I need your ideas and thoughts on changing a career from business analyst to testing. Any help appreciated.
Just to give some background -
All of my below experience is in financial services industry with strong domain skills.
I started off my career as a developer, However even in the development role, it was a mix of BA and development as I spoke to clients to gather requirements, prepared specs and also did code changes. It was more of changing code rather than developing from scratch.
After that? I moved onto a IT BA role within a bank where I was actually doing more of functional testing and less of BA work. This was BA for IT systems.
I did that for a year and then took up a more strategic role where I was actually doing process reengineering and redesign and speaking to top management. This had nothing to do with IT systems but very high level business processes. After 5 months my position has been made redundant. I also had feedback that I my skills were not upto the mark and that my verbal communication skills were not effective.
This has led me to think if I made a wise move. I am now wondering if I should consider moving into manual/functional testing or look for another BA job. I?can do testing roles as -?
- I come from dev background
- Good understanding of financial services industry so can get test roles in banks.
- used tools like QC and also did testing as part of being a developer.
Or should I continue to look for BA roles within the industry? Personally I do feel that my verbal communication skills need to be improved but I think that is only with very senior CXO level stakeholders, as I feel slightly intimidated talking to them.
Just asking for thoughts and ideas and which is a better option in terms of long term growth.
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