Just checking. If anyone has any info, please share.
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This is no surprise at all. It was talked about years ago. The problem lies in the fact that offshore QA/Testing do not have the skills to do front-end development. The same goes the other way around. I can't tell you how many times I had releases delayed because QA was out of the office and no one else could do it. But, like anything else, they will pretend and cover for each other. QA will continue to do QA & front-end developers will do the same. Onshore business partners are going to want to see test scripts and results to sign-off on. At some point fingers will be pointed and the house of cards will fall down. That is, unless they stop testing altogether which just makes a different house fall.
The engineering organization just announced they are getting rid of the Test Engineer job titles and expecting all Test Engineers to train in other topics, so they will have to do items like front-end development alongside QA work. This is called the CTRL+F initiative. It's expected there will be some attrition as a result, I'm thinking this is just NM's way of cutting more of the technology spend.
Where oh where did the 401k match go? I've missed you for the last 2 years and don't everything think you will be returning.