State of the Market

[BR14]

The IT industry is going through one of it's occasional periods of thinking testing isn't a specialist discipline. It will eventually pass.

depends what you're testing.
infrastructure testing's done by the engineers that build it.

[LadyPenelope]

Feels like things are picking up in my area (architecture). Not getting too excited yet until I've secured something, but I'm getting more calls about relevant roles (location, skills, not too niche). Call backs from applications. Genuine interest to put me forward, etc. The phishing has died down a lot too which I guess means the agents finally have some work to do.

How is everyone else finding it?

Bit quiet, but couple of calls yesterday. One of which was about a perm role which I'm considering but the contract looks much better. No idea if I'll get an interview with either yet.

Still haven't heard about the perm role I did the final stage interview for this time last week. So I guess that's a no, but a call to confirm might have been nice. Maybe a blessing in disguise as although I'm getting fed up with not working, the idea of not having an end date makes me uneasy.

Overall there is more to go for, although Wednesday and Thursday always seem to have more roles to go for. It's still not as bad as 2008.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Permie offer evaporated - their reason was my salary demand was too high - fair enough but not logical as they asked and I told them right at the start what I wanted - they could have said no at that point and saved everyone a lot of time. Obvs that was either a lie or they have found some cheapskate.

So signed the contract yesterday - 3 months - rate a little low but 30 min commute from home.

Then a pimp rang with a 100% remote gig - typical. Did think about trying to do both but decided against especially as the way pimp was talking made it clear he actually had no idea what he was on about (not unusual).

Good luck everyone and be careful out there.

[LadyPenelope]

So signed the contract yesterday - 3 months - rate a little low but 30 min commute from home.

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Congratulations

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Congratulations

Thanks - wish I felt a bit less doom laden myself

[perplexed]

depends what you're testing.
All testing's done by the users that use it.

Fixed your post.

[BR14]

Fixed your post.

no.

[valleycom]

Unless you're working in test automation, I think testing would be one of the worst contracting areas to work in for the foreseeable future.

Can’t say I agree. There will always be a need for manual testing. You can’t automate everything. Everyone was saying the same about PM roles because of Agile but there are hardly any scrum master roles either.


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[Paralytic]

Can’t say I agree. There will always be a need for manual testing. You can’t automate everything. Everyone was saying the same about PM roles because of Agile but there are hardly any scrum master roles either.

You do know that PM and Scrum Master are two completely different roles, with minimal responsibility overlap, yes?

(that's not to say that many clients now advertise for Scrum Master roles because they're playing at agile but what they actually want is a Project Manager who can use some agile terms whilst updating their GANNT chart).

[GhostofTarbera]

You do know that PM and Scrum Master are two completely different roles, with minimal responsibility overlap, yes?

(that's not to say that many clients now advertise for Scrum Master roles because they're playing at agile but what they actually want is a Project Manager who can use some agile terms whilst updating their GANNT chart).

Just finished a contract at Lloydes where some of the mobile teams were experimenting in not having a PM or scrum master and the team devs/QA’s/SIT//NFT/UAT just decided between themselves what to work on, I needed them to deliver something by a date so raised a dependency with them, they accepted it, out it in a future sprint I was happy about, sprint stared I double checked it was in dev, it was moved into 3 sprints time as they decided to work on something more fun




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