Testing Sciences

Career growth in software testing has little to do with your ability to test, or to code automation. It has to do with your ability to make the team find and fix important bugs. That comes down to doing good risk assessment. You have to develop a feel for where the bugs will be and how to surface them, and how to report them in a way that gets results. It may be that you should convince a developer to make a particular obscure segment of functionality more testable. It may be convincing a teammate to pair test with you to double-check your work. It may be creating an automated framework to load the system until it breaks. By exercising good judgment in the use of your time and others', arguing persuasively for practices that effectively reduce product risk, and showing leadership in caring about quality, you will advance your career. If you don't advance at your own company, then start a network of testers whom you respect and demonstrate your worth to them, and then they will advance your career for you. Test team leadership and senior management are valid paths further along in your career after individual contributorship proves too limiting.
The average pay for a Software Tester is Rs 3,10,575 per year.