How to become a tester, what to look for?

Question

Software testing

Good afternoon, due to life circumstances, the question arose about changing professional activities. A friend offered to go to the testers and painted all the charms and bad weather in this work, but since he himself never worked there, he only heard from his friends who "as if they work there"he has little faith. But I was interested in this direction and I seriously thought about its version, since I don’t have much friends with computers, I used to study html and css a little with network programming, created blogs on Word press and much more than that, but it was like that, just a hobby. Since I soberly assess my strengths and understand that I won’t become a good developer, I still think to try to go into software testing. I want to ask all those who can help draw up a training plan, preferably those who have experience in testing and know what employers really want to see now. What should be emphasized, please help. Thoughts may arise that I’m just too lazy to google and search for information myself, but this is not so, I have already found a lot of it, but there are so many of it that it’s hard to understand what is really worthwhile and what is already outdated or generally does not have any use.The question is serious, so please take it seriously as well.
P / S I am ready to spend 4-5 hours a day on training, 4-5 times a week.

Answer 1

First, you need to be able to clearly formulate and express thoughts.
You will have to communicate quite a lot with other team members, write documentation, bug reports, etc.
If at the same time you just spew an unstructured stream of consciousness, no one will appreciate it.
Second: you need to be able to search for and assimilate information. Formulate a question, drive it into Google, look for an answer.
If you did not find the answer - try N more times, only after that go ask questions to other people.
Asking questions is an important quality for a tester, but if you don't try to find the answer yourself before asking them, no one will appreciate it.
Third: get the necessary knowledge in testing, computer science and related areas.
What you will need:
- Fundamentals of computer science, client-server applications, HTTP + knowledge of the device and the principles of the target platform (mobile \ desktop \ etc. depending on the vacancy).
- Knowledge of testing theory. Here it is enough to read one or two books on testing and / or two dozen articles on the Internet. It is important not to memorize definitions, but to understand what it is and why.
Standard set: what is testing and its purpose, types and types of testing, testing methods, test design practices, types of testing artifacts and test documentation (which ones are needed for what, when to apply, how to write).
- SDLC, development methodologies, application life and release cycle.
- Basics of working with databases: what are, what are, basic SQL queries.
- Basics of programming: basic course on the Internet\book\YouTube on Python\Java\anything else.
Fourth: to study vacancies and walk around interviews, to understand where what is missing - to learn.
Fifth: Profit - you are a tester.