Becoming an SDET / QA Automation Test Engineer Road Map Step By Step

The Test Lead
7 min readJan 7, 2022

It’s a new year, new you, and now you want a career change. You hear that coding is the big thing of the future and think you want to be a part of it You see an ad for hiring SDET, Automation QA field. You want to figure out how 1 day you can apply to this job, but where do you start? This article will cover:

  • What do SDET/ QA Automation Engineers do?
  • Education/Coding Requirements
  • Software Testing Concepts
  • TestingTools
  • Getting an SDET/ QA Automation Engineers job
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What do SDET/ QA Automation Engineers do?

When you first hear Automation in the title, you probably think of big robots replacing humans and doing a job formally performed by a human. You are partially right, robots do exist, but they are in the form of your computer. And it isn’t fully replacing humans, but actually making their jobs easier and more efficient.

But who tells these computers what to do and how they will do it? Insert SDET/ Automation Engineers. For the rest of the article, we will…

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