Career options in testing services

Testing professionals can choose from various career paths—technical, architect, consulting, and project management—to move forward in their careers. The Social media, Mobility, Analytics, and Cloud (SMAC) world today has made QA even more important. The cost of failure in the digital world today is very high, particularly when one includes the reputational damages, which have made robust QA processes essential. The agile and DevOps world has not eliminated the need for testing; rather, such testing is carried out in sprints, with increased sprints driving the need for more testing and automation. The testing profession has continued to adapt to the rapidly changing needs of dynamic business and the various development methodologies used.

Practitioners in testing services can progress their careers by doing the following:

• Cultivating knowledge in a diverse set of testing solutions, processes, tools, methods, architectures, and disciplines...