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Job hunting in the time of Covid-19
My plan has been to spend the first three months of 2020 learning and improving myself, in preparation for my big job hunt beginning in April. Unfortunately, the world has gone upside down in the last few weeks. I realise this might delay my dreams a bit, but I am pretty confident that I, and everyone else, will be back on track soon ... For now, I will keep learning and applying for jobs. As part of that, I decided to take my private notes and put them in this public blog in order to boost my CV, but more importantly, to document my journey so that I hopefully look at it with a big smile in the near future.
ReadMy roadmap to success
I found this great blog post by coincidence: How I interview testers. It includes a list of topics that the writer of the blog, uses for interviewing testers. I decided to use this as a checklist of topics I need to learn in order to learn about software testing. Each week, I will pick a topic from it and learn about it, whether by Googling, finding blop posts, books, or the best possible way: asking my mentors at CodeYourFuture.
ReadWhy testing?
I got interested in testing after spending a day shadowing the team in Aggreko along other CodeYourFuture students back in November 2019. We had several talks on the day, including one from a Tester, who went through how they do testing in the company. I loved the presentation about test automation especially. When I asked one of my CodeYourFuture mentors about testing and its career prospects, he pointed me towards Cypress framework, as it uses JavaScript, and it's close to concepts I have used in jQuery (selectors) and assertions with Jest framework. I spent a day looking at tutorials online, and following a course on egghead.io.
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