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These tips not only survive but also advance you in your
software testing career. Make sure you follow them:

Tip #1) Written communication I repeatedly saying

this on many occasions that keep all things in written
communication. No verbal communication please. This is
applicable to all instructions or tasks given to you by your
superior. No matter how friendly your lead or manager is
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Tip #3) 360 degree testing approach To hunt down software defects think from all perspectives. Find all
possible information related to the application under test apart from your SRS documents. Use this information
to understand the project completely and apply this knowledge while testing.
E.g. If you are testing partner website integration with your application, make sure to understand partner
business fully before starting to test.

Tip #4) Continuous learning Never stop learning. Explore better ways to test application. Learn new
automation tools like Selenium, QTP or any performance testing tool. Nowadays performance testing is the hot
career destination for software testers! Have this skill under your belt.

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Tip #5) Admit mistakes but be confident about whatever tasks you did Avoid doing the same mistake
again. This is the best method to learn and adapt to new things.

Tip #6) Get involved from the beginning Ask your lead or manager to get you (QAs) involved in design
discussions/meetings from the beginning. This is more applicable for small teams without QA lead or manager.

Tip #7) Keep notes on everything Keep notes of daily new things learned on the project. This could be just
simple commands to be executed for certain task to complete or complex testing steps, so that you dont need to
ask same things again and again to fellow testers or developers.

Tip #8) Improve you communication and interpersonal skill Very important for periodic career growth at
all stages.

Tip #9) Make sure you get noticed at work Sometimes your lead may not present the true picture of you to
your manager or company management. In such cases you should continuously watch the moments where you
can show your performance to top management.
Warning Dont play politics at work if you think your lead or manager is kind enough to communicate your
skill/progress to your manager or top management. In that case no need to follow this tip.

Tip #10) Software testing is fun, enjoy it Stay calm, be focused, follow all processes and enjoy testing. See
how interesting software testing is. I must say its addictive for some people.

Bonus tip
Read read and read Keep on reading books, white papers, case studies related to software testing and quality

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65 comments

#1 Karthik N.

classic tips vijay. seems very practical and up to date. I too agree with you on learning new skills to keep
oneself updated in this rapidly changing industry.

keep posting. have a great time

#2 NANDA

HI

#3 Ayaa

Great tips, Thank You.

And about tip #10) when you said I must say its addictive for some people. . This sentence reminded

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me of myself Im really addicted to software testing.

I really love how it make me think. I always say that its the best thing I can do and what I love the most
about software testing is BREAKING THE UNBREAKABLE. !

Really great thanks for this topic. :)

#4 Rakesh

Thanx

Vijay all are good and relevant point but i liked your bonus tip because no body is perfect only by learning
we can always move towards the perfectness.

Thanks & Regards

Rakesh Nijhawan

#5 puner singh

good and usefull.

#6 Mohan

Its very good article to learn about software testing industry, especially for the beginner. As per your 4th
tip, can u please suggest any performance testing tool. Which was widely used in testing domain. Myself i
tried to learn Apache-Jmeter, whether is it good one.

#7 Mayasen

Nice article Vijay. Wishes..!!

#8 Rahul Sathaye

Hi,

Very good article, and about the last tip # 10, this is really most exicitng thing about the software testing
field!!!

Have a great day!!

Rahul

#9 Svetlana Inotayev

Thank you so much, great article and usefull.

Keep posting.

Regards,

Lana.

#10 Sherine Antony

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Thanks . good article

#11 Roopa

Hi very nice article, and good tips keep posting:):)

#12 Sama

Thnx a lot dear,

Really it great article for a S/W testing Eng.

a request for .
can u send me a good resume format on Manual Testing, Exp 2-3yrs

#13 Siva

It has been pleasure to read the posting of Tips to Survive and Progress in the Field of Software Testing.
But now a days Softwaretestinghelp site not updating regularly. Pl keep posting many useful things like
this article.

I am proud to be a Test Engineer & Subscriber to Softwaretestinghelp website.

Once Again Thanks a Lot.

#14 roopa

please explain me about defect tracking tool bugzilla how it can be used in an organisation, i know how to
use the tool but no idea weather this tool used by only tester or developers and BAs to send the report and
all, Please explain me how the tool can be implemented in an organisation.

#15 Akhilesh

Thanks for your tips!

#16 Shraddha

very nice and useful tips. Thanks :)

#17 Penna Advantage

Hi,
Bonus tip is the most important of tips coz no matter how experience u r u still need to keep reading white
papers abt this ever evolving field

#18 satyam

well and good

#19 Karuvarasan S

Wow Mind blowing.. Not only in software industry it will apply in all areas. Thank
you..

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#20 Vijay

Hey Karthik, Ayaa, Rakesh, Karuvarasan, Mayasen, Rahul, Svetlana and Siva thanks for your kind words
and encouragement.

#21 Vijay

@Mohan yes, Jmeter is a good open source tool.

Apart from that there are some good open source and commercial options like NeoLoad, LoadRunner,
loadUI, WebLOAD, WAPT, LoadImpact, Rational Performance Tester, Testing Anywhere

#22 Vijay

@ Sama You can search for hundreds of good resumes according to selected criteria on below page:
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Just put the keyword as Manual testing and your years of exp.

Explore different resumes and craft a one masterpiece for you based on your real experience.

#23 Vijay

@ roopa

Bugzilla can be used in your project to track defects. It can be used on your team by all team members
including testers and developers. Please ask your org sys admin to install it for you or you can get
installation details from https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:Win32Install

You just need to follow some process in order to use it effectively:

When you get new build, module or application for test just follow this process:
Create new project or module name in Bugzilla and start logging new defects under it
Read below post on how to write a good bug report
http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/how-to-write-good-bug-report/

Your manager/QA lead need to review and assign the bug to respective developer if its a valid bug that
needs to be fixed in the same release.

Developer will fix the bug and update the status as fixed and assign it back to manager or the tester who
logged the defect.

You will then verify that bug and update it depending on the pass/fail criteria. If its failed, you can
reject the fix and assign it back to the developer. If its passed you can update it as tested and assign it to
manager saying verified passed.

Note Ill be covering a separate post on how to implement defect tracking process in an organization.

#24 Smitha

I just wanted to thanks for the information

provided by this blog.Its really helping me
to keep my updations about my Software Testing future
Thanks a lot..

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#25 asmaa

the most thing i like that `I must say its addictive for some people.`

#26 Rakesh

Hi, Mohan

Jmeter is good for doing performance testing you can also take help from this book software testing tools
by Dr K.V.K.K Prasad.

Thanks & Regards

Rakesh Nijhawan

#27 Mohammed bashir bello

I lyk d d soft wire thnks very much.

#28 Nagaraju

nice tips..

#29 Yamraaj

Nice Article Vijay,

All 10 tips are good and essential for Survival in QA, however, just for survival not for Progress

Only the bonus tip is a bit helpful for progress up to a little extent.
So, In my opinion, the word progress should be omitted from the title of this article as its content are not
defending this in a justified way.
Sorry, if this critic sounds a bit harsh, but in order to progress in Software Testing
at least you should get handy in
1. at least one Load/Performance testing tool (e.g. LoadRunner, Rational Performance Tester, Selenium
etc)
or Functional Automated Testing like QTP (QuickTestProfessional)
2. Certifications (like ISTQB, CSTE and/or of tools like LR/QTP etc.)
3. Memberships (of SQA related internationally renowned forums like ASQ, ISTQB, etc)
4. Exposure to white-box or at least Gray-box testing
5. Strong SQL-DB testing skill
6. To be highly competent as compared to other resources having same experience as yours
7. Versatile experience of testing tools/automation testing tools/business domains
8. At least on experience (of at least one year) of at least CMMI-Level-3 organization on your profile

and still the list does not end.

Other people may better let both of us and the Author of this article realize whether my critic is genuine or
not.

Again I would say, Article is very good if we consider its content in terms of surviving in software
testing only.

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Regards.

#30 Rajesh

simply to say i am edicted to testing basically i am a manual tester at beginning and now i am a
automation tester and this blog is very useful and interesting and helps in updating my knowledge day to
day. I am very much thankful for this blog. keep going keep posting..

#31 Ratnesh

Thanks Vijay,
its very nice article and helpful my career..

#32 Mohan

Hi Vijay,

Thanks for kindful reply,

At present i have working with manual tester, i am very eager to learn performance testing tools, which
will may increase testing quality & help my testing carrier.I little bit heard those all tools, which you
have mentioned. I got enough information from this site.

Thanks again.. :-)

#33 Mohan

Hi Rakesh,

Thanks for consider my post..

As per your suggestion will go thought Dr.K.V.K.K.Prasads book..

Thanks a lot.. :-)

#34 Vijendra Umarwal

Anybody can help me to understand GUI in the testing terms.

#35 Moon Bhattacharjee

Hi,
this is moon I have 10months of experience in software testing, iam a btech 2011 passed out batch. I am
working in kolkata and the main problem here is that there is no such good career for tester,so can you
please tell me how could I update myself,and i really want to learn testing tools. but how.please help me.

#36 dev

hi vijay this is dev,

i reglrly reads ur articles.and each article give the guidance to me to improve my Testing skills
thanks for that..

vijay i need some suggestion from ur side,

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i am a manual tester, i hav 2 year working exp in manual testing, and i want to migrate myself in
automation,but i havnt any exp in this,
please guide me how to prepare myself to do the same, and which tool is good selinium or QTP?

thanks
Dev,

#37 Rini

good one

#38 Ganesh

thanks a lot for sharing this article, its really helpful.

#39 sharma

nice Article.

#40 Karunakar

Very good site for testing professionals

#41 Sangram Kumar Das

Thanks for sharing this article, very useful tips..

#42 Srikanth Tester

Nice article! interesting reading. Can add more to Tip4 and Tip10 A tester should always try to break
the code.. and find flaws in the system.. that should be the attitude.

#43 ram raju

hi..these r really good tips for people who want to build their career in s\w testing..i really liked the #10
tipkeep it up

#44 malliga

Good thought from this article, it is very useful for who has to become a Software tester . keep and try to
give some useful magazine.Thank You.

#45 Kannan Manoharan

Thank you Mr.Vijay. I have been working as a software test engineer for past 6 months.Hope this will be
useful for my career.

#46 Abhishek

First time in STH..very much informative and interesting blog..keep it up guyss..

#47 Kalai

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The information about testing and tips provided above are good. They seem simple and realistic to follow.

Thanks!

#48 adhiyaman

i have completed my BE(ECE) in 2012.i like do software testing course.is am in right path?

#49 ahmed

too gud boss!

#50 Udhay G K

Thats good.

#51 Tristan

Great article!

Cant believe i actually subscribes this website, im one picky. Thanks for your great job!

#52 Stacy

Hey,

Nice tips , i agree on all of the above its really helpful for testers.

#53 Shivaraj

Very good tips for QA people. Helps a lot

#54 monica

Hi,
currently i am working as a tester in small company.here we are not using any testing tool. since 7 months
i am working here , i want to improve my testing skills, can you please suggest any tool which gives the
better future.

#55 Arun

Very useful tips Vijay.

Keep it up.

#56 Chandan

Hi

I appreciate you for sharing wonderful tips. I am basically a manual software tester since 4.6years. I would
like to have my career growth in this competency, pls do suggest me which skill set will enrich my career
and also refer me some good institutes which helps me in learning those skills with real time exp. Thanks
in advance.

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Chandan :)

#57 Chandan

Guys pls revert me for my email id : chandan4mnc@gmail.com

#58 Balaji

HI my dear soldiers,

Thanks for the posting great article. It is very use full to QA persons in live.

#59 pritam

Hi I want to know the recent news and updates please send me the updates I wanna do career in software
testing profile

#60 SKK

its a very good article ..

#61 Amit

Nice article!!

#62 Nishant

i like this article .please any latest news related to Software Testing,then inform me on my above Email
id

#63 Karishma

Thank you.

#64 Kishna Patel

Hi,

Contents give the power to QAs.

Great !!!!!!!!!!!!!

#65 kanaka durga

Very impressive and thoughtful sentences..the way to get QA standards..

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