Hi everybody, my name is Eva and I am located in Czechia. I am a QA tester for almost two years.
My short-term goal for this month is to read thru at least 8 interesting articles on QA processes and strategy and transform them into valuable notes and maybe pitch some suggestions to my project lead. 
The long-term goal for the second half of the year in my work sphere is expand my repertoire of testing frameworks and tools beyond Cypress. I have Playwright and Postman in my mind. 
Hello everyone!
My goal is to find a job in another country with relocation. Honestly, this country should be Portugal, but sometimes I think it is not the final variant.
Steps that should I do:
With now 4 years of part-time working experience, I want to step up in my role as the sole tester at my workplace. I really like my job and what I do, but very much consider myself to be a āvery junior testerā with knowledge gaps but also battling imposter syndrome (plus an actual medical syndrome, thus the part-time work).
So I want to grow as a software tester, solidifying the basics and looking into the deeper thoughts, knowledge, and processes in this field of work. To do this, I have recently started collecting and reading books and articles, and signed up to different newsletters for a broader input source of knowledge and thoughts from the community. I write down all my collected knowledge, thoughts, and ideas in Obsidian, linking everything together to create my own ādigital brainā. By the end of this year, I want my own process of collecting to feel natural and be my assurance of my knowledge in this field.
The bigger goal for me is that I want the value I bring to merit an āactualā software tester salary, not my current ātest helperā level salary. (To clarify, Iām happy and grateful for my current salary. It has been fair so far based on my situation. The goal is just to take it to the ānext levelā.) I have aligned this goal with my manager, and we are in agreement that this will happen if I can back this up with the knowledge needed and make some kind of impact on our different projects. We will sit down and review in more detail on my progress late this fall.
And finally, starting to take part in the community. Here I have no big goal in mind, just start somewhere and find the most comfortable way forward. And here I am at the Ministry of Testing, not only reading great content but will do my best to take part in the Junior Software Tester Curriculum events and 30 Days of Testing 
Hello everyone , my name is Orestis I am from greece I m trying to change a career path and follow my bachelorās degree at an information technology career !!! I find it redlly difficult as my age is 36 and I m not experienced at coding at all. I ve watched some vids but I really feel like itās really difficult I donāt no where to start !!! Thanks everyone I hope this site helps me clear my head and start learning
Hello at everyone. My name is Georgios. I am from Athens, Greece.
This is a very interesting opportunity to deal with testing area. My current background is web development and my goal is to dive into QA testing maual and also automatic. My experience is this field comed from a related course i have already attended in the last few months.
Hi, my name is Dylan and Iām the Manager of Test Engineering at Progyny in NYC.
Iāve been a tester for 8 years in various industries including finance, sports, and healthcare. I recently moved into a managerial role in 2022.
My short term goal is implement an automated testing framework for my team, specifically for Salesforce testing which has proven to a big challenge.
My long term goal is to one day be the CTO of a company.
Glad to have joined this community last year as it has exposed to various methodologies and technologies that I would not have learned otherwise.
Cheers!
As the first Staff Quality Engineer in my company, my career goal is to become an advocate for the role as it is still new in the industry. To help build a competency guide and learning path for other Quality Engineers that might want to progress into that role.
It would be great if you can explain what is Staff QA 
Best of luck with getting your internship @nuevo23 and awesome work on finding MoT and actively taking part in 
30 Days of Career Growth! 
Itās going to be a good one with access to pro content, webinars and more! I hope youāll find it useful to reach your goals
These are really insightful and deep reflections. Thanks for being brave and sharing! We have some content on Modern Testing Principles and what it means to be a modern tester. I hope your journey throughout 30 Days of Career Growth will help you on your way to achieving your goals 
Hello folks 
One year ago, I discovered the DevRel and the Developer Advocates jobs. Since then, becoming a QA Advocate has been my dreaming job 
First topic - Public speaking 
Step 0 (done): Start to speak at conferences.
Step 1 (done): Create a web page with my previous talks.
Step 2 (WIP): My goal is to speak in national conference or meetup at least 4 times this year ā so far once.
Step 3: Next year, do at least on public international talk.
Step 4: In 2 years, create and share a catalog of talks I can do.
Second topic - Communities āmanagementā 
Step 0 (done): Organize conference(s) ā ParisTestConf and Agile Tour Bordeaux 
Step 1: Do more communication on these conferences.
Step 2: In few years, organize internationale conference OR create a new one.
Third topic - Building tools or practices 
Step 0: Define the steps 
Last topic - Get in touch with QA Advocate 
I want to discuss with āQA Advocateā in order to confirm my decision, to share good and bad practices with them, etc. 
Have a good day and see you for tomorrowās challenge 
Staff is the expertise career path. E.G. What is a Staff (or Staff-Plus or Principal) Engineer? | Mike McQuaid
Hello !
Iām Adea based in Accra, Ghana.
My Career Goals:
Thank you, I appreciate very much all these insights!
This looks exciting. I like that you have steps under each goal. 
Hello, I have over 10 years of experience in manual testing. I also have some experience with automated testing using Java. Currently, my goal is to learn Python and become a sought-after specialist in automated testing
Hi everyone, this is Tihraqua from Sudan, Iāve been working as a QA engineer for more than three years, and currently as an Application QA & Testing specialist in an international telecom company, regarding my short-term career goal, Iām seeking to advance my knowledge in the automation area and to add to the community by contributing to the open source automation frameworks, also to go further step in the managerial area by developing my soft managerial skills, on the other hand, my long term career goal is to lead an international āLeadingā outsource testing company.
Hi everyone, Iām Richard and Iām a Lead QAE
Iām fortunate that Iām in a role where I get to lead QA engineers and help shape and mold them into modern quality engineers. My career goal is to continue to help others on their learning journey, as well as educating the wider development teams on the need for a shift in the way they think about testing.
Itās an exciting time to be in the software quality space and I plan on growing as it grows.
Step 1: Start and grow a quality community within my organisation
Step 2: Talk at and attend conferences across Europe, not just testing ones
Step 3: Help define and grow a new career path for quality engineers
Greetings Everyone,
My name is Peggy. Iām based in Silicon Valley (SJ). Iāve worked mainly as a manual QA tester for 8+ years. At my last job, I was gaining experience, running and troubleshooting automation, and starting to write some scripts using WebdriverIO. Unfortunately, my company did a round of layoffs in March and my job was one that was affected.
My short-term goal is to find a job. Ideally making close to what I was making when I was laid off. Iām a single mom with a mortgage to pay and living in SJ is very expensive, unfortunately. Iāve been networking and applying. I have been getting interviews so that is a good sign. I also started going through the Grow with Google certificate for Cybersecurity. Part of the technical track for that is diving deeper into SQL and Python. I thought this would be a good addition to my toolbox. I am an introvert by nature, so another long-term goal is to do more networking. I would also like to start mentoring. I have been lucky in my career and had folks that gave me good advice, etc., and would like to pay it forward. If I had a dream job/company it would be working at a company related to music, health or fitness, as those are my passions.
Hello there:)
I have been in the QA field for over 9 years and at the moment I am a QA Lead in a self-managed team. My goal is to improve my English and find a way to share more with the community and also support others on this journey. I believe that testing is more about a unique mindset, curiosity and creativity and I am willing to be an advocate of this way.