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Originally Posted by Ativan
My community offers a 40 hour course for beginners (me) in Software Testing.
Would this be enough to get an entry level QA job?
I believe you can also take a Software Testing course online. Not sure which one is more advantageous??
What's the job market like atm for s/w testers?
I reside in the Bay Area. Former online grinder looking for a career change. Strongly considering a tech career, and am currently looking at anything/everything in tech.
I haven't seen a software testing class yet that has seemed worth the cost. If you're completely new to computers, then maybe it is worth the time just to learn some jargon, but to be honest with you, when I'm going through a resume looking for a manual tester, I am looking at where you've worked, if you have any side projects that seem relevant for what I need you to do, and at least a general breadth of technical experience (you can use linux and windows and mac or you've tried scripting a site using selenium).
Three other things:
1. what i look for may be more specific than others simply because I know exactly what I want out of my QA team. From looking at resumes, the bay area is way more lenient on the experience for a starter QA person.
2. the bay area has gaggles of qa openings, just apply to everyone and eventually you'll get an interview where you can talk about testing and how you'll test product X.
3. check out
https://www.utest.com/ It might be the best place for you to start because they are a community test organization and you can slowly learn how to test and build up to testing more complex products. Even better, you can do it as a side job so you're not putting pressure on yourself to figure it all out at once.
Good luck!