How to Become an
Automation Engineer
Angie Jones
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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