New platform engineer, will leading the testing of infra and internal services pigeonhole me into SDET? Any general advice for my situation?

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New platform engineer, will leading the testing of infra and internal services pigeonhole me into SDET? Any general advice for my situation? Made a transition from embedded (5 yoe) to Platform engineer last month. Was asked about areas where I think the team could improve, and I pointed out automated testing as one of them. Manager said great, because they were looking for somebody to lead the automated testing initiative for our o11y infra and REST services, and my background building automated test pipelines from my previous role would transfer nicely. I agree, but coworkers said that most start working on tests initially, then move onto other things like service development, or operating infra. So I was thinking there must be a reason people decide to move on from improving tests, maybe not a lot of room for growth. Also, the reason I took this role was to move more towards SDE/Devops instead of SDET, because I was basically that in my previous team, and I pretty much had to find a new job to relieve myself of being the "test guy" since nobody else wanted to do it. [link] [handle]

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