# How to plan move from manual testing profile to automation testing and getting job

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**Tags:** learning, automation, mentoring, career-development\
**Created:** [5 December 2022 00:25 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/how-to-plan-move-from-manual-testing-profile-to-automation-testing-and-getting-job/63900 "2022-12-05T00:25:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![sebastian\_solidwork](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/sebastian_solidwork/32/11076_2.png) [@sebastian\_solidwork](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/sebastian_solidwork)\
**Post date:** [9 December 2022 08:45 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/how-to-plan-move-from-manual-testing-profile-to-automation-testing-and-getting-job/63900/3 "2022-12-09T08:45:23Z")

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Ill stay a tester and will do automation as well as “manual” aka exploration.  
Automation is just a tool to help your exploration.  
And even with a heavy focus on automation you will have chunks of exploration. Guess what you do when you find bugs during the automation?

Can we please use manual lesser and have no implicit binary choice of “manual vs automation”?

Here is a brief description how advanced my development skills (which includes automation):

> [@Coding for newbie testers](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/coding-for-newbie-testers/63473/10):
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> any scripting language of a OS as they are often needed for different tasks: CMD, Bash, Powershell Groovy: is used in different tools to fill the gaps (e.g. SoapUI and Katalo) and is a full OOP language which can be written in a script style (no class and method definition needed). Due to its dynamic typing is very flexible. Further it has many useful additions (e.g. a own DSL for time related topics e.g. 1.day + 2.hours -3. minutes) and simplification. It’s also compatible to Java and let you …

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