I have interacted with many QA engineers during my career and I still remember all of the QA groups that I worked with (5 in total) and our discussions on bugs, quality, certifications and QA during the initial days and there after. Here are some differences in the mind set of QA engineer (including mine) during the initial phase of the career and few years after.
| Initial stages | Few years after |
|---|---|
| Passionate about every bug and fights for every bug and wants every bug to be fixed in the current release | Learns when to fight and thinks of release priorities |
| Automation is of no use, only helps while switching jobs | Automation does help when done properly, we need automation |
| QA Certification's will help in career | Certifications only teaches definitions, doesn't help |
| Process related things are boring, testing is only important for me | Process helps |
| Test plans are a waste, I can test everything without a test plan in an hour | Test plans are important, helps us in not missing out scenarios |
| It's cool to be a developer, I want to move to development | Testing is Cool, I will continue in testing |
| Everything is in my brain, why should i write a document | Documents are important and helps in maintaining the process |
So next time, when you hear any of this from your colleagues, it's because they are in a specific phase in their career and it's common in that phase .
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