Hiring great testers is biggest challenge that test managers face. Unfortunately, industry is facing the serious shortage of experienced testers, while the numbers of testers with weak skill sets are increasing. Industry and acedmia both are in a way responsible for this situation. Not many universities have separate software testing courses. During early stages, industry has ignored the testing profession and many people felt that software testing is an entry level job to move into software development later. Currently, good testers are in demand, hiring and retaining them is a challenge for test managers. It is also job of testing community to create great testers out of fresh graduates.
While hiring testers, a manager basically needs to look for two qualities which I call A&A, aptitude and attitude. By Aptitude, I mean good quantitative and logical reasoning and by Attitude, passion and desire for testing and curious to know new things. While hiring fresh college graduates, always look for people with good A&A so that they can later be mould into good testers. While hiring experienced candidates, apart from A&A, earlier toolset skills can be looked at based on requirements. Rather than looking for past toolset experience it would be better if you can judge how faster he can learn the new tools.
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