Mission /*Un*/Achievable: A Humanist Interviews an Automation Engineer
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A guide for non-technical interviewers on hiring automation engineers: how to assess a candidate’s seniority, technical skill level, and team-organization abilities when you lack deep technical experience. The talk presents practical analysis techniques and interview approaches to evaluate automation specialists without requiring the interviewer to be highly technical.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 7:02Humanist vs engineer
- 11:37Interview anti-patterns
- 22:16Assessing technical skills
- 22:59Stable test elements
- 28:21Test execution environment
- 31:11Automation pyramid
- 35:59Documentation and info search
- 39:43Local vs server tests
- 41:30Ideal automation candidate
- 42:11Q&A
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