Tell us about your experience. How did you come into testing, why testing specifically, how did you start? How did you get into automation?

I started in testing because I was always interested in software quality and wanted to understand how to make a product more reliable and user-friendly. I began with manual testing: studying requirements, writing test cases, checking functionality, and logging bugs. Over time, I became interested in automation, as manual testing started to take too much time with frequent releases.

The transition to automation happened through learning programming languages (most often Python, Java, or JavaScript) and automation tools (Selenium, TestNG, JUnit). I started with simple scripts to automate repetitive tests, gradually complicating scenarios and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines. This allowed me to increase testing speed and quality, as well as reduce human error.