After a talk this afternoon at a school by Tezza Business solutions CEO Roland Omoresemi I get a hint that there is a future in software testing both in our continent and the world as a whole.
Software testers are people meant to test software of errors and help in getting errors at a comfortable early stage easing the need for spending lots of money and resources on damage control over errors that would have been earlier detected.
Some important traits of a software tester are
· Analysis skills
· Attention to detail
· Inquisitive
· Technical skills
· Qualitative way of thought
Apple after the release of ipod4 had late problem eruptions which cost them a sum of 128million USD,
a sum which according to Mr. Roland was way above what they would have spent in repairing the problem
had it been discovered before rolling out of the market. Generally how he put it is that software testers
are a necessary part of our future developing. Software Testing apparently grows at 50% annually a
rate that is much more than software developing by a huge gap. His idea of sourcing for software
testers fresh from university is brilliant since this is the only place to get the large number of
people whose demand continues to grow daily.
According to indeed.com as at today 12:00am there are 7,985 job vacancies for software
testers over the whole world. This I consider a great field to venture in since the number of
institutes providing software testing as a course is also limited to mean that
not many software testers are produced at each graduation.
The sustainability of the career is again secure since there will be software developing more and
More and since the last part of the SDLC is maintenance, this means that different testing
Will be taking place to improve the software.
Word is, Mr. Roland got me thinking of an option for my career,
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