Software engineering or applied informatics for a tester?

Question

Informatics

Hello. I graduated from 2 courses of the RTA in the specialty of customs and took the documents, I realized that it was not mine at all, I was expecting a different "content", a format of work. Yes, and the practice was disappointing to say the least. I got a job and for a year I studied myself, with what to connect my earnings, so that it would also be interesting. I'm a pretty big perfectionist, and after a thousand thoughts, I decided to settle for the profession of a tester. Now I am at the very initial stage of studying, collecting material, trying to find friends in this area, thinking about courses when the very initial base is already in my head. But there is a nuance: parents are ardent soviet individuals. I don’t want to spoil relations with them, it’s useless to drive something into my head. The problem is diploma. We settled on distance learning. I studied specialties and settled on these two, what's in the title. The question is no longer about the prospects of these specialties, but what, in theory, is more native to a tester? From what specialty could you draw a little more? Based on the fact that I'm not a pure techie, and with physics I'm talking to Your Majesty

Answer 1

Well, if of these two, then software engineering is definitely.
But the profession of a tester is never for perfectionists at all.

Answer 2

It doesn't matter what diploma you get from a Russian university, especially for the profession of a tester. In our company, 40% of testers are humanitarians, but ideological, with burning eyes. I would advise you to jump on any affordable-cheap zaochku (you have already thrown the cat down the drain for 2 years of your life), take literature, QA courses - and try to get a job at least somewhere as a junior. It will be many times more useful than your thoughts about which faculty to choose. It doesn't matter where you study, if it's not Moscow State University, Bauman, ITMO or St. Petersburg State University (+\- a couple more universities).