Aug 15 (edited) • Career Friday
⚠️ Stop Panicking About Every Single Technology in Job Postings
If you're seeing automation job postings and thinking:
𝘐 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘈𝘓𝘓 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥...
Don't do that, unless you want to spend the next 5 years studying instead of working.
📌 Here are the most common technologies used in QA Automation
𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬:
✅ Playwright
✅ Selenium
✅ Cypress
𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬:
✅ Python
✅ JavaScript
✅ Java
✅ C#
✅ Ruby
✅ PHP
That's a lot of possible combinations of the language + framework ( to be a bit nerdy... specifically 18 combinations ...)
Learning all of them is 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞. Even Senior and Principal engineers don't know all of them.
But... It's important to understand that all those technologies share the same concepts and principles.
If you know one language, you know 𝟖𝟎% of all of them. The same applies to frameworks.
➡️ The Smart Solution:
Pick the easiest and fastest to learn. Learn the rest later when you're on the job.
𝐌𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Python and Playwright.
▹ Why Python? It literally looks like English.
▹ Why Playwright? Most beginner-friendly framework around. Microsoft backs it. Growing fast in the US market.
This combination gets you job-ready the fastest.
💻 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙸𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙹𝚘𝚋 𝙿𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙻𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚜 𝙳𝚒𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚃𝚎𝚌𝚑?
Still apply. In most cases, they don't really care about the specific stack you know.
What they care about is that you can CODE and know Testing..
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲:
Job requirements are wish lists, not the real requirements.
Only keep in mind... Some recruiters might not realize how easy it is to pick up one thing when you already know the other.
𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬:
Before applying, take a quick introduction course in the language they want. Get the general idea of the syntax. Add it to your resume.
When you have the interview, just say:
𝙼𝚢 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚞𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝙿𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚗, 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚎 𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚗 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝙹𝚊𝚟𝚊
(or whatever they want).
🗂️ The Bottom Line:
- Stop trying to be a human encyclopedia.
- Pick your foundation.
- Get really good at it.
- The principles transfer everywhere.
Companies hire people who can solve problems, not people who memorize every language or framework.
𝐏.𝐒. Drop a comment: What technology combinations are most popular in job postings in your area?
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