Full Stack Tester - SDET Profile

We hear often about Full Stack Developers, now let us understand the concept of Full Stack QA:

Gone are the days when there had been segregations such as functional testers, automation testers, manual testers, performance testing specialist, etc.

Like full stack developer, full stack QA is responsible for testing beyond than usual by expanding the testing horizons and having diverse capabilities for releasing the fast paced and quality product.

Our team of professional trainers at TestoMeter are trying to help transform traditional QA professionals into a well-diversified Full Stack QA Engineers. We have designed a course in such a way that the aspirants will gain in depth knowledge to apply it on the practical ground without any hassle.

Learn these skills that you need to develop for becoming a successful full stack QA Engineer from this article. It will certainly help you to grow your career exponentially in the long run.

Be Proficient in the testing terminologies -

The technical skills or the terminologies that you need to have are –

• Manual Testing dexterity – Aspirants should understand the testing terminologies well and should be able to get hands on end-to-end testing for any application given, only then he will be able to think beyond the box.

• Requirement Specifications – It is considered as an initial phase to any project. Full stack QA should know and have experience in converting requirements to user stories and should be able to create test cases out of it.

• Agile Testing – Also called continuous testing, nowadays is used in every software business.

• Scrum Framework – Scrum is an agile mindset used from development to deployment.

• Test Design and testing life cycle

• Database Testing

• Debugging

• Team Interaction

Get hold on automation testing -

If you want to become a full stack QA engineer, you should expertize in the automation tools currently available in the market. You need to be well-versed with automation terminologies, frameworks and tools. Developing the programming language skills is very important in order to write automated regression tests. Full stack QA is responsible to design, develop and maintain the automated test suits.

Be prowess in database testing -

Gaining sufficient knowledge and hands on experience in database and having the sound knowledge of SQL is equally important. It’s the responsibility of full stack QA to test the back end functionalities as well.

API Automation 

API testing is used to validate application programming interfaces, typically performed to check reliability, functionality, performance and security of the programming interface. There are multiple API Testing tools available out of which Postman and Rest Assured (REST API) are mostly used. Aspirants enrolling to full stack QA will get a thorough exposure on API automation using Postman and REST. 

ETL Testing 

Analysis and Reporting becomes crucial when it comes to a thorough test of a system including front end as well as backend.

Project Dependent Testing 

Domain specific testing really needs to be focused on if you want to become a successful full stack QA professional. Looking at the current market demand, get your knowledge and expertise in domains such as Healthcare, BFSI, Capital market, Telecom, etc. 

Get Expertise in Test Driven Models -

Test Driven development is an agile development process and different other methodologies originated from TDD as an extension such as Behavior Driven Development. BDD is user focused and the tests are written in plain English and explained as behavior of application. TestoMeter aims at focusing on test driven development and BDD tools such as Cucumber. Aspirants will get hands on automating test suits with the help of Cucumber framework.

Shift Left Approach -

Understanding the concept of Shift left and importance of the same in agile becomes vital for QA professionals wanting to become full stack QA. Shift left approach refers to integrating testing activities such as requirement gathering, designing, development early in the development phase. Shift left has gained importance in agile due to increase in the efficiency and quality of the application.

SDET – Full Stack Testers -

SDET typically refers to as Software Development Engineer in Test also known as Full Stack Testers. SDET is a technical tester having exposure to creating automated tests. Like other QAs, they should be able work in agile alongside developers. Additionally, they can automate anything and everything in an application with the help of automated integration tests, API tests, UI automation tests, etc. SDET is a perfect combination of QA Mindset and technical skills and not just an automation engineer. We here at TestoMeter are helping professionals in gaining relevant knowledge and experience in becoming Full Stack Testers/ SDET.

Testing Market Segmentation -

Based on the statistics and market size from year 2017 to 2025 as well as according to the current demand in the market, the testing domain market segregation is as follows –

• BFSI

• Automotive

• Defense and Aerospace

• Healthcare and Life Sciences

• Retail

• Telecom and IT

• Manufacturing

• Logistics and Transportation

• Energy and Utilities

• Media and Entertainment

• Others

Wrapping Up 

It is imperative that automation testing becomes promising and thriving when discussing about Full stack QA professional. TestoMeter makes sure that the aspirants enrolling to the course end up gaining end to end knowledge from manual testing to DevOps and have a hands-on experience on all the technologies that help in growing your career as a Full Stack QA Engineer, in turn reaching the testing horizons to a different level.