I explore QA/Tester SEiT open positions from time to time and I noticed that there are less and less of them, especially in potentially interesting places.
Do you have QA in your team? Of no, may I ask why?
Ask HN: Is QA/Tester profession dead?
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#2QA have moved into data scrapping and cleaning for big data experts.
We don't have QA because customer service marketing and engineering do all QA. Correcting each other's mistake through a discourse.
Most of that design is created by UX/UK expert then fronted guys follow exactly that.
Why waste additional money on QA.
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#3Not in East Europe it is not.
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#4We have, and other companies around here have as well (Thailand).
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#5I think QA is still a very important role in a serious company, we still have a lot of QAs in the company I work in.
We developers do write tests but that is usually not enough and QA always founds meaningful bugs.
IMO a good QA team is still really valuable.
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#6For many, the QA/tester was someone not worthy of being a developer because of not having sufficient programming skills. Nowadays the testing frameworks (web front-end!) got so complex and testing stacks so hysterical that QA/tester job is basically full time development job. Thus, developers do the QA/tester job nowadays (which doubles their work).
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#7QA (both embedded and external) is extremely far from dead in the game dev industry at least.
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#8Management may not see it that way, but a cunning, experienced tester is invaluable.
The nature of testing may have changed.
For one, the approach to testing is different with more smaller iterations and more powerful automation.
For another, better automation has split testing into more of an automated test developer/pipeline plumber part and an exploratory (manually testing the juicy stuff, the boring routine is handled by automation) part.
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#9QA (both embedded and external) is extremely far from dead in the game dev industry at least.
I am very interested in how game dev does e2e testing. Arent there millions of strategies that players can follow and the games must therefore respond consistently in all these scenarios ? How is this type of combinatorial explosion avoided ? Any references ?
Re: Ask HN: Is QA/Tester profession dead?
#10For many, the QA/tester was someone not worthy of being a developer because of not having sufficient programming skills. Nowadays the testing frameworks (web front-end!) got so complex and testing stacks so hysterical that QA/tester job is basically full time development job. Thus, developers do the QA/tester job nowadays (which doubles their work).
I didnt know this perception existed. I believe QA would be crucial in avoiding disastrous customer interactions (customers get ticked by the slightest bugs ) and in mission critical software. Didnt a QA guy find out about the bugs in Ubers self driving car dep and Uber still ignored it and then killed a pedestrian ?