TestGuild Automation Podcast

Do you want to find your dream job and become a successful tester? In this episode, Raj Subrameyer, author of the new book Skyrocket Your Career shares his advice on career advancement for testers. Discover the skills you need to achieve your goals in the new year and set yourself miles apart from your competition.

As we head into the holiday season, the topic of front-end performance testing will become even more critical. In this episode, you'll learn ways to start optimizing your application front end to give your users a quicker experience. Discover tools and techniques to get your team involved in your front-end testing efforts earlier in your SDLC.

Have you tried Selenium 4 yet? In this episode, the creator of Selenium WebDriver, Simon Stewart, talks all about what new features you need to know about in the latest Selenium release. Discover what WebDriver BiDi is, what's changes to expect in Selenium 4, and why Selenium 4 will be the point where Simon steps away from the project :(

What is the true meaning of quality? In this episode, Ronald Cummings-John, author of Leading Quality: How Great Leaders Deliver High-Quality Software and Accelerate Growth, will share how to influence and align your company's definition of quality so that you can deliver the best possible experience to your clients. Discover the techniques successful leaders use to make their strategic decisions. You'll also learn which tools will ensure that your team is in alignment for achieving common goals.

The education of our future generation of testers is critical! In this episode, Simon Prior will share some ways to coach up your teams to become testing leaders in your organization. Discover the skills you need to grow, and how hiring with Neurodiversity in mind can help in numerous ways. Don't miss it!

Most testers I know complain about using BDD. In this episode, Kamil Nicieja, author of Writing Great Specifications Using Specification by Example and Gherkin, will talk about using BDD correctly. Discover how to capture executable software designs in Gherkin following the SBE method. Listen in to learn to choose the best scenarios, write them in a way that anyone can understand, and ensure anyone can easily update them.

If you're a tester, you might be wondering why you should care about security testing. In this episode, I'll discuss why having security testing skills is more important than you might think. Discover some security topics that can help advance your career, and get a preview of some of the actionable sessions and speakers on the docket of this year's SecureGuild online conference.

Tests break. When they do, you need to find the root cause quickly. In this episode, Bnaya Peretz, a developer at Testim, will discuss an open-source tool to help troubleshoot Puppeteer and Playwright tests. Discover how to save time troubleshooting failed tests, speed up your release cycles, and increase your ROI.

Not many things are more annoying to an automation engineer than a UI with dynamic elements that change their locators with every test script run. In this episode, Eldar Kravetsky, co-founder, and CTO of TestProject, will share how their AI-enabled test recorder can help with dynamic elements and more. Discover how the AI-Powered, Self-Healing capabilities in TestProject's Smart Recorder can automatically handle test maintenance and debugging, and keep your tests running smoothly.

I love real-world automation success stories. In this episode, Dave Martin will share how he created a Robot Framework from scratch that regularly runs about 50,000 tests and has a dozen contributors. Discover features and best practices for implementing Robot Framework in your organization. Listen up!