How to become a ‘well paid’ tester?

I call it “The next generation” tester and here are the main skills…

Quality Engineering
– Agile practices and DevOps culture
– Ability to match testing goals with product’s goals
– Figuring out KPIs / OKRs which help ‘deliver value’
– Enterprise & Vendor management

Testing
– Risk based testing
– Defining a practical, efficient and effective test strategy
– BDD practices
– Context driven testing

Automation in test
– Algorithm design aptitude and programming proficiency
– Automation framework design
– API / UI / Mobile Automation
– OAT (Performance and security basics)

Continuous Integration
– Branching & merging
– CI tools (Jenkins / M. Azure)
– Provisioning environments Containers / VM / Cloud)

Technical Leadership- Technical acumen
– Team leadership
– Collaborating with architects- Thought leadership

Details of each in the linked article

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