Is Software Testing a Good Career Option in 2025?

0:00 Hey there, welcome back. In this session, I'm going to clarify one question that most of the software testers in the market nowadays have. Everyone is now in a confused state whether software testing is a good career option in 2025 or not. So, let's get started here and let me clear all your confusions and doubts. So here is the thing is software testing a good career option in 2025. The answer is yes. Still software testing is a good career option in 2025. But you need to understand few things guys. You need to understand few things.

0:47 Gone are the days where manual testing is enough to get into the software testing field. You see it's been long time back. Okay. And maybe recently also possible for some of the software testers to get into the software testing field or change jobs into change jobs into different software testing areas based on just their manual testing skills. But go on the days guys. Now we have entered into a kind of era which is like AIdriven and all those things are coming into picture where you still are dealing with only manual testing and hoping that just by having the manual testing I'll be great into the software testing and my job will be

1:32 at uh in a safe mode if you feel you are not in a right way of thinking. Okay. So what you have to do? You see applying for the jobs with just having manual testing skills is not enough at all. You need to upgrade. The time has come for you. If you want to see the software testing as a good career option in 2025, just come out of this manual testing mindset. Only manual testing I will do. I'll not skill up. No matter what people are saying over different platforms like LinkedIn and all. But reality is reality guys. People are saying that you know why software testers need to learn you know coding part why we have to become experts like developers and all. Okay. Yeah those things are there. If you if you go in

2:19 that kind of set of people who are still putting this kind of post on the LinkedIn saying that you know why why we as software testers need to go and learn data structures and algorithms. Yeah. Okay. You can go with that flow and you can definitely go with that idea and you can question them. That's a good question actually. But the problem here is in reality things won't happen as you think. Now the companies what they want they want. You just have put a label on yourself that you are a software tester. It doesn't mean that you can change the perspective of the companies right according to the company requirement. Company will recruit some people. But you just go and find that fight that software tester should have only this and this skills. We will not do that. We will not do this. We'll only do this.

3:05 Okay. is not going to work out. Gone are the days guys. So it's time to oversee such kind of post on LinkedIn or whatever the social media platforms and come to the reality. Think practically and try to upskill yourself in all directions. Software testing earlier is different from whatever the software testing or software testers having skills is different right now. Okay. The competition has grown like anything. Competition has increased like anything. If you want to compete with others, don't stick to just manual testing guys. Don't think of false ideas that you should not upskill yourself towards data structures and algorithms and coding part and all. Just open okay be clear.

3:53 See see clearly guys what is happening in the market. Think practically. Okay. Be realistic. Don't go with the messages here and there on the social media and that make you stick to feel that you that temporarily make you happy and feel that you know yeah I'm okay as a software tester I don't have to learn okay that is gone guys okay that is gone okay no matter what what other people say I don't agree with them I only say that see the reality be practical your job is to beat the competition in the market not to follow such kind of useless uh LinkedIn posts okay your job is to crack interviews and jobs. No matter what the companies are expecting, your job is to upskill yourself, attend that interviews and go into the company.

4:40 After going into the company where whether you see whatever the questions they are asking to the interviews whether that they are useful or not doesn't matter your job will be software testing job only. But to get to enter into the company the competition has become higher guys. Okay. The competition has increased. That is the reason guys lot of companies are you know try to filter a lot of people lot of people are coming for applying for the jobs and they have to take only few people so they are they trying to increase the level of questions okay they are making the things complex while recruiting the people if you are into the IT job guys the basic thing that you have to learn here is programming guys no matter it is software testing or whatever it is programming is very important you need to practice every day at least 30 minutes of time of your

5:26 every day you have to give for programming and keep upskilling yourself. There is no limit till where you can reach. So think only this lot of tools will be there, lot of technologies will be there, lot of things will be there in software testing, lot of concepts will be in software testing. But one thing that is common in every IT field is programming part. Even nowadays in software testing field, programming is very very important. the the person who knows programming well than other people can easily beat other people in the competition and they can crack the jobs. So every day 30 minutes consistently and continuously practice programming using one programming language you become an expert in that language that no one no one can beat you. Any question you get in the interviews you should be in a position

6:12 to solve it guys. Every day give 30 minutes for programming part. Okay that is very very important for you these days. just sticking to manual testing I don't want to be coming into the technical side doesn't help you anymore okay gone are the days you will not be able to get uh software testing jobs in the market and you will you you'll say that software testing is not a good career option afterwards because you see you have you have limited yourself in not going to the area by just sticking to the manual testing and then then saying that you know software testing is not a good career option in 2025 okay we cannot do that the problem is within yourself right you are not willing being not interested or willing to learn or upskill yourself to the programming side and other technical aspect side. Main thing is programming guys that is

6:57 stopping most of the people in the market who are just stick to manual testing and who are not upgrading to the automation side on all just because they are not comfortable with the programming part. Okay fine. Anyhow gone are the days you have to fight yourself. Okay. Things will not be easy. You have to take challenges every day. You need to at least tackle the challenges and try to move forward instead of saying that I am my programming is not my bucket and all these are the blah blah stuff guys. Anyone who can with the determination and discipline and every day 30 minutes minimum if you can focus on programming definitely on particular day you become a programmer guys. Okay. There's nothing great in programming actually. Okay. It it feels that it is difficult but it's kind of easy if you systematically and you know for a period of limit skills required to survive in current market

7:43 and uh you know and uh because of the skills software testing is a good career option still in 2025 year also we are getting a lot of people are getting jobs into software testing okay field only thing is that they have upskilled theel themselves and they were able to beat the remaining competition okay so what are the different career options for software tester just see Here if you are a manual tester, if you stick to manual tester gone or that is you have to become SJ either SJ okay software developer engineering in test engineering in test that means you are not only going to do testing but also you are going to uh get into the development part also okay single resource doing two things testing and development software developer engineering and test okay your mindset will be testing mindset but you'll also go into the development aspects of the application so that will you know bridge the gap

8:30 between the developers and testers such kind of roles are increasing these guys and companies are also looking for such kind of people who don't just do software testing but also they have the development uh you know development knowledge also so estate roles are increasing so that's why I'm saying guys don't stick to manual testing upgrade or upskill yourself into the programming daily practice how to become an estate just daily practice programming as programming is a main area other things will come with your work when you work in a company you'll get all the remaining stuff but ultimately without programming you cannot become an estate role right you cannot go into the estate role So technological part programming languages and other techn technical stuff are required to become an SJ guys. Okay. So software development engineering test if you want this role is kind of booming in the market guys.

9:15 No matter whether you you guys are because of your lack of skill set you you may not be getting software testing jobs these days. But if you if you are looking for SJ roles there are a lot of companies who are offering the jobs and beating the competition is also easy. Only thing is that you need to put efforts into the programming part and p practice daily until you get a job into the estate role. Okay. Next thing here is from tester some people are going into the testtops they they are becoming tests engineer. Okay. Tester to devops either devops engineer or test engineer. Here you are changing the uh field itself. Okay. From from software tester to devops is a separate role. Okay. Test here software testing is one role. DevOps is another role. DevOps is more about configurations uh you know uh settings and all those stuff guys. Okay. Cloud platforms and many CI/CD all this

10:01 will come into the DevOps part. Okay. And now similarly where the bridge between the developers and testers you become a SDAT right here you can become a tests engineer also. Okay. There are some you know this is a area where you know competition will be less a lot of people either look for software tester other separately look for development. But when you combine these two areas where you are a tester at the same time you can do development sed here competition will become less guys. Okay. When compared to other thing areas competition will become less in sed. Similarly if you are a tester and if you learn devops you you can become a desktop. Testtops is area where competition will become less. A tester at same time DevOps both skill sets are there. Okay. You see com combo skill sets. Why this combo skill sets are coming? because lot of competition is there and companies want uh you know less number of people

10:48 who can do multiple things for them okay that's what is advantage for the company right if if they recruit you what is the benefit the companies are getting as a resource you can do testing as a resource you can do devops activities so why I need to recruit two people where only one person can do the job okay so kind of mindset companies are getting into so if you want to survive in the market you have to learn either of these areas you have to go guys or you can combine all the things also And there are some people who are testers and they don't want into the nontechnical side. They don't they want to be in the nontechnical side. They don't want to go into programming. So but they are very good at you know these kind of testers are very good at communication part and they like engaging with people and communicating with the different type of people and different levels of people in their day-to-day job. Such kind of

11:34 people can such kind of software testers can migrate to business analyst or product owner kind of roles. later they can become product owner initially business analyst. Okay. I've seen that a lot of people in my career like my colleagues and all have migrated from tester to business analyst because they are reluctant to move into the automation side. Okay. So this is another area guys after few years of software testing experience you can actually become a business analyst also or product owner also. If your area is that you have good communication skills and your passion is to talk to a lot of people every day at your workplace that is a great thing. Okay then and not only that guys as a software tester whether you want to move into this area or not you see you can actually whether you want to migrate from software testing role to this business analyst role or

12:20 whether you want to migrate from tester role to devops role or whether you want to migrate from manual testing to developer testing to development role doesn't matter you can be still be a software tester and can learn all these skills that also will be useful okay as a tester you can have development skill as a tester you can DevOps skills as a tester. can learn you know business analyst skills or product owner skills will be like you know scrum methodologies you know agile methodologies like scrum can burn extreme programming all this you'll learn it okay SDLC different phases of SDLC life cycle and what are the different things different type of meetings and all that area also you should have the knowledge as a software tester either you can migrate or as a software tester you can get this kind of skills separate type of skills okay then full stack UI tester guys okay then next

13:07 emerging role here is you see jack of all trades kind of role guys. Okay. So uh either you can become a specialized uh specialized tester into one of the things like you know specialized automation tester senior automation engineer test engineer or you can become a test architect test automation architect like that you can go or you can become a performance engineer, security tester like senior security tester, security testing architect like performance testing architect like that you can go to specialized roles or you can also become a fullstack QA. Okay, you can learn most all the things starting from manual testing of UI testing, API testing, okay, using Postman tool, mobile testing, database testing and other types of testing and many other types of testing like ETL

13:53 testing and many are there. Okay, different type of manual testing of different uh you know things you can do desktop obligation testing, manual testing. Then at the fullstack UI tester, you don't have to stop here guys. You can go to the automation side also UI automation as part of UI automation you can learn different there are different tools in the market like selenium playright and many other tools are there like test complete uft and many more are there okay cypress toka test team and many are there okay you have to keep learning different automation tools as part of UI automation and then you need to be good at programming languages also guys for this automation tools to be used you should be good with programming languages like Python, Java, C#, JavaScript and so on. Okay. Then API automation using tools like rest assured framework and many other are there.

14:39 Mobile automation using tools like the famous one APM and other automation tools may be there. AP your AP automation is already done right. This part I'll remove. Okay. Okay. Then security test you can become a specialized person in security testing or as a you can become a software tester as a test lead test manager you can increase your roles and when you are increasing your roles you can get knowledge of different areas of the software testing like security testing performance testing either you can become specialized in this or you can actually become a fullstack UI who knows not only manual automation but also security performance testing also those every area you know then AIdriven testing these days AI AI test I mean not testing the AI applications That is also one area. But AIdriven testing means you with the help of AI tools how to how to speed up your testing and how to make

15:25 your testing more productive than other people is also important these days. Okay. AI basics, machine learning basics and AI based testing tools you need to learn and also how to test the AI applications all the things AI terminology AI knowledge everything you should know guys. Okay. To become a full stack UI tester all the skill sets are required. So gone are the days when you have to create manual testing test cases by yourself. Now you can use AI test and autogenerate the test cases and you know you see here the AI tools will not cannot test by itself themselves and we as testers we we can test by oursel but when you combine both human plus AI tools you will get success in the current day in the market humans plus AI. So the AI tools are not going to

16:10 replace the software testers guys but uh the one the software testers the one who use AI tools to become productive in their day-to-day job are going to replace you okay are going to replace software testers who doesn't know the AI tools okay so this is also another area to become a fullstack UI tester then DevOps is another area where CID git genkins cloud platforms like AWS Azure and many more will be there then basic technologies like HTML CSS JavaScript XML JS and SQL programming languages like you know Java, Python, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript etc. are required. So this many things you need to learn these days guys and you need to it I know that this may not happen in a single day. It may be so overwhelming that you know lot of information I need to learn. There's no other way guys. If you want to see the software testing as

16:56 a good career option in 2025, there is no silver uh silver bullet or something like there is no shortcut to become that or save your job or you know get a job in the current market. The competition is very high. Okay. So don't stop anywhere guys in even in programming right go into the area of data structures and algorithms also data structures and algorithms. algorithms algorithms and uh the next thing here is uh go and you know use some tools like lead code uh hacker rank hacker rank kind of platforms are there where you can practice programming every day okay where you can practice programming every day and you can become more better at programming that's a way to crack the jobs guys that's the way to

17:41 crack the jobs these days okay so be great at programming and uh you know not only that I just told you one more thing right you know uh SDLC, SDLC, agile, agile and other things. Okay, these areas are also important guys. Okay, as a full stack QA tester, you should also have the knowledge of SDLC, agile and other uh other things about this uh SDLC, agile methodologies and etc etc. You should have the knowledge. Okay. So, don't leave anything, okay? Any stone, okay? Don't leave any stone, guys. You need everything here that I covered here. Okay. So, final things uh to motivate you is that the final advice I would like to give you. I just gave a picture of how the software testing feed

18:28 is a good career option and by upskilling yourself, still you can save your job, still you can get a job in the current market by beating the competition. So, with all these things, don't just be a manual tester. upgrade your skills, upskill yourself with all these items, then you will be able to survive in the current market. Guys, the final advice we have I would like to give here is no matter how big the goal list is there for everyone, for each and every one of us, this much of skill set is a very big goal for us. Okay, we have to set big goals in our life otherwise we are not going to achieve anything in the current days. Okay, in our life, if you want to achieve something, we we don't have to set small goals like okay, I'll just learn selenium automation. And that is a very small goal these days. Okay. I want I will become I I will become something

19:15 great at software testing by learning all the different technologies, tools and programming languages and all the different fields of software testing like security, performance, database and all those stuff. Okay, that that's how you have to set big goals guys. Okay, don't set some small goals. After setting the goals, okay, continuous and consistent learning is the key to survive in today's market guys. every day 30 minutes to 1 hour you give the time for learning no matter what. Okay. So even that small 30 minutes to 1 hour every day you know over a period of years will compound and your knowledge will increase like anything and your job will be safe. Don't enjoy in the beginning days of your career. Okay my job is very easy. I'll go to office and after going to the office I'll just do

20:00 some work and I'll come to home watch TV play with family work life balance. all those blah blah stuff are not going to work anymore. Okay. So if you don't have the job and if you give lot of time to your family, your family will you know you know feel that you know you are not a good candidate. Okay. So you'll feel not staying with your family at that point of time. So you see there is a kind of you know misconceptions here like work life balance work life balance I know work life balance is there but you don't have to be too much into the work life balance. It depends on your time guys when okay at what point of your career you are all these things depends for your work life balance. If you don't put lot of efforts into your work and uh think about and then you think about work life balance what will happen other people will compete you in the job and you know they will go to the

20:47 next level and you'll be staying there only okay I'm not sticking any time this much time you need to work like Narin Morti or something I'm not here saying that but what I'm going to say here is the reality okay understand the reality you see it's LinkedIn is a very simple platform where everyone can say that you know this is wrong that is right this is correct that is wrong like that they can say but ultimately You have to take your decision. You have to be think practical. You have to be in real world. Reality wise, you have to think and you have to think practical and see what works. Sometimes work life balance is good. Correct? Sometimes work is more important. So don't uh be too much into the work life balance uh concept guys. You see how how your family will feel proud when you grow in your career. Your family will feel proud and you'll get lot of respect in your family and your family members and all.

21:33 What if you think about work life balance and you don't do your work very well and you do minimum work and come home and spend with your family you know what will happen at one point of time you will lose your job because of that mindset you will lose your job and you have to stay with your complete work life will not be there only life will be there okay in that case your family will start you know you know feeling bad about you okay you will get a bad wipe no one is going to give you respect and they will feel that you don't have any job and all okay ultimately you are the one who need to take that decision. Okay. No one is there to tell you that this is correct, that is wrong. So create lot of passion in whatever you are doing. Guys, another misconception that most of the people in the market have is you know I am into I am into this IT field but I have a passion of

22:19 doing business outside. Okay, I have a passion of becoming a trainer outside. Okay, like that even I used to have that but later I got to know that you know that is a misconception. Okay. So, uh what I mean to say here clearly is you know okay you can actually build passion towards work work itself. Okay. Your mindset will change. Okay. You can actually build passion towards your work itself. You don't you don't have to go for uh you don't have to create an external passion and deviate yourself from your work and go to that external passion and uh you know lose your job. Rather what you have to do here is create enormous passion towards your work no matter what. Whether you get the results or not doesn't matter. Keep growing guys. Whether you get the appraisal or not, whether you get the awards or not doesn't matter. Keep

23:04 learning from the day one of your career. Keep learning. Keep investing in yourself. Keep investing in time and money on yourself and focus and see what are the different distractions you have and avoid them and build lot of passions passion towards your work and take anything that comes to your plate. It may be manual testing, it may be automation testing. Don't uh judge some work. Okay. I I got manual testing again I would it would be great if I have got automation testing at my work that's not the correct mindset guys okay take you see we have to do our work whatever the work comes to our plate we have to eat it right whatever the food comes to our plate if you don't have anything we have to eat it that's how we have to survive in the IT industry guys don't stick to particular area I want to be like this only I want to do that only that this only don't do that at same time I'm

23:50 telling you you know keep investing in yourself guys okay keep invest investing in yourself. Investing in the sense not just money guys time and money okay if if you spend 1 hour of time in learning something in software testing that's great right and also okay uh money also if required you have to attend you see guidance is also very important mentors are very important these days you cannot you know go from scratch and then create something become something great that will take your lifetime rather you have to speed up the process by attending some conferences attending some training courses okay to speed up the process process and uh you know um you know go and attend some conferences whatever it may be okay your mindset will change guys you will make new can make new connections that is the

24:37 way of investing in yourself guys okay from the day one you you see everyone thinks about investing in stock market and you know real estate and all those stuff everyone is talking about that no one is passion about passion no one is showing passion about their work whatever the work they are doing they're not passionate about what passionate about what they are actually doing but they are passionate about or they want to chill out by wasting their time and doing time pass on all the other aspects which actually doesn't grow your career even if you want to grow in your stock market journey right first focus that you have to give is your work if your work is good then only the investments you see I'm not saying that you don't have to learn stock market or uh investing strategies you can do that but first you have to be good at work then you should be able to generate the money from your job and that money you put in the investments that is a great idea

25:23 okay mutual funds and all you can put that's a great idea Okay, but you see first you have to invest your time and money in yourself and you have to grow by yourself. Okay, that will give you the respect. Tomorrow money will go and everything will go but your knowledge will stay here guys. I can you can still do the jobs and you know and you can reach a level where you know you can um can you can direct the company directions. You can take the decisions in the company directions if you are if you are really determined and passionate passionate about your job and upskill upskilling yourself by continuous learning and consistent learning. Hope you got these points useful. Okay, practice programming every day guys. Minimum 30 minutes you spend for practice programming. It field is all about programming guys. No matter how many things are there, don't get distracted and confused with a lot of automation tools in the market. So simple think about you know I need to be

26:09 more technical. My programming should skills should be more better than what I am today. Every day you challenge yourself in programming and give at least 30 minutes of time to go to the next level. Okay. Over a period of time you will feel programming very comfortable. Then keep learning new tools and technologies. Guys, if you you see for example, if you learn Selenium, Java automation tool, Selenium automation tool and Java programming language together. If you learn using that one automation tool, that that single automation tool with one programming language may take two or three months for you in the beginning. It's like driving a new car. When you are driving the car for the first time, it will be difficult. Once that is done, now tomorrow you have to learn playright. It doesn't take much time, guys. Okay? Maybe one week or one week is enough for you to uh you know drive the second car. You see only one

26:55 automation tool you have to master and second automation tool will take very less amount of time. Okay. So that's how you can learn lot of tools and technologies also guys and do certifications in different areas whether they are useful or not whether they will be useful for your job career or not. But definitely by doing certifications you are going to spend some time on learning and with that learning you are going to get some knowledge. There is nothing is going to go wrong. You see some companies will consider certificates. Some companies doesn't even care about the certificates. They care about the skills. But having the certificates is not a bad thing guys. Do certifications that will continuously do different type of certifications to increase your skill set and you to challenge yourself apart from whatever your work you are doing at the work area. So certifications will add some value and sometimes you will

27:40 get lucky with the certifications like this many certification this particular person has done. So the ch competition you may be able to beat when other parties also in the same level as you but just because of having some more certifications the company may select you it may or may not happen I'm not enforcing on certificates certifications are optional but you know if you do them definitely you'll get some knowledge nothing is going to go bad right or in lucky lucky scenarios or lucky cases you also get some jobs and you can compete other people in the market so this all what I want to tell you today guys okay so build passion towards your work and invest time and money in yourself in building that skill set. Practice programming every day. Be consistent in whatever you are doing. Okay? If you are doing something and if you are being consistent, you will get the results

28:25 over a period of time. The time will be it time it will take a lot of time but you know you can do it. Then practice programming every day and keep learning new tools and technologies. Never stop learning guys. Never stop learning. Continuously learn. So this is the final advice I would like to give you guys. So still software testing is a good career option in 2025 for the people for only for the people who upskilled themselves and who are who wait you know who are looking for challenges and tackling those challenges and beating the competition in the market by learning the skills that other people cannot or learn. Okay. You see when you spend more time automatically the competition will go down guys. In short days if you are just learning for one week the competition will be high. When you learn for 1 month competition

29:11 will become less. When you learn for 6 months competition will become even more less. When you learn for one year more or less when you learn continuously for 5 years very drastic competition drop will be there from others. Okay. So it'll be great. So with all these techniques that I have covered in this session and what exactly software testing field is these days not just manual testing is enough guys okay you will lose your job or you will not get a job just with manual testing get into automation testing not only automation testing after completing automation to testing you also go into other areas or fields like security testing performance testing and other things just keep learning guys keep learning endlessly there is no limit it's like an ocean learning is like an ocean the more you know the more the better options you will get in the market. So hoping that uh you will change yourself

29:59 in the current era and get jobs into the market. So bye everyone. Take care.