QA Career path 2021

-

If you have joined a company as a Quality Analyst(QA), this guide will lay out a roadmap for you to work upon. I have seen so many people trying to switch from manual to automation, so this guide will come in handy.

Let me give you a brief introduction about myself.

I am a 28 year old Quality analyst with an experience of 5.8 years as a Quality Analyst, I am so eager to learn new things and have started this blog back in July 2019, till date I have written 123 articles and there is lot more to come. I used to be a manual tester and the automation concept really fascinated me a lot and ideally I am always looking for a 1 click pass rate for my test cases. I started with SOAP UI automation then switched to webservices later.

QA Career path 2021

Where do I start?

A lot of people I see start learning Selenium directly but I would say it is not a good practice to jump to Selenium directly. Firstly you have to build your logics, your coding standards by learning any one programming language. Learn it at your pace, don't fasten your learning. Consider me for an example, I have been learning the code until today although been associated with the industry from past 6 years. I am a slow learner but whatever topic I choose I try to learn it in the detailed way as much as possible. You can go with any programming language based upon your understanding, although I would suggest you to start with Java because there are lot of resources available online for free for Java. Try visiting Guru 99 tutorials for Java.

Now once you get hold of any programming language, you have a career path to select in QA -
  1. UI Automation
  2. API Automation
  3. Unit Testing
Unit testing is performed by developer by using Junit, then the code is moved to QA for API testing and finally it is released to UI.

Per my experience, you should start with API testing because it is faster and will help you build your logics. Refactoring and maintenance is minimal in API. You might be interested to learn about webservices, APIs, HTTP status code, XML, JSON, BDD and databases if you want to pursue a career as an API tester.

BDD Framework

The most common framework being used by most of the IT people in their projects. A common language Gherkin is used to write the test cases in natural language by using keywords like when, then, given, etc. The most common framework is cucumber, behave and specflow.

While tools like rest assured will help you to make requests. 

Now we have known 3 technologies so far. Java, Cucumber and Rest Assured. Once you get hold of it, try to learn Selenium, You can start with a pattern called Page Object Model(POM) wherein every webpage is maintained in a Java class.

Upto this point if you have learnt these technologies you are really competitive in the market and may survive the next 15 years in IT. Trust me these are really basic technologies you should know if you have started as a QA. Don't worry about the learning pace, drive it slowly but drive it consistently.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Azure Tutorials Series - Azure Networking

-
Image
In this article, we will learn about Azure networking concepts such as architecture, microservices, virtual networks, VPNs, subnet, VPN gateways and most importantly Network Security Group(NSG). All these terms are to be understood if you appearing for AZ900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals exam. Azure Networking In previous articles we have learnt about Micro- services and how they work, these are alos loosely coupled architecture. Some of the features includes Independent components interact with each other with the help of queues Can be updated and deployed independently Highly scalable Supports Asynchronous messaging N-tier Architecture Supports loosely coupled architecture Application divided into multiple tiers such that higher tier can access lower tier but not vice versa Tiers are re-usable and can be updated or replaced easily without any hassle. Three-tier in general Web Tier(front end) Application tier(back end) Data tier(Storage) Virtual Network Isolated network shared by few g...
Read more

Testing in CI/CD

-
If you are part of testing fraternity you would have heard CI/CD numerous times by now. It's the talk of the software testing town. In this article, we will cover the basics of CI/CD, what actually it is and how it is implemented in software testing. What is continuous integration? In simple terms, development teams can integrate their code into a shared repository. This helps in maintaining code quality and identifying potential issues with the local version of the code at an early stage. What is continuous delivery? Everything that is being continuously merged by the development team, is continuously deployed to the live environment. Continuous delivery is often coined as ‘Continuous Deployment’ as well. Since most developers work in parallel, continuously integrating their code into one repository would mean that the master branch is continuously updated with new features. In order to ensure that there is no compromise in the code quality with so many changes...
Read more

Azure Tutorials Series - IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS

-
Image
We already have covered Public vs Private vs Hybrid differentiation in the previous article. In this article we will be covering three categories of cloud computing with relevant examples and details. Most of you might already be using these services in your daily day-to-day tasks unaware of the face that your organisation has already started the transition into the cloud. For an example, Office 365 is a active SaaS(Software as a service) that most of us uses, VMs are examples of IaaS(Infrastructure as a service) and Azure SQL Database is PaaS(Platform as a service). Now how do we differentiate between the three categories as a user? Will cover the details below. Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS) Service provider provides you the hardware User gets some control over the hardware, can customise operating system, storage and VMs. Ensuring service is up and running is shared responsibility While cloud provider makes sure that the hardware is functioning correctly, user needs to make sure ...
Read more