Discussion: "The role of the tester: automator vs manual"

Is this separation appropriate for you?

Which skills are more important to the automator: testing or programming?

Is it possible to be a Senior (at least for a salary) without the ability to program?

Moderator of the discussion: Oleksii Burdin

Participants:

Sergey Pirogov

EPAM Systems

Solution Architect at EPAM Systems
Test automation expert, blogger, podcaster
Аims to advance automation practices via popularization of knowledge at related technologies
Contributes to the community as an active speaker and program committee member
Founder of automation-remarks.com, QAGuild Podcast, and QAGuild community
Winner of Ukraine IT Award 2018 “Quality Assurance”
Linkedin

Mykola Solopii

Alteryx

SDET
5+ years of experience in testing web-based and mobile software applications
2+ years of teaching on offline, online courses and conferences "Testing Theory", "JS Test Automation", and "JS for QA"
Solid experience in creating test projects from scratch at all test levels using almost all popular js/ts frameworks for test automation
Linkedin, Github, Facebook

Oleksii Burdin

Svitla Systems

Has been working for more than 10+ years in the field of testing in the following positions: SM / Lead / Senior QA
Organizes Kyiv Testers Meetup
In his spare time, he likes to write self-tests in Python

Ellina Azadova

DataArt

QA Lead
13 years in IT, 8 in testing, 4 years as a testing lead
10 years of teaching experience and speeches at conferences
Specializes in developing test strategies, team management and the development of QA specialists
Co-author of courses for testers
Facebook

Daria Alimova

Thomas Cook/Skelia

Delivery Manager at Thomas Cook/Skelia
She have been working in IT for 11 years, worked for a long time as a QA manager in setups for 12-15 teams, last year - PM&DM in small setups for 4-5