Software Testing is ever demanding field and in this field most important role now a days is of Automation and selenium testing which is based on programming language and specially used for web testing as well. There are different tracks in selenium based on Java and c# and we can use selenium for variety of applications testing.
There are other testing tools also available like QTP, ETL Testing, Database Testing, Data Warehouse Testing, Manual Testing, etc and there are lots of jobs available in companies as tester. Being a tester is also very responsible task and IQ also matters a lot because tester has to test application end to end in all aspects.
Tester also needs proper test plan and test cases to perform different types of test cases and performance testing. In real-time projects there are multiple environments named Development, QA and Testing and testers test application majorly in QA Environment and find the bugs in application if any. In Automation testing track there are few major components in selenium which testers can learn and get better growth in carrier.
Those tools are: Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Web Driver, TestNG Framework, Selenium Grid, Maven and selenium Integration, Cucumber. In QTP/UTF following components are important: VB Script, QTP Version 11.0, Excel based testing, Object Repository, Object identification, Synchronisation, Descriptive programming, Data Driven Framework, Web based controls, Global Sheet, COM, DOM, Database Testing, Reporting in HTML, Excel.
ETL Testing components are: In ETL Testing person must have SQL knowledge and on the top of that best if you add any ETL tool like Informatica Power Ceneter then how to load data from multiple repositories and file systems in Data warehouse using ETL and how to test data and validate quality based on test cases. Informatica Testing and ETL Testing is more about data testing in data warehouse repository and test the mappings/Jobs implemented in ETL Tool.
Manual testing is one of the oldest approaches and sometimes manual testing is the best type of testing in few projects. But majority of the projects now moving towards Automation and open source tools only so as conclusion in IT Industry now a days ETL Testing and Selenium Testing tools are most demanding tools. And these tracks are best tracks to build carrier or switch in IT in testing profile.
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