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Top 5 Skills You Need to Become an Automation Test Engineer in 2026

The QA industry is evolving rapidly, and companies are no longer satisfied with testers who only execute steps from a document. They want someone who understands systems, writes scalable test code, and contributes meaningfully to faster releases. That’s why becoming a strong automation testing engineer is one of the best career decisions you can make …

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From Manual Reports to Automated Dashboards- A QA Transformation

From Manual Reports to Automated Dashboards: A QA Transformation 

  As a QA engineer, I’ve spent countless hours compiling test results, screenshots, logs, and defect lists into endless spreadsheets and emails. In the early days of my career, generating a single manual test report often felt like a project of its own. You run the tests, take screenshots, note failures, add them to a document, summarize …

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Stage-by-Stage CI-CD Pipeline- Dev → QA → Preprod → Prod

Stage-by-Stage CI/CD Pipeline: Dev → QA → Preprod → Prod

  In my early days as a tester, I often found myself in the middle of chaos. Deployments were unpredictable, test results came late, and tracking whether a build was safe to release felt like a guessing game. There was no structured flow. One environment might pass, another fail, and by the time the release …

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Retry Logic in CI CD- The Secret to Handling Flaky Tests

Retry Logic in CI/CD: The Secret to Handling Flaky Tests

  If you’ve spent time working in QA automation, you know the frustration of flaky tests. Those intermittent failures that appear out of nowhere, often in CI/CD pipelines, can make you question the stability of your environment, your framework, and even your sanity. I’ve been there—watching a test fail five times in a row on a sunny Tuesday morning, only to pass perfectly when …

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Top 5 Automation Testing Tools you should master in 2025

Top 5 Automation Testing Tools you should master in 2025

In today’s competitive software industry, quality and speed are equally important. Businesses no longer have the luxury of choosing between faster delivery or better quality — customers demand both. This is where automation testing plays a vital role. By reducing human intervention in repetitive tasks, enabling continuous validation, and supporting DevOps pipelines, Selenium automation testing …

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Common Cybersecurity Pitfalls in Automation and Solutions

Common Cybersecurity Pitfalls in Automation and Solutions

  Top mistakes and actionable fixes for secure automation with self-questions to be asked to irrespective of roles illustrating the pitfalls and Solutions in Automation Executive Summary Automation has transformed how businesses develop, deploy, and operate systems — from CI/CD pipelines to RPA workflows, API-driven integrations, and autonomous infrastructure provisioning. However, the same automation that …

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Top 20 Automation Testing Frameworks In 2025 Features Pros & Best Use Case

Top 20 Automation Testing Frameworks in 2025: Features, Pros & Best Use Cases

  Before any software application is released to the public, it must undergo rigorous testing to ensure it is functional, reliable, secure, and user-friendly. Testing is a critical phase in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) because it identifies defects before they reach end users — saving both cost and reputation damage. While manual testing …

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Mastering Map in Java for Automation Testing

Mastering Map in Java for Automation Testing: The Secret Sauce for Smarter Test Scripts

  Introduction  As automation testers, we deal with vast amounts of structured data — form inputs, expected results, configurations, and more. While collections like List and Set are useful, have you ever found yourself struggling to map test data clearly, especially when working with labels and values or field names and inputs?  That’s where the …

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Why Most Automation Frameworks Fail – And How to Build One That Lasts? 

  Introduction: The House You Never Finished  Imagine building a house with no blueprint. You have bricks, nails, cement, and tools—but no plan. Walls go up, then get torn down. Rooms are repurposed mid-construction. Eventually, the structure stands, but it leans, creaks, and fails inspection.  This is the story of most automation frameworks.  Across 25 …

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From Federer to Sinner: Are You Still Automated Testing Like It’s 2020?

Introduction  Test automation has entered a new era—much like tennis itself.  Selenium WebDriver is the Roger Federer of this space: reliable, proven, and with a legacy spanning decades.   Today, a new champion has emerged: Playwright, representing the innovation, agility, and adaptability of Jannik Sinner, the recent Wimbledon champion.   This article provides a strategic, …

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