Software QA and testing

[Codingand36]

Hello,

I have a degree in computing and coding which is 15 years old. However I've never used it! Had a long career in design and web but have been made redundant and trying to figure out what to do next. (No design or web jobs for about 100 miles!!)

Anyway, I'd quite like to use my degree and get back into it. But need a refresher course and a boot camp.

Can anyone recommend me a course or anything?

Thanks :)

Distance doesn't make any difference these days, you can just work remotely for a design or web job, can't you? What do you actually want to do? QA can be a bit of a thankless task, just testing what others do. Very little scope for creativity and innovation. It depends what you want from your job?

I don’t do software testing, but I did do ISTQB cert via BCS (bought the book and read it then sat the test in a Pearson centre). I don’t think it’ll make you a tester, but it might show some principles and can be on the ‘desired’ criteria of testing jobs. You don’t need to know how to code for it.

Quite a few software jobs now are remote. Look on indeed or LinkedIn. See what is available. Quite a lot of Devops/cloud/SRE jobs seem to be around. You could try and do a portfolio of web stuff to show on git hub. Then get aws account and practice deploying some of it on the various different services?

Actually finding a role that is remote is harder than it sounds. Typically a decent WFH design / Marketing role gets 50 -100 applicants. One i saw recently on LinkedIn had over 200 applicants.

So no, can't "just" get a WFH job 🤔 but thanks :)

Great suggestions! Thank you so much :) didn't even think of github!

Not sure why my post received a snarky emoji. I wouldn't go by what LinkedIn says about the number of applicants for any post, you have absolutely no idea about the applicants' suitability for the role, they may be using a scattergun approach to their job search. Have you applied for many remote posts? Perhaps you have but it's not clear from your posts. Sure, there is a wider pool of people to choose from in recruiting for remote posts but if your experience and skillset is right it probably puts you in with a shot. I applied for a lot of remote working product manager roles and you get there in the end making yourself stand out amongst the crowd. It just struck me as odd that you'd change career on the basis of what roles were available locally.