How to Become a QA Engineer and Start a Job Svetlin Nakov, PhD Sofia, Nov, 2022 1) Why Become а QA Engineer? 2) How to Become a Software Quality Assurance Engineer (QA)? Learn the Fundamental QA Skills: Manual QA skills – 30% Software engineering skills – 20% QA automation skills – 50% 3) Anyone Can Be a QA Engineer! 4) The QA Program @ SoftUni https://softuni.bg/qa

1. Learn the QA Profession and Start a Job
How to Become a QA Engineer?
Software University
https://softuni.bg
Svetlin Nakov, PhD
Co-Founder and Innovations
Manager @ SoftUni
https://nakov.com

2. Why Become а QA Engineer?

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 QA Jobs in LinkedIn (Worldwide)
 485K QA jobs in Nov 2022 (LinkedIn Jobs  Worldwide)
 300K automated testing jobs in Nov 2022 (LinkedIn  Worldwide)
 QA Jobs in Bulgaria
 336 QA jobs in Nov 2022 (Dev.bg  QA)
 254 QA automation jobs in Nov 2022 (Dev.bg  QA automation)
 Most of the QA jobs are about QA automation!
 You should learn coding, software technologies and QA automation at
some point in your career! Better earlier.
Why Become QA Engineer?

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 The QA profession is а smooth entrance to the IT industry
The QA Profession Career Path
Junior QA
(Manual)
Experienced QA
(Automation)
Senior QA
(Automation)
QA Lead /
Manager
Software Project
Manager
IT Director Product Manager
Business Analyst
IT Company Founder /
Entrepreneur
Data Science Engineer
Junior
Developer

5. How to Become a Software
Quality Assurance Engineer (QA)?

6.  First find out if QA is for you!
 Sign up for the free QA Basics course for absolute beginners
at SoftUni: https://softuni.bg/qa/apply
 Or follow a tutorials / books / video courses on the Internet
 Does the QA profession excite you?
 Do you really like it and enjoy it?
 Are you good at finding and reporting problems?
 Are you keen to learn coding, software technology and QA
automation?
How do I Become a QA Engineer?
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7.  Manual QA skills – 30%
 Test design, execution and reporting, bugs and bug
tracking, test types and test levels
 Software engineering skills – 20%
 Coding, programming languages, software
technologies, software engineering, source control
 QA automation skills – 50%
 Unit testing, integration testing, mocking, API testing,
UI testing, end-to-end testing, CI/CD pipelines
Learn the Fundamental QA Skills
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8.  To become a QA engineer, you need to
study hard and consistently!
 1.5 years @ part time (15-20 hours / week)
 Or 6 months @ full time (8-12 hours daily)
 Working on practical QA projects
 Write automated tests:
~ 50-100K+ lines of code (LOC)
 ~ 100K LOC == 300 days * 350 LOC
Study Hard with a Lot of Practice
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9. It Just Takes Time and Persistence
Anyone Can Be a QA Engineer!

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 Why can anyone become a QA engineer and start a job in the IT
industry?
 It's not complex, it just takes time and persistence
 Already nearly 20K students have studied programming at
SoftUni in Bulgaria) and started a job in the IT industry
 Retraining: hairdressers, musicians, architects, financiers,
journalists, sellers, taxi drivers --> all succeed
 Technically it is not complex. You need just logical thinking
 Success stories: Ivaylo, Chriss, Kaloyan, Nakov's blog
Anyone Can Be a QA Engineer!

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 Statistics from Bulgaria (from 17K SoftUni graduates)
 University degree in not required by the software industry!
 60% are career changers
 Use SoftUni to change their job and enter the IT industry
 They can learn coding and QA only at slow speed (after job)
 40% are school / university students
 Use SoftUni to add practical QA and dev skills
 They study in school / university in parallel with SoftUni
Who Can Become a QA?

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 How to know if the QA profession is your passion?
 Sign up for the free QA Basics course for absolute beginners
at SoftUni: https://softuni.bg/qa/apply
 Pass through the free course, touch and feel QA
 If you enjoy it, go ahead with the next modules
 Graduate in 16 months (at slow speed, 2-3 times / week)
 Learn coding, software technologies, databases, Web development,
automated testing (API testing, back-end testing, front-end testing)
 Graduate as a software developer and start a tech job
Is the QA Profession Your Passion?

13. SoftUni – https://softuni.bg

14. It Just Takes Time and Persistence
The QA Program @ SoftUni

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 Zero-to-career curriculum for QA Engineers:
The QA Profession at SoftUni

16. SoftUni – https://softuni.bg