Why do QA engineers earn less than software engineers?

Proof by way of contradiction: if QA engineers earned more than software engineers, companies could save money by making developers do their own QA testing before declaring their work done, and close down their QA departments. read more

Proof by way of contradiction: if QA engineers earned more than software engineers, companies could save money by making developers do their own QA testing before declaring their work done, and close down their QA departments. Another way to say it is that QA was practically invented to save perceived “precious” engineer time. read more

If you do so, you can call yourself a Software Developer in Test or a QA Software Tools Engineer and think of yourself as producing testware - code and documents that make the code better - in lieu of software. read more