Hi, so i’ve been working in the QA/Automation industry for quite awhile. I started as a manual QA and worked my way up to Automation Architect and it’s been going well. I have around 14 years of experience in the industry and even though I like my job I would like to maybe look into other areas to maybe work my way towards.
I have 2 main things that I really enjoy/are interested in (Well technically 3, but I feel like Embedded Development is just extremely difficult to find jobs in despite me loving Embedded Software as a hobby).
That being said I do have a C.S. Degree which I think would help me in either of these, and as an Automation Architect I do code 100% of the day.
I’ve really been trying to determine if Security (PenTesting/Blue Team/Red Team/etc…) or DevOps (Cloud/SysAdmin/Site Reliability Engineer/Cloud/etc…) is a better path.
On one hand I feel like everything is a little saturated right now but I think my experience does at least give me an edge on maybe transitioning sideways into one of these roles.
– On one hand I feel like Security is the more “interesting” role to me. I’ve always just generally found network security/etc.. super interesting. I think it’s probably the “harder” of the choice but I do think it’s interesting. However I feel like right now it’s sort of the “Bootcamp magnet” thing that’s going to have a lot of low quality applicants and is probably overloaded.
– On the other hand I feel like DevOps is more practical, and in a sense a lot of people in Automation do a lot of DevOps stuff anyways (I do some at least, needing to do some Docker and CI/CD stuff for our tests) but it also feels very “wide” in the amount of knowledge needed but I feel like these jobs will always be needed.
Any thoughts? I’m leaning towards DevOps as generally it’s something I can “use” in my current career.
Thanks!
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r/cscareerquestions Hi, so i’ve been working in the QA/Automation industry for quite awhile. I started as a manual QA and worked my way up to Automation Architect and it’s been going well. I have around 14 years of experience in the industry and even though I like my job I would like to maybe look into other areas to maybe work my way towards. I have 2 main things that I really enjoy/are interested in (Well technically 3, but I feel like Embedded Development is just extremely difficult to find jobs in despite me loving Embedded Software as a hobby). That being said I do have a C.S. Degree which I think would help me in either of these, and as an Automation Architect I do code 100% of the day. I’ve really been trying to determine if Security (PenTesting/Blue Team/Red Team/etc…) or DevOps (Cloud/SysAdmin/Site Reliability Engineer/Cloud/etc…) is a better path. On one hand I feel like everything is a little saturated right now but I think my experience does at least give me an edge on maybe transitioning sideways into one of these roles. – On one hand I feel like Security is the more “interesting” role to me. I’ve always just generally found network security/etc.. super interesting. I think it’s probably the “harder” of the choice but I do think it’s interesting. However I feel like right now it’s sort of the “Bootcamp magnet” thing that’s going to have a lot of low quality applicants and is probably overloaded. – On the other hand I feel like DevOps is more practical, and in a sense a lot of people in Automation do a lot of DevOps stuff anyways (I do some at least, needing to do some Docker and CI/CD stuff for our tests) but it also feels very “wide” in the amount of knowledge needed but I feel like these jobs will always be needed. Any thoughts? I’m leaning towards DevOps as generally it’s something I can “use” in my current career. Thanks! submitted by /u/mercfh85 [link] [comments]
Hi, so i’ve been working in the QA/Automation industry for quite awhile. I started as a manual QA and worked my way up to Automation Architect and it’s been going well. I have around 14 years of experience in the industry and even though I like my job I would like to maybe look into other areas to maybe work my way towards.
I have 2 main things that I really enjoy/are interested in (Well technically 3, but I feel like Embedded Development is just extremely difficult to find jobs in despite me loving Embedded Software as a hobby).
That being said I do have a C.S. Degree which I think would help me in either of these, and as an Automation Architect I do code 100% of the day.
I’ve really been trying to determine if Security (PenTesting/Blue Team/Red Team/etc…) or DevOps (Cloud/SysAdmin/Site Reliability Engineer/Cloud/etc…) is a better path.
On one hand I feel like everything is a little saturated right now but I think my experience does at least give me an edge on maybe transitioning sideways into one of these roles.
– On one hand I feel like Security is the more “interesting” role to me. I’ve always just generally found network security/etc.. super interesting. I think it’s probably the “harder” of the choice but I do think it’s interesting. However I feel like right now it’s sort of the “Bootcamp magnet” thing that’s going to have a lot of low quality applicants and is probably overloaded.
– On the other hand I feel like DevOps is more practical, and in a sense a lot of people in Automation do a lot of DevOps stuff anyways (I do some at least, needing to do some Docker and CI/CD stuff for our tests) but it also feels very “wide” in the amount of knowledge needed but I feel like these jobs will always be needed.
Any thoughts? I’m leaning towards DevOps as generally it’s something I can “use” in my current career.
Thanks!
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