Which company pays the highest to the around 80+ LPA (Fixed CTC) for an SDET or QA/SDET manager role in India?

I am evaluating a job switch some time and wanted to know the ideal range that is going into the testing community? I4 years of SDET working at 25-30lpa as well as 5-6 years of QAs working at 15-20lpa bracket. Just needed some guidance from the experts out here from QA/ SDET community.

Is there a threshold after certain experience ? Is it at par with other IT roles ? Can someone with higher experience in IT reveal it ?

With 2 years of experience in Automation and an additional 2 years in manual testing, I am seeking advice from QA automation folks or those close to automation teams. Can you recommend mid-sized tech companies in Bangalore, Mumbai, or remote locations with strong tech setups for solid career growth and competitive pay.

Have been working in this service based MNC for more than 3 years being given the domain of company’s choice ni change even after requesting for change through ijp. Preparing for switch and really want to work on SDE role as I have build stuff in college days and before getting selected in this mass hiring. Want to build stuff rather than just validate it but will it be okay to switch to dev role after 3.5 yoe what can be the challenges and consequences that I might have to face? What would you suggest moving from manual qa to sdet first or directly to sde roles? While being paid less than 6ctc what should be expected ctc?for switching to sdet or sde with no prior experience only self learnings through courses? Working in service based company for these many years which companies to target for both learning and earning growth?

Requesting to post in below format YOE - 7.5 years cctc - 25.6 lpa role - both functional and automation designation - Sr. SDET tech stack - rest assured java selenium

Currently in TCS Exp : 3.5 Role: SDET Domain: Payment Domain --Swift, GPP, SEPA, ACH, RCH, CASH, CHEQUE. Java, Selenium, Maven, GitHub, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, Qtest, BDD Cucumber, DDF, SQL, API Testing, ISTQB Certified Tester. MT103/202/543/54541/542 NACHA, Pain001, Pacs, Camts. Excellent team player.

Hey all, how much does an SDET make with 3 years of experience?

Storytime - I have around 4 years of experience in QA field where i do manual testing. So i changed my field to frontend dev in pursuit of good salary and thought that software developer will have more roles. My previous company invested little bit in me but did not give any major projects. Then they fired me on basis of lack of logical skills. So i started looking for QA roles and dev role. Also i get to know that sdet roles are also a thing where people can earn as much as sde. Now the problem starts, i was laid off and given 1 month salary. So i found one job which is remote and it is of QA job . Until this point i made my mind that i will move on sdet path . Then my friend has referred me to one company before my layoff. So they scheduled one tech interview for frontend dev and i cleared it. I cleared it because my friend give me problem😅. Also there is no hr round and they also released offer. Now the problem is i have joined QA role. i am little bit scared that what if i joined sde role and same thing again happens to me. Little company fires me for not completing my task on time. Then i will lose my current job too and i have to start from zero. Compensation details - QA role - 9 LPA Sde role - 10 LPA Both are remote. Sde role can be on-site. In my mind , mostly i will reject sde role due to fear. Want to know opinions. Thank you

Do you think you are under paid compared to the value you add to the product in your organisation as SDE or PMs are getting paid better than you? I am QA lead with 8 YOE at 30L CTC.