Your career after Software Testing

Software Testing is an activity which aims at the evaluation of an attribute and checks the capability of a program and ensures that it meets the desired results. The main purpose of testing could be quality assurance, verification and validation, or reliability estimation. Software testing is basically an investigation to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under test.

Software testing ensures that:

• It meets the requirements that guided its design and development
• Works as expected
• It can be implemented with the same characteristics

Types of software testing

• Manual software testing: It is being done by a man. It is conducted by a tester who runs the software for errors.
• Automated software testing: It is a step-by-step guide to the most effective tools, techniques, and methods for automated testing.

Eligibility

To be eligible for this program, following eligibility conditions are must:

• B.E (all streams), B.Tech, BCS, BSc, BCA, MCS, MCM, MCA or Equivalent with IT experience of 0-5 years
• Basic Knowledge of "C" Language
• Exposure to VB, Java, Oracle and other languages is an added advantage

Career Prospects

It is one of the most sought after fields of IT domain and it provides well paid jobs to students. It's a buoyant market and the demand for software testers remains high.

After completing the program in software testing, one can plan his/her career as:

• Reliability Engineer
• Software Quality Engineer
• Software test lead
• Software test manager
• Software test architect
• Software test designer
• Quality Manager
• Quality Engineer
• Quality Auditor
• Quality Technician