Shift Away from QA? What’s Your Take?
At Walmart, there’s been a recent move to lay off many SDETs, but I see many sdet role opening also and few people contacted me through linkedin that they have also cleared few interview rounds as well for sdet role.
Under my org the message is loud and clear that there will be a shift from QA they are saying there will be no QA going forward only sdet who will develop and then test their code
Also people in other teams under the same org have been assigned task of dev and functionals
Curious to hear from others in the industry: Have you seen similar shifts in your orgs? Is this a real “Shift Left” movement, or just cost-cutting in disguise? How are QA professionals adapting or pivoting in this environment?
Would love to hear thoughts, especially from folks in engineering leadership, QA, or DevOps.
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Why do you want to be QA? shift to development or automation side, do some code and be happy.
I can surely move to a dev role if I want to, but I enjoy being an SDET—it gives me the best of both coding and quality. For people with more experience in QA, switching to dev isn’t always easy, and not everyone wants that path. Some of us actually like what we do
QA is not a tag. It is a mindset of thinking beyond the requirements and bringing quality. Dev can do QA.. But cannot bring the quality QA can bring to any application.