The SDET's responsibilities include writing automated tests and focuses on the testability, robustness, and performance of software. As such, an SDET is a test professional with programming skills who can create automation testing tools and frameworks, and add to the ever- growing suite of regression tests, and tests required for promoting from lower to higher environments.
To be successful as an SDET, you should have excellent time management and organizational skills as well as effective communication skills. You should have a passion for designing, development, and testing and the ability to upgrade your technical skills within the constantly changing technology sector.

? Understanding the flow of code and how it interacts with different components.
? Understanding project documents, customer demands, and product objectives to create and execute test cases.
? Setting up, maintaining, and performing test automation frameworks on multiple application platforms, such as Web, cloud, front-end, and back-end (integration), and building test scenarios and acceptance tests.
? Investigating customer problems referred to you by the technical support team, testing bugs, and creating and managing bug reports.
? Handling technical communications and understanding the customers' systems.
? Working with deployments teams, resolving level issues for systems, coordinating on product design, and offering inputs on the testability of functional elements and product designs.
? Noting all testing actions, you have performed in daily and weekly reports.
? Analysing and disintegrating software systems and coordinating with other teams to enhance the overall design.
? Researching test tools, methodologies, and trends and upgrading existing practices and processes.
? Managing the final quality on production release.