Ware tester vs tester

The differences between ware testers and testers can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. Additionally, a ware tester has an average salary of $90,445, which is higher than the $65,202 average annual salary of a tester.

The top three skills for a ware tester include test cases, sql server and back-end. The most important skills for a tester are java, test results, and web application.

Ware tester vs tester overview

	Ware Tester	Tester
Yearly salary	$90,445	$65,202
Hourly rate	$43.48	$31.35
Growth rate	-3%	-
Number of jobs	6,855	52,595
Job satisfaction	-	5
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 83%	Bachelor's Degree, 46%
Average age	45	44
Years of experience	-	4

Ware tester vs tester salary

Ware testers and testers have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Ware Tester	Tester
Average salary	$90,445	$65,202
Salary range	Between $67,000 And $120,000	Between $42,000 And $99,000
Highest paying City	-	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	-	Maryland
Best paying company	-	Apple
Best paying industry	-	Telecommunication

Differences between ware tester and tester education

There are a few differences between a ware tester and a tester in terms of educational background:

	Ware Tester	Tester
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 83%	Bachelor's Degree, 46%
Most common major	Information Technology	Computer Science
Most common college	Georgetown University	-

Ware tester vs tester demographics

Here are the differences between ware testers' and testers' demographics:

	Ware Tester	Tester
Average age	45	44
Gender ratio	Male, 54.5% Female, 45.5%	Male, 63.0% Female, 37.0%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 9.6% Unknown, 4.2% Hispanic or Latino, 16.6% Asian, 7.5% White, 61.4% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.7%	Black or African American, 6.2% Unknown, 4.7% Hispanic or Latino, 8.8% Asian, 12.0% White, 67.7% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.5%
LGBT Percentage	4%	11%

Differences between ware tester and tester duties and responsibilities

Ware tester example responsibilities.

Manage departmental inventory and troubleshoot testing, reporting and inventory issues.
Perform regression testing using QC by modifying and documenting the existing scripts.
Create Junit HTML test report for the entire test suite.
Execute automated testing in QC to test the front-end functionality of the application.
Perform various types/levels of testing, including usability, feature/functionality, integration, restart/recovery, regression, security, stress/performance.
Test the company website, validate interactive programs, assess efficiency and usability level of products before they are released to clients

Tester example responsibilities.

Manage requirements and maintain test repository using QC.
Manage departmental inventory and troubleshoot testing, reporting and inventory issues.
Network scanning using tools like NMap and Nessus.
Perform unit testing using Junit for class, method, & web services testing.
Perform functionality testing, UI testing, integration testing, regression testing, system testing and browser compatibility testing.
Analyze new test cases or test cases from regression test suites store in ALM to pick the automation candidates.

Ware tester vs tester skills

Common ware tester skills

Test Cases, 11%
SQL Server, 11%
Back-End, 9%
Regression, 9%
Toad, 8%
Extraction, 8%

Common tester skills

Java, 10%
Test Results, 5%
Web Application, 4%
Test Scripts, 4%
QA, 4%
Regression, 4%