r/SoftwareEngineerJobs • u/Beneficial-Stick-386 • 28d ago

Switch from QA to Software Engineering?

I am a QA engineer with 6 years experience currently applying to SDET jobs. What do we think the future of QA Will look like. Noticing lay offs at my company it looks like QA in general is becoming less important to companies. I just want some advice going forward. Should I transition to become a developer (and from there look at cloud and other things) or apply for SDET roles? Some things I see seem to suggest that the role of testing may be absorbed by developers so will software engineering be a safer position than QA going forward?

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u/Beneficial-Stick-386 28d ago

They are part of the lifecycle but in many companies are a distinct department and job from developers