Let me tell you something about myself — I’m that person who finds joy in crashing an app. Not in a malicious way, of course. But in the “Aha! Caught you!” kind of way that only someone who loves Quality Assurance can understand.

Most people see software as a finished product — a beautiful app, a polished website, a seamless checkout flow. I see them as puzzles waiting to be tested, stress-tested, and sometimes even pushed to their limits. My job as a Test Automation Engineer is to make sure the things you build don’t fall apart the moment real users start using them like real people — unpredictably, impatiently, and often in ways no one expected.

I use tools like Playwright, Selenium, and Postman, scripting in JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python to automate thousands of scenarios. But automation isn’t just about fancy code and passing tests — it’s about catching edge cases no one else thought about. What if the user has a spotty internet connection? What if they enter their name in emojis or paste a 3000-word essay into a feedback form?