What Does it Take to Become a Real E2E Test Automation Engineer? Part 1-A: Broad Knowledge

Technical Perspective Reasons why real E2E test automation engineers are so rare?

Zhimin Zhan

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Part 1: Broad Knowledge 1-A, 1-B, 1-C.
Part 2:
Willingness to Learn.

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Real E2E Test Automation Engineers are rare, even at software giants (long-time readers have seen the quotes) such as Google, Microsoft and LinkedIn. Just give an idea of how rare it is, I came up with an analogy:

“Real E2E test automation engineers are like Michelin-star restaurants. Senior ones are Michelin 2-stars. When someone says there is a good restaurant next to his living place, the chances are it is not Michelin-1-star, and almost certainly not Michelin 2-stars.”

Not convinced? A simple question, do your E2E Test Automation enable your team do daily production releases? I do and have trained some accomplished that too. Check out this article, “Showcase a 500+ End-to-End (via UI) Test Suite: E2E Test Automation is Surely

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Zhimin Zhan

Test automation & CT coach, author, speaker and award-winning software developer. Help teams succeed with Agile/DevOps by implementing real Continuous Testing.