Inhouse, freelance, outsourcing company: where to land for a tester, so as not to fall out of love with the profession and grow by leaps and bounds

Hello, Habr! I'm again at the keyboard - Zhenya Ponomarenko. We at "Quotations" are engaged in testing and quality assurance for Russian and foreign companies. And we are an outsourcing agency, that is, we test projects of clients from different areas: from complex ones - aviation and medicine, to retail and small startups. During my career in testing (and this is neither more nor less - 15 years), I managed to work in product teams, freelance and, as a result, started an outsourcing testing agency. I came to this because on one project I quickly got bored, and the outsourcing model turned out to be the solution to this problem. You can work as a company with all corp. buns, according to the terms of the TC, but with different projects. This means not to dry up for years on the same tasks and develop continuously.





I think that many who start a career in testing or those who are already in the profession are asking the question "where to go somewhere?" This "where" there are many options - opened by HH, "Habr Career", a cart and another hundred thousand miles of sites - I don't want to choose. But where of all this diversity will not be boring, can you grow and earn? This is all the salt and pain. Therefore, I decided to write an overview of different work formats for a tester. Perhaps this will help someone understand where to go and why. And someone to reconsider the current location. Or someone will generally write that this is all garbage, and he has it differently (by the way, welcome to the comments) .





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