The document outlines essential information on software testing, including its definition, importance, types, and levels, along with a comparison of manual and automation testing. It provides a roadmap for becoming a software test engineer, detailing educational requirements, necessary programming skills, and various job roles with salary trends in the US and India. Additionally, it highlights key skills needed for automation and the responsibilities of test automation engineers.

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• What is Software Testing?
• Why Software Testing is important?
• Types of Software Testing
• Levels of Software Testing
• Manual vs Automation Testing
• RoadMap to become a Software Test Engineer
• Career trends and Job Profiles

4. What is Software testing ?
Software testing is defined
as an activity to check whether
the actual results match the
expected results and to
ensure that
the software system is Defect
free

5. Why Testing is
important ?

6. Why Testing is
important ?
Bugs in software or application
can likely lead to loss of monetary
value, jobs or even loss of a
human.

7. Types of Software Testing
Functional Testing Non-Functional Testing
Unit
Testing
Integration
Testing
System
Testing
Interface
Testing
Regression
Testing
User
Acceptance
Testing
Documentation
Testing
Installation
Testing
Performance
Testing
Reliability
Testing
Security
Testing
Load
Testing
Stress
Testing
Endurance
Testing
Spike
Testing

8. Unit Testing
Integration Testing
System Testing
Acceptance Testing
Levels in Software Testing

9. Manual vs Automation Testing

10. Market Trends of Manual vs Automation Testing

11. RoadMap
Earn a Bachelor’s Degree
• Computer Science
• Mathematics
• Information Technology
• Statistics
• Computers &
Electronics

12. RoadMap
Earn a Bachelor’s Degree
Basic Principles of Software Testing
• Find the Presence of Defects
• Exhaustive Testing is impossible
• Early Testing
• Defect Clustering
• Absence of errors

13. RoadMap
Earn a Bachelor’s Degree
Basic Principles of Software Testing
Programming Skills
• C/C++
• Java
• SQL
• Python
• HTML

14. RoadMap
Earn a Bachelor’s Degree
Basic Principles of Software Testing
Master’s Degree or Certifications Programs
• MS/MTech in CS, Statistics, ML
• CAST – Certified Associate In Software
Testing
• CSTE- Certified Software Test Engineer
Programming Skills

15. RoadMap
Earn a Bachelor’s Degree
Basic Principles of Software Testing
Programming Skills
Master’s Degree or Certifications Programs

16. ➢Software Tester
➢Test Automation
➢Performance Tester
➢Test Analyst
➢QA Engineer
Job Roles
src: LinkedIn

17. Software Tester Salary Trends
Average Salary (US)
Average Salary (IND)
$55,585
₹304,470
src: payscale

18. SKILLS REQUIRED
Database/SQL Linux Commands Test Management Tools

19. Must have skills for Automation Arsenal
Selenium AWS
Database/SQL Test Management ToolsScripting Languages

20. Selenium AWS
Database/SQL
Test Management
Tools
Scripting Languages
Must have skills for
Automation Arsenal

21. ➢ Software Tester
➢ Test Automation
➢ Performance Tester
➢ Test Analyst
➢ QA Engineer
Job Roles
src: LinkedIn
src: LinkedIn

22. Test Automation Salary Trends
Average Salary (US)
Average Salary (IND)
$73229
₹782,415
src: payscale

23. Job Roles
➢ Software Tester
➢ Test Automation
➢ Performance Tester
➢ Test Analyst
➢ QA Engineer
src: LinkedIn
src: LinkedIn

24. Performance Tester Salary Trends
Average Salary (US)
Average Salary (IND)
$67917
₹599,904
src: payscale

25. Job Roles
➢ Software Tester
➢ Test Automation
➢ Performance Tester
➢ Test Analyst
➢ QA Engineer
src: LinkedIn
src: LinkedIn

26. Test Analyst Salary Trends
Average Salary (US)
Average Salary (IND)
$63790
₹660,542
src: payscale

27. Job Roles
➢ Software Tester
➢ Test Automation
➢ Performance Tester
➢ Test Analyst
➢ QA Engineer
src: LinkedIn
src: LinkedIn

28. QA Engineer Salary Trends
Average Salary (US)
Average Salary (IND)
$67497
₹363,219
src: payscale

29. Test Engineer : Job Description OR Roles
Depending on their level of expertise, Test Automation engineers may:
• Study and understand what needs to be tested
• Develop Test Cases and prioritize testing activities
• Deciding how to test given requirements
• Develop and execute all the test cases and defect reports
• Severity and priority should be defined
• Carry out regression testing everytime when changes are made to the code
• Test Planning should be carried out in an appropriate manner
• Check whether testing is going hand in hand with software development
• Prepare status report of testing activities
• Confirm system is working effectively after required testing is done

30. Companies Hiring Software Testers

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