Curious About Job Titles in Product Development? Share Your Company's Designation Levels!

Hi All,

I am working in a product development company and I am just doing a comparative analysis of the designations in other product development companies. Basically, we have a development team and testing team. The low level or the entry level is given the designation "Associate Developer" / "Tester" and in the next level, it is "Development Engineer" / "Tester". So kindly share with me what types of designations you have in your company if it is a product development company or any other.

Designations for Development / Testing:
- Entry level / fresher
- 1-2 yrs
- 2-3 yrs
- 4+ yrs
- 7+ yrs
- Senior level

If you could share this, it would be a lot of help for me.

Regards,
Pavithra

My company is also a PDT dev company. We are involved in the entire SDLC. We have the following designations:

- Trainee Software Engineer
- Associate Software Engineer
- Software Engineer
- Senior Software Engineer
- Team Leader
- System Analyst
- Tech Director

Trainee software engineer - there are totally freshers. The company is just investing time and cost to make them a resource for them.

Associate software engineer - those with 1+ year of experience and new to our domain knowledge. They don't take much time to learn things as they have already acquired the skills.

Software engineer - those with 2+ years of experience with good communication skills and coordination with the team.

Senior software engineer - they have 4+ years of real experience with the knowledge of soft skills as well as technical skills.

Team leader - they are at a managerial level and manage the whole thing, mostly with 5+ years of experience.

System Analyst - analyze the project with the clients and assign tasks. They mostly have 9+ years of experience.

Tech. Director - they have 10+ years of experience. The system analyst performs the task with the consent of the tech director.