Why QA???

Are you in the QA field? Was this your first choice? Did you ever see your self doing this 5 years ago or as for me 10 years ago?

Well, I am in the QA field. I have been in this field for about 10 years now. Did I ever see myself doing this 10 years ago? I would say no. This was definitely not my first choice of career path.

I started of in University. When I chose to take up Computer science as my field of study. This was in the dream, that someday I will be a good programmer perhaps. I attended school. Did my projects in different programming languages. Back then the popular programming languages where C and C++. My projects were good. I enjoyed doing it. I said to myself "Yes! I can do this. I can be a good programmer."

Then time to graduate and find my first paying job. It was hard to get a good job. and I finally landed a job with a good international company. But alas, it was not a job to do programming or analysis. It was a job in QA. I heard about this in school. But that really did not strike me as a thing that I would like doing. But the promise of the company was, that if there was a project opening that has programming, that I can go to the project. So, with this hope in mind, I said yes to the oppurutinty.

So i took on the role of QA in my first project. And this was about 1999 where the Y2K was a big deal. So there were tons of test that needed to do before Y2K hits. It was busy in our department. As I was the new kid on the block, I was deligated to execute the test plans. As I was doing that, I was starting to find bugs. And the people around me was appreciating the things I was finding. I said to mysel "Not bad. Fells Good."

As time passed by, I was givwen more responsibilities. Starting to do test plans and even some automation. This really challened my way of thinking. This also brings out another aspect of QA that they also do programming. I was starting to have fun. And I started to be doing well. I said to myself "I like this. I can be reallyy good with this"

And this was the start of my love to QA. So if you asked my 8 years ago if I wanted to be in QA. I would have said Yes. And if you ask me, what I want to be in 5 years. I would love to stay in the QA field.