answer depends on the situation

3、 ... and 、 Why consider test development ？ Because the risk is the lowest

Four 、 How to move towards test development , Is there any reliable way ？

Conclusion

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Preface

Four years of testing , No accumulated programming script ability and automation experience , Language skills are required when looking for a job , Automation framework .
I feel it's easy to find a job by developing the experience accumulated by my colleagues .
next step , Find a way to transfer to the development post or continue to test ？？？

Under normal circumstances , With 5 Years of experience as a test engineer , Should be able to reach the level of intermediate test engineer . As a junior and intermediate test engineer, the next step is to turn to development or continue to test , My personal suggestion is to do test development （ In short, it is to understand the testing of development ）！

This article will consist of the following 4 Part to expand ：

1. Can we continue the test ？

2. Can I change my career to development ？

3. Why do you suggest changing to test and development ？

4. How to move towards test development , Is there any reliable way ？

One 、 Can we continue the test ？ The answer is No

The test mentioned here refers to ordinary “ Manual testing ”, If you just do ordinary manual testing , Just mechanically every day “ Dot ”, It's unrealistic to want to get a high salary . Even if you work for a long time , But most people still stay in the stage of junior test engineer . And as you grow older, you will find that you are less and less competitive , Younger than you 、 A dynamic 、 More overtime 、 Cost effective test engineers can replace you in minutes . It can be seen that this road will not work ...

Two 、 Can I change my career to development ？ The answer depends on the situation

Whether you can change your career for development depends on your actual situation , Then what situation is suitable for development ？ What situation is not suitable ？

If you have strong programming ability 、 Also interested in coding , It is entirely possible to switch to development , And after development, you will have a deeper understanding of the underlying implementation principle of the program , Plus the more rigorous work style when doing the test , It can make the code implementation more comprehensive and detailed .

If we say that we have done testing work for four years , But I haven't accumulated programming experience in test scripts , Then you can also think that you are in the stage without any programming experience . In this case, we need to consider carefully whether to change careers for development , Because you don't know your programming skills 、 What is the level of logical thinking ability , And development involves coding every day , You're not sure if you're interested in coding in the future . If this is indeed the case at present , Then how to choose ？ It is suggested to keep looking down ...

3、 ... and 、 Why consider test development ？ Because the risk is the lowest

1、 What is test development ？ 

Test development is simply to be able to test and understand development . Take a quick look , Isn't that more stressful ？！ No no no , Because in The application of development technology in the testing position is much simpler than that in the development position （ Except for some special scenes ）.

From a risk perspective , Moving from testing to test development is less risky than moving directly to development . Because the transition from testing to test development can be slow , For example, you can learn a programming language first , Then learn another UI Automated testing framework , So you can start doing automated testing , In the process of doing it, I also cultivate my own programming ability , You can even test whether you are really suitable for programming . If you do have good coding ability , Also interested in coding , Then you can move towards pure test development .

2、 Why is test development important ？

Imagine a tester who doesn't know anything about development , It is impossible to deeply understand the system implementation logic , So it's unrealistic to test all the problems in the software ！ therefore There are a large number of test and development positions in the market

open BOSS Direct employment 、 zhaopin 、 Pull hook and other recruitment platforms , We can see that there are many test development positions . If test development is not important , So why are so many companies recruiting test and development employees ？

 3、 Why do you say that test development can get a high salary ？

The test and development position has higher skill requirements for Software Test Engineers , Not only should you have the skills to test , And develop skills . Always believe that there is no shortage of high paying jobs in today's society , It's just a lack of people who can get a high salary .

at present The work of test development mainly includes the development of test tools 、 Development of test platform 、 The construction of test framework, etc . These jobs can serve ordinary testers , Improve the efficiency of testing , Create value for the company .

On the one hand, the test and development market is scarce , On the one hand, it can really create value for the company , As a result, the salary of test development is very high , See the following test development report ：

Four 、 How to move towards test development , Is there any reliable way ？

How to become a real test development engineer , What hard skills are needed ？

On the path of test development , It requires more expertise , More comprehensive ：

Improve the testing technology system ：Linux、docker、shell、SQL、Python/java
Lay a solid foundation of automatic test technology ：
web automated testing ：selenium The test framework ;PageObject Design patterns 、 principle 、 rehearse ;
APP automated testing ：Android Automated testing framework ;appium Advanced application in principle analysis ;APP Automation test practice ; Test framework package transformation ;ios automated testing ;
Mobile special test ： robustness test 、 Weak network test 、 Crash detection 、 Power consumption analysis, etc ; Mobile performance test ; Mobile security test ;=
Interface automation testing ： Interface protocol and packet capture 、 Agent technology and mock; Interface automation test framework 、HTTPrunner The test framework ;dubbo Interface automation testing ; Interface management tool swagger、 Interface security test
docker Container technology ：docker Containers 、docker Mirror image ;
Continuous integration / Continuous delivery /devops：jenkins Continuous integration ;Jenkins Continuous delivery ;

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