After months of searching I’ve finally been offered a job with a Testing Company close to where I live. I went for the interview and it went very well. However the interview was less talking about my possible role if I got the job and more what seemed to me to be an attempt to psychoanalyse (sp??) me, to pick me apart to see if I’m suitable for the job, in the whole interview no mention of a role or responsibilities was mentioned.
I didn’t complain at the time because I was simply trying to sell myself but now they’ve offered me a position as a ‘Junior Test Analyst’ and although elated at the prospect of a job in IT (my first since graduating) and also the prospect of a wage that doesn’t come from a Supermarket, I’m feeling rather unsure about what they will ask of me.
The job is pretty slick. They have 5 positions to fill so they go out, hire 5 suitable candidates and the first 2 months or so are spent teaching the candidates testing, eventually resulting in all of the 5 being ISEB qualified (or is it ISTQB…. one or the other) so essentually no IT experience is required, so I feel I’ve got one up on the other 4 but I’m still not sure about what they’ll be teaching us.
My limited experience with testing in the past comes to a few user testing of various games and any programs I made at uni I had to test. Can someone enlighten me as to what a Junior test Analyst would do? will it involve alot of programming cause if it does I’m boned, coding and I don’t get on too well…