Career pathway for software testers
Software testing offers a rewarding and structured career path with clearly defined roles and qualifications.
Demand for skilled software testers is growing rapidly* with terrific employment opportunities ahead for qualified test professionals.
Software testing combines the financial benefits of working in a specialist area with recognised pathways for advancement, from hands on testing to leadership roles where you manage budgets, people and projects.
Software Testers earn above the national average wage and are just as likely to be female as they are male*.
Career pathway
At entry level as a Tester, you’ll primarily be performing test execution and acquiring niche skills to ensure systems meet performance standards required by the business and end-user.
Progressing to Test Analyst and then on to Senior Test Analyst, you’ll work on more complex scenarios, become involved in requirements analysis and test case design as well as execution. As a Test Analyst you’ll also be able to become involved in the specialist areas of Test Automation and Performance and as a Senior Test Analyst you’ll start taking responsibility for junior staff.
Eventually, you could be promoted to Test Consultant or Senior Test Consultant, senior roles with responsibility for managing teams and strategy, aligning test projects with business objectives.
*source: www.joboutlook.gov.au
Formal qualifications
In the past 10 years there’s been a growing shift to higher quality in IT and demand for skilled software testing staff. This has resulted in new opportunities for skills formalisation with internationally recognised qualifications available from practitioner to advanced level.
Correspondingly, accreditation covers a variety of test methods; unit testing, integration testing, system testing, acceptance testing, functional testing, non functional and regression testing.
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