What software testing job titles have you held in your career?

Associate Quality Analyst Trainee
Associate Quality Analyst
Analyst
SDET

  • Customer Support/QA
  • Senior Software QA
  • Software QA Lead
  • DevOps Lead
  • Senior Quality Assurance Specialist (Yeah I know how it sounds. Don’t ask me lol. This was wild time)
  • Director of QA
  • Director of Quality Engineering
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I had testing responsibilities on some of the other roles so I’ll include them.

Developer
Team Lead
Project Lead
Project Manager
Senior Project Manager
Testing centre of excellence person
Test Manager
Head of Quality Assurance
Test Manager
Software Tester
Quality and team Coach
Software Tester
Quality Consultant
Software Tester web/mobile specialist
Tester

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My job titles:
Junior Test Engineer > Test Engineer > Senior Test Engineer

My roles (of course in addition to my job :sweat_smile: ):
Test Lead, Scrum Master, QA Accessibility Lead

  • Junior Test Engineer
  • Test Engineer
  • Senior Test Engineer
  • Team Lead QA
  • Lead QA
  • Test Manager
  • Mobile Test Expert
  • Lead QA
  • Product Manager
  • Senior Product Manager
  • Head of Product Quality Engineering
  • Head of Software Engineering

This topic feels very relevant right now for some research we are doing, would love to see further contributions.

So far, I’ve had:
Software Test Engineer/Junior Test Consultant
Test Engineering Analyst (definitely the fanciest one, I think!)
QA Engineer

I had never heard of titles like SDET at the start of my career but it seems to be one of the most common ones I see in job searches now

  • 2016 - Quality Assurance Test Analyst
  • 2019 - Software Quality Analyst
  • 2020 - Software Quality Engineer
  • 2022 - Senior Software Quality Engineer
  • 2023 - Senior QA Engineer
  • 2024 - Integration Testing Specialist

I also had a couple of support related roles prior to getting into software testing properly. I guess they could be considered pseudo-QA roles:

  • First Line Support Analyst
  • Second Line Support Analyst