After 14 years of software testing for DOD, I recently fell victum to DOD funding crunch. My problem is where do I go from here. My experiance has always been in DOD accounting software testing, I was on the team years ago that released the first accounts payable system that went worldwide to pay vendors in multiple currencies. Since then I have worked on the same system. System was never taken off the mainframe so have no web testing experiance. Customer was just getting into automated testing software when I was release, so therefore have no experiance in that either, a manual tester. I am concerned that the 14 years that I have been working on this system, that I may be been left in the dust. I have no problem with learning new ways to do the business however am having problems finding employers that will hire me and fund for the additional skills at the same time. If any of you have fell into this same boat, I would love to hear from you and find out how you overcame the problem. I would hate to give up software testing completely because I enjoyed that and I was good at what I did. Any ideas – would love to hear from you.
Sadly Unemployed but still looking.