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?
Part 1: Broad Knowledge 1-A, 1-B, 1-C.
Part 2: Willingness to Learn.Non-Medium members: you can view the abridged version of this article free on Vocal Media.
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…