[expertentipp]

For many, the QA/tester was someone not worthy of being a developer because of not having sufficient programming skills. Nowadays the testing frameworks (web front-end!) got so complex and testing stacks so hysterical that QA/tester job is basically full time development job. Thus, developers do the QA/tester job nowadays (which doubles their work).

[thecleaner]

I didnt know this perception existed. I believe QA would be crucial in avoiding disastrous customer interactions (customers get ticked by the slightest bugs ) and in mission critical software. Didnt a QA guy find out about the bugs in Ubers self driving car dep and Uber still ignored it and then killed a pedestrian ?

[jatins]

Don't think it was a QA. https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/10/report-a-manager-at-ubers-...

Also, when it comes to things like Self Driving, the line between a QA/dev is really not there. Both of them are just writing software since testing such a thing can't be a manual process.

[thecleaner]

Yeah. True that. But I guess that just means the job has additional requirements. You can teach a QA guy to write code but its kind of hard for devs to think like a QA.

[potta_coffee]

I started as a QA and made the jump to development simply because it's more difficult to get paid well and be taken seriously in QA. People perceive the job to be less important and require less skill (which isn't necessarily true), in my experience.