How to become a software automation engineer
In this article we will explore the Roadmap of a Software Automation Tester, if someone wants to find the job as a Software Automation Tester or work as a Freelance Software Automation Tester, will find this article useful. This is a step by step guide for those, wish to be a Software Automation Tester. It will tell in few steps, what knowledge is required to be an Automation Tester in 2021. This article is also useful for the beginners who want to start their career in Software Testing as general and Automation Testing in particular. Finally, it can help Manual Testers, want to move to the career of Software Automation Tester.
Please Note: This article will take the reader to the fast track to Software Automation Testing based on current technologies required for it, hence, skipping few general topics about Software testing.
Let’s start with three major steps of Software Automation Testing;
Step 1. Basics of Software Testing.
Step 2. Learn a Programming Language.
Step 3. Software Automation Tools.
Step 1. Basics of Software Testing: It includes a quick overview of What, Why and How of Software Testing.
What is Software Testing?
Why Software testing is required?
How Software testing is done?
What is Manual Software Testing concept?
What are the different levels of Software Testing?
What are the different Techniques of Manual Software Testing?
What is a Bug?
How to report a Bug?
What are the Testing processes?
What is STLD and SDLC?
Apart from Basic concepts, you should also know the Agile process, what is Scrum, what is Sprint?
How these processes are useful in Software Testing?
What Software Testing Tools available in Market?
What is Jira and how it works in Software Testing?
What are the Bug tracking tools and how are they used?
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Step 2: Learn a Programming Languages:
Once you learn all about Basic concepts of Software Testing, second level in Software Automation Testing, you need to learn at least one programming language, among the popular programming language Java, Python, C# and Java script. These languages are popular for Software Automation Testing. If you are a beginner in Programming then you can learn Python, its comparatively easier than Java. But if you have some background of programming then you can learn Java, that is a hot programming language used for Software Automation Testing these days. If you have already learnt Java, then it will be easy for you to learn Python.
Step 3: Software Automation Tools (Web Automation): After learning a programming language you should learn software Automation Tools. There are many software Automation Tools available in the market same as multiple programming languages, so you need to pick a language and then pick a corresponding software Automation Tool. Some famous software Automation Tools are Selenium and Cypress.
In this fast track we are picking Web Automation for you at the start so that you can learn what is Web, what is an application, what is a UI and how all these work and how it can be tested via Software Automation Tools. In Web Automation Testing you can start with Selenium, you can learn Selenium with the combination of Python or Java, both are workable with Selenium.
Cypress is also a web application automation testing tools which can automate end to end functionality of web application testing. Along with this you can also learn software Automation framework like Cucumber and Test NG, these frameworks are very helpful to automate the Test Application.
Following above three Steps, you can be a Software Automation Tester, if you like to join our Free Software Testing Course please subscribe.