From just entering the testing industry to doubling my salary: talk about my advanced testing experience, which is worth learning from

Engaged in testing 3 In more than , Today, I want to talk about the comparison between the present and the past when I first started , Although there is little achievement now , I can only say and laugh about my testing career , You should make complaints about at leisure. , In addition, I also want to write about my workplace feelings , I hope it can be helpful or enlightening to the young partners who are just starting to work .

Reason for selecting test ？

I majored in computer in College , about IT Internet industry , That's an orthodox academic background , In my senior year, I joined a large software company for internship , Develop the company's own products , An online management software .

Each team is the shoulder of the owl world , Work until midnight , I'm an intern , Leaving early doesn't seem hard enough , Can only follow the hard boil , Fortunately, I took care of my team leader at that time , Let me get off work early , But in fact, in the past six months of internship , I didn't get off work on time .

Write here , You also understand why I entered the testing industry , Because the development community , I can't carry it ！“ It takes a good blacksmith to make steel. ” Is it right? ？ My own conditions are not good , Sleep deprivation , bear , Especially staying up late before publishing , That thrilling scene （ In fact, it turns out that , So is the test ）, Forgive me, I can only retreat in the face of difficulties .

Of course, later I learned that not all development is like this , My team at that time , They are all very dedicated , As they say , Once the code starts , It entered the realm of human code integration , Staying up late is just an unintentional act .

Enter the test boundary

Enter the testing world , In fact, it's also because of the company mentioned earlier , There is an older colleague , Job hopping. , Went to a company with dozens of people , Let me go there and follow him after graduation , I said I quit development , Too tiring , I didn't expect him to say that I would go to his place for a test , The test is simple . So I agreed .

So my first job after graduation , Just a black box tester . I only know the location of machinery every day , So that the brain is becoming more and more idiotic , In my eyes , There are only two kinds in the world BUG： Big BUG And small BUG.

In addition to causing downtime 、 Flash back 、 The infinite loop BUG It's big BUG, The others are small BUG, Later, in docking with programmers , got it fatal error、warning wait , I suddenly realized ！ How come I'm also an orthodox major in Computer Science , How can I put error I forgot the grade ！ It's a little silly ！

I used to feel very happy to detect a fatal error , Feel like you've done something big , Show off and develop , I don't think so now , Because every time this problem occurs , Development needs to be adjusted for a long time , Then I have to rack my brains to reproduce the problem , After debugging, you have to test endlessly , Now? , I just want less BUG Why .

Time is long. , Repeat every day , It makes me feel like a walking corpse who can only operate mechanically , I suddenly realized , The work is meaningless , And it's too monotonous , I need progress and new opportunities .

There was another reason to make progress at that time , It's about salary , I was holding 5K What's the salary for more money , Compared with those in the class who are engaged in development , It's really low , It makes me feel bad , I feel like I'm falling behind , Will be looked down upon , Like the lyrics ： Life is more than just living in front of you , And poetry and distant white eyes （ sorry , I can't help adapting ）.

Start to advance

So I began to look for ways to make progress , Start studying various tools ,Postman、Fiddler、Jmeter、Selenium、Appium, Anyway, you can get it online , It's all over , Find these tools , It's very simple and practical to use , It must be easy to get started , At the same time, I began to write my own code , At least don't leave behind what you learned in College , at that time python Tried to write （ The project of your team uses python Written ）, Try to change the style of the front end , It's easy , browser F12, You can change it on it .

Premise BUG Just say that the height of the box is wrong , Now I will say ：overflow Didn't write 、 Box level z-index No, wait , In short, that is , I can point out your shortcomings , I can also provide modification suggestions , This is very fulfilling for me , It can also be seen from the silent attitude of development , My position was elevated all of a sudden ！

Of course, I'm not in a hurry to change jobs , I began to test our project with various tools , I also gave a lot of suggestions to the Department Manager , At that time, the manager should not know much about testing , I was also stunned by what I said , So that when I offered to leave , He resolutely retained me , Doubled my salary .

The current situation

Yes , I'm still in this company .

Three years , The company has also grown from dozens of people to hundreds of people , It's common for technicians to jump around , Most stay for a long time , See too many people coming and going , I've become an old employee . Now there are also two test team leaders ！

The manager listened to my previous advice , Start paying attention to software testing , It's good and bad , Well, the status is high , Wages have gone up , Software is also becoming more perfect , The bad thing is that the responsibility is greater , The task is also heavy , Especially before publishing, you have to stay up late .

The salary of ten thousand pieces may not be high in the testing industry , But I'm already very satisfied , It mainly depends on personal choice , Here are my familiar colleagues , There are businesses I am familiar with , If you can , I hope to stay and grow with the company . I can't help sighing , I'm really a passionate person ！

Workplace advice

No matter what job ：

The first important thing must be a solid technical and theoretical foundation . I have excellent skills , Wherever you go, you can get through the wind and water .

The second important thing is personal business ability , Or communication skills . Having a good interpersonal relationship is equal to having a good working atmosphere , Basically, all work is team work , You can't avoid getting along with others , Without a good atmosphere , How hard it is to stay , The atmosphere is good , Work efficiency will also improve a lot , As the Internet says ： How to distinguish whether a team is good or bad , A good team means that both leaders and subordinates think each other is very good , A bad team is one in which both leaders and subordinates feel that the other is SB.

The third important thing is the ability to understand . Everyone likes to draw inferences from others , conversely , No one will be happy to work with a person who has to speak many times to understand , Unless you two really have a surprisingly good relationship . People with good comprehension ability can smoothly understand the business logic of the whole team project , Even how it works , Even if the team changes blood , Don't be afraid that you or the new team can't figure out the business logic line , Such people are often the talents that the company needs to grasp .

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