This year I am celebrating 10 years since I started working as a QA.
Ten years… It sounds like a lot when I say it out loud. But in my head, I can still clearly remember my first days on the job. Sitting in front of the screen, learning the functionalities of my first project, trying to think about some scenarios that I can try, opening a ticket…
Back then, everything was new for me, and it was kind of confusing, scary, interesting, and exciting at the same time. Now, when I think of it, I have only positive and interesting memories.
Where It All Started
Back then, when I started in 2016, my job was simple.
I would open a ticket from the board, read the description, and try to follow it as closely as possible. If something didn’t work, I would report a bug. When the developer fixed it, I would test it again.
That cycle repeated every day. I had a couple of tickets ready for testing every day. I would go through that list, test them manually till the working day ends, and that was mostly it.
At that time, I thought: “This is QA. This is what testing looks like.”
Read the full post on my blog: https://qalogy.com/10-years-in-qa-the-journey-i-never-expected-to-have/