Originally posted by soniya saxena:
no job is inferior. it is upto ur interest whether u want to do development or QA. I think salaries should be pretty much comparable.
I'm not sure. There is something of a social distinction in many places for reasons which make absolutely no sense to me. I once gave a job as assistant designer to a bright young woman who had been pigeonholed in testing. She practically kissed my feet. I don't know why - she could do the job and we got along. Why not?
Once you are ID'ed as a tester it can be blamed hard to get out. Hard enough for men, almost impossible for women. This was a decade ago so perhaps it's changed. I hope so.
So while I did a lot of testing I refuse to say tester on my CV. I don't mention the test plans I wrote as part of my exaustive unit tests. I don't mention my Perl for the same reason. Someone might get the idea I do Perl for anything other than advanced shell-hacking.......