An IT Graduate’s Frustration with a Fake ‘Senior Test Automation Engineer’

Fake Test Automation Engineer is worse than useless.

This article is one of the “Be aware of Fake Test Automation/DevOps Engineers” series and the Stories series.

This is a true story. To protect the identity of the fake senior test automation engineer (who claimed promoting Playwright), I refer to him as B.

‘Fake’ here means a perspective for other team members, judged by the objective results. Commonly, an automated tester bragged his work or process; However, the team relied heavily on manual End-to-End testing. That’s wrong, isn’t it? Real senior test automation engineers are extremely rare (see the quotes, at the bottom. from renowned experts). A quick question: “Does a software team really trust the success of automated test execution? such as deploying the new build to production daily with high confidence.” Check out Fake End-to-End Test Automation Clarified for clarification.

A young uni graduate C, who is close to me (long-time readers of my blog probably already guessed out), joined a large tech company as an intern, C’s first full-time job. When the team leader heard C has test automation knowledge, assigned C some testing tasks. The test server was not available, C found a demo site of the…