Pros
-Casual dress code and mostly friendly coworkers/manager. -Manager was willing to listen if I had any concerns or problems. -Manager was open to teaching me what they've learned. -Learned automation to some degree
Cons
- With my particular position there, I felt like there was very poor management and direction. They hired me, knowing I had very little automation experience at the time and needed more guidance. What they should of done is hire someone more skilled for a higher salary, but this company seemed to be not too keen on paying their employees competitively, so they got what they payed for. What I was expecting was some structure and a manager that was good at giving direction but with this position it was minimal, to no structure compared to the established development and manual QA teams. - The whole time, it was only myself and the QA manager that made the automation team and it was isolating. The manager was always swamped with meetings and constantly busy with the manual QA team. Priorities would change constantly on what to test and automate, and there was very little organization when it came to creating tasks for automation tests. - Manual QA team seemed to be high strung since they were only given about a week to test too many features that were implemented each month. -Business is disconnected with development and QA. - Also found out that this position took months to fill, so I assumed they couldn't find anybody that was willing to work for the wages they presented.
