Archive - automation hacks

💰 How to negotiate your tech job salary

Many candidates leave money on the table by either not negotiating or doing it in a suboptimal way; don’t be that person.

Jun 22 •

🚀 Ace your QA Tech interview

How does the tech interview for a QA or SDET leader look in 2025? What type of interviews are conducted, and what strategies could help you land your…

Jun 9 •

May 2025

🗃️ Unboxing Github Copilot Agent mode

We’ll use GitHub Copilot Agent mode to build a developer productivity feature for analysing failing test stack traces and grasp the nuances as we vibe…

May 5 •

February 2025

How to run LLMs locally ⤵️ with Ollama

Setup Ollama on docker, run Llama3.2 and deepseek-r1 models locally, chat with open web UI, and use CLI/API, all in 30 mins with the privacy of your…

Feb 25 •

Summary of deep dive into LLMs like ChatGPT from Andrej Karpathy ⚡️

We often fear the unknown, because we just don't know. Often the simplest thing we can do is to begin anywhere and learn!

Feb 21 •

January 2025

Copilot Edits: Edit multiple files and enhance your coding workflow ✨

Get into a true pair programming workflow where Copilot takes on the driver role and you help it navigate changes in your codebase

Jan 31 •

Enhance Your Coding with GitHub Copilot: AI-Powered Autocomplete, Inline Chat, and Quick Chat Commands 🥷

Learn how to harness its AI capabilities for smarter code autocompletion, contextually relevant suggestions via inline chat, and time-saving quick…

Jan 19 •

Prompt Engineering for Test Design: Supercharge Your AI Skills

Learn Prompt Engineering techniques to supercharge your GenAI skills and create effective test designs. This post provides a user-focused overview of…

Jan 2 •

December 2024

⚡️ SDET career roadmap: from entry level to staff engineer

In this post, I break down expectations at entry/mid, senior, and staff levels and then help you form an intuition about what you can learn and share an…

Dec 22, 2024 •

Upgrading ReportPortal with backup/restore of Postgres and binary data

In this blog, learn how to take Postgres db, binary data backup, make upgrades in docker-compose.yml file, and then restore the DB data and binary data…

Dec 9, 2024 •

November 2024

How to setup report portal dashboards using attributes for test observability

This blog will give a technical walkthrough on how to create rich and interactive report portal dashboards such that data can be grouped by different…

Nov 22, 2024 •

October 2024

🎤 Good communication makes great software engineers

How can software engineers be more confident communicators in their written, spoken and non verbal communication. This blog provides practical tips and…

Oct 29, 2024 •

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