Sir, you can find some interesting topics in software testing. You can work on how efficiently formal methods can be used for system validation with respect to critical systems.

There are a lot of areas could be found in each domain and discipline of Software Engineering. The main software Engineering principles / Topics are still been discussed in Research Forums and Conferences. However, it can be observed from latest Call of Papers of different Conferences and Journals, I found that Software Engineering field is now focusing of Mathematical and Analytical based solutions and more focus on analysis techniques.

Some of the important areas are: Software enterprise performance Management, Formal methods in Software Engineering, Knowledge Management, Cloud Computing based Software Engineering etc.

You may refer to my recent contribution as well:

Article An Integration of UML Sequence Diagram with Formal Specifica...

Article Towards Knowledge Management in RE Practices to Support Soft...

 Dear Tahir Abbas:

There are two options:

• Pure software engineering
• Computer science and software engineering 

If you want to work on second option then focus on search based software engineering where you can apply optimization techniques on different software engineering activities.

Let me share another research area / work with you.

If you have an Interest is research activities, you should go for the Performance Analysis or Performance Management of Existing or newly Proposed any software Engineering Model / Methodology. And Performance Analysis and Management should be in terms of supporting measure or tool for Practitioners and Researchers. there is a huge and bulk of software engineering research work, which need to analyze again.

I can also support you, or you can work with me as well, I am also trying to do some thing related to same particular problem.

Software Design

Software design, software testing, software metrics, defect management process, software test management process model, defect prediction, etc.

Hi,

for example our unit has being just recently studied Hackathons & Code Camps in software engineering education:

Hackathons in Software Engineering Education – Lessons Learned from a Decade of Events

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323859140_Hackathons_in_Software_Engineering_Education_-_Lessons_Learned_from_a_Decade_of_Events

Code camps and hackathons in education-literature review and lessons learned

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330219800_Code_camps_and_hackathons_in_education-literature_review_and_lessons_learned

IDEAS AND EXPERIENCES FROM UNIVERSITY - INDUSTRY COLLABORATION. Hackathons, Code Camps and citizen participation.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326461182_IDEAS_AND_EXPERIENCES_FROM_UNIVERSITY_-_INDUSTRY_COLLABORATION_Hackathons_Code_Camps_and_citizen_participation

The Code Camp Story: Facilitators and Participants View into University – Company Collaboration

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334605367_TYYLI_Blog_-_Hankekuulumisia_Opintojen_tyoelamayhteys_Tyoelamataidot_Yritysyhteistyo

Also esports has been hugely popular topic too (specially software engineering students like it a lot :) )

Professionalism in Esport: Benefits in Skills and Health & Possible Downsides

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333036047_Professionalism_in_Esport_Benefits_in_Skills_and_Health_Possible_Downsides

And last but definitely not least is design thinking in software engineering:

Infusing Design Thinking Into a Software Engineering Capstone Course

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320959052_Infusing_Design_Thinking_Into_a_Software_Engineering_Capstone_Course

If you need, I might be able to provide pre-prints for the publications, that are currently fully open access publications already.

B.R.,

Ari