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I work for a software vendor whose market is developer tools and we have been looking for a QA person for our products.
Since we are a small shop the position will be a combination of Support and QA however since we make developer tools, our support consists in large part of actual development (in that the person must read and understand our customers code and find and point out bugs in it).
The QA portion will also consist of writing applications (in a variety of platforms and languages) and testing how they work with our tools.
The main issue I am running into is when you tell someone with development experience that the position contains "QA" it its title (or even in the job description) they shy away from considering the job.
I'm very interested in feedback and suggestions for how I can find a good person to fill this job and ensure that they are happy doing it. Any ideas?
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In most cases, both test engineers and software engineers should. Developers can test their code to eliminate many defects. And QA testers should tackle the defects in customer workflow or in the full spectrum of application functionality that can be missed with developer-based code testing.
Any conflict can be resolved by collaboration, co-operation, good team building and effective communication. A relationship between testers and developers is never ideal. Nevertheless, it's necessary to understand that they're both an integral part of product's success.
“While in most cases, for every two to five developers, one tester would be fine, some circumstances may require one tester for every developer, or maybe even two developers,” he says. This allows testers to focus on specific platforms or use cases.
To have successful collaboration between testers and developers its necessary that testers are technically aware, they are not expected to be 100% deep into programming but they should be able to understand the principles and key points of development and programming so they can communicate swiftly with developers and ...
Money and responsibility.
The reason I shy away from these types of jobs is they dont tend to hold my interest long enough. Having real development tasks should keep you out of that category. The other problem is the salary is usually significantly lower with that in the title.
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