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Sup Coli brother and sisters...
I see a lot of people on this site that work regular jobs and maybe struggling with bills and sick of living check to check...
Get into the Quality Assurance Engineer/Analyst, it pays well.
Quality Assurance Analyst Salary
To get started learn:
- Software Development Life Cycle (google this for now, I will update with notes)
SDLC: SOFTWARE DEV LIFE CYCLE: The process of formal, logical steps to develop quality software. 8 phases:
1 - PLANNING
- Conducted by project managers
- DEFINE THE SYS TO BE DEVELOPED
- SCOPE OF PROJECT
- PROJECT PLAN
- Who is involved
- what they are doing
- when they should be done
2- ANALYSIS: End users and IT specialists working to gather understand, and document biz req's. Once requirements defined, end-users sign off indicating approval.
3- DESIGN: build a technical blueprint of how the proposed system will work
- Technical architects perform most of this step
- Compile:
- Hardware
- software
- supporting systems
4 - DEVELOPMENT
- Take design docs from the design phase and transform them into an actual system
- create Dbases and write any necessary software programs.
5- TESTING:
- Verifies system works and meets biz req's as defined in analysis
- develop detailed test conditions (the detailed steps the sys must perform and expected results of each step)
- conduct the test.
6- DEPLOYMENT:
- distribute systm to knowledge workers (usu. end-users, proj. managers, etc) and begin using the sys to perform their jobs
- provide user documentation to KWs which explain how to use the system
- provide training
- Stress/Load testing
7- PRODUCTION:
- release date
- creation of systems to be released to end-user
8- MAINTENANCE:
- monitor and support system
- help desk is set up
- change sys as biz changes
Will Add more info periodically...
- Software Testing Life Cycle
- Learn different methodologies used to develop software (focus on waterfall and Agile Scrum)
- Learn What are requirements? both functional and non functional requirements?
- Learn how to create a test strategy, test plan and test cases/scenarios
Learn the following tools:
-HP ALM HP Quality Center Tutorials - Learn HP ALM/QC in 7 Days
-JAVA (Basic concepts) Java Tutorial
-http://qtpselenium.com/selenium-training/selenium-tutorial/selenium-training-java-part-1
- JIRA (what it's used for and how to use it in Agile Methodology)
-JAWS, WAVE and 508 Compliance
I suggest you study for 6 months (including interview questions they ask) and dig deep and get yourself a nice resume and start digging up jobs on Dice.com and Indeed.com
By no means am I saying this is easy but I will say this, I know people getting 70k jobs, 95 k jobs, 115 k jobs...from entry to senior level...beautiful thing about this, as much as you study, the more you can ask for in pay.
Also helps if you are willing to relocate.
Hope my coli fam appreciates this.
P.S. Reason I'm sharing this is because I am currently on the market for a business analyst job and mastering QA tools because i will get more money...industry is seeking Business System Analyst...the more I know the more I get paid. I hope to land a position within the next 3 to 6 months...
I see a lot of people on this site that work regular jobs and maybe struggling with bills and sick of living check to check...
Get into the Quality Assurance Engineer/Analyst, it pays well.
Quality Assurance Analyst Salary
To get started learn:
- Software Development Life Cycle (google this for now, I will update with notes)
SDLC: SOFTWARE DEV LIFE CYCLE: The process of formal, logical steps to develop quality software. 8 phases:
1 - PLANNING
- Conducted by project managers
- DEFINE THE SYS TO BE DEVELOPED
- SCOPE OF PROJECT
- PROJECT PLAN
- Who is involved
- what they are doing
- when they should be done
2- ANALYSIS: End users and IT specialists working to gather understand, and document biz req's. Once requirements defined, end-users sign off indicating approval.
3- DESIGN: build a technical blueprint of how the proposed system will work
- Technical architects perform most of this step
- Compile:
- Hardware
- software
- supporting systems
4 - DEVELOPMENT
- Take design docs from the design phase and transform them into an actual system
- create Dbases and write any necessary software programs.
5- TESTING:
- Verifies system works and meets biz req's as defined in analysis
- develop detailed test conditions (the detailed steps the sys must perform and expected results of each step)
- conduct the test.
6- DEPLOYMENT:
- distribute systm to knowledge workers (usu. end-users, proj. managers, etc) and begin using the sys to perform their jobs
- provide user documentation to KWs which explain how to use the system
- provide training
- Stress/Load testing
7- PRODUCTION:
- release date
- creation of systems to be released to end-user
8- MAINTENANCE:
- monitor and support system
- help desk is set up
- change sys as biz changes
Will Add more info periodically...
- Software Testing Life Cycle
- Learn different methodologies used to develop software (focus on waterfall and Agile Scrum)
- Learn What are requirements? both functional and non functional requirements?
- Learn how to create a test strategy, test plan and test cases/scenarios
Learn the following tools:
-HP ALM HP Quality Center Tutorials - Learn HP ALM/QC in 7 Days
-JAVA (Basic concepts) Java Tutorial
-http://qtpselenium.com/selenium-training/selenium-tutorial/selenium-training-java-part-1
- JIRA (what it's used for and how to use it in Agile Methodology)
-JAWS, WAVE and 508 Compliance
I suggest you study for 6 months (including interview questions they ask) and dig deep and get yourself a nice resume and start digging up jobs on Dice.com and Indeed.com
By no means am I saying this is easy but I will say this, I know people getting 70k jobs, 95 k jobs, 115 k jobs...from entry to senior level...beautiful thing about this, as much as you study, the more you can ask for in pay.
Also helps if you are willing to relocate.
Hope my coli fam appreciates this.
P.S. Reason I'm sharing this is because I am currently on the market for a business analyst job and mastering QA tools because i will get more money...industry is seeking Business System Analyst...the more I know the more I get paid. I hope to land a position within the next 3 to 6 months...
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