...he worked hard for the money....
Just had a conversation with a fellow-tester the other day around what a tester gets to do for the money.
I was telling him that a friend of mine works as a senior QA and wants to change to a QA lead role because he’s tired of knowing more than most of the managers who’s worked with and not having the authority to take decisions. Another reason was that he would be paid much more money and he thought it was worth it.
Harold told me he is very confident that he will get a QA lead position because his resume is impressive, he’s worked with major financial companies and he also has some experience working as a Business Analyst, which was definitely an asset.
Then my fellow-tester asked me if Harold knew what a QA lead position involved in reality. Project managers will come and haunt him for statuses every morning and afternoon, he would have to write plans and strategies in different formats because one manager likes Visio and another one likes Word; then he would have to justify decisions to people who don’t know anything about testing and sometimes he would even have to do the project manager’s job! Not to mention being a “delivery slave”, meaning being on the barricades, helping with implementations while others have a good night sleep!
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I was telling him that a friend of mine works as a senior QA and wants to change to a QA lead role because he’s tired of knowing more than most of the managers who’s worked with and not having the authority to take decisions. Another reason was that he would be paid much more money and he thought it was worth it.
Harold told me he is very confident that he will get a QA lead position because his resume is impressive, he’s worked with major financial companies and he also has some experience working as a Business Analyst, which was definitely an asset.
Then my fellow-tester asked me if Harold knew what a QA lead position involved in reality. Project managers will come and haunt him for statuses every morning and afternoon, he would have to write plans and strategies in different formats because one manager likes Visio and another one likes Word; then he would have to justify decisions to people who don’t know anything about testing and sometimes he would even have to do the project manager’s job! Not to mention being a “delivery slave”, meaning being on the barricades, helping with implementations while others have a good night sleep!
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I realized that I have to have a discussion with Harold and find out if he knew all this stuff. Did he know what he was getting into?
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I’ll let you know what Harold did.
I’ll let you know what Harold did.
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