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The better choice is the one that will fit with your especial gifts and personal interests better over the long-term.
Folks do better at BA if they have superior communication skills and business acumen, the latter typically gained during years of experience, perhaps as a product specialist, as a sales engineer, or working on project engagements with significant customer-facing time on site. By the same token, lots of companies would rather pay some green kid than pay for high quality expertise, so you could still be successful as a BA taking the "lower pass" gaining experience on the job through your failures.
Folks do better at QA if they have superior attention to detail and a better understanding of the underlying technology. QA lends itself more so to an experience slope... there is good work for folks to do at every level of experience, even when just starting out. So that path generally would lead you into fewer failures.
One thing to note: in my experience, organizations have been quicker to outsource QA work rather than BA work. I'm not sure if others have seen the same trend.
One thing to note: in my experience, organizations have been quicker to outsource QA work rather than BA work. I'm not sure if others have seen the same trend.
Definitely true, though QA work is definitely not being outsourced with as much success (success for the company paying for the outsourced services) as are many other IT disciplines, so there may be a contraction of that in the medium term.
The better choice is the one that will fit with your especial gifts and personal interests better over the long-term.
Folks do better at BA if they have superior communication skills and business acumen, the latter typically gained during years of experience, perhaps as a product specialist, as a sales engineer, or working on project engagements with significant customer-facing time on site. By the same token, lots of companies would rather pay some green kid than pay for high quality expertise, so you could still be successful as a BA taking the "lower pass" gaining experience on the job through your failures.
Folks do better at QA if they have superior attention to detail and a better understanding of the underlying technology. QA lends itself more so to an experience slope... there is good work for folks to do at every level of experience, even when just starting out. So that path generally would lead you into fewer failures.
Thank you for your advice.
Yeah I thought BA might have many opportunities. I applied to a BA position, but one problem is that I am bad at communication (I am also not native English), so should I do a QA?
The BA job is, in great part, about soliciting from other people an ever-increasing understanding of what those other people want the product to do. It is critical to be readily able to understand and be understood. You cannot get to the point where you're cooperatively synthesizing an understanding of needs if you're held up by misconstruing what words mean, or worse, if you're held up by those you're working with misconstruing what your words mean. You can think of a BA with inadequate communication skills as on par with a QA person trying to perform their job without superior computer skills (i.e., without understanding how to multi-select choices in a drop-down user-interface, for example).
The BA job is, in great part, about soliciting from other people an ever-increasing understanding of what those other people want the product to do. It is critical to be readily able to understand and be understood. You cannot get to the point where you're cooperatively synthesizing an understanding of needs if you're held up by misconstruing what words mean, or worse, if you're held up by those you're working with misconstruing what your words mean. You can think of a BA with inadequate communication skills as on par with a QA person trying to perform their job without superior computer skills (i.e., without understanding how to multi-select choices in a drop-down user-interface, for example).
So QA would be better than BA for me if I don't understand and misconstruing??
OP, did you consider data analytics? I think it is in demand now
Yeah I am also considering Data analyst role too, but I don't see governments look for Data analysis role a lot.
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