Organizations' Expectations from Dot Net Web Developer

With the variety of tools and technology in the market, organizations' expectations from their employees are growing. There are plenty of tools available inthe market for code analysis, code review, version control, productivity, code quality.

Previously we used to say "Jack of all trades, Master of None" but in the current competitive world we should be "Jack of all trades and Master of at least one" to survive in competition.

From my past experience and from different job postings, I came up with the below competency table to become a Dot Net Web developer ready to work in the Microsoft technology stack.

Technical Competency:

Sr. No.	Technology / Framework	Competency
1	OOPs	Must have
2	Basic Dot Net (Fundamental)	Must have
3	C# / VB.Net Language	Must have
4	Web Forms(ASP.Net)	Must have
5	JavaScript	Must have
6	Jquery	Must have
7	ASP.Net MVC	Must have
8	SQL Server	Must have
9	Design Pattern	Must have
10	IIS	Must have
11	Web Services / WCF	Must have
12	JavaScript Framework (AngularJS / NodeJS/knockout js)	Good to have
13	WPF	Good to have
14	Web API	Good to have
15	SSIS	Should be aware of

Tools Competency:

Sr. No.	Technology / Framework	Competency
1	IDE- Visual Studio	Must have
2	ALM / Defect Tracker (HP QC/ Jira)	Must have
3	Fiddler	Good to have
4	Version Control-SVN	Good to have
5	Version Control-TFS	Good to have
6	Version Control-GitHub	Good to have
7	Code quality analysis- Resharper	Good to have
8	Code quality analysis- CAST	Good to have
9	Build and Deploy- Jenkins	Good to have
10	Unit Testing Tools- Nunit	Should be aware of / Good to have
11	Analytics Tools(Google Analytics / Dynatrace / NetInsight)	Good to have
12	Splunk	Should be aware of
13	Agile tool -Rally	Should be aware of
14	Incident Management -Remedy	Should be aware of

There are many other tools available in the market for each category, such as Incident management, Application Life management, Productivity, build and deploy, Unit Testing. If you are aware of any of the tools, thenthe basic flow of the tool or purpose remains the same and you can learn it quickly.

Those who are beginners can achieve good competency and will be market ready if they follow recommendations, and for experienced folks it will help to groom their technical portfolio .