Five reasons why I’m passionate about being a test automation engineer — A couple of weeks ago, I wrote the article The Dark Side of Being a Test Automation Engineer, and it quickly became one of my most read articles so far. Also, it had some significant interactions and a mixture of opinions amongst the community. While some didn’t share my past…

Five worst feelings I’ve faced by being a test automation engineer — Fun fact, I started my career as a test automation engineer by accident. And holy moly, to be honest, I wasn’t too fond of it. Not like I hated what I did, not that, but I hated that it felt that everyone around me thought that my craft was expendable. …

The core software quality principles that have helped me set the vision of how my teams perceive software quality — I’ve contributed to several projects and products, built teams during tough times, and joined many others. Along the way, I’ve acquired some core software quality principles that have helped me set the vision of how my teams perceive software quality. Here are my core software quality principles:

Write the self-performance review that gets you promoted — Are you a software engineer? Perhaps a senior software engineer? Then, you have probably written quite a few self-performance reviews. Yet, I see so few people mentoring about such a paramount part of the year for many of us. Thus, the question is, do you know how to write a…

The five traits that describe a test engineer — You may know how to describe a test engineer to an audience. But what about the traits of a test engineer? Straightforward, clear, and accurate. These are the five C’s to describe a test engineer: Critical Thinking — Often underrated. But test engineers can think clearly and rationally to understand…

Five steps you should do when joining a new engineering team — Joining a new engineering team and feeling somewhat lost?—I can relate! I’ve assembled a list of five steps that you should be doing, in no particular order, when joining a new engineering team to make your arrival as effective as possible: Expectations — You should get an outlook of the…

The acceptance criteria you should be using for chaos engineering experiments — Chaos engineering experiments can be highly exploratory at the beginning. You often have low to no clue of what to look for other than the possible unavailability of the system. Let me give you a hand, and provide you with the acceptance criteria to get you started: Downtime — Are…

Five steps you should do for an effective bug triage session — What is a bug triage session? A bug triage session is a meeting where you aim to analyze, prioritize or close defects with your team. Having these sessions is crucial to raising awareness of your backlog. This way, everyone on the team can tackle issues effectively. Five steps to run an effective bug triage session 1. Preparation phase—Being prepared is crucial, and a way to…

How to communicate effectively as a test automation engineer — Introduction I’ve been mainly working with fully remote teams — check out my article on building (a real) team during the pandemic — for these past few years. And, although I love working remotely, some communication struggles have been getting tougher to workaround in a virtual and remote world. In this…