So the first section of the report is personal information, here we have an important question, which
is which of the following most closely matches your job, responsibility and title?
So most of us would work as software testers.
What what is the name or the title of your position?
Like we see here, most of testers answer with the answer, which is test engineers or QA engineers.
This is around 27%.
Then we had test leaders, managers and directors.
Then we have persons who call themselves testers or test analysts.
Then like we see, 8% of participants say that they consider themselves as automation testers.
And then we have different answers, like SDET software development engineering test.
Only 2% of participants said this answer.
So like we see, most of testers like to call themselves QA engineers or test engineers, not automation
tester, not performance tester not security tester.
And this is why you see in this bootcamp, for example, we talk about different types of software testing,
because personally, I believe that if you are going to work as a software tester, you should have
good knowledge about all types of testing, even if you work in a position, for example, that would
require more usage of load testing or performance testing or test automation.
That doesn't mean that you don't have any knowledge about different types of testing.
It's better to learn about manual testing API testing performance automation.
And of course, security testing.
Then we have another question, which is, Is testing 100 % of your work?
So here, 2021 answers like we see 55 % of participants said yes, between 100 % and 75 %
of my work is testing tasks only.
So here we have a very important note.
The answer to this question has a relation with the size of the testing team.
So like we see here, the larger your testing organization, the higher the percentage of your work
that will be focused on testing.
So if you are a testers in a large testing team, this means that mostly most of your tasks will be
testing tasks.
But if you have a small testing team in your organization or you are the only tester inside the organization,
in this case, there is a higher likelihood that you will perform non testing tasks.
So what are the non testing tasks?
This might be writing user stories, sitting with customers, performing during tests, debugging the
code and so on.
Here we have the contribution from testers around the world.
We have most of people who participated in this report are from U.S., Canada and Western Europe.
So the data inside this report doesn't have to reflect what happens in your market.
For example, around 30 % of my students or Udemy come from India, but only 16 percent of
people inside this report come from India.
So there might be a slight difference between what happens in your organization or your country and
what is stated in this report.
But it is also good to learn about what happens around the world so that if you work with a foreign
customer, for example, or if you travel to another country, you understand the trends and the ways
that testing teams deal with the jobs.
Here we have the annual income from testing and testing related activities.
So depending on your area.
You will find the average and what income, of course, there is a huge difference, for example, between
annual income in U.S., Canada and other parts of the world like Russia, Latin America and the Middle
East or Africa, for example.
But regarding this section, I suggest you to go to locally produced reports.
For example, here in Egypt, we have a testing report which is called Egypt Testing Report.
So this report collects information only from Egyptian testers.
I advise you, if you live in any country that doesn't have a report like this, you can create our
own.
Share it with your community inside your company in order to know the state of your market.
The Indian market, the Russian market, the American market or any other market here, we have question
about the professional experience.
How many years of experience do you have?
So the blue line is about 20, 21.
So like we see six percent of testers have less than one year of experience.
This means that new testers are joining the field every year.
The field still has demand and is searching for new, fresh grads to work as software testers.
Then we have one to two years, 8% two to five years, 19 %, five to 10 years,
30 % and plus 10 years.
37 %.
So we find that most of testers around Third testers around the world are more than 10 years of experience.
This means that we have a continuous trend of testers who are staying in the field for years.
This is a good piece of information.
This means that most of testers who work in the field, they enjoy this field.
They don't want to leave it or shift their careers to another field.
There is also an important piece of information.
We see a larger concentration of newer testers on smaller companies.
So a lot of my students ask me, I am a new tester.
I am learning about the field and I don't know.
Is it better for me to work in a small company or a large company?
So here this sentence answers this question.
Here he says, If you want to land your first job as a tester, it may be easier on a smaller team willing
to bring a person with less experience and more potential, on the hand, if you are an experienced
tester looking for a job, it may be easier to find it in a larger testing organization.
The next question says what your income affected by the current COVID 19 pandemic?
29 % of participants said, yes, my income was affected by COVID 19 pandemic, and 71 %
of participants said no.
My income was not affected by COVID 19 pandemic.
So these are good news.
Most of testers are not affected by COVID 19 pandemic.
This is way different than other industries like people working in avionics and airports or transportation
or tourism.
People who are working in those industries are affected very badly by COVID 19.
But on the other hand, in the software industry in general, new applications join the market.
Many applications also reaching new markets due to the COVID 19 pandemic.
So COVID 19 was not bad for everyone.
Many companies used it for their own favor in order to expand their market.
Like, for example, delivery service.