I keep seeing the QA teams being cut down in size. Was wondering if this is more of an industry trend.
Regarding pay: QAEs obviously paid less that developers, but in solid companies good QA can clear anywhere between 100-200K total. Regarding career prospects: There’s certainly an idea flying around that enough automation can substitute manual QA. Honestly, this idea is like 5 years old. Yet here we are. Also, 5 years before it everyone thought that enough cheap labor from India can substitute local QA teams. Yet here we are. PS: your poll is terrible, you’re asking 2 questions in title and giving one answer. There’s a future, but apparently not for you :-/. Also, TC or GTFO
It's a fine career if you have a specialty and can't be automated. If you're just doing misc testing it's probably dangerous. Companies will always need people with specialities to improve their products. Dev is more interesting tho...
There will be always QA It ain’t going nowhere It will always be paid less then developers And it will always be a more boring job with way less place for development
QA is outsourced to ICCs. And QA engineers are the first to be laid off
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No, QA gets paid less than engineering in software, and yes, there is a future in it (though not as high paying or glamorous). You don't need a poll for this tbh.
Can QAs realistically grow into a Director role at AMZN?
Less opportunity to take that role all the way to the top that way you could through principal engineer, but you can still translate yourself into a manager or non-IC role from QA engineer I'm sure