QA/SDET career path in companies.
What is the QA career path like in your companies? Is it forever in the QA stream till Director Qa) or do you have room to branch out laterally to Dev/Solutions/PM/TPM? Tagging 3 companies to start a conversation.
You can apply to anything internally. If you don't seek it, then you'll continue QA as ic or manager track.
And this is not just on paper but its fairly common for people to switch?
Most QA people like it. I'll be honest though, it's mostly Indians who stay as QA. I've seen just about every non Indian switch roles eventually.
I saw 1 SDET move laterally to SWE after a few years. That person did more automation and tool-building than actual testing/QA, and IMHO was stronger as a developer than the average for the role and level they were in.
No need to became a develop, QA/SDET manager/director is the best money/effort ratio.
Does Apple pay QA Managers the same as Dev Managers? I feel like a second class citizen at times.
No one else?
Where I work it's like this: 1. Entry level QA (usually internal transfers, basically just manual testers) 2. QA 2 (you can use postman and sql, you can do a little automation scripting) 3. At this point you can split into: -non-functional testing (performance, security, etc). -Automation stuff -Team-lead/ MGMT track
Hey were you able to move from QA to tpm role?
Why hasn't anyone responded to this question?