I have 6 years experience and am wondering what type of salary I could expect either in a big company, MSFT or AMZN, or something not so big. My wife is from that area and would like to move back, but I don't know if we could do it financially. My team works in JS, Node, Polymer, and some Java
MSFT fired all of the SDETs. I suggest trying to switch roles to SDE.
not with node, js, polymer and some java .. 6 years of python might get you something ..
At Amazon, the Sr. SDET role is hard/impossible to get hired into, and specially with only 6 years of experience. You'll most likely be placed into SDET 2 role. Our SDET technical skills are measure pretty much the same as SDE, so keep that in mind as well.