Why I Switched my day work from Programming to Automated Testing? Part 4: Better Career(s)

Brighter future after mastering real Test Automation and Continuous Testing as a programmer or tester.

The articles in this series

• More Challenging
• More Fun
• Too productive to continue working as a programmer
• Better Career(s)

Recently, I saw this insightful post on my LinkedIn Feed.

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I would change the “human being” in the above answer to “Software Engineer in Test”, and the rest remains valid!

Table of Contents:
· In (huge) Demand
· Little (real) Competition
· Wide Applicability 
· Stable Skillset
· Still being highly creative
· High Respect at Top Companies
· Easier to make a name
· Develop your own Apps

In (huge) Demand

All hot buzz words in the software industry, such as Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, and Release Early Release Often, are related to automated software testing. More releases → much testing effort required. In…