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For friends who have just come into contact with the IT industry, we remember that testing and development are independent of each other, but with the continuous progress of society and the continuous development of the IT industry, another post has emerged, and it is gradually rising, that is, test development. Then you might ask, what kind of position is test development? What about the employment situation and salary?

Next, I will give you a comprehensive analysis of this mysterious and lucrative position.

1. What is test development?

In general, the technical boundary between testing and development is not so obvious in large companies. Developers should also understand testing and testing should also know how to develop. To put it bluntly, at the same time have professional testing technology and software development ability, doing the work of serving development and testing, which is test development. Learn test and development technology well, watch the IT world surging, and laugh at the changes in the era of big data, cloud computing, Internet of things, and blockchain.

Here comes the point! The test development engineer with certain programming ability and proficient in functional and performance testing is definitely the Ⅵ P in the software enterprise!

2. Test and develop salary and treatment

In each different stage, the skills required are naturally different, and of course the salary and treatment will be different.

However, I can tell you clearly that no matter which stage you have, you can become the number one player at that stage, and the salary you expect will not be far away from you.

According to statistics, the average salary of the test development industry is as follows:

Industry average salary: ¥22890

3. Advantages of test development position:

Long career life

Work pressure is moderate

The market demand is great

No gender discrimination

4. Employment direction of test and development engineer

Chatting with many Internet test candidates, I found that there are probably the following paths for long career life and broad space for development in this industry:

1. Take the management route and seize the opportunity from leader to manager to director when the technical foundation is consolidated to a certain extent (in fact, there are not many positions for test director in the company at present)

2, following the route of technical experts, some students have changed greatly from the earliest test to test development, and then to the test framework, no matter in terms of salary space, market demand or professional life.

3. It is a good way to completely break away from testing and turn to R & D or product, operation, etc., but relatively speaking, there is still a coefficient of difficulty in R & D, which requires constant research and effort on technology, and it is relatively easy for products to operate.

4. Go home and inherit the family business.

It is summarized as follows:

Test team leader

Automated test engineer

Senior Software Test engineer

Test development engineer

Performance test engineer

Software test engineer

5. the goal of the test development engineer

There are two goals for test development engineers: quality and efficiency.

Quality is to improve the coverage of products in order to achieve higher quality.

Efficiency is to improve the efficiency of product testing in order to achieve faster product delivery and release.

In order to achieve the above two points, test development engineers will use a variety of means to achieve the above goals, including, but not limited to:

Unit testing

Interface test

Gray box test

Specific testing (performance, stress, memory, power consumption, traffic)

Code check

Code refactoring

Tool development

Automation solution... Etc.

Therefore, the test development engineer is a kind of mixed talent: a programmer with strong coding ability who can write functional code, and a powerful tester who can test any product and have the ability to manage their own work and tools.

6. Skills that must be mastered by test and development engineers

Web system principle + introduction to development (web testing essential front-end skills)

Java language (100% pure code)

Selenium Automated testing tools and Framework (for java)

Python language

Selenium Automated testing tools and Framework (for python)

Appium Mobile Automation (Mobile Automation essential)

JMeter performance testing and interface testing (web and mobile APP general skills)

Summary:

Although on the market, many test development engineers, do not have the various levels mentioned here, but they have a characteristic, development, code foundation is very solid, and some have even done development for a year or two. I strongly recommend that you follow this learning route, keep learning, and try your best to reach the goal of test and development. if you can't, you will be close to this goal, and your ability will make most of you envy, believe in yourself, study hard, keep going, and don't give up easily.

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