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bigbadish

bigbadish

bigbadish

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Hi guys,

I'm after a little advice. I work for an IT company and have done for over 3 years. For 2 and a bit years I worked in Change Management, but decided I did not want to progress down the business route and wanted to go technical. I took an internal move into Testing, in amidst a compulsory redundancy program that was going on and have now been there for a good 4 months where I've learnt a lot and gained my ISEB qualification in Software Testing.

In light of doing well and passing the ISEB exam I am now being told I am moving back into Change Management. This is due, I'm told to me being assessed during the CR period in the CM pool and not the Technical pool so I belong to CM and they want me back as I have experience in that area.

I've made it clear and stated I do not wish to return to that area, but it seems I don't have a choice. I have a meeting with the manager of the CM team I am supposed to be joining tomorrow where I will reiterate that this will not benefit me at all and I do not want to move.

I am contemplating, if I do have to move for atleast 6 months (but probably longer) what other employment opportunities may be out there for a qualified Software Tester.

Any guidance on the work issue and possible alternative employment would be appreciated.

Cheers.
 
I gather you were recruited to a role, and they want you to stay in that role because thats where they need you, but you want to move to a different role. From their PoV there is no issue, you should be doing the job you were hired for. If they don't need/want you in that other position then your options are to continue in the job you were hired for, or leave and find alternative work. In that regard, you don't have much experience in the testing field (less than a year) but you do have a qualification, which would help - good luck whatever you decide on.
 
I was initially recruited to the CM role after leaving Uni, 2 and a half years later I decided I did not like the business role and, with help from my CM team leader and her boss moved role and into Testing, which I thought was concrete and I was here to stay.

I'd like to think when I speak to the manager of the new team tomorrow and tell him that this was not my decision and I do not want to move back into CM he will not want to take someone on that doesn't want to be there.

We shall see I guess.
 
Your age could be an advantage to looking for tester jobs. My mum decided she wanted to be a tester about 5 years ago and found it very difficult to get a job, because she had too much experience in other fields for the basic jobs, but not enough in testing for test management. She works on assignments, so has to find a new job every couple of years within her company, and has always found something in England (nothing in Scotland though :().

It might be worthwhile trying to contact big IT companies like IBM directly to see if they have anything to offer you.
 
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