Future of Quality Assurance Professionals: Bright, Challenging, and Hot. Don’t blow it away DUDES

Do you know there is one common thread among all of the IT applications that are being flogged around the globe. Myriads of technologies, scores of methodologies, disparate data bases, and hundreds of industries are getting covered every split second. On any given day, million more medium to complex software applications are envisaged, of course fewer get off the ground and even fewer make it to the closing line. Of those eventually get into production, many never wake up to see the 2nd year in the manner similar to SIDS. These applications range from legacy to contemporary, simplified applications to gaming to digital media to embedded software to missions critical to rocket science. 

Guess what, in spite of such an immense diversity, there is one thing still holding a common thread among millions of them. It is the Quality Assurance, the most underrated profession known to the mankind in the IT industry, yet most complex. QA phase of the project, once it gets going, is as fast, energetic, complicated, and enigmatic as the kitchen scene in a crowded Parisian Michelin star restaurant on a Friday night. And just like the kitchen staff, it is the most thankless piece of the puzzle getting all the blames NEVER seeing the face of any credit.

But, as they say in Chinese, Tough times don’t last a long-time, here is a good news for you QA diehards. With applications getting intertwined to a degree that even the nanoscopes, if there were any such term, can’t decipher the entire code in a lifetime. Once it is in production, don’t ask for changes, developer community says or take it to ‘those’ offshore guys for production support, since we are about to  transcend to brand new project using state of the technology…

Only survivors will be those applications which work well in all sorts of adverse circumstances i.e. this administration or that, this condition or that, this data or that… You the QA professionals can make a difference, a huge difference, by doing a good job, a thorough job, and exemplary job.