Moving out of testing into other roles

[jesper (Jesper Ottosen)]

hi @monsieurfrench,

I’m sure most of us move into different roles, sometimes slowly other times more deliberately. Sometimes we move back too. Here are some similar threads:

What does your career path look like at your company?

Charles Penn recently asked a great question about career paths. How does it work at your company? Some of the responses. Test Engineer 1 → Test Engineer 2 → Senior Test Engineer Junior QA → Mid → Senior → Team Lead → QA manager Junior QA → SDET → Senior SDET → Tech Lead → Principle/architect SDET I → II → III - Senior → Technical Lead or Principal What does the career path look like at your company or companies you’ve previously worked at? How have they helped? How did they hinder?

Testers career path

Hello dears, what is the best career path for a tester? from lowest to highest level.

There could be at least these paths, besides what is mentioned already:

• Senior or staff-level testing roles, if available in the company
• Leadership of the testing activities, quality coach, if available in context (Me)
• Management of teams, Engineering management level (1-1, hire-fire,…)
• Regulatory compliance (EUGDPR, EU-NIS2, …) (Me)
• Platform engineering and tooling

Even if testing is in your blood - you cannot be in it forever. We have to learn to build the next generation and let them run the ship. For our own health.