How easy is it to get manual QA jobs in Bay area? YOE: 4 Skills: SQL, Android apps testing, Bluetooth HW device testing, Atlassian tools (confluence JIRA etc)
Manual QA/testing is uncommon in more modern tech hubs. At least learn some scripting/Selenium/something to have a more competitive and useful resume.
Exclusively manual QA would be hard to come by. Manual with test automation is far more common. Exclusive manual testing is what PM’s are for.
What kind of place has PMs doing testing? That sounds really strange.
I mean some amount of that is expected of literally anyone doing living on in the entire engineering staff. I don’t think that counts as manual testing so much as not being completely ducking blind to bad parts of the product, which I entirely agree is part of the job of literally anyone and everyone who has access to it before it ships? How were your EPMs involved beyond normal living on?
Manual QA hiring is dead
OP, how did you get a job at NetApp then?
Sry for lack of clarity. This is for my spouse.
I would suggest your spouse learns at least python. Coding is now one of the base criteria’s in big tech for qa. It doesn’t have to be framework level, but the candidate should be able to understand the basic data structure and work with it at script level.
In Bay area, we try to automate everything.
Sadly, we are probably still the company putting the most effort in testing. Have you ever had a chance to talk with FB folks?
You'll have to join Oracle for that. (evil laugh)
Apple
Manual QA job? Is that like a hand job?
For full time it’s extremely difficult without more extensive coding experience. I was a qa manager at Facebook and Snapchat and I have a few friends in QA roles at apple and none would hire FTE that doesn’t at least know Java or python or something to right automation in, contract roles, all the big companies have spots for manual QA! This is just my own experience, I’m sure others have different ones.
So it's not hard to find a contractual manual qa job in your opinion?
For Apple, the one exception is if you worked in Retail at an Apple Store and did a Career Experience in corporate (essentially a manual QA internship). The people doing CE’s did not have technical backgrounds but were able to get manual QA jobs at Apple. Whatever floats their boat I guess.