{"id":2160,"date":"2021-05-19T06:33:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T06:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2023-09-03T14:09:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T14:09:46","slug":"so-you-want-to-become-a-software-testing-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/so-you-want-to-become-a-software-testing-expert","title":{"rendered":"So you want to become a Software Testing Expert?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\"><\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute read<\/span><\/span>\n<p class=\"lead\">Software Testing is hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It involves hard work and dedication in learning the product, but also a huge attention to detail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Software Testing Engineer is the <strong>link between the Development Team and the Product Manager\/Owner<\/strong> and other stakeholders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Software Engineer in Test (SDET) should be well aware of the ins and outs of the product, its integrations with other services\/products, the strong and weak parts from a high level down to the code base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Should be well aware of new\/existing testing frameworks and testing techniques. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Should be able to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>organize and write test plans and test cases for various features and functionalities.<\/li><li>write unit tests, integration tests, UI functional tests.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/load-testing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">load test the APIs or web pages<\/a> of the application under test.<\/li><li>continuously improve the <a href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/page-speed-monitoring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">webpage speed and performance metrics<\/a>.<\/li><li>discover and report security issues on a continuous basis.<\/li><li>use or create from scratch testing automation frameworks (based on existing frameworks like <a href=\"https:\/\/coursinator.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/cypress-vs-testcafe-pros-and-cons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Cypress or TestCafe<\/a>).<\/li><li>challenge developers about potential issues that you discover in their code or in the user interface.<\/li><li>find and raise issues\/bugs in a clear way.<\/li><li>prioritise and plan along with the product and development team all the stories and task for the next release, quarter etc.<\/li><li>and many many others.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can see, this type of job is all about knowing a lot about your product, your team and your customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s linking people and discovering issues before reaching your customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a challenging type of job, but very rewarding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Written by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/coursinator.com\/instructor\/bogdan-vazzolla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Bogdan&nbsp;Vazzolla<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/\">LoadFocus<\/a>&nbsp;is a cloud testing platform,&nbsp;a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/load-testing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">load and stress testing tool<\/a>&nbsp;which provides the infrastructure to run tests with thousands of concurrent users, from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/locations\">multiple cloud locations<\/a>, in less than a few minutes, keep history of the results, compare different runs to inspect performance improvements or performance degradation.<\/em>&nbsp;<em>It also supports running&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/jmeter-load-testing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JMeter load tests from the cloud<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/page-speed-monitoring\">monitoring and audit web and mobile performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\"><\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute read<\/span><\/span>Software Testing is hard. It involves hard work and dedication in learning the product, but also a huge attention to detail. A Software Testing Engineer is the link between the Development Team and the Product Manager\/Owner and other stakeholders. The Software Engineer in Test (SDET) should be well aware of the ins and outs of&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/so-you-want-to-become-a-software-testing-expert\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read So you want to become a Software Testing Expert?\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,15,120,48,16],"tags":[352,303],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2751,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions\/2751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}