Archive - automation hacks

How i got “that” job at Microsoft

What does the interview process look like at Microsoft India for a Senior engineer? What tips and approaches work well. In this blog, I’ll breakdown my…

Jul 9 •

June 2025

💰 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 •

#nojs-banner { position: fixed; bottom: 0; left: 0; padding: 16px 16px 16px 32px; width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; background: red; color: white; font-family: -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px; } #nojs-banner a { color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; } This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please turn on JavaScript or unblock scripts