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Off Topic -

Would like to get some tips from the wise bowl members.

YOE - 7
Tech Stack - Full Stack Mobile Apps Dev
Title - SDE 3
CTC - 45 LPA all fixed
Company - Product based

Would like to know what is next for me how far i can go in coming 3 yrs in terms of salary
and who can pay me more (companies)?
My aim at least 1 crore.

Also my career progression in salary terms -
Company 1
2 lpa
2.5 lpa
Company 2
4.6 lpa
5 lpa
Company 3
7.5 lpa
7.8 lpa
Company 4
22 lpa
Company 5
45 lpa

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Hi Members,

If anyone have a good referralls for IT organization for Quality Analyst of experience 3+ yrs with Below skills please do refer

Skills
Manual Testing
Functional Testing
Non Functional Testing
Agile Methodology
Api Testing
Webservice Testing
Postman
Jira
TFS
Test Manager
Test Cases
Test Plans
Regression Testing
Retesting
Selenium Java automation

Notice Period 60 days
Thnxs in advance

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