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Manual QA to Automation
A career roadmap for manual testers: learn automation from scratch, build a portfolio that gets interviews, and stay valuable as teams shrink and AI writes testsBy Imad Muratspahic
Length2h 54m
About this audiobook
Your team used to have five testers. Now there are two. The job listings all want automation, the developers treat manual testing like busywork, and every other post in your feed warns that artificial intelligence is about to write the tests you run by hand. You are good at finding bugs, but you have never written a line of real code, and the path from where you are to where the jobs are looks like a wall. Manual QA to Automation is the concrete, honest roadmap out of that corner. It is not a flaky-test troubleshooting manual for people who already automate, and it is not a motivational pep talk. It is a staged plan for a manual tester with a non-technical background to build genuine automation skills and reposition a career, step by step. Inside, you'll learn: You already have the hardest-to-teach skill in testing: judgment about what can break. This book adds the engineering skills that make that judgment pay, so you stop bracing for the next round of cuts and start building a career that lasts.
Audiobook details
GenreBusiness and Economics, Self-Help
Length2 hrs 54 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 5, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Important Notice
2The Ground Is Moving Under Manual QA
3Chapter 1: Is Manual QA Actually Dead?
4Chapter 2: What Automation Roles Really Are
5Chapter 3: Mapping Your Skills Gap
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6Chapter 4: Learn Just Enough Code
7Chapter 5: Your First Automated Test
8Chapter 6: Automating API and Integration Tests
9Chapter 7: Version Control, Pipelines, and CI
10Chapter 8: Working With AI Instead of Against It
11Chapter 9: Build a Portfolio That Proves It
12Chapter 10: Earn Automation Work Where You Are
13Chapter 11: Land the Automation Job
14Chapter 12: Stay Valuable Without Burning Out
15The Tester Teams Keep
16Quick Reference: 90-Day Plan, Projects, and FAQ
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