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Developer Advocate. International Keynote Speaker. Master Inventor.
How to Become an
Automation Engineer
Angie Jones
http://angiejones.tech
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Senior Developer Advocate
Director, Test Automation University
Applitools, San Francisco, CA, USA
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What is a
test automation engineer?
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How do I become an automation engineer?
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1. Learn to code
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Do It Yourself
Option 1
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Option 1: Do It Yourself
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Option 1: Do It Yourself
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Pros
Option 1: Do It Yourself
* Learn at your own pace
* Focus on what you need
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Cons
Option 1: Do It Yourself
* Requires great level of discipline
* Must find free time
* Not really sure what to focus on
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Option 1: Do It Yourself
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Get Formal Training
Option 2
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Pros
Option 2: Get Formal Training
* Dedicated time to learn
* Can be covered under training budget
* Breadth of coverage with hands-on training
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Cons
Option 2: Get Formal Training
* Need to convince management
* Going to probably cover more than you need
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Wait...what language?
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What's Marketable
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More to Pick Up
HTML / DOM
CSS / Xpath
SQL
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More to Pick Up
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2. Learn about automation
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Layers
UI (Web)
Mobile
Web Services
Unit
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Complementary Processes
Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
Test Driven Development
(TDD)
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Tools
Selenium WebDriver (UI)
Appium (Mobile)
Rest-Assured/Postman (Web Services)
Cucumber (BDD)
JUnit/TestNG/Mocha/Pytest (Assertions)
Applitools (Visual Assertions)
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Execution Enablement
Continuous Integration
Parallelism
Grids/Containers
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Strategy
What's your game plan?
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Strategy
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3. Continue to learn
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Continue to Learn
Read books
Read blogs / articles
Watch webinars
Listen to podcasts
Attend conferences
Work with other automation engineers
Follow the gurus
Follow Them
| Angie Jones | @techgirl1908 |
| Alan Richardson | @eviltester |
| Paul Grizzaffi | @pgrizzaffi |
| Amber Race | @ambertests |
| Andrew Knight | @AutomationPanda |
| Jess Ingrassellino | @jess_ingrass |
| Richard Bradshaw | @FriendlyTester |
| Trish Khoo | @hogfish |
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Follow Them
| Jason Arbon | @jarbon |
| Mark Winteringham | @2bittester |
| Joe Colantonio | @jcolantonio |
| Lisa Crispin | @lisacrispin |
| Nikolay Advolodkin | @Nikolay_A00 |
| Corina Pip | @imalittletester |
| T.J. Maher | @tjmaher1 |
| Melissa Tondi | @melissatondi |
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Questions?
You can do it!
Angie Jones
http://angiejones.tech
@techgirl1908
Senior Developer Advocate
Director, Test Automation University
Applitools, San Francisco, CA, USA
How to Become an Automation Engineer
By Angie Jones
How to Become an Automation Engineer
Interested in becoming a test automation engineer? Here's a path to do so!
