Second, good pay and long career. According to the survey, the starting salary of soft test engineers is generally 3000~5000 yuan/month, and the monthly salary with three years of work experience is about 8000 yuan. Moreover, soft test engineers, like doctors, are more popular as they get older.
Third, there is more room for development. Generally speaking, due to the limitation of specialty and personality, it is difficult for traditional IT technicians to change jobs except to be "technical talents", and the promotion space is limited. However, soft testing is different. Because of the particularity of work, testers not only need to test the quality of software, but also involve various fields such as project establishment, management, pre-sales and after-sales of software projects. In this process, they not only improved their professional skills, but also exercised their abilities in project management, communication and coordination, and market demand analysis, which laid the foundation for their diversified development. After one or two years of practice, they are easily promoted to senior positions such as supervisors and project managers.
Fourth, the training ability is insufficient, and the shortage of talents in the next decade is difficult to solve. Industry experts said that the "charm" of the soft-sensing industry is ultimately caused by a serious shortage of talents. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Information Industry, the talent gap of software testing in China is over 300,000. However, because there are few colleges and universities offering soft-sensing courses independently, the cultivation of soft-sensing professionals mainly depends on vocational training. However, there are not many institutions capable of large-scale vocational training, and the trained soft-sensing talents can't keep up with the increase of enterprise demand. Therefore, in the next decade, the talent gap of soft testing will continue to enlarge.