At the age of 26, I was transferred to software testing with zero foundation. Now I have successfully entered the job with a monthly salary of 12K. However, no one understands my bitterness

This article is definitely not feeding chicken soup , But tell you the real way to change your career . A little longer , Please take a closer look

Some people will go ashore easily .

Some people will struggle to get ashore .

Some people drown in the water .

I'm the one struggling to get ashore .

I used to work in Finance , Later, I changed my profession by myself and became a soft test programmer , Engaged in software testing 4 year , At present, I am deeply engaged in test and development

There happened to be several college students working in Internet companies , They are all engaged in IT Of technical work , And they all got a good salary, much higher than me ,“ I decided to change my career IT industry , At that time, it was all about money to change careers “, I thought the financial salary was too low , Not suitable for boys , I just want to change my career .

I've also seen a bit of development related content , In contrast, I think the work is harder than the test , Learning is also more difficult , I'm not a computer related major myself , I think software testing is more suitable for me . Later, in the process of learning , Find yourself interested in this area , So I persisted .

At that time, I thought it would cost 4-6 A month's time cost , In addition, I'm not sure about myself , After considering all aspects , I still adopted the way of self-study , I searched some resources on the Internet , Use your spare time to study every day , It took half a year , Successful entry .

Give you a dry product , It's some learning materials I collected during my study , There is no problem if you want to learn by yourself , Larger files , You can enter the exchange group and find the group leader to share for free .

Non professional background in job interview , The most common problem is to be hit by the interviewer , I also shared my experience on this ：

• State of mind ：

Mentality must be good , Be confident , Treat the interview as a learning process , Leak filling , With more and more interviews , You'll learn more , It's natural to go back , Most of the technical questions in the interview can be answered , If you meet an interviewer with poor quality , Keep hitting you , Don't rest assured , Be confident ！

• attitude ：

Attitude should be sincere and correct , Remember the questions you won't ask during the interview or record the whole interview process , You can even ask the interviewer on the spot , Let him answer for you and give you advice , After going back, summarize and adjust these problems or recordings , Don't just finish it , Go back and don't look for answers to unanswered questions .

In my submission The charm of programmers is that they can create unlimited possibilities , It's an industry that can change the world . I suggest you join the industry , Be proactive in the company , Ask more and learn more , The pattern should be big , Don't just keep your one-third of an acre , Can understand other businesses of the company , Finally, we must take the initiative to learn technology , Improve their technical ability and competitiveness , So you can get a high salary in the future , Will not be eliminated by this industry ！

Ask if you don't regret becoming a programmer after changing careers , I'll be honest No regrets , Because I have chosen to continue to deepen in this industry, and there is no initial uncertainty . A good programmer should remain self driven , And full of enthusiasm and interest in this industry , Otherwise, it's hard to get along , It's best to specialize in one field , here we are 30 Years old is the crossroads , Choose your route , Whether to continue technology or management , I always thought people who were optimized , It must be someone with insufficient technical ability .

As the saying goes, men are afraid of entering the wrong line 、 Women are afraid of marrying the wrong man . stay 26 This golden age began to seek change , It's actually a very good choice . Back to the question itself , Many people still have a lot of confusion when they decide to enter this industry , Let me give you some practical advice ：

One 、26 Is the software test suitable for changing careers at the age of ？

26 year Generally speaking, it means graduating from college or college 3 About years ago , Have certain working experience and experience , At the same time, some edges and corners are retained .25 It can only be said that your life has just started , The reason for this age level concern is that various Internet reports advocate everywhere 35 Age crisis , In fact, there will be crises in any industry , How to get through these so-called crises smoothly , The key point is whether you have relevant Core competitiveness .

stay 26 The age of , Be aware of the bottleneck and crisis of industry development and actively change the demand , In fact, it is very valuable , Don't be paralyzed by easy life , You need to keep your learning ability , Because the future is full of changes and opportunities .

Two 、26 How to change careers at the age of zero ？

I have some suggestions for changing careers on a zero basis , I hope it can help you change your career smoothly .

• Find a suitable learning material ： Can be in b Stand and find a material that you are interested in and can learn , There are a lot of online materials. Many children will find a lot of materials when they study by themselves , Think the more the better , It's not , Find a relatively complete material to read , Have a complete learning system

• Do more exercises to consolidate your knowledge ： Most of the time, self learners will brush the interview questions first , I suggest more practice to consolidate the knowledge , This is very helpful to improve skills and technologies , Otherwise, it's easy to get into a misunderstanding, and you'll , A vicious circle of waste after practice .

• Find a learning group to communicate with each other to make up for their shortcomings ： In the process of self-study, there are often problems that you don't understand , Baidu won't solve your difficult problems at once , Add more groups with big men to communicate with each other , The big man instructs us to avoid detours

You can try to join this exchange group ：1079636098 Communicate and discuss with me , Don't fight alone , Grow together , And Daniel's advice , Can walk a lot of detours less ！ There are free videos and testing resources at all stages in the group , I hope it can help you break through the bottleneck

3、 ... and 、 What kind of person is suitable for software testing ？

The threshold for software testing is low , The requirements of general enterprises for software test engineers are ： College degree or above ; There are not too many professional requirements ; Familiar with common techniques of software testing 、 Method 、 technological process , Familiar with automated testing （ It's hot at the moment ）; Have corresponding business knowledge ……

therefore , For many non computer professional zero foundation friends who want to switch to software testing , at present , This industry is very tolerant of people with non professional backgrounds , As long as you master the relevant knowledge and Technology , Have the ability to solve practical problems .

Four 、 Can you find a good job after studying ？

It's hard to find a job , The present situation is ： There are many employment opportunities in the first and second tier cities , Good job hunting , The third and fourth lines are not very good . secondly , Look at the personal segment , Pure functional testing is now saturated , It's hard to find a job , Pay back , But if the interface 、 performance 、 In terms of Automation , The job is easy to find , And the salary can easily exceed 10000 .

Share a few lessons on software testing career planning , I strongly suggest you take a look at , Help you understand the establishment of software testing learning plan and method , It also includes the test process 、 Explanation of test cases 、 Novice complete learning route .

5、 ... and 、 Test related salary Introduction

Primary test

• The market ： About more than half of the current market , Just a little Engineer ;
• treatment ：4-10k, It also depends on the city ;
• requirement ： Project experience , Understand product business requirements and development process . Can write test documents and use cases ;
• characteristic ： Work is boring, repeat work every day , Don't need to know too much technology , Relatively few tools are used in daily work , Need some databases , There are many outsourcing companies .

Intermediate test + automation

• The market ： In the market, it accounts for about 20%
• treatment ：8-15k It also depends on the city
• requirement ： In fact, you can refer to the recruitment software for more information JD, Need more project experience in function , And the use of open source tools ,postman、jmeter、mysql、Linux、python; It also needs auxiliary testing and some simple programming , The interface needs to know something ;
• characteristic ： Can achieve simple automation ,demo level , Know where to find fragment code on the Internet , You may have a poor understanding of the principles of the framework .

Advanced testing + Interface + automation

• The market ：10-15%
• treatment ：10-25k
• requirement ： Programming language （ A door ）, Proficient in automated testing ,UI+ Interface +web Understand the automation code , When receiving the project, be able to independently build the test framework used by the team , Take new people to write automatic tests in modules , Can build a set of efficient landing test scheme , Write some scripts , It's easy to use a framework ;

You can see that , The more skills you master , The higher the pay .

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