Hey guys,
So i was asking questions to one engineer manager about quality analyst. I asked her how sdet as field in general as i already have 5 years of experience in QA field. Learning side by side coding for a next switch. She said do something else except QA as in her experience, her previous companies do not have QA team itself. So i am little confused as a career path. So wanted to ask how you guys software at your workplace and does sdet role will have significance in this market in future?
QA here.
Yes, manual won’t take you far.
Learn a language and a tool for each domain like PlayWright/Cypress/Selenium from UI automation, RestAssured/Postman/Karate for API and learn about test planning, jira for test management.
And later on keep learning about CI tools like Jenkins/Azure/AWS.
Make yourself visible in common group instead of dev DM.
Communicate to PM/Design/Dev team for feature testing. Get yourself involved in PRD stage rather when dev give you build. Make team life easy by identifying friction/bottleneck in team and implement a process and reiterates.
P.S.- Don’t start with codeless automation tool to start with.
3.5 LPA to 67 LPA as QA in 7 years as Automation QA.
All the best.
Thanks, that's mostly the plan. Will start with java and selenium. As it is hot in QA recruitment.
Can you please guide me . I am currently having experience in selenium and rest assured with 3 yoe . My coding is not that much good , and about to join product based company. Can you please provide me the reference material and roadmap that you followed . How you reached that stage so early.
We had QA but now we moved to No QA. Automation we write by ourselves. Some teams still have QA.
So devs need to write E2E tests and accountable for every bug in their module? When you had QA , what were their roles and responsibilities?
Yes. Even RCA filing in case of roll backs. They were responsible for manual and automation testing, release, RCA etc.
Yes we have QA and it’s very important role. But some companies don’t have they expect devs to do QA.
I would say QA would still be needed from a customer POV as that is tough to automate . So learn UI/UX well.
Also manual QA is a pain automation of tests is the only solution but that’s devs job. So might need to learn actual coding .
Overall future seems bit bleak for QA so good time to start moving towards actual development.
As in frontend/ backend / devops kind of role ? i have tried frontend for few months (4-6). I got laid off due to less logical skills and company was not ready for investing time.But seeing the kind of market i am little fearful that i may not able to switch the domains. I am earning around 9 LPA
In my company, we have to do E2E testing before pushing any new feature. There's one or two testers hired for part time.
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