Unprofessional leaders but good for junior testers
Pros
Good to get experience from several branches, get to learn how to test quickly. Easy to work from home and plan the tests whenever you have time. I think you can also become a test team lead if you put your soul into it.
Cons
Very low payout, majority of projects don't pay for testing, very messy and unstructured information when being invited to a project (often also with contradictive information), usually lacking time zones about when projects are starting and stopping, you usually get spammed by uTest (getting info in the projects you are not even included in). Overall, I think it feels very unprofessional and the test team leads would never make it “in the real world” with the lack of structure and information prior to testing. It is also required that you spend LOTS of free time to read through everything, without getting paid. Which is very odd. If you run your own company, then you charge for the time you put on reading documents and instructions. But not on uTest. They are also not open to mistakes you do and give you a bad rating. When they publish looong and messy project info and without you getting paid. Also, a minus that if you don’t keep up taking assignments, you will lose your rating. I had the best rating once, then I gave up since the low payout was not worth it. I have now lost my good rating. That’s not fair. Also, uTest mostly writes about how to ‘become a better tester’ with lots of things you shouldn’t do. But they seem to have NO requirements on their leads. Putting all pressure on the testers. And again, for that low payout, it’s not worth it. But ok if you are a junior directly from the school. But not for a professional tester or even test lead. uTest is focused on American testers. Most of the leads are online when I am not, living on the other side of the world.
