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SDLC
Also written as Software Development Life Cycle, Software Development Lifecycle
The overall stages of building software: requirements, design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance. Waterfall, Agile and DevOps are different ways of moving through those stages.
Think of it like
The life of a building project: plans, construction, inspection, handover, then upkeep.
Junior or senior?
Generic and in most JDs and resumes.
Senior sounds like
Can describe how their team's real process differed from the textbook model.
Ask them
“How did your team's real development process differ from how it was described on paper?”
Reading SDLC on a resume
- Table-stakes
- Most people in this field list SDLC, so its presence tells you little, and opening a screen with it can make the call sound junior. Ask what they built with it instead.
Sourcing for SDLC
Every way it's written
("SDLC" OR "Software Development Life Cycle" OR "Software Development Lifecycle")Paste into LinkedIn Recruiter, Naukri or your ATS. Combine with a job title and location.