Get a QA Engineer Job
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Prepare for Your Interviews
You’ve brushed up your skills, dialed in your resume, and finally found a job you want. Now all you have to do is wow them in the interview. Any job interview can be a nerve-wracking experience, but if you go in prepared and confident, you’ll give yourself the best possible chance to land the job you want. With that in mind:
Be honest. If you misrepresent yourself during an interview, you’ll likely end up harried and miserable even if you do land the job. Likewise, be yourself during the interview, and if you’re nervous, let your interviewer know.
Do your homework. Nothing turns off an employer more than a job candidate who doesn’t know what they do or what industry they’re in. Visit the company’s website and familiarize yourself with their business and especially with any products you’re likely to be working on.
Come with questions. Part of doing your homework is coming up with some questions to ask your interviewer. All businesses want employees who care about their products, and asking intelligent questions during your job interview demonstrates that you care.
Remember, you’re interviewing them, too. A job interview is usually the first time you get to evaluate the work environment you’re attempting to join. It’s one of the first times you get to meet your potential co-workers in person, and one of your first chances to ask questions about the job you’re applying for. So while you’re busy trying to impress your interviewer, take some time out to consider whether you actually want to work at this place. You don’t want to go in looking to grill your interviewer about whether this office is worthy of you, but if you remember that you’re still evaluating this opportunity as well, it’s often easier to relax.
Once you’re past these job interviewing basics, check out this guide for some more tips:
chtanzeel
9 months ago
2 comments
Reading the description posted in the article, it gives me feeling that a QA person should not have any pre-requisite IT knowledge. I toally disagree with this opinion. One cannot find bugs or can miss potential bugs that arise due to lack of technology knowlege, environment configuration, and database-mapping knowledge. There are lot of IT specific tasks other than just front end testing, that a QA person is supposed to perform like Data Persistence, Automated Testing, Performance/Load Testing etc. which are obviously not possible without having an IT degree. What your say?
alcozz
about 1 year ago
2 comments
I don't quite see this info helpful. I am a QA engineer - IT manager. I have a computer science master's from one of the top 10 engineering grad schools. And got straigt into QA industry after grad school - before that had software engineer expereinces. What I have hired and am looking for is somebody who can code & test and we pay much more than most of the non-it jobs posted in this site. All depends on what company and how high level the company expects.. but the candidate in this info is barely a QA analyst to me which I don't need in my team. you'd better not apply as a QA engineer if you only meet this description written here. Junior or intern QA analyst might work for you.