Different Career Opportunities in Selenium

The year 2019 has and will show some tremendous updates and developments in various platforms and technologies and Selenium framework is one of them. Software testing courses in Pune as well as across the globe need to pull up their socks for rigorous training of their students. Web application testing continues to expand its popularity as it spreads across the globe. This era also sets the benchmark to completely indulge automation testing tools replacing old and manual testing methods.

The almighty Selenium: Test automation, especially via Selenium, with its vast and user friendly API, is the most used and popular testing tool, has undergone various changes over the decade. Selenium works without a test script and acts as a playback tool for authoring functional tests. Selenium is an adaptive and protean tool and can work with languages like Ruby, Java, Python, Perl etc and is multi-faceted to work with different OS platforms making it user-friendly and hence the finest tool to work with. Selenium consists of four crux elements; Selenium Grid, WebDriver, Environment and Selenium RC, which are now merged to form selenium 1 and selenium 2. As it is supported by all leading browsers for all the operating systems, it is considered as a standard web automation testing tool.

Job Opportunities: The role you get depends on the firm that you’re working for, the experience that you have and actually, the role that suits your interests and skills. There are numerous opportunities you get once you get trained from a reputed software testing training institute in Pune or anywhere across the world. Popularly known roles are Quality engineer, Automation test lead, QA engineer, SA Analyst, Senior test engineer, etc.

•            Growth- Many companies having a strong grip on Selenium, promote you from Test executor(Fresher), to test designer, Senior Tester, Technical tester lead and finally to test manager. The profile is more dependent on the type of firm and years of experience you have Also, your actual work in your workplace depends on the Job description. A test executor, as a beginner actually runs the test cases while the test manager, as an experienced individual, manages metrics and build coordination in his team. But recent developments show that the path from junior to a manager is more dependent on skills you possess and less on your experience. It doesn’t mean you can become a manager in 2-3 years experience, but yes, the path towards it has become shorter nowadays.

•            Salary- For a test automation engineer, the average package in India is around 5 Lakhs. For beginners it may vary from company to company and Job descriptions, still, the average is around 2.5Lakhs to  5 Lakhs per annum.

•            Selenium market-The overall market current of automated testing is continuously changing its pace and directions with Selenium as a tool growing exponentially. In 2019, any job role is given to that individual who has at least a bit of domain knowledge as well. With the increase in the

use and development of web applications by all the industries, the demand for Selenium experts is surging. With this paradigm shift in technology, Selenium has become popular and in demand. With the development of Agile testing and DevOps, the role of test engineer has become more important and the market is in a definite need of people who are more than just skilled technically. Big Data testing can become a huge market for Selenium experts in these upcoming years.

Purview Jason Haggins, the developer of Selenium took the testing market to another level. Due to ti’s vast features and adaptability, Selenium is being used by Google, Microsoft, IBM, and many other sales force companies which are leading the world when it comes to technological perspective. No matter how much the technology changes, software testing will be an evergreen job profile and with this labor free attitude of the modern era, test automation tools are a must skill in your resume. If you’re creative, skilled and lucky enough you might get a chance to working tech giants as well as open up your own software testing company.

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