Whether you’re focused on testing, leadership, product management, or specialised engineering roles, Oleksandr offers valuable insights to help you navigate your career.
What You’ll Learn:
The key career paths in software testing, including moving from QA engineer to software engineer in test, or switching to roles like product manager or business analyst.
How to progress from junior to senior roles and what challenges to expect as you move up the ladder.
How your testing skills can open doors to new opportunities in business analysis, project management, and more.
How leadership roles in testing can coexist with hands-on technical work and how to scale your impact as a Staff+ engineer.
After reading, share your thoughts:
What career path are you most interested in and why?
Have you recently made a career switch in testing, and what was your experience?
I don’t see people as constants. Their life, meaning, desires, expectations, their location, the IT availabilities in the area, the strength of IT and competitivity, expectations of companies in the area, social and financial situations change over time.
I doubt a career is a straight line that one chooses, unless the career/title of a job is all one wants in life.
At various times:
I used to value highly demanding, stressing, lots of pressure, complex environments where there was a lot to learn, fail, show my strength.
I liked places with poor testing, testers, management.
I wanted to test all kinds of apps on different platforms, domains, company sizes, locations around the world.
I wanted growth in a company and role.
I wanted money, as I found out this career as a tester it’s just a loop, going nowhere, so I have to find a way to break the loop through financial means.
I wanted to be part of a strong development team and grow fast.
I wanted to experience what else is outside of testing where I can make a difference in improving the quality of the product, project, people, company, so I went and done tasks from over 10 other roles (by learning and gaining the confidence of dev team peers and managers to allow me to do so)
More recently I am kind of a pensionary, having been through most of what I wanted/needed, I just live my work life in a boring way until something external happens to me.
The key career paths in software testing, including moving from QA engineer to software engineer in test, or switching to roles like product manager or business analyst.
How to progress from junior to senior roles and what challenges to expect as you move up the ladder.
How your testing skills can open doors to new opportunities in business analysis, project management, and more.
How leadership roles in testing can coexist with hands-on technical work and how to scale your impact as a Staff+ engineer.