Automation Testing | Skills for Higher CTC

Earlier I used to believe Selenium and Java are enough for automation testing roles but learned that there are additional skills required too.

Please find consolidated below all that I have learned/learning as part of automation testing. You could choose any one or combination of the bulleted items for your preparation.

Software Testing

1. Manual Testing - Interview Question from the Internet
2. Agile - Interview Question from the Internet
3. Scrum
4. Jira - SDET - QA Automation Techie (YouTube)

Programming

1. Java- Part of Rahul Shetty Sir's Udemy Course on Selenium Webdriver
2. Python
3. Javascript
4. C#

Web Automation

1. Selenium - Rahul Shetty Course on Selenium Webdriver (Udemy)
2. Cucumber (BDD) - Part of Rahul Shetty Sir's Udemy Course on Selenium Webdriver

API Testing

1. Post Man - The Testing Academy Hindi (YouTube)
2. Soap UI
3. Rest Assured

Mobile Testing

1. Appium - SDET - QA Automation Techie (YouTube)

Performance Testing

1. JMeter - SDET - QA Automation Techie (YouTube)
2. Load Runner

Security Testing

1. Burp Suite - Tutorials Point (YouTube)

CI and CD

1. Maven- Part of Rahul Shetty Sir's Udemy Course on Selenium Webdriver
2. Gradle
3. Jenkins- Part of Rahul Shetty Sir's Udemy Course on Selenium Webdriver
4. Git - Kunal Kushwaha (YouTube); Installation- Simplilearn (Youtube)

Cloud Testing

1. AWS
2. Sauce Labs- Part of Rahul Shetty Sir's Udemy Course on Selenium Webdriver
3. Azure
4. Google Cloud

Microservices Testing

1. JUnit- Edureka (YouTube), Part of Rahul Shetty Sir's Udemy Course on Selenium Webdriver
2. TestNg- Part of Rahul Shetty Sir's Udemy Course on Selenium Webdriver
3. Mockito
4. Spring Boot

Interview Preparation

1. RD Automation Learning (YouTube)
2. SoftwaretestingbyMKT (YouTube)
3. Softwaretestinghelp.com
4. Guru99.com
5. Softwaretestingmaterial.com
6. Testingq.com
7. LinkedIn groups on QA/Automation Testing (People post questions and are answered by many in comments; lot to learn on approach and ideas)

Good to add in Resume/CV

1. LinkedIn/Github profile link
2. Certifications
3. Volunteering Work

International Jobs from India

How to find jobs online.

Online Job Portals-

Here you can search the job using skill and location and mention visa in the search bar or select one from the filters if any.

Eg: 

Angular Developer Visa, England 

Backend Developer Visa, Dubai

Automation Test Engineer Visa, Japan

Job Portals-

• Naukri Gulf
• Stack Overflow
• Glassdoor
• LinkedIn
• Arbeitnow
• Landing.Jobs
• Indeed

Who should apply?

Candidates having industry experience have a better chance of receiving the visa sponsorship.

I have applied for a few jobs abroad from India. I have recorded the call so that you can get an idea.

PFB link below:

Recruiter from Portugal

How to decide your expected salary?

To know how much is enough, and how much you could save for a home, you can visit this website. It gives a good overview of your expenses in any particular city around the world.

Numbeo - Cost Of Living

Also, you can check out Purchasing Power Parity Calculator

You can calculate for example how much roughly do you need to earn in London to live the same lifestyle in India with 12LPA or 10 LPA.

Join discussion forums such as this Fish Bowl to check what Indians discuss before moving abroad.

How to check you are not falling for a fraud/scam?

To check for Red Flags-

• Asked for money.
  
  
  
• Phishing Emails.
  
  
  
• Fake consultancies/Agents
  
  
  

What should I have?

• Valid Indian Passport. If you do not have it, apply and you will receive it in a week to a month's time. 
  
  
  
• International Debit Card for payments. You can easily get it from your bank.
  
  
  
• International Health Insurance (Can apply once you get the Offer letter from your new employer)
  
  
  
• International Driving License (Good to have)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Handling 90 Days Notice Period | Credit- Vivian Octavius

Humans Of IT Companies

 

NFT and MetaVERSE

In this Blog Post, I would like to introduce you to terms like NFT and Metaverse in layman's language.

We would cover this topic in a type of QnA so that it is easy to understand.

So Let's begin...

What is NFT?

You go to a bakery or a food stall to have breakfast. You pay the money to the stall owner who gives you a plastic coupon/token as seen in the below image. You take this to the kitchen outlet, give it to the chef in exchange for your meal. So here the token is the medium of exchange finally but you have bought token using money.

Tiffin center with toke system

Plastic tokens for meal

 

Assume that instead of using these plastic tokens for your meal, you have put them in your wallet and went back home. Now after a few days, you have come to the same stall to have breakfast with the old unused token. That time 1 plate Poha was 50 Rs say, now Poha is 100 Rs per plate. You use the old token to buy Poha so you get a 50 Rs benefit. It's the same thing with NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens). The reason they are called non-fungible is that with cash you can buy a meal at any place but not with that token. Token provides the ownership. Another non-fungible token example is Movie Ticket. You cannot watch any movie with the ticket you have and it provides ownership that it's your ticket.

How is NFT useful in Real Life?

Painters, Digital artists, Music creators, etc can create an NFT for their work and sell it.

This way you have an identity for your original work. For example, no one could copy-paste painting online and say it's his/her because you have created NFT for it. NFT is a digital Id that you could create for your work. In the later sections of this blog, I will let you know how could you create an NFT for your work and earn by selling it.

Sketch Art

You can create an NFT for this as well.

Digital Art

Sketch Art

Photographic 

Music

Videos

Why there is a craze for NFTs? and is it the next big thing like Youtube?

You know how youtube, facebook, whatsapp and instagram earn, they engage people in doing something and earn money through advertisement from companies, selling your basic data to companies

This was a hit due to internet boom but nowadays it's saturated.

We can see this in youtubers' earnings.

Now you have to have sufficient subscribers and watch time in order to get the channel monetized. Also the companies are directly approaching the youtubers to prmote the product in their video.

NFT in general is much creator centric. The creators earn good money with the quality work.

How does NFT work? Who can earn money using NFT?

NFT as said earlier is Non Fungible Token. In case of the tiffin center if you remember, the tiffin center owner created token (NFT) for his product Poha (Digital Art) and sold that token (NFT) to the buyer (you) since you liked his Poha (Digital Art). You can eat the Poha (keep the Digital Art with you) or resell the token to someone at higher price to some other buyer.

So, in the NFT world, there would be creators and collectors.

Example- You have made a painting and created an NFT and put a price of 100 $, now your friend buys it from you at 100 $ and sells to another friend at 120 $, he earns 20 $.

This way your work reaches out to many people as they are not only intersted to buy but also resell.

How to create an NFT?

There are multiple international platforms like 

Foundation

OpenSea

and Indian platforms like 

Wazir X NFT

where you can create an account and pay a gas fee to upload your work to sell.

do note that the gas fee has to be paid in crypto currency

Do check out Indian NFT Exchange platform

MetaVerse in the Next Blog...27th November 2021.

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When I slept in a bin...

There was a time when I worked in UCO Denim Pvt. Ltd. (Raymond) during my college days to earn extra money. I attended college during the day and worked 7.5 hours (11 PM to 6.30 PM) on the shop floor at night in Raymond company. 

This shattered my emotional balance into pieces. 

I used to take 2 hours of sleep before attending college, 

1 or 2 hours sleep in the college library 

and then 1 hour after dinner and before going to the night shift.

Somebody passed this information to my professor, who phoned the department in Raymond to confirm. It was fun watching his reaction when the other person mentioned my Id no. from the register.

During these days, there was an instance when I felt really tired at work. I was in the warping section and then moved to dyeing section as there was no work left. Unable to bear the chemical stink, I went out and slept in a wooden box. As there was no work I didn't care much. I was bitten by hundreds of mosquitoes in the bin but I didn't realize it. Neither I got sick after that.

The Library

It is a trend in Maharashtra to enroll in tuition for every petty stuff. In engineering, most of my classmates were busy in attending tuition classes. They used to ask me if I have joined any special classes and do not want to reveal to get an edge. 

The textbooks were simple enough to be read and understood. So, I never bothered about the lectures or the semesters. As I used to be tired after the night shift, the library was a bedroom for me. 2 hours nap was easy to manage

My attendance slumped just like the 2008 stock market recession. Nevertheless, it didn't matter much as HOD from Mechanical Department was very supportive except for the fact of my attendance records.

In the library, after some good sleep, I used to explore the journals, research papers and read them. 

At the top of each research paper, there is an email id mentioned by the scholar. I used to mail them and ask queries if I get any. In one such instance, I read a paper on intelligence-driven cars for the future. The Canadian Ph.D. professor instantly clarified my query over the mail. That boosted my confidence to be not one from the crowd.

Inspired by this I showed interest in competitions held by NABARD, Mahindra Rise, NCAT, etc.,

While I was awarded the Best Student Award and won many competitions, I didn't show much interest in scoring marks in semesters. I lost interest in the rat race after 2nd year of engineering. Till then I used to be the topper right since the 10th standard.

All this stuff thrilled me a lot. Though I used to bunk classes, I attended a few like Maths, Thermodynamics, Machine Design coz they were my favorites.

The Businessman who helped me financially throughout my engineering is the only reason for this turning point in my life. He is so a humble person and I thank him from the bottom of my heart. The only return he asked is to educate two unprivileged children in my life ahead. And I will make sure that happens.

He and his family visited the dorm rooms at Columbia University, Newyork so that I could move there for my higher studies.

I am proud to say that all my seminars, projects during Mechanical Engineering are not copied from the Internet and are my own.

I was given a helping hand by the college authorities for filing a patent for the World's first shape-changing car design (the second was from Germany) and sent a draft to IPO Mumbai under the name- 'Drowsiness Alertness Mechanism Based on Variable Aerodynamics of the Vehicle'

I never ran behind certifications coz virtue is its own reward. Always I believe in listening to suggestions from people. But when there is no hole in the road and few are stopping you, you just don't need to react, just pass it.

Why am I saying all this?

It is most easy to do a simple task in a difficult way and call it hard work.

Elon Musk said something like this...

There are lots of problems in life. If you solve the one you will face another. Rather than keeping on solving problems one after another why not aspire big and dream bigger.

On being asked why he doesn't take leave he said,

Running a company is like raising a child. How can I stop feeding it?

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Be Creative. You are not just life. You are a living story.

English Fever- A Fun Content

I would like to introduce to the Myths and Reality of the way people speak the English language in India.

Myths-

• Every person who speaks fluent English is either intelligent or well educated.
• English is difficult because each word has a different pronunciation that is hard to remember.
• Tenses are hard to memorize.
• You can impress native English speakers by imitating their accents.
• You can learn English by reading books

Reality-

• English is a language and not a skill.
• English words have spoken beauty and written beauty. This is the reason words are written and spoken differently.
• Many beginners try to translate in the mind from their native language to English. In this phase, they find it difficult to speak let alone expressing their views.

I would like you to read the following topics to understand it in a simpler way-

1. No English No Disaster 
2. Over obsessed English speakers
3. How to exactly learn the English language
4. Is accent important?
5. How to avoid shortcuts in social media chats
6. Not to Fear the world if your English is poor

No English No Disaster

It is imperative that most of the Educational content, conventional or digital are in the English language. However having the equivalent level of command on the native language is equally fruitful.

People in countries like,

• Japan
• China
• France
• Russia

use their native language in almost every stuff so much so, that a requirement of interpreter has become a must have at international platforms. Nonetheless this has not stopped them in any sector.

Therefore the takeaway is , English is not must when you are able to express in your language confidently.

In Russia, Engineering is taught in Russian. 

France has given birth to many renowned mathematicians and physicists. 

Japan is a world leader in quality electronic goods and motor vehicles.

China has evolved as a global manufacturing hub.

India has contributed a lot in science and technology in the ancient times because it was written in our then native language Sanskrit. India has felt the need for provision of technical education in regional languages and taken a good step towards achieving it. 

To know more, Click the link below

Engineering in Regional Indian languages

Therefore, it is better to express in native language with confidence and clarity.

Mind that when you speak in a language you are not comfortable with, it lowers your confidence because your whole focus would be on speaking correctly rather than the actual content.

Over obsessed English speakers

Slowly but gradually, English literally has eaten some of the words in our native languages. 

1. People tend to use more English words most often while speaking just to show that they know it. 
2. There are people who speak the same sentence in the conversation twice, once in native language, followed by the same in English. This is like fu**ing your language upside down.
3. There are few other people who say 'bahar ka khana, unhygenic' in India and pose for an instagram pic on London street with a caption such as 'Amazing street food, Exploring wonders'. You may wonder what street food has to do with English. These are the same people who answer in English while question is asked in Hindi.

It is understandable how difficult is it to speak in native language without using necessary English words but we have to preserve the essence of the regional languages for generations to come.

How to exactly learn the English language

In schools, the typical approach of teaching spoken English is 

words -> grammar/tenses -> paragraph reading

This approach doesn't really help because no one ever remembers the tenses properly and grammatical terminology throughout their life. It is sad to learn that English at many places is taught as a maths formula. You remember the past participle, third person singular, add good prepositions and here you go speak out the sentence.

How to really learn English language?

Babies learn language just by listening it. 

When the baby listens his mom saying everyday 'I am going to boil the milk' he doesn't understand it but he realizes that after saying these words, mom is placing vessel on fire and adding some liquid. This is how English is learnt. Now the baby grows and says the same sentence even before going to school. At school he comes to know why mom uses only those words to say that. The problem is we are doing it vice-versa. 

The hack is just watching movies, youtube videos in English language without subtitles from the beginning itself.

I learnt the same way accidentally though when Discovery TV Channel used to be available at the local cable network in only English language.

Personally I think that Grammar has come later and the language has originated first in English.

The reason can be noticed from below:

1. This is a umbrella.
2. This is an umbrella.

Leave aside grammar for a moment. 

First sentence is incorrect because you find a speed breaker while speaking it. You can speak smoothly the second sentence. Infact I have experimented with this and it works almost every time. This might be the reason why there are so many grammar rules that have no origin or logic.

I have cut the lemon in half and put it on the table

You find it difficult to write the first sentence because pat is reserved for a different word. The second sentence is difficult to speak in a flow. 

I have cut the lemon in half and pat it on the table

I have coot the lemon in half and put it on the table

This is a reason why English has a spoken beauty and a written beauty.

Some letters have no meaning in words but they are for the eye delight such as below

I recommend you to use Grammarly Chrome extension while writing. 

Grammarly- The grammar checker

Is accent important?

Accent is like a street vendor making samosa. It develops on it's own. Accent is not important while speaking. 

Every American guy can understand Indian English Accent. Therefore we should be able to understand what they speak in american accent because they can't change easily to Indian accent as they speak it everyday.

At this point, accent is important not for speaking but listening.

How to avoid shortcuts in social media chats

Wishing a happy birthday on phone call is much appreciated rather than receving a 3 letter text message HBD. 

In my college friends' group, there was this person whom we called by his nickname. Literally none of us knew his original name. You got it right.

Feelings should be less expressed in abbreviations.

Life is not so fast enough that you fear of missing out and use word FOMO often.

Not to Fear the world if your English is poor

If you do not know speaking in a particular language that means you are good in some other language.

Do remember you can learn English easily when you think it as a language and not a skill.

Thank you for giving your time.

I appreciate your comments and suggestions.

Signing Off.

Yours Sincerely,

Kieron Elkunchwar

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