Test Automation Engineer, no record-playback?

Question

I want to become a test automation engineer in the future. The thing that is concerning me is this: I have always thought that test automation is using record-playback to test different application. But when I look at job-posts, nearly all of them require programming skills. Why is this? An example of a job-post (one of many, many, many who are the same). > **Test Automation Engineer:** > Responsible for authoring automated test suites. > > Test Automation using C# and Selenium Webdriver (Not Selenium IDE) / Sikuli > Service layer testing using C# and one of NUnit, xUnit, etc. Familiarity with Moq a plus. > Backend SOAP XML using SOAP UI > Please Note: The QA Automation Engineer will author C# code (automation is not record and playback). This is very scary to me. I am a manual tester wanting to become an automation engineer. Any tips?

Answer 1

Hi ,

Test automation is not recording the script using record functionality of tool.

In actual work , you have to write test script using programming language without recording.

To work on selenium automation , you must have following skills -

1- Basic of java / C# ( which programming language you are using)

2- Selenium basic and advance.

3- TestNg / Junit.

4- Maven

5- jenkins