Road from Rated to Gold Tester Part#5

I remember a feeling and drive when I was getting higher in my test rating on uTest. Watching my bugs being approved and most of bugs I have submitted were getting higher and higher value pay out.It such pleasure  and feeling of proud yourself that you can actually be useful, your ideas and work can worth something. Thinking this way and keep working  with more caution on each cycle not only improved my bug, test case reporting but also pushed me to the next level of being a Silver Rated Tester. Each level was giving me more confidence in my abilities and I have noticed that when a person see that he/she excels, it let's their inner feeling and passion just open up and start working like a clock for non-stop. And I liked that feeling, everyday waking up and checking for new Test Cycle invitations, new experience on Mobile, Desktop and Web Applications. Getting in every possible hole of the app and getting those bugs was drive for me. Not After a long time, may be 3, 4 weeks, and I remember this day, it was May 14th, 2012 when I officially became Gold Rated Tester. I was feeling like, now I roll for real and will do even more work as I never did before, hell yeaaaah!!!! And also, I didnt forget that the higher the rating the higher the pay out is for testers :D

As of today, I have been keeping up with uTest almost for 4 months on full-time basis, where I spend most of time performing different kind of Testing. Such as Functional, Localization, Performance, etc. I would not complain and say that Testing is not fun or hard but at some point I have noticed and felt that by watching all these App developers sheets and test plans being developed by other people. Each App's Development model, which I really liked and actually is driven by that. I realized that I want to get on developer side now and do develop my own Apps and start applying my Software Testing skill and learn more about development at the same time. When I say Development, I mean Mobile, Web Application development. In the near future, I am about to come one step close to my dream where I want to stand. 

Looking forward for more blogs and sharing my experience. Again, I want to thank uTest community for a great opportunity for most new and experience testers to come close on uTest platform and share each others experience.

Best Regards,

Mirshad Ozuturk