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How to be one up on the rest of the testing community? How to choose the best certification?
Do you wonder why some testers are happy in their testing & QA jobs while some are not. Aren't you curious to know why some of them simply love their jobs and can work all the time while you may be dragging your body to wake up every morning for going to work?
You might be thinking that their enthusiasm is artificial while in their heart they are like you who just wait for 6 p.m. everyday. Certainly everyone has own ups and downs; while you feel that their ups are far exceeding your downs in your job and that is why they are smiling every day.
Let us see part of their secret for being happy with their QA job
It is a fact that very few of us have the luxury to choose the type of jobs that will perfectly fit us. Certainly we don’t want to be like the ignorant majority. No one will look after our career better that what we can. We need to improve our employability.
Now how to begin?
What we can do is to write down our own road map suiting our tastes & aptitude. We need to jot down some short term, medium & long term career goals. Source of motivation to progress in our career can be a voice from within or from parents, friends, peers or even from the boss. We may come across many achievements on our way to the final goal, wherein every achievement acts like a building block for the next one.
Step-1: Create a career Plan: List out different available options & zero down the final choice on few recognized options to suit your own needs as well as that of your organization. Remember that our career progress plan must be well established and transferable & must be of global recognition, since we may have to come across many employers with varied requirements.
Step-2: Acquire Certification: Well-recognized certifications help us in enhancing our skills, professional competence & confidence. In addition that it helps us in fetching interview calls from respectable employers.
Good certifications have salient advantages like:
# We get an opportunity to learn from the experience of others.
# We get accustomed to the use of standard frameworks & common terminology.
# We begin to understand various models & acquire ability to twist them to suit our needs.
# We acquire transferable skills
# Our credibility gets a boost.
Understand the type of available certifications: Generally there are two types of certifications available viz. 1) Testing Tool Based & 2) Role Based.
1) Testing Tool Based certifications as described in the following figure.
http://www.softwaretestinggenius.com/articalDetails.php?qry=620 - Read the full article
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