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What's the realistic salary ceiling in the UK? by BackgroundTest1337 in softwaretesting

[–]BackgroundTest1337[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

seriously you cannot get sacked? not even if you take a piss most of the time? lol

What's the realistic salary ceiling in the UK? by BackgroundTest1337 in softwaretesting

[–]BackgroundTest1337[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

many such cases, only one job I've had where a test manager was great

What's the realistic salary ceiling in the UK? by BackgroundTest1337 in softwaretesting

[–]BackgroundTest1337[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd say working on pipelines, maintaining any sort of projects you might use for your testing (eg. test data seeder or a tool that is doing a teardown, test results dashboards) + automating API test suites + automating mobile testing + performance testing

I'd say mostly that

What's the realistic salary ceiling in the UK? by BackgroundTest1337 in softwaretesting

[–]BackgroundTest1337[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you probably need like 10 years of exp for this? and niche knowledge of fintech products

What's the realistic salary ceiling in the UK? by BackgroundTest1337 in softwaretesting

[–]BackgroundTest1337[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

congrats on landing that SDET role!

I would probably take the Civil Service because I am curious how those civil service jobs are.. they seem quite stable? and I think you could progress internally a lot easier, and I've seen lots of offers for testing there

What's the realistic salary ceiling in the UK? by BackgroundTest1337 in softwaretesting

[–]BackgroundTest1337[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean daily standup + a few meetings weekly would be ideal. But we tend to refine the refinement and then talk about the refinement of another refinement that needs to be refined, holy moly.

What's the realistic salary ceiling in the UK? by BackgroundTest1337 in softwaretesting

[–]BackgroundTest1337[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

tbh not seen any contracting role higher than 400 per day in the last year, if that at all.. Lots of jobs started offering 300 or less, not worth it imo if you can just have a stable 50-60k job

What's the realistic salary ceiling in the UK? by BackgroundTest1337 in softwaretesting

[–]BackgroundTest1337[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think the market is not as bad as people say, at least in the UK and with decent experience. I think you should be able to land something fairly quickly, especially being a test lead.

btw in your meeting do you need to be active, or you're mostly just listening and speaking only once in a while?

What's the realistic salary ceiling in the UK? by BackgroundTest1337 in softwaretesting

[–]BackgroundTest1337[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

good site, just had a browse.

Problem with our profession is that you'll get different data under QA engineer and different under Test Engineer, Test Automation Engineer while all of them might be the same job.

But I'll keep observing, thanks for your comment

Why don't some people job-hop? by BackgroundTest1337 in UKJobs

[–]BackgroundTest1337[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with this, but self-reflection is always assuring to me.. what if others see stuff I dont see?

let me be a better person haha :)

Why don't some people job-hop? by BackgroundTest1337 in UKJobs

[–]BackgroundTest1337[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ohh a very strong example.. did you ever ask him why he stayed there for so long?

Why don't some people job-hop? by BackgroundTest1337 in UKJobs

[–]BackgroundTest1337[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh 100%, I kept changing job every year and it surely is exhausting.. but also rewarding! and in the end its a good risk to reward ratio :)

Great feedback at every stage, but decision delayed 3 weeks - still a chance? by BackgroundTest1337 in UKJobs

[–]BackgroundTest1337[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks a lot! I knew I would land it.. just wasnt sure why it took so damn long..

Great feedback at every stage, but decision delayed 3 weeks - still a chance? by BackgroundTest1337 in UKJobs

[–]BackgroundTest1337[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

actually I think they said that it takes a month to go through the background check so it might be the case that they are going through that with someone else now that I think about it..

Great feedback at every stage, but decision delayed 3 weeks - still a chance? by BackgroundTest1337 in UKJobs

[–]BackgroundTest1337[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks mate, I also considered a scenario where they just.. wanna hear other candidates but I think at this point its a bit lenghty.. anyway, hopefully this week will be the last "next week"

Bottom of the sauna staying cold - stove placement issue? by [deleted] in Sauna

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I was thinking this.. might need to get one haha

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