#AskRaghav | QA Career Roadmap | Roles in QA Testing team

Software Tester (Trainee)
Software Tester
Test/QA Analyst
Test/QA Engineer

*Management Path after QA Engineer:*
Test/QA Lead
Test/QA Manager
Sr Management Roles

*Technical Path after QA Engineer:*
Technical Lead
Expert
Test/Automation Architect
QA/Automation
DevOps
Performance
Security
Freelance work

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[vasanthkrishna]

Nice explanation of roles. I am noticing over last 3 years at least, that many companies are merging responsibilities at "Test Engineer" level. A person designated as "QA Engineer" or "Test Engineer" or "Test Automation Engineer" is expected to also undertake "Test Lead" roles on top of a "Test Analyst" duties. This way they are eliminating a separate "Lead" role and also saving cost. The next leap from there will be as a "Test Manager" or a "Project Manager".

[bhagyashrikatare]

Thanks, can you please make video on freelancing ? In detail, which websites are better for freelancing for tester in 2023/24

[abhishekkumar-jwrl]

Hi Raghav...Almost every companies wants QA to do both manual+automation...am into it since 8 years...selenium, cucumber BDD etc....work life balance is very low and moreover automation feels very boring after sometime...although not much work...but automating some complex workflow and cracking head for logic makes a morning 9am to night 10.30pm alternatives to this??

[SaurabhPi]

How can a Functional Tester (10+ years), who recently moved to a Lead Role, handle an Automation Team [about 8-10 Automation Testers (all having less than 2 years of experience)], when he / she doesn't have any prior automation hands-on experience ?

[Testing-iemo]

Thank you Raghav! You have taught me so much. Congrats on 420k Subs :]

[somdeepdutta]

Hi Raghav,
I have been in manual testing for almost 4 years. I want to switch to another company but those companies ask for both manual and automation, I don’t have any coding experience. How can I switch to another company or what course should I do so that I don’t have to think before switching?

[Wingsoftech]

Hi Raghav
I am Vishnu having aprox 6+ years of experience in QA Role.

1- I am bit confused about choosing the career path between QA Manager vs certified Scrum Master
As am more interested in process & execution as well as understanding the business concepts kind of stuffs instead of coding.

2-But I dont have much more idea about the pay scales between the QA Manager & scrum Master.

So please gives your opinion & suggest the best one.

[prakharshreshtha]

Thank you Raghav! I have a question - how is the career as test analyst ? Is it better than SDET in terms of growth and opportunities ?

[Karthickmasanmasan]

Hi Ragahv, perfectly explained. Could explain us on test tools and knowledge that is / will be in demand with Emerging Technologies like: Microservices, Kafka-Eventstreams and so on.

To take a fututre protected Testing career for a long run on Technical grounds.

[Harsh]

Why you didn't touch on the SDET role? Isn't that the most sought after role that is also the most challenging on the technical side of progression?

[Npte]

Hi Raghav, I want to move to management side, could you tell how to do the same or make a video on it on how to apply for this position in a new company please.

[kirilnavalihin]

Thank you, the material is very simply presented

[pranjalidatir]

Hi Raghav, I have 7 year experience in Manual testing, is Scrum master certification good for my profile. Or development experience is required to become scrum master.

[sumatamma]

Hi Raghav, I'm a senior test engineer ISTQB certified tester - manual side mostly. I want to move to management side. Can I go ahead n take CSM certification?!

[tanushreemukherjee]

Is it possible to switch to a software testing / QA profile after working in the aviation industry for 13 years with a non-technical background?

[hassansohail]

Hi Raghav, could u plz start teaching the pentesting on this channel as this field is in demand nowadays.
I have learnt alot from this channel. kindly teach us some pentesting tools like ZAP & Burpsuite.
Thanks.

[vaipadalkar]

Hi Raghav I’m a performance test engineer mostly Jmeter with 4 years of experience but now I’m feeling kinda stucked 😢
During my 4 year i have also done 2 selenium projects which are basic level. During my 4 year i continued studying java mostly from last 1.5year and now I’m good at things like advance java with jsp servlet and springboot currently in free time I’m studying DSA Algorithms
Can you please advice me whether switching to java backend will be a wise choice for me or not or please suggest me any alternate career path according to my skill sets
I’m so stuck with jmeter performance testing and basically I’m doing same tasks again and again but for different clients as I’m working in a service based company
Just to add one more point I’m completely out of touch with manual testing concepts basically i haven’t worked on anything like test case creation, test plan creation or any other things which come under manual testing
In my 4 years i have only done performance testing only with 2 basic automation projects

Any advice will be appreciated
Thanks 😊

[shinchannohara]

Hi Raghav, I'm trying to switch my present career from support associate to Software tester but I have no idea how to do that, One of my office colleagues from the product team recommended your video so here I am asking for your advice with software testing and from where I should start.
Thanks in advance

[SudhakarReddy-ocoi]

Hi Raghav, Need your suggestion about the scope of accessibility testing. Please post a query or video about the future scope of accessibility testing.

Thanks in advance

[praveenn.s]

Hi Raghav, is there any tool using which we can automate workflow apps? Or can we use selenium itself for automating workflow apps. Please suggest. Thanks in advance.