Nowadays, more and more companies are hiring SDETs as they are playing an important role in Agile and DevOps. With a quick change in technology, manual testers need to work hard and to learn more to be on track in their career. SDETs are high in demand and it becomes so hard to hire them as well as it takes a lot of learning for manual testers to convert into SDET.
SDET is a technical software tester who focuses on developing automated scripts. SDETs work alongside developers to help automate Acceptance criteria in user stories as a part of the Agile team. In addition to QA activities, SDET writes automation integration tests, API tests and UI automation tests.
SDETs are one of the highest paid people in the software industry now-a-days. Having the knowledge in both development and testing, they are high in demand in the market and are eligible for a good pay scale.
