10 Years in QA: The Journey I Never Expected to Have

This year I am celebrating 10 years since I started working as a QA. Ten years… It sounds like a lot when I say it out loud. But in my head, I can still clearly remember my first days on the job. Sitting in front of the screen, learning the functionalities of my first project, trying to think about some scenarios that I can try, opening a ticket… Back then, everything was new for me, and it was kind of confusing, scary, interesting, and exciting at the same time. Now, when I think of it, I have only positive and interesting memories. Where It All Started Back then, when I started in 2016, my job was simple. I would open a ticket from the board, read the description, and try to follow it as closely as possible. If something didn’t work, I would report a bug. When the developer fixed it, I would test it again. That cycle repeated every day. I had a couple of tickets ready for testing every day. I would go through that list, test them manually till the working day ends, and that was mostl