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What skills are required for software automation testing

Automation testing enhances the depth and scope of tests, improving software quality and application components' test coverage. Let's go through the automation testing abilities needed to be an effective and successful automation tester in the software testing profession in the pdf.

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What skills are required for software automation testing

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  1. What skills are required for software automation testing? Test automation is one of the important types of software testing. It is known for its efficiency, accuracy and speed of execution. Though there should be a basic setup and cost required for carrying out software automation testing activities, but, eventually these testing- related activities will prove to be highly beneficial for businesses. An automation testing engineer/test automation engineer should have certain specific skills to carry out the test automation activities rewardingly and productively: The following are the skills required by a test automation engineer to carry out test automation efficiently:

  2. 1. Analytical thinking skills: The concepts and applications pertaining to automation should be understood by an engineer from a logical perspective. Once the business requirement document is provided by the business team, then after every aspect of the feature should be focused and worked upon by the automation team and that too from an automation standpoint. 2. Knowing automated testing tools from a technical viewpoint: As automated testers will be using automated tools, they should equip themselves with the right knowledge and skills to use the tool optimally. There are many popular automation tools available in the market and hence the team must make insightful decisions regarding selecting those tool or tools that will be best suited for their project scope and requirements. 3. Familiarity with programming languages: A skilled test automation engineer should be familiar with a few programming languages and should know how it works from an implementation standpoint. Software automation testing tools use programming languages such as VB Script, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, .NET etc. Hence, it becomes obvious that the automation tester should have a stronghold in the above-mentioned programming languages. It will be much better if a tester is flexible enough to learn and get trained for a particular language as per the requirements. 4. Must be able to create test scripts: Automated test scripts can be written by testers only when they have sufficient knowledge of programming languages. The test scripts are written in plain English for some tools and hence do not require an understanding of coding and backend logic. Most organizations are leveraging the Cucumber framework because plain English language is used to design test scripts. Selenium WebDriver is more than enough for creating test scripts. But, if organizations are using automated tools like QTP (Quick Test Professional) or UFT (Unified Functional Tester) then testers must have good knowledge of programming languages.

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