Load testing: what is interesting in it and what skills are needed?

We asked Vasily Kudryavtsev, director of quality at RTLabs JSC and head of our course "Load testing" to talk about the prospects and challenges in the field of performance testing .


The most relevant area in QA today

In recent months, due to the current situation with the pandemic, more and more products and services are moving online, and the existing ones are rapidly expanding their audience. Traffic and load are increasing, and at the same time the relevance of load testing (HT).

Even novice specialists, but with the necessary set of skills, are hunted for several weeks. Moreover, the choice of projects is huge: banking, markets, delivery, education and streaming services, all kinds of online leisure, etc. 

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