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    Something to consider re your last sentence: if you demonstrate excellent performance in QA, that's a reason to keep you in QA, not move you into engineering.
    – BittermanAndy
    Commented Jan 25, 2022 at 9:11
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    "I want to continue to do iOS software engineering in the medium term" — do you have experience in iOS software engineering now?
    – Paul D. Waite
    Commented Jan 25, 2022 at 12:24
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    @BittermanAndy: That's true, but that's not how all places work: I've seen organisations where the best QA employees do get moved into development. (Naturally, their QA teams had a tendency to suck, since all the good people kept leaving...)
    – psmears
    Commented Jan 25, 2022 at 22:20
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    @lucidbrot: I'm sure there are - and they lose out too, since if they want their career to progress they have to move out of QA and into development :-/
    – psmears
    Commented Jan 26, 2022 at 19:07
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    There is engineer-in-test, which is someone who writes software to ensure quality of the product. An engineer-in-test for an iOS product will be doing some iOS programming. An engineer-in-test is "in QA", but doesn't "do QA", in that they are writing code to test the app, not testing the app. Much like someone writing dental scheduling software isn't a receptionist.
    – Yakk
    Commented Jan 27, 2022 at 21:48