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I have joined company X as an Software Developer Engineer.

I was trained in full stack development, worked on a few front-end development tasks for a couple of months. I was later moved to the automation testing team for the same application.

In their system, my job title says I'm a "developer", and even in the experience letter I got from that company, my role is mentioned as a developer.

So, how should I put this all into my resume? I'm thinking of listing both development and testing works under the same job title.

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You list your job title as whatever your employer decides to call you. Under that you describe what your actual responsibilities were.

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  • Wouldn't listing Dev and testing responsibilities under Dev create problems with resume parsers?
    – Ganesh
    Commented Jun 7 at 22:49
  • @Ganesh why would it? If it's a dumb parser perhaps
    – DarkCygnus ♦
    Commented Jun 7 at 23:24
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    @Ganesh another way to put Dan's answer: usually job titles vary a lot between companies. "Senior Wizard" may not be the same role/responsibilities as a Senior Wizard on another company. However, you can't make up your title. Thus, you respect the title given, but under that briefly describe your responsibilities (which tell way more than a title).
    – DarkCygnus ♦
    Commented Jun 7 at 23:30
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    @DarkCygnus Thanks. I just listed everything i did under the given job title
    – Ganesh
    Commented Jun 8 at 0:20
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Titles don't matter in the software engineer world. What matters most is your skills and experience.

Having a strong skills section, and a strong write up of your responsibilities will trump whatever silly title you were given. In fact you could have something like this:

June 2020-Present Company X, Developer

  • Performed as a Full Stack Software Engineer by doing .....
  • Did front end develop using .....
  • Modified the xxx DB .....
  • Created web services using .....

So I would be accurate with the job title, but you can easily overcome this by the rest of your resume.

An example of this is when works as a contractor. You are typically given a not very meaningful title, something like "developer" despite your pay rate being more than your manager's. One job I contracted at had me conducting the interviews, they did not trust their full time employees to do so.

In my almost 30 years experience I've never had a question come up about title, just my skills and abilities. This despite having some silly titles like "Programmer/Analyst" despite doing the work of a full stack developer.

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  • NO, this is incorrect. Titles matter when one CHANGES jobs. You could accept a job as a junior engineer, learn all the responsibilities of the junior and senior roles. If there's never a promotion, and you're looking for a senior role, an unwitting resume screener may flag a resume if the hiring manager says they only want applicants who have actively been in a senior role already -- despite whatever experience the resume may convey.
    – Xavier J
    Commented Jun 12 at 19:24

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