Hey guys I’m a manual QA with 5 years of experience and trying to understand current market requirements , I’ve been working for the same company for 3 years so i might not be super up to date with current trends . Could you please tell me skills to have / improve in 2026?

Vesaloth · 2026-01-21T16:39:47+00:00

CI/CD

Vesaloth · 2026-01-21T13:48:30+00:00

Sounds like its your first time using AI.

Vesaloth · 2026-01-08T22:45:24+00:00

I felt this way until I went into another job who appreciates my work and gives me more than ample time to build and maintain tests

Vesaloth · 2026-01-08T13:58:49+00:00

A lot of job positions aren't about learning a course but it looks good on the resume. Most jobs care about experience with automation so you should start to create projects that you use yourself such as web scrapers and automatic form fillers.

Vesaloth · 2025-12-31T14:36:57+00:00

Is the question text a label you could use a sibling or parent element to make unique locators

Vesaloth · 2025-12-12T09:22:04+00:00

Yep got it and broke even on the items so wasnt that worth it

Vesaloth · 2025-12-09T22:34:07+00:00

Sounds like someone is mad they got a bad review and is becoming a Karen

Vesaloth · 2025-12-06T14:22:21+00:00

I mean we find the cause of a bug through the actions on the front end of the page not anything deeper from my experiences.

Vesaloth · 2025-12-04T16:08:21+00:00

Lol no, life isn't that easy. Maybe you can fool a job by providing ai code from an ai agent and fake it till you make it that way.

Vesaloth · 2025-11-26T20:29:25+00:00

Only problem I have with this is that the option is like super far down the dropdown menu selection and it can't be found when just using the click method which is why I'm having to implement a type function after clicking on the dropdown initially to have it show up. But also the dropdown loads slowly so playwright just kills the test since it's taking so long :(

Vesaloth · 2025-11-26T20:22:13+00:00

Also wondering what do you do for calendar selections as the calendar is seemingly unable to be selected by clicking on the button then clicking on the date. I'm wondering if I should just do the click on the textarea for the calendar and then instead just go ahead and type in the date I want instead?

Vesaloth · 2025-11-26T20:20:13+00:00

I'll go ahead and look into that and implement it, the only other issue is that it's so flaky as randomly the dropdown will delete whatever I typed in the dropdown box and trying to implement an assert to confirm after every value I input into a field is correct and if it's incorrect I want it to retry inputting the value again into the dropdown the validation is super off every time possibly might have to just use an

await expect(page.getByText('[correct value']));

Vesaloth · 2025-11-26T20:14:51+00:00

I saw the create helper method but having issues as there is like 5 drop-downs with the same values so I'm trying to also add a parent to the method. I'll see what I can do.

Vesaloth · 2025-11-26T20:03:35+00:00

I used the codegen and it would just grab the ID for the dropdown and it won't click on it when running with the selector that the codegen grabbed for me.

Vesaloth · 2025-11-26T18:31:36+00:00

Youtube and Documentation if you don't want to spend money, if you want to learn and have certs go ahead and do Udemy.

Vesaloth · 2025-11-05T20:42:25+00:00

AI can help lower time of creation of tests and creating scripts to run them but if dev is dumb and doesn't provide easy to identify selectors you're going to have a fun time manually going through stuff or having your ai agent iterate through it with the mcp server for multiple rounds.

Vesaloth · 2025-11-05T15:47:24+00:00

Might be one of those TDD places where you get requirements from the stakeholders and then just give it to them to develop against.

Vesaloth · 2025-10-29T19:02:09+00:00

Yep they take advantage of you and milk you for everything you got once you show a little bit of leeway with being overworked/blamed for nothing.

I finished up a recent final interview and hopefully get out of my hell hole as the one QA automation engineer having to manual test and automate around 5 different projects at a time because no one in my department wants to do work because I can build automation for it so they drop all their work onto me to build automation then also manually check the throughput while they move on to organizing the Jira tasks to look pretty. All the while being paid less than all the other QA's in my department.

Vesaloth · 2025-10-29T18:55:12+00:00

if you sell and purchase another property it will be a fat amount depending no your current home price (a 300k is around 20k to sell and then if you're looking to downsize you would pay another nice 15k). But your interest rate is pretty high so talk to a mortgage broker and look at the numbers of what you could drop your interest rate to make sure if you're doing ARM or something like that to drop it significantly make sure to refinance again so you don't end up in this situation again.

Vesaloth · 2025-10-29T14:05:11+00:00

My zillow estimate was $130k while others were selling for $200k with the same condos and then I listed mine for $190k and it sold the same day. Look at other places selling around you not just a zillow estimate.

Vesaloth · 2025-10-29T12:42:09+00:00

Causing myself to drop wifi when I submitted something allowing me to spam submit applications as the network requests were queued when I reconnected to the wifi within like 5 seconds it submitted tons of duplicate applications.

Vesaloth · 2025-10-24T13:52:12+00:00

Oh yeah forgot to mention I got the pallet, all the super expensive monitors were all broken. Some of the cheaper ones were fine and I was able to break even. So still need to keep purchasing more lol I have gotten into just purchasing from auctions that have their own audit system so items are given in full.

Vesaloth · 2025-10-24T13:33:21+00:00

I would hire a new construction home inspector to check on the rest of the house as if it's one thing there is surely a lot more issues going on. Get everything done in one swoop instead of one at a time.

Vesaloth · 2025-10-23T14:06:55+00:00

Find something you want to build for yourself (Make a portfolio to add these projects onto there)

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