# Hello from Newbury, UK :)
**URL:** https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/hello-from-newbury-uk/55423
**Category:** Archive
**Created:** [10 December 2021 12:31 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/hello-from-newbury-uk/55423 "2021-12-10T12:31:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@lutuvarka](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/lutuvarka)
#### Post date: [10 December 2021 12:31 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/hello-from-newbury-uk/55423/1 "2021-12-10T12:31:02Z")
Hi everyone!
Looks like a cool site!
I actually started with a degree in finance but then I got sacked during the 2008 crunch and it was hard for me to find a job.
I then asked myself “where is the money?” and picked up a programming book. Was a C++ dev for a while but kept criticising problems with our product. We didn’t have any QA other than devs a little unit-testing and manual testing every now and then… I was asked by my manager to start the QA team and have been in QA/QM/SDET roles since then (let’s call it 10 years).
I joined here to stay on top of the new things and chat with like-minded people.
Cheers 🙂
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### Author:  [@heather\_reid](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/heather_reid)
#### Post date: [10 December 2021 12:36 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/hello-from-newbury-uk/55423/2 "2021-12-10T12:36:48Z")
Welcome 👋
> [@lutuvarka](#):
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> Was a dev for a while but kept criticising problems with our product.
Sounds exactly like how I got into software testing 😁
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### Author:  [@pmichielsen](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/pmichielsen)
#### Post date: [10 December 2021 13:22 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/hello-from-newbury-uk/55423/3 "2021-12-10T13:22:54Z")
> [@lutuvarka](#):
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> I joined here to stay on top of the new things and chat with like-minded people.
Hello, and welcome!
If you ever want to extend the chat, I can highly recommend you join the [MoT Slack](https://www.ministryoftesting.com/slack_invite)
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### Author:  [@melissafisher](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/melissafisher)
#### Post date: [10 December 2021 13:22 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/hello-from-newbury-uk/55423/4 "2021-12-10T13:22:58Z")
Hi and welcome to you!
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### Author:  [@kristof](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/kristof)
#### Post date: [10 December 2021 13:31 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/hello-from-newbury-uk/55423/5 "2021-12-10T13:31:11Z")
> [@lutuvarka](#):
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> Looks like a cool site!
Sure is!
Welcome @lutuvarka to Ministry of Testing!
> [@lutuvarka](#):
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> I was asked by my manager to start the QA team and have been in QA/QM/SDET roles since then (let’s call it 10 years).
What kind of QA are you into? Since you picked up a dev book, are you automating? 😛
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### Author:  [@lutuvarka](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/lutuvarka)
#### Post date: [10 December 2021 13:39 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/hello-from-newbury-uk/55423/6 "2021-12-10T13:39:25Z")
I like understanding the product, which does involve manual testing and also I manually test when I RnD the automation solutions.
But I learned very quickly I am a bad manual tester.
First few times is fine but after a while, I either get bored and distracted while I am supposed to be clicking around or I auto-pilot it and miss bugs.
Huge appreciation to people who can do it. Not me.
Oddly enough, I rarely automate Selenium stuff. My roles were always some products that offered a proprietary interface. Most of my career I was with a company that develops IDE’s - so that was using SWT bot to interface with the java application.
Then lots of TCP sockets for testing the services offered by a registry.
Then API-level automation. But funnily enough it’s rarely HTTP API but again some proprietary web protocol 🙂
But I am fine with Selenium. Actually Selenium is amazing and I use it for automating life chores in general 😃
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### Author:  [@mranderson](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/mranderson)
#### Post date: [11 December 2021 13:16 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/hello-from-newbury-uk/55423/7 "2021-12-11T13:16:53Z")
Hi, Welcome onboard 🙂
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### Author:  [@rezaarief](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/rezaarief)
#### Post date: [6 January 2022 10:39 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/hello-from-newbury-uk/55423/8 "2022-01-06T10:39:56Z")
Hi, nice to meet you!