Frustrating QA Career
I started as QA for small websites as my first job. WordPress , Blogging websites, using Waterfall. Stayed there for 5 years coz got rejected with other applications
Joined a startup company testing again WordPress sites. AWOL after a month coz of bad manager attitude.
Been practicing selenium java automation from 2016-2019 but bombarded by manual qa tasks so self study always being stopped
Luckily hired by a good company. As a manual qa, this time I worked on scrum team and with good qa process
Deployed to a client as manual qa, but they already have stable automation selenium team so I stayed as manual
Transferred to another client. Again, as manual qa and it felt going back to zero. Bad micromanager, not following agile and no automation opportunities.
Got an opportunity to contribute to playwright automation this time for internal project in a company. Give me confidence coding, learning github and writing automation tests. But all UI no api yet.
Transferred again to another client. Opened up that I'm willing to be part playwright automation. But nothing, I still stayed as manual qa.
Now, been a year no Playwright coding. I'm tired. With all this AI stuff. Back to zero again. Lot to learn again.
I'm jealous of some QAs who started as manual and landed as fulltime automation job. And now they're good at it.
Been a frustrating QA career. I showed interest but just doesn't found the right fit.