ICT integration testertoICT usability tester
A ICT integration tester already meets 47% of what the ICT usability tester role asks for. The move turns on 11 required skills not yet in the profile.
47%
58.3/ 100
1 Share of the ICT usability tester role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the ICT integration tester profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Why this move works
A ICT usability tester role treats 6 of its required skills as things a ICT integration tester already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- address problems critically
- execute software tests
- levels of software testing
- provide software testing documentation
- replicate customer software issues
- report test findings
What stands in the way is 11 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 26 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A ICT usability tester role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a ICT integration tester background worth leading with.
- already held replicate customer software issues working with computers
- already held develop automated software tests communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held provide software testing documentation communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held develop ICT test suite communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held conduct ICT code review working with computers
- already held tools for ICT test automation information and communication technologies (icts)
All 26 carried skills, including the 6 the ICT usability tester role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 21 missing skills fall into 8 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held execute ICT user research activities required
- required, not held test for behavioural patterns required
- required, not held test for emotional patterns required
- required, not held application usability required
- required, not held human-computer interaction required
- optional, not held AJAX optional
- optional, not held JavaScript optional
- optional, not held PHP optional
- optional, not held unstructured data optional
- optional, not held web based collaborative platforms optional
- optional, not held web programming optional
- required, not held create website wireframe required
- required, not held use experience map required
- optional, not held use markup languages optional
- required, not held conduct research interview required
- optional, not held design user interface optional
- required, not held behavioural science required
- optional, not held cognitive psychology optional
- required, not held measure software usability required
2 further areas in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a ICT usability tester role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 application usability knowledge · sector specific
- 02 assess users' interaction with ICT applications skill · sector specific
- 03 create website wireframe skill · sector specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 26 skills that carry over
- already held address problems critically skill
- already held execute software tests skill
- already held levels of software testing knowledge
- already held provide software testing documentation skill
- already held replicate customer software issues skill
- already held report test findings skill
- already held Agile project management knowledge
- already held ICT debugging tools knowledge
- already held ICT project management methodologies knowledge
- already held LDAP knowledge
- already held LINQ knowledge
- already held MDX knowledge
- already held N1QL knowledge
- already held Process-based management knowledge
- already held SPARQL knowledge
- already held XQuery knowledge
- already held conduct ICT code review skill
- already held debug software skill
- already held develop ICT test suite skill
- already held develop automated software tests skill
- already held lean project management knowledge
- already held manage schedule of tasks skill
- already held query languages knowledge
- already held resource description framework query language knowledge
- already held tools for ICT test automation knowledge
- already held use scripting programming skill
The 2 learning areas not shown above
- required, not held assess users' interaction with ICT applications required
- optional, not held visual presentation techniques optional
10 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held AJAX optional
- optional, not held JavaScript optional
- optional, not held PHP optional
- optional, not held design user interface optional
- optional, not held unstructured data optional
- optional, not held use markup languages optional
- optional, not held visual presentation techniques optional
- optional, not held web based collaborative platforms optional
- optional, not held web programming optional
- optional, not held cognitive psychology optional
11 held skills the ICT usability tester role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role ICT infrastructure knowledge
- not needed by the target role ICT network simulation knowledge
- not needed by the target role ICT performance analysis methods knowledge
- not needed by the target role execute integration testing skill
- not needed by the target role implement ICT security policies skill
- not needed by the target role integrate system components skill
- not needed by the target role inter-organisational middleware system knowledge
- not needed by the target role manage system testing skill
- not needed by the target role perform software recovery testing skill
- not needed by the target role software anomalies knowledge
- not needed by the target role use an application-specific interface skill
11 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- required, not held application usability required
- required, not held human-computer interaction required
- required, not held behavioural science required
- optional, not held AJAX optional
- optional, not held JavaScript optional
- optional, not held PHP optional
- optional, not held unstructured data optional
- optional, not held visual presentation techniques optional
- optional, not held web based collaborative platforms optional
- optional, not held web programming optional
- optional, not held cognitive psychology optional
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.