As always, when someone posts a cool chart I need to go play with whatever tool was used. Corey Goldberg recently posted a chart from odinJobs on Python salaries. While you don't know where the data behind the charts really comes from, I was able to do some fun comparisons:

A comparison of some technical testing specializations:






Comparison by title:






Quality Assurance vs. Testing:






Kinda fun...

Tim Brown wrote a great article in the HBR on Design Thinking. You can't normally get HBR articles unless you subscribe, but IDEO has posted the article on their website.

In the article there is a sidebar on "A Design Thinker's Personality Profile." It covers empathy, integrative thinking, optimism, experimentalism, and collaboration. If you read the short descriptions Tim offers for each, I think you'll see strong parallels to software testing.

I did.