Occupation AtlasICT system tester
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/52d5edc9-7902-4cd3-8b06-6bd77c98d440
ICT system tester
ICT system testers perform testing activities and some test planning activities. They may also debug and repair ICT systems and components although this mainly corresponds to designers and developers. They ensure that all systems and components function properly before delivering them to internal and external clients.
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Job Zone
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Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
ICRInvestigative · Conventional · Realistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- I Investigative5.76
- C Conventional5.67
- R Realistic3.80
- A Artistic1.69
- E Enterprising1.57
- S Social1.53
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, a broader O*NET occupation that includes this one, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (12)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- address problems critically
- apply ICT systems theory
- execute software tests
- identify ICT system weaknesses
- levels of software testing
- manage system testing
- perform ICT security testing
- provide software testing documentation
- replicate customer software issues
- report test findings
- software anomalies
- systems theory
Optional (30)
- Agile project management
- ICT debugging tools
- ICT network simulation
- ICT project management methodologies
- ICT system integration
- ICT system programming
- LDAP
- LINQ
- MDX
- N1QL
- Process-based management
- SPARQL
- XQuery
- attack vectors
- conduct ICT code review
- debug software
- develop ICT test suite
- develop automated software tests
- execute integration testing
- give live presentation
- lean project management
- manage schedule of tasks
- measure software usability
- monitor system performance
- perform software recovery testing
- query languages
- resource description framework query language
- solve ICT system problems
- tools for ICT test automation
- use scripting programming
O*NET equivalents
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