[twunde]

The QA/Tester profession isn't dead, but the traditional manual testing role is dying out. Most of the companies I know that use manual QA processes have outsourced the manual QA to teams in Asia (primarily India) and those are only used for legacy products where writing tests are difficult/impossible. My current company (~50 people) doesn't have QA, and we would only consider hiring someone in QA if they were able to write high-quality test code (contractors we've used in the past have written test code but not high-quality). Using GUIs to create automated tests are a no-go. Those people I know with QA backgrounds all have significant difficulty finding new positions, even if they are good (6 months unemployed would not be unusual)