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So the first section of the report is personal information, here we have an important question, which

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is which of the following most closely matches your job, responsibility and title?

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So most of us would work as software testers.

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What what is the name or the title of your position?

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Like we see here, most of testers answer with the answer, which is test engineers or QA engineers.

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This is around 27%.

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Then we had test leaders, managers and directors.

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Then we have persons who call themselves testers or test analysts.

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Then like we see, 8% of participants say that they consider themselves as automation testers.

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And then we have different answers, like SDET software development engineering test.

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Only 2% of participants said this answer.

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So like we see, most of testers like to call themselves QA engineers or test engineers, not automation

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tester, not performance tester not security tester.

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And this is why you see in this bootcamp, for example, we talk about different types of software testing,

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because personally, I believe that if you are going to work as a software tester, you should have

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good knowledge about all types of testing, even if you work in a position, for example, that would

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require more usage of load testing or performance testing or test automation.

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That doesn't mean that you don't have any knowledge about different types of testing.

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It's better to learn about manual testing API testing performance automation.

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And of course, security testing.

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Then we have another question, which is, Is testing 100 % of your work?

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So here, 2021 answers like we see 55 % of participants said yes, between 100 % and 75 %

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of my work is testing tasks only.

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So here we have a very important note.

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The answer to this question has a relation with the size of the testing team.

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So like we see here, the larger your testing organization, the higher the percentage of your work

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that will be focused on testing.

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So if you are a testers in a large testing team, this means that mostly most of your tasks will be

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testing tasks.

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But if you have a small testing team in your organization or you are the only tester inside the organization,

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in this case, there is a higher likelihood that you will perform non testing tasks.

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So what are the non testing tasks?

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This might be writing user stories, sitting with customers, performing during tests, debugging the

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code and so on.

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Here we have the contribution from testers around the world.

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We have most of people who participated in this report are from U.S., Canada and Western Europe.

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So the data inside this report doesn't have to reflect what happens in your market.

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For example, around 30 % of my students or Udemy come from India, but only 16 percent of

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people inside this report come from India.

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So there might be a slight difference between what happens in your organization or your country and

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what is stated in this report.

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But it is also good to learn about what happens around the world so that if you work with a foreign

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customer, for example, or if you travel to another country, you understand the trends and the ways

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that testing teams deal with the jobs.

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Here we have the annual income from testing and testing related activities.

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So depending on your area.

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You will find the average and what income, of course, there is a huge difference, for example, between

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annual income in U.S., Canada and other parts of the world like Russia, Latin America and the Middle

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East or Africa, for example.

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But regarding this section, I suggest you to go to locally produced reports.

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For example, here in Egypt, we have a testing report which is called Egypt Testing Report.

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So this report collects information only from Egyptian testers.

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I advise you, if you live in any country that doesn't have a report like this, you can create our

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own.

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Share it with your community inside your company in order to know the state of your market.

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The Indian market, the Russian market, the American market or any other market here, we have question

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about the professional experience.

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How many years of experience do you have?

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So the blue line is about 20, 21.

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So like we see six percent of testers have less than one year of experience.

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This means that new testers are joining the field every year.

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The field still has demand and is searching for new, fresh grads to work as software testers.

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Then we have one to two years, 8% two to five years, 19 %, five to 10 years,

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30 % and plus 10 years.

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37 %.

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So we find that most of testers around Third testers around the world are more than 10 years of experience.

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This means that we have a continuous trend of testers who are staying in the field for years.

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This is a good piece of information.

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This means that most of testers who work in the field, they enjoy this field.

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They don't want to leave it or shift their careers to another field.

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There is also an important piece of information.

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We see a larger concentration of newer testers on smaller companies.

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So a lot of my students ask me, I am a new tester.

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I am learning about the field and I don't know.

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Is it better for me to work in a small company or a large company?

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So here this sentence answers this question.

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Here he says, If you want to land your first job as a tester, it may be easier on a smaller team willing

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to bring a person with less experience and more potential, on the hand, if you are an experienced

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tester looking for a job, it may be easier to find it in a larger testing organization.

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The next question says what your income affected by the current COVID 19 pandemic?

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29 % of participants said, yes, my income was affected by COVID 19 pandemic, and 71 %

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of participants said no.

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My income was not affected by COVID 19 pandemic.

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So these are good news.

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Most of testers are not affected by COVID 19 pandemic.

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This is way different than other industries like people working in avionics and airports or transportation

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or tourism.

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People who are working in those industries are affected very badly by COVID 19.

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But on the other hand, in the software industry in general, new applications join the market.

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Many applications also reaching new markets due to the COVID 19 pandemic.

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So COVID 19 was not bad for everyone.

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Many companies used it for their own favor in order to expand their market.

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Like, for example, delivery service.