SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test)
A software engineer whose product is test infrastructure — writes production-quality code, often building the test framework itself rather than just using one.
Credible resume terms
Terms that should plausibly appear on a real SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) resume. 🚩 marks the ones whose total absence is a genuine red flag.
Adjacent, but not real signal
These read as related, but they don’t tell you this candidate can do this job — they usually belong to one of the roles below.
Most often confused with
- QA Automation Engineer
- Backend Engineer
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