Table 1Transition record

software testertoICT usability tester

A software tester already meets 60% of what the ICT usability tester role asks for. The move turns on 9 required skills not yet in the profile.

From software tester

60%

Overlap1

To ICT usability tester

32 Skills carried over

9 Required, not held

46.5 Difficulty2

adjacent 0–30

moderate 30–55

substantial 55–75

career change 75–100

this move, 46.5

This move: 46.5 of 100 · moderate

1 Share of the ICT usability tester role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the software 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.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 32 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 software tester background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area

already held replicate customer software issues working with computers
already held develop automated software tests communication, collaboration and creativity
already held measure software usability constructing
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

All 32 carried skills, including the 8 the ICT usability tester role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 15 missing skills fall into 7 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.

Skill to acquire Tier

01 information skills 3 required

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

02 working with computers 2 required, 1 supplementary

required, not held create website wireframe required
required, not held use experience map required

optional, not held use markup languages optional

03 information and communication technologies (icts) 1 required, 2 supplementary

required, not held human-computer interaction required

optional, not held web based collaborative platforms optional
optional, not held web programming optional

04 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 required, 1 supplementary

required, not held conduct research interview required

optional, not held design user interface optional

05 social sciences, journalism and information 1 required, 1 supplementary

required, not held behavioural science required

optional, not held cognitive psychology optional

06 management skills 1 required

required, not held assess users' interaction with ICT applications required

1 further area in the appendix

Table 4

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.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 32 skills that carry over

Skill Type

already held address problems critically skill
already held application usability knowledge
already held execute software tests skill
already held levels of software testing knowledge
already held measure software usability skill
already held provide software testing documentation skill
already held replicate customer software issues skill
already held report test findings skill
already held AJAX knowledge
already held Agile project management knowledge
already held ICT debugging tools knowledge
already held ICT project management methodologies knowledge
already held JavaScript knowledge
already held LDAP knowledge
already held LINQ knowledge
already held MDX knowledge
already held N1QL knowledge
already held PHP 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 unstructured data knowledge
already held use scripting programming skill

The 1 learning area not shown above

Skill to acquire Tier

07 arts and humanities 1 supplementary

optional, not held visual presentation techniques optional

6 supplementary skills, helpful but not required

Skill to acquire Tier

optional, not held design user interface 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

48 held skills the ICT usability tester role does not ask for

Skill Type

not needed by the target role ABAP knowledge
not needed by the target role APL knowledge
not needed by the target role ASP.NET knowledge
not needed by the target role Assembly (computer programming) knowledge
not needed by the target role C# knowledge
not needed by the target role C++ knowledge
not needed by the target role COBOL knowledge
not needed by the target role CoffeeScript knowledge
not needed by the target role Common Lisp knowledge
not needed by the target role Erlang knowledge
not needed by the target role Groovy knowledge
not needed by the target role Haskell knowledge
not needed by the target role ICT performance analysis methods knowledge
not needed by the target role Java (computer programming) knowledge
not needed by the target role Lisp knowledge
not needed by the target role MATLAB knowledge
not needed by the target role ML (computer programming) knowledge
not needed by the target role Microsoft Visual C++ knowledge
not needed by the target role Objective-C knowledge
not needed by the target role OpenEdge Advanced Business Language knowledge
not needed by the target role Pascal (computer programming) knowledge
not needed by the target role Perl knowledge
not needed by the target role Prolog (computer programming) knowledge
not needed by the target role Python (computer programming) knowledge
not needed by the target role R knowledge
not needed by the target role Ruby (computer programming) knowledge
not needed by the target role SAP R3 knowledge
not needed by the target role SAS language knowledge
not needed by the target role Scala knowledge
not needed by the target role Scratch (computer programming) knowledge
not needed by the target role Smalltalk (computer programming) knowledge
not needed by the target role Swift (computer programming) knowledge
not needed by the target role TypeScript knowledge
not needed by the target role VBScript knowledge
not needed by the target role Visual Basic knowledge
not needed by the target role audit techniques knowledge
not needed by the target role computer programming knowledge
not needed by the target role digital systems knowledge
not needed by the target role execute integration testing skill
not needed by the target role hardware components knowledge

8 further entries not listed here

6 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to acquire Tier

required, not held human-computer interaction required
required, not held behavioural science required
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

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Note

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.