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shicky

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    Comment #25928568

    what's his youtube?

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    Comment #25387302

    With bullshit jobs, could you expand on finding meaningful work? It's something that has eaten me up the last while (non meaningful work and being unsure what direction to head to …

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    Comment #22968836

    Any advice on finding a working logical argument? I find myself stuck in unhelpful loops sometimes i.e. Do I enjoy my job? Do I have a sense of purpose in my job? I realise the ans…

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    Comment #16502046

    I'm potentially interested in moving to Malta with my wife, possible to email you about the realities? My email is in my profile

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    Comment #16346263

    not Dublin myself, further up North but I'll get in touch, thank you for the kind offer!

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    Comment #16346259

    Improve testability throughout applications by working with their team, setup and maintain test frameworks (hopefully improving them over time), determine what tests should be auto…

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    Comment #16346243

    I think you're jumping to an awful lot of conclusions there? The reason I'm targeting automation is that it tends to be done really badly in most companies. At the moment I feel I …

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    Comment #16346237

    I did indeed mean test automation, apologies, I should have been more clear.

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    Ask HN: How do I become a world class automation engineer?

    as titled really, or maybe a better question would be, are there examples of world class automation engineers and if so, who are they?

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    Ask HN: What goals do you have in work or how do you find meaning in work?

    Hi all, this has entered my head recently and has proved very hard to shake. I'm 28 and work a decent job in Ireland, given my expenses, although I don't have a house I reckon I co…

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    Comment #9928858

    Great to see a HN post on testing, they seem few and far between to me!

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    Comment #9928846

    can I ask why you decided to do this? The tests were just flakey while in robot framework world?

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    Comment #9311300

    thanks for asking this question, enjoying reading through the responses and may even get in touch with you OP as you sound similar to me.

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    Comment #9297976

    is the course any good? I've considered it but yet to pull the trigger

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    Comment #8767713

    thanks for this! You mentioned Selenium, automated tester?

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    Comment #8119000

    wow, thank you for your incredibly detailed reply. I'll ensure I refer back to it again and again. Often I have the problem I'm in the midst of right now, I focus on specifics rath…

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    Comment #8113851

    1) Software, more specifically web applications. 2) Automated browser/ui tests, hopefully I'll get to move more toward the api/service/functional level as well. First stop will be …

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    Becoming a fantastic Software Engineer in Test and Automation

    Hello Hacker News, I've moved to the testing work recently enough from Dev/Support and have had a troublesome time attempting to find resources which will make me a better tester a…

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    Comment #7954586

    Does anything like this exist for testing?

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    Comment #7817064

    1. Software testing. I really struggle to find good information at improving in this field

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    Comment #6527427

    is this 'Winner' and 'Loser' ?

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    Comment #6515299

    is there similar conversion degrees for other courses or is it pretty much always non-IT to an IT masters?

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    Comment #6481649

    how do you become an automated testing deity? Any recommended resources?

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    Comment #6450443

    good advice for automation/development I imagine but for QA this surely doesn't apply as I won't be writing the code?

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    Ask HN: Training/skills to become a good QA engineer

    I've done a search on HN for similar questions before but it seems they get distracted by questions regarding if the op meant standard QA or test automation. So for background I'm …