Career Path For Software Qa Engineer. In other words you shift from debugging software to debugging teams more on that later. Your Software Testing career growth as a software tester QA Analyst in typical CMMI level 5 company will look like following but will vary from company to company.
QA Analyst 2-3 years experience QA Team Coordinator 5-6 years experience Test Manager 8-11 years experience. Managing people and the work they do. It will likely require some coding as well as some manual testing work.
When you reach this level of software testing career you may have titles as Test Manager Test Leader Project Manager QA Manager QC manager and so forth.
As such having a strong background in IT is a must if you are a Software Quality Assurance Engineer. They often start as a Junior Software Engineer which is a graduate role for those right out of university or college. For each level we have defined expectations under the four categories. These engineers are responsible for ensuring a consistent quality of code is being written by a development team and will create standards and policies to ensure all code is efficient and works correctly.