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Skills Matrix

Proficiency is my own honest read, not a certification. 1 Familiar · 2 Working · 3 Proficient · 4 Strong · 5 Expert. The ✅ / 🕓 marks are your study progress.

SDET Skills

TopicProficiencyWhere I use itYou
PlaywrightPrimary E2E stack; frameworks, CI, sharding
SeleniumGrid, legacy suites, migrations off it
Cucumber & BDDGherkin, step design, living docs
REST AssuredAPI contract + integration suites
PostmanCollections, Newman in CI
JavaAutomation tooling, framework code
JUnitJUnit 5, extensions, parameterisation
TestNGSuites, groups, parallelism
SQLQuery, test data, verification
Tooling LandscapeTool selection + strategy
AppiumNative + hybrid mobile automation
Robot FrameworkKeyword-driven suites
JMeterLoad profiles, distributed runs

SRE Skills

TopicProficiencyWhere I use itYou
KubernetesWorkloads, probes, debugging
CI/CD PipelinesGH Actions, gates, artifacts
Linux AdministrationProcesses, systemd, storage
Prometheus & GrafanaPromQL, dashboards, alerts
Incident ResponseIC role, postmortems
AI-Assisted EngineeringDaily driver for tooling work
AWSCore services, IAM, cost basics
TerraformModules, state, plan review
Cloud InfrastructureLanding zones, networking
System PerformanceUSE method, profiling
NetworkingTCP/TLS/DNS, tcpdump
OpenTelemetryTraces, spans, collectors
Chaos EngineeringGame days, hypothesis testing
MCP & AI AgentsTool servers, agent wiring

SDE Skills

TopicProficiencyWhere I use itYou
PythonTooling, scripting, pytest
GitRebase, bisect, recovery
DockerImages, compose, multi-stage
Clean ArchitectureBoundaries, dependency rule

AI Skills

TopicProficiencyWhere I use itYou
ClaudePrompting, projects, Claude Code
KiroSpec-driven agent IDE