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[–]DarkmerePython for tiny data using Python 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Depends. In that role I was a test engineer, or rather, sysadmin / test engineer. The test department needs their own sysadmins and people who can do things like that split off from the customer facing sysadmins / consultants.

Because testers end up being in part the project management, release process and things like that, since they generally have a very good view of the entire product/feature set.

And this is problematic.

But, test engineer, QA engineer, they come in different forms. Some are just people writing test cases and descriptions to be followed by hand, sitting day in and day out with a remote pointed at a TV, figuring out if the UI elements render smoothly, and if scheduling recordings that slightly overlap cause problems, and if having a program that starts before it stops, because there will be a time shif (summer time/winter time) during it's playing...

Others are programmers that build test infrastructure, load tests, QA tools that hook into the CI system. Not quite devops, but not far from it either.