Non-coding Tracks:

Project Manager:

Like management of other kinds, becoming a project manager is more about managing humans (and in this case, managing projects through humans) rather than being a technical guru. But an engineer having excellent management skills has better chances of becoming a project manager and leading a project than a person with extensive management skills but no technical background. Therefore, an ideal candidate for a project manager is someone with a deep understanding of the implementation of a project, as well as good organizational skills and relationships with the team.

QA Engineer (manual):

QA engineers who do not code and manually test the application are responsible for maintaining the test cases-- and running smoke, sanity, and regression testing-- on the application before releases. They must manually manage the whole testing process. QA folks usually use a spreadsheet software like Google sheets to maintain the test cases, and utilize word docs to document the bugs. A manual QA engineer should have good managing skills and attention to detail. They should design and ensure proper testing standards to avoid unnecessary QA cycles.

Product Owner:

In an agile development team, a product owner (often synonymous with Scrum Master below) is responsible for creating, maintaining, and maturing user stories that would be used by the engineers for development purposes. They are responsible for communicating the product’s goals and setting the priorities for the development of functionalities or bug-fixes. A product owner can come from many of the different backgrounds that we've covered, including that of Software Quality assurance.

Scrum Master:

Scrum is one of the most popular agile development methodologies. A scrum master is responsible to make it easier for the whole team to understand the scrum methodology and the practices. They are responsible for creating a sense of self-organizing, self-management, and effective agile practices among the team members.

UI/UX Designer:

Remember the responsibilities of a front-end developer, who was supposed to have good designing skills to ensure a user-friendly view of the product? Actually, it is the UIUX designer who is responsible for designing the front-end design of the product, not using programming languages, but using some tools like Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, Axure, and Marvel. They are not our regular graphic designers who have a good grip on the tools and can design what they are told to. At the initial stages, they design mock-ups, high-level functionalities and then move towards in-depth working and flow of the application.

SEO/SEM:

Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing both are means of attracting more and more traffic to your website. Actually, SEO is a part of SEM. Search Engines provide a list of standards to maintain and if maintained, they rank your website higher. There are other ways as well to increase the traffic on your websites such as Ads or other in-organic means. To be good at SEM, you should have a good understanding of basic web design, HTML, and CSS. Moreover, you would be required to have a good grip on any of the tools that are available for the analysis of web traffic.

Web Analysts:

They are responsible for tracking the traffic on the website. Actually, it falls under the SEM category but web analytics is a full-time job in itself. Tools like Google Analytics, Spring Metrics, and Whoopra are used to give you a much deeper insight into the trends and patterns of the traffic on your website.

Data Analyst:

If we talk about the career of a data analyst specifically from a Data Science perspective, a data analyst is a coding job. However, certain organizations do not require such a level of analysis. A good grip on SQL would simply do the trick and tools like PowerBi, and Tableau would be used for the data analysis. Often under-estimated, Excel is one of the strongest tools for tool-based analysis of the data.

Business Analyst:

They usually have a computer science background with a specialization in business administration. They are responsible for the analysis of the business, generating reports, and identifying the patterns from the available data. they do not require hardcore programming skills. Most of the business analyst work requires a good grip on tools like Tableau and PowerBI. In addition to that, a grip on SQL to play with the data is a plus for a business analyst.