I work as Test Engineer who works in Selenium, Testng, Java, Maven, Cucumber and Jenkins. My knowledge about Jenkins is limited in the sense that i can create freestyle or Maven based jobs and can trigger those as required and can configure Jenkins comfortably.

Now, I see many of my Colleagues learning Jenkins pipelines or tools like AWS cloud, Docker, Kubernates, Google cloud etc and so on.

Now, is it mandatory for a Automation engineer to learn these kind of tools to sustain in the industry. I see lot of automation guys trying to move more into DevOps engineer sort of profile. How can we justify that trend in Software Testing field? 🤔