Hi Candy, what kind of QA are you doing, there are many kind of test, such as: Manual, Webapp Automation (Selenium), API (SoapUi), Peformance (Loadrunner, JMeter)
Speaking about salary, yes developer literally is higher salary than manual sofware tester, but but but..software automation engineer salary can potentially higher than developer, of course it depend how good you are. (I know a China AI company automation QA can earn 9k SGD per month)
If your current job offering you manual tester job, then please switch to developer or you may look for automation engineer role (but it is very rare for fresh graduate)
PS: I am working in Singapore currently and i found that there is not much automation QA specialist in this market (meaning if you have the right skill sets, you will be hunted by many companies), 95% of them are indian, another 4% is PRC and Filipino...Malaysian and Singaporean is super rare. (correct if i am wrong)

I fully agree with you James, if will be even better if the person know how to integrate DevOps and build up the entire test automation architecture.

It depend on what kind of testing are you trying to automate, yes one of the best test to automate is regression testing. The goal of automation test is to automate repetitive test.
The effort wise, it depend on what kind of test framework are you building. Some test framework can easily build in one day (i am talking about test framework, not test scripts/case).
Manual testing is still mandatory for usability testing, ad hoc testing, exploratory testing, and functional testing (new function that haven't automated)

To be honest i found that business analyst is everywhere and it is very competitive (in Singapore), unless you focus on a single/niche industry & business, such as finance, military, casino and etc..

Job Title : Actuarial Manager
Job Description : Insurance valuation
Age : 28
Years spent in company : 2 years
Company : Insurance
Industry : Insurance
Tenure : Permanent hire
Employment Level : Manager
Experience before joining (years) : 3 years
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Fellow
Location : KL
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 40-50 hours

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : 14k
Contractual Bonus (months): -
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) : 3 months

which 1 don't? curious to know

That's one hell of a pay for someone who has only <5 years experience

Nope... My cgpa only 3.52, from mmu

I'm from MMU Cyberjaya and my CGPA is 3.52. btw, going to graduate in 3 more weeks..😩

I think starting salary of 3k should be achievable. Don’t worry mate

Lol.. Not gonna comment, cause I'm not fully sure if that's the case as well

He's a qualified actuary and have moved up the ranks pretty well. That's about the market average salary I think..

As far as I know it's truly demanding to be a qualified actuary, those qualification papers are literally from hell.

At background, we won't see the hard work and effort they have put in. In my opinion, those pay are well deserved.

I also from MMU Cyberjaya, but i found that UTAR/KTAR graduates also same salary with me last time (MMU study fees are way damn high if compare to TAR, i am still stuck with PTPTN but all my TAR colleagues already one lumsup clean 100% PTPTN)

yea it's market average.. i have about 5.5 years already not <5 years lol.
the reality though is that a lot of salary increments are from exams, and for folks like us who are done with exams.. it'll be harder to get the salary jumps after..

contract is first one to go, when there is crisis. And, no increment.

yeah good to hear that. very motivating.

thanks a lot guys

Yeah... No doubt on that. Actuarial is never easy to start with heck you need big brains for the job too
Just didn't know it's that high pay

Only if I have worked harder during my college years... Haha

Btw are you local graduate?

Me too. Wish I had known about Actuarial Science much earlier. As I really like Math and also Statistics. Now already got family can't commit on taking all those actuarial exams in order to switch career.

Hi, I am now involved in automation testing in API project. I'm learning regression run in RIT and my mentor is from India ( very professional guy).
My manager advised me to work hard and learn more in testing which may bring a bright future to me. He said dont bother btw tester and developer.
Now he asked me whether wanna stay after internship or not ( no need back to university after intern). Details as below:

Position: Graduate Trainee
Duration: 18 months
Salary: 3100 (before epf)
**salary will fixed until i complete GT program

Should i stay after intern or find another company??

want to ask for opinion here
should i sacrifice my permanent job for better pay but contract job


current job -

salary: 4k - GLC - (5% increment/y)
status: permanent, almost impossible to get retrench unless commit crime
benefit: family medical coverage, phone allowance, parking allowance, house loan subsidy
bonus: 0 ~ 3 month
workload: relax
career growth: hard, due to strong political practice & group is losing money

offered job -

salary: 6 ~ 6.5k - MNC, O&G based (1 ~ 8% increment/y)
status: contract - project based, but they say always renew, never end contract (maybe sweet talk)
benefit: family medical coverage, phone allowance, parking allowance
bonus: not sure
workload: probably hectic
career growth: not sure

This post has been edited by WinkyJr: May 11 2019, 06:31 AM

Contract based is a dealbreaker for me. I just can’t stand the lack of job security in this part.