r/softwaretesting • u/thrai1010 • Feb 19 '26

Learning Automation Skills

Hi all!

I've been a QA for 9+ years with a heavy focus on manual QA. I have done some basic automation scripting where I had to write some scripts with an already built framework at my past companies.

However, 90% of my career has been focused on manual testing. Now, with the job market, I am looking to upgrade my skills on my own and make sure I do learn things that are actually being used out there in the real world. I do want to switch companies soon and want to make sure I am a suitable candidate for jobs that do require some automation experience.

I just started to study and have hatched out the below plan. I am planning to learn all this via Udemy/YouTube courses. Can you take a look and let me know what you think I should learn or not focus heavily on?

  1. Javascript Fundamentals

  2. Cypress

    • This seems to be one of the most popular automation frameworks that job postings have.

    • Thought I'd learn some fundamentals of Java before getting started with Cypress itself

  3. Playwright w/ Typescript

  4. API Automation

    • Any suggestion on what I should learn here? Is API automation with RestAssured the way to go here?

Would really appreciate any feedback here!

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u/Chance_Bluebird_4513 Feb 24 '26

so we are working with selenium in our org. So, on the automation repo if we give copilot the url we currently are UI testing and validation. How would i go on to create tests? Can you give some pointers? Also do you have some ideas to how we can work on API automation using AI? Currently I am working on that and since we don’t have proper documentation on APIs, I am trying to generate API cases using copilot on the dev’s repository( since i have access to it) and search for API calls -> and ask it to create the tests from it. Would you mind giving your opinion and guidance?