SeaStar Quality Conference 2023

"The Quality Assurance Engineers Odyssey - The Newfound Fundamental Knowledge in the Modern Digital Transformation"
Nowadays, digital transformation in organizations is escalating rapidly,
continuously, and explosively, with new technologies that put more pressure on
software delivery teams.
The Quality Assurance Engineers (QAE) or Software Developer in Test (SDET) plays
an essential role in digital transformation but should adapt to the changing (and
challenging) landscape of the new technologies, and processes in the SDLC and
STLC.
This paper refers to the QAE/SDET Odyssey as the journey or career path, where
we describe the challenges to growing our skills on the actual modern digital
transformation.
We will dissect a QAE/SDET job profile to detect what currently the organizations
are looking for on the shifting priorities of Quality Assurance practices having as
aiming for the most important emerging trends, tools, technologies, or processes.
● Agile environments
● Automation Testing for Web apps and Android Mobile apps covering
different layers such as Unit testing, UI, and Web Services
● Scripting in a programming language
● Testing tools such as Cypress
● Automation POM as a design pattern
● Development and Deployment under DevOps Model
● Cloud platform tools