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Should I take a job as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer?

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Hi, I just got offered a job as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer. It pays $25/hr +training, which is good.....but, I just graduated with a EE degree and have little programming experience. I don't know how I got the job, since I only took one introduction to java class. Can anyone tell me about this position, any room for advancement, and whether it will hurt me from getting a real engineering job, preferably related to EE in the future. Thanks.
 
Don't leave a $25/hour job on the table. You just graduated with a degree.

Those two sentences... put them together
New graduate and $25/hour offer.

HRRRM not too hard if I were you.
You can always quit, but you can't always go back and ask for a chance again...
 
It depends a lot on the company. I do agree with Pip, how did you get the job without first figuring this kind of stuff out?

BUT - I am a Software Test Engineer (my degree is in CS) and we have a lot of really good test guys with varied backgrounds. Testing software doesn't necessarily require a lot of programming experience or background, but it does take a good feel for how things work. There is an odd stigma about being in software test vs software dev, but the frank reality of it is that a lot of developers would make really lousy testers, just as a lot of testers would make really lousy developers. After I spent 6 years getting my CS degree, I realized that school and work had pretty much crushed my desire to program, but at the same time I've found a great career in test, because I understand what's going on and I enjoy pointing out other people's mistakes. 🙂

Edit: Yes, test engineers need to keep an eye out for spelling, too
 
flot
I almost feel the same way you do

School really destroyed my programming interest 🙁
Before that, I loved making games in my spare time... since, I look at programming as a dread sadly... how can I ever recover ? hehe
 
Originally posted by: PipBoy
how the heck can anyone answer those questions for you? why don't you ask them to whoever offered you the job?
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Yeah, I know... I'll ask for more details later. Also, I didn't go in for a personal interview. Just submitted my resume, had a phone interview, and exchanged a few emails with the hiring manager. I just wondering about the position in general, especially since many people here are into IT and programming.

This is the company: eBusiness Application Solutions

It's in Fremont, CA and I know the cost of living is really high there.
 
The job will REALLY depend on the company and what their product is. However, in theory software testing usually involves the following:

- Comptilbity testing (Will it work on different OSs, languages, service packs, with other packages installed)
- Regression testing (does it work as well as the previous version, did anything break along the way)
- Performance testing (Actual thruput of the software, as well as baseline requirements, memory footprint, etc)
- Stress testing (accelerated real world tests, will it run for a year straight w/out memory leaks etc)
- Usability testing (studying how people interact with the software)
- UI Testing (testing the technicalities of the UI)
- Functionality testing (does it actually do what it's supposed to do)
- Automated testing (testing interfaces or processes to ensure that data that goes in always comes out the same way)

And probably a few other sweeping generalities that I've left off. Depending on who you work for and what your position inside their test structure is, you could be doing any or all of those things, to varying degrees of intensity.

Aha, your link said much the same thing. Looks like you'd be a QA consultant for hire out to other companies? Read those descriptions, they are reasonable detailed in what services they offer.
 
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