Roadmaps

Career Roadmaps

Choose your destination. Follow the skills that take you there.

4–6 months of consistent practice

Manual Tester → Automation Engineer

Convert existing domain and test-design knowledge into working code, one language and one framework at a time.

Manual QA with 1+ year experienceAutomation Engineer

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5–7 months

Automation Tester

The complete beginner path: language basics, a framework, and enough CI to be employable.

Fresher or career switcherAutomation Tester

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2–3 months

Playwright Automation Engineer

Go deep on the modern browser automation stack, from fixtures to sharded CI runs.

Automation Tester with basic scriptingPlaywright Automation Engineer

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2–3 months

API Automation Engineer

Own the service layer: contracts, auth, data setup and integration coverage.

Tester comfortable with one languageAPI Automation Engineer

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6–9 months

SDET

Engineering depth: you build the tools and the harness, not only the tests.

Automation Engineer with 2+ yearsSoftware Development Engineer in Test

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6–12 months

Senior QA Engineer

Broader ownership: quality strategy for a product area, mentoring, and risk-based decisions.

QA Engineer with 3+ yearsSenior QA Engineer

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9–12 months

QA Lead

People, process and predictability alongside a still-technical hand on the framework.

Senior QA EngineerQA Lead

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3–5 months

Performance Test Engineer

Model real workloads, find the bottleneck, and prove the fix.

QA or Automation EngineerPerformance Test Engineer

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3–4 months

DevOps for QA

Everything needed to run, scale and diagnose test execution in modern delivery pipelines.

Automation EngineerQA engineer who owns the pipeline

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3–5 months

AI Testing Engineer

Two disciplines: applying AI tooling to testing work, and testing systems whose output is non-deterministic.

Automation Engineer with solid fundamentalsEngineer testing AI-powered products and using AI in the workflow

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