Career Opportunities in Software Engineering

The stream of Software Engineering interests those aspirants who have the passion to develop something incredible using computer programs and their creative minds. There are scores of career opportunities in software engineering. Let’s go through the know-how of software engineering in respect to courses, career scope, and salary. Before moving ahead, let’s dig a little deeper and understand that what software engineering is.

What is Software Engineering?

The study curriculum of software engineering comprises an array of programming languages like Java, C, C++, C#, Dot Net, etc. All these programming languages are employed to deal with the development, design, implementation, and most importantly maintenance of a software.

Experts in software engineering are best known as software engineers. The job of a software engineer is to apply the codes of software engineering for the designing, development, testing, and maintenance of a software.

By pursuing computer science engineering, a student can become an expert software engineer. Apart from that having a vast knowledge of various programming languages can prove to be a key to success in this stream.  

Software Engineering: Courses and Duration

A myriad of course options is available in the field of engineering at bachelor and master level. If you want to pursue engineering, consider the following options:

• B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering - 4 years duration
• B.Tech in Computer Science with Specialization in Software Development Program - 4 years duration 
• BCA - 3 years duration
• M.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering - 2 years duration
• MCA - 3 years duration, and a lot more.

Skilled Requisite to Master the Field of Software Engineering  

Software Engineers or aspirants who want to master software engineering must have interest in the field and master various skills like:

• Skills to debug things
• Skills to efficiently resolve problems
• Proficiency in various programming languages
• Outstanding knowledge of software and hardware
• Teamwork capabilities
• Excellent knowledge of Computer Aided Software Engineering tools

Software Engineering: Career Opportunities

Software field is on top in terms of offering jobs not only in India but abroad also. There is immense scope for Software Engineering students because of the emerging IT industry. Bounteous career opportunities are there for the students in the field of software engineering.

Software engineers can dive into both private and public sector. However, choosing the profession in teaching can also be considered. Designations available for software engineers are as follows:

• Software Designer
• Software Developer
• Software Executive
• Software Programmer
• Project Manager
• System Designer
• Information System Manager, and many more

Software Engineering: Salary Package

In the IT field, a lot of importance is given to the person having experience. Once you gain experience, a good job offer with good pay scale can be easily snagged.  

A fresher in the field of engineering can get started with 3.5 to 4 lac annual package while there is no salary bar for the one having good experience in this field.

Salary of a software engineer may also vary according to the industry/ company he/she is working for and University from where he/she completed engineering.

Thus, it’s always better to make a wise decision while choosing the University for pursuing engineering as well as while choosing a company to work for.