{"id":893,"date":"2020-07-20T14:08:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T04:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clickworks.me\/?p=893"},"modified":"2020-09-20T16:52:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T06:52:15","slug":"my-testing-journey-so-far-one-and-a-half-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickworks.me\/index.php\/2020\/07\/20\/my-testing-journey-so-far-one-and-a-half-years\/","title":{"rendered":"My Testing Journey So Far: One and a Half Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short post where I simply list key milestones in my testing journey so far.<\/p>\n<p>I was planning to publish at least one blog post every month. Unfortunately due to some health issues, I skipped a couple of months. That&#8217;s why I decided it is much better to publish at least a very short article rather than delay next post for a few more months.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>month 0<\/strong> (01\/2019) &#8211; <strong>discussed\u00a0 pathways to\u00a0 Testing and my expectations<\/strong> on how to shift to a Testing \/ QA with a couple of my friends who work in QA. At the time could not find a job as an\u00a0 Electrical Engineer and worked as a\u00a0 courier.<\/li>\n<li><strong>month 4 (<\/strong>04\/2019) &#8211; got <strong>ISTQB Foundation Level Certification<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>month 7 (<\/strong>07\/2019) &#8211;\u00a0 completed several <strong>online courses<\/strong> including: uTest Academy, HTML &amp; CSS (Codecademy), REST API Testing with SOAP UI\u00a0 (udemy.com).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>month 8 <\/strong>(08\/2019) &#8211; started testing\u00a0 <strong>internship at Aerofiler<\/strong>. My working schedule: 1 day testing + 4 days courier work.<\/li>\n<li><strong>month 9 <\/strong>(09\/2019) &#8211; attended several <strong>testing meetups in Sydney<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>month 10 <\/strong>(10\/2019) &#8211; started to learn\u00a0 <strong>Python<\/strong>. Completed short <strong>GitHub<\/strong> course.<\/li>\n<li><strong>month 15 <\/strong>(03\/2020) &#8211; started to learn <strong>REST API testing<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>month 16 <\/strong>(04\/2020) &#8211; set up a small batch of scheduled automated WebUI tests (Selenium, pytest) using <strong>AWS EC2 and Jenkins. <\/strong>Completed short <strong>Unix command line<\/strong> basics course.<\/li>\n<li><strong>month 18 <\/strong>(06\/2020) &#8211; created <strong>GitHub repo with\u00a0 30+ API tests<\/strong> using pytest plugin &#8211; Tavern.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>month 20 <\/strong>(08\/2020) &#8211;\u00a0 starting from August I <strong>got paid as a manual tester<\/strong> on a day rate basis. My working schedule: 1 day manual testing internship + 1 day test automation practice at home + 3 days courier work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"chrome-extension:\/\/fbnkflkahhlmhdgkddaafgnnokifobik\/assets\/pageScripts.js\"><\/script>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short post where I simply list key milestones in my testing journey so far. I was planning to publish at least one blog post every month. Unfortunately due to some health issues, I skipped a couple of months. 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