Software testing jobs after career break

Career break can happen in many different forms including change of location, change of role from development to testing to get rid of pressure, women quitting job owing to family reasons and aiming to take up job in IT after career break to name a few. As such many find testing as the easy and interesting way to enter into workforce after career break. Here are some tips they cna look for if aiming for new testing career: Those who have knowledge & exp in testing field, kindly advice for the following: 1) Basic Training in software testing - Though software testing doesn't cost much of your time basic to advanced training really helps. Particularly for women entering career workforce after career break it gives some basic refreshment on concepts including operaitng system basics, database basics, SQL concepts, types of software testing, latest software lifecycle emthodology like agile, business driven development to name a few. Testing takes two major forms - manual testing that involves understanding requirement documents, creating test cases, test plans, executing cases manually etc. Automation tesitng which is an advanced topic that involves utilization of tools like QTP or programming language liek selenium, watir etc. Look for trianing institutes, private tutors to start with. Some consulting firms offer this trianing for free. Check before making a decision 2) Certifications on testing - Though there are some certificaitons like ISTQB your success in finding a job depends much on technical acument as compared to testing ertificaitons unlike business anlysis, project management wherein PMP offers you bright edge over others 3) Firms may or maynot count on prior experience - This depends on firm. If you ahve development background and have got sufficient trianing in automation tesitng, your prior dev experience cna be factored upon. Again depends on firm to firm 4) Chances of remote option not much great with testing role - Unlike application testers are expected to work real close with dev, business stakeholders and hence remote option is a perk you can't really count on most of the time However, good news is that as compared to other roles you can enter workforce easily and quickly via testing route. Give this a shot today if you want to