People I’ve come across mention: 1. Framework creation (not day to day) 2. Tooling (not day to day) 3. CI/CD (not day to day) 4. Test automation, UI/backend (day to day) There aren’t a typical day in the life videos for this niche category. So, for the love of God, can someone explain what SDETs do? Please provide examples of stuff. TC: 250K
OP- have always wondered this since coming on blind. Nobody ever gives straight answer. Just not sure what sort of tools people are always building.
Exactly, and the information out there is pretty sparse. I’m just trying to figure out what folks do and see what “true SDETs” that people talk about really do.
What companies still have SDET's?
Did you find out yet 😅 I was just abt to write a post in blind asking the same thing !
Nope, I tried looking at different blogs and stuff, but those are around basic testing. I’ve ended up formulating my own view WRT SDETs: 1. Be a dev (not just a person who writes automated tests) 2. Ability to build microservices 3. Ability to build mock services to remove dependencies on partner services 4. Ability to debug any service and understand distributed systems 5. Infrastructure provisioning 6. Performance engineering 7. Test frameworks Essentially, 50% dev, 30% DevOps/SRE, 20% test automation. “Nothing is black box”. The problem is figuring out what companies come close to what I wrote above. That’s a problem to tackle on another day.
I think I'm a sdet hold over and I don't really know. I do tooling always.
Tooling for? Developer Productivity sorta stuff?
Hm. More like security. Looking for vulnerabilities in production services.