QA v/s SDET....@Amazon

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MPXd48

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MPXd48
Jun 2, 2018 12 Comments

what is the difference in terms of interview process, work, TC, etc.

Thanks for your time

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  • Amazon / Eng
    pawUI

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    pawUI
    SDET and SDEs are in the same payband. The hiring coding bar is the same. QAEs also code but lighter projects and do manual testing. QAEs TC is about 20-30% less.
    Jun 2, 2018 1
    • Amazon / Eng
      lolhiman

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      lolhiman
      This post is correct, but I want to emphasize the amount of manual testing some QAEs do. I have worked with QAEs whose entire job was manually pressing buttons on an app to find bugs. It seemed like a terrible gig.

      SDETs solve really hard engineering problems and add tons of value by preventing service outages.
      Jun 2, 2018
  • There is a similarity, both have poor career growth and job security..
    Jun 3, 2018 4
    • Apple
      ckag

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      ckag
      Google, Apple, Netflix, Dropbox etc - all of them have such positions.
      Jun 10, 2018
    • I dont know about apple, but for the rest the ratio is your answer .. qa : sde is around 1:10(maybe 100) and pay is less.startups and mid size dont have them. Competing for so few positions with lesser pay is not a good strategy
      Jun 10, 2018
  • Amazon
    NoStranger

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    NoStranger
    SDET’s almost exactly similar to SDE’s in their day to day work except that they work with the testing frameworks. They write the integration test, develop frameworks etc.
    QA is hands on with testing end to end and raising bugs and working on releases. Sometimes QAs also code to write automate tests etc but not very frequent.
    Jun 2, 2018 1
    • Amazon
      Vocslfcrit

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      Vocslfcrit
      What are you referring to? theory or practice? In my opinion, there is very little in common between sde and sdets in practice. Sde codes, and sdets are supposed to code while also doing every other thing no one wants to do.
      Jun 3, 2018
  • GE
    Pythonn

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    Pythonn
    Could you please tell, what is approx TC for QA.
    around 10 yrs exp, my current TC is ~160k
    Jun 3, 2018 1
  • Very risky for future
    Aug 8, 2018 0