234 Answered Questions for the topic career development

05/17/19

Multiple product-specific QA teams vs a single generic QA team?
Our company has been growing and with it our products and the QA team. Our QA team previously has only handled a single "headline" company's product and had this "startup"-like flexible and agile... more
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Career Development Qa Developer

05/16/19

What should be the next steps for my career?
I had a computer science degree years ago and currently have 2.5 years full-time working experience at a Canadian Bank doing QA/Performance Testing using tools such as HP Loadrunner and Performance... more
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Career Development Manual Testing Automated Testing

05/16/19

How much manual testing does an automation tester perform in their job?
My manager has a mindset that automation engineers can be appointed a manual or automation project with same level of efficiency expectations. I certainly can do good enough at manual testing but... more
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Career Development Career Professional Education

05/14/19

Security Engineers - What Do They Do?
I'm starting my MS in Computer Science (I hold a BS currently) soon and I'm considering specializing in cyber security. I'll be taking courses such as cryptography, biometrics, network security,... more
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Career Development

05/13/19

Career Change in to Testing?
I've around 10+ years of experience in Banking operations including reconciliations, sales, customer services, asset management, and financial transaction QA. Coming to academics I've done my PG in... more
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Career Development Manual Testing

05/13/19

Which language would benefit in Software Testing career?
I'm Software Test Engineer and have 3+ years of experience. Still I haven't done any localization testing. As far I can guess, a tester should know the language to test the application for that... more
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Career Development Webdriver Interview

05/12/19

Webdriver + servlets, do they add up?
I was recently interviewed for a job as a developer in test, and the interviewer asked me if I had any previous experience with servlets. This questions was totally odd because they don't use... more
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Career Development Management Team Management Team

05/12/19

Strategies to building up reputation as a software tester in a team?
It is important to maintain good and productive professional relationship with the management, stakeholders and development team. Many things may depend on that, but, for this question, let's focus... more
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05/10/19

What is the advantage of choosing testing as compared to other career paths in Software Industry?
I have had many people tell me that I made a big mistake by choosing QA path in IT industry and that I will never get opportunities to grow as compared to developers and database experts.... more
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Career Development Career

05/10/19

confused: computer security & software development career tracks?
I'm a recent computer science graduate. I like computer security and want to be a security architect. I googled it and saw that the start point is to be a system administrator, but system... more
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Career Development Career Penetration Test

05/09/19

Fresh Graduate Going into Penetration Testing?
As a fresh graduate I'm wondering what my chances are of joining a great pen-testing group. Is there a risk that a career in pen-testing may one day not be needed? If so, how applicable will skills... more
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Career Development Resume Style

05/08/19

Should I indent when I write just a short sentence?
I'm writing a curriculum vitae and in **Special skills** section I wrote as the following: **8- Special skills** I have the following skills: - C++ - Objective-C Should I indent "I have... more
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Career Development Qa Developer

05/08/19

What should I do to get a job in QA? Do companies generally go for fresher as software testing engineer or QA?
I am a fresher and just completed my M.TECH COMPUTER I am very much interested in making my career in QA, I am fundamentally clear about all the testing and methods ..Can i choose it..? As a... more
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Career Development Career Appsec

05/06/19

AppSec interview questions?
I am preparing for a technical interview for an AppSec pen-testing position. For those of you that have had AppSec positions, what sharp-shooter questions do you think I can expect? What questions... more
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Career Development Career Penetration Test Attacks

05/05/19

How should one prepare himself for a job interview for penetration testing?
So, the title basically says it all. I would really like to hear out some of the more experienced friends here with their answers for this. - Should it revolve around the ability to verbally... more
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Career Development Career Savings Investing

05/04/19

Best way to start investing, for a young person just starting their career?
I am young, just started my career, and looking to begin investing so I can make my money work for me. I'm still living like I did in college (occasional purchase on myself, but most of it goes... more
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05/04/19

Will getting a Software Testing Certification benefit me in my career?
I have 2 years of experience in manual testing, and I am currently learning automation testing in my spare time. I was thinking that will getting a foundation/entry testing certification really... more
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Career Development Interview Bug Report Bug Priority

05/04/19

Is asking about "The most interesting bug in your career" a good interview question?
We've been interviewing for quite some time and I've been asking candidates: > What is the most interesting bug you've found in your career? Either the most interesting, or the one they are... more
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Career Development Qa Developer

05/02/19

Want to be a developer?
Currently I am a quality engineer and I am working as automation and white box tester. I create automation suite in java and do white box test of java application how can I jump to java or J2ee... more
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Career Development Resume Letter Cover Letter

05/02/19

I have/am - what are other short ways to not repeat this in a cover letter?
I use the GIS/Programing ones extensively. For a cover letter, what are ways that you can avoid repeating >I have done .... >I have experience with ... >I am experienced in... >...
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Career Development Career Risk Investing

05/02/19

High-risk investing is better for the young? Why?
I have heard statements such as the question's time. Basically, it's a financial motto: "If you're young, take on more risk." I don't really understand it. I figured risk-tasking is a... more
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05/01/19

Test Automation Engineer, no record-playback?
I want to become a test automation engineer in the future. The thing that is concerning me is this: I have always thought that test automation is using record-playback to test different... more
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Career Development Career Certification Academia

04/30/19

Information Security Career tracks - Academically vs. IT certifications?
I will try to be as straightforward as possible here. I am currently working as a security integrator at an integration company. I work with products of vendors like Check Point, Cisco, Juniper,... more
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Career Development Qa Developer

04/27/19

Can working in QA for a while make someone a better developer/engineer?
I was just wondering what type of skills gained in QA would help someone become a better software engineer/developer (if any)? I was talking to a fellow intern, and he told me that some of his... more
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Career Development Career Professional Education

04/27/19

What are my options for a career switch into IT Security?
I am currently working as a Software/Web Developer with around eight years experience, however I have always had an interest in IT Security and am now hoping to move my career in this direction. I... more
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