I guess this tittle will now be posted in any job sites. If ever this will happen, what are the responsibilities do you think would it be? What is the salary range since it is huge title?
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I’ve been pitching this for years and I called it “Hybrid Tester”
You need to know a little bit of everything. Meaning, performance testing, automation, and manual testing. Beyond that, I say that you also need to know at least the basic of security (security & security testing). The hybrid tester is one that focusses on a lot of negative flows, technical and non-technical. He’s the kind of guy you call when you want your app to crash. You love edge cases and have a heart for continuous learning.
You’ll make trainings and coach people technical and non-technical.
Things like:
- Chaos Engineering
- Mutation Testing
- …
You don’t need to know everything about it, just that it exists and be able to coach and bring it up on projects
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In my opinion, some of us as QA is playing the role of looking around every corner of the product from release deployment, feature testing, performance of UI / API components, testing of 3rd party integrated, security, vulnerability, resiliency, and many more.
I worked for one of the organization, where in actual we were assigned this Title 
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I already see it. A manual tester with the ability to do automation, performance, security, UAT, all manner of skills and usually a bit of devops as the cherry on top. The best part? The rates are still that of a manual tester, and I’m not talking about senior testers either.
Give it a bit of time though, they’ll soon realise that if they want all those bolt-on skills they’re going to need to pay for it. ‘You get what you pay for’ pretty much defines everything I do nowadays.
There are already some LinkedIn profiles where people have mentioned themselves as Full-Stack QA, which I’m not sure that exists, and it’s like the jack of all trades and a master of None. Even though manual, API, and automation are somewhat related, security testing & performance testing are very different testing areas,
I believe the case that happens with Full-Stack Dev is that most of them are strong at the backend and have knowledge about the front end, the same thing happens with these people also, they are good at one thing and know all other things.
In development, full stack dev has a salary more than normal FE or BE engineers, but that is not the case with QA, because neither such title nor such salary range exists, so even if someone claims themselves as Full Stack QA, they will be hired as Automation engineer or security engineer or performance tester.
Such title will eventually led to unnecessary chaos in testing.
Haven’t really heard these title terms before. Certainly not cross-functional test engineer, maybe hybrid test engineer.
What you describe I think some existing titles already cover it from the technical skillset standpoint for the various roles you might encounter within the job:
- Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
- DevOps Engineer
Although the term “cross-functional test engineer” may already exist in a different context that I’ve kind of seen before. In this case, it’s just a test engineer doing typical test engineer or QA duties, but one where the engineer works across (or moves between) teams or projects, context switching based on company/team/project priorities. But for such engineers, “cross-functional” wasn’t in their job title.
That was my thought as well, i.e. that SDET captured the general essence of what OP is describing. I do like the ring of “Full Stack QA”, though.