If I’m to make one, what tips could you give me?
What should I put in there?
What format should it has? A Website? GitHub page?
Can you please show me examples?
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I consider this as my portfolio:
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What are you planning to use it for? Is it something you’d like to show for interviews or just have and update 24/7 throughout the year with accomplishments?
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@mariem_safi I recently gave a talk about “Career Branding.” In a small section, I covered portfolio ideas for testers.
- You can get a customer domain and use tools like WordPress to build your website and put all your contributions over there, including your resume
- You can also use specific portfolio tools like Wix, Squarespace, etc. They have different pricing options, and the website looks fancier.
- I have seen some beautiful portfolios built using GitHub (similar to Rehman’s one mentioned above)
Basically, you can enter all the details about you (of course, no private data), your achievements, your videos, talks, blogs, LinkedIn posts, Open Source Contributions, Projects you built, Patents, Books you Authored, Courses you created, your community profile, certifications, etc.
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I’m surprised not one has brought up Lena Pejgan Wiberg’s excellent answer to this in her career building AMA, available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj-yquQLTQM
My response would be it can be anything you are comfortable with and can be in multiple places depending on what you want to show.
For the Essentials Certificate we encourage learners to build up a portfolio in whichever way works for them. It could be as simple as as public shared drive like Google Drive for example where you could link to GitHub and others. A website or anything publically accessible.
I checked and it has been discussed on the Club before, Do you have a testing portfolio?
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One of the best things people do is write blogs as notes for themselves as well as content for publishing.
You can also self reflect on these later on to see if you got better over time.
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One thing that I have observed when looking at testers porfolio ussing the Github is its informal character.
Which I love by the way, as allow you to go out of the box and to mix your knowledge with your hobbies or other activities of your daily live. This is quite easy done with Github, as you can have different repositories with random knowledge that can be accesible from your knowledge.
But that is fact something quite personal For me works good because I guess in my professional career that was never a problem. But maybe if you work in the Banking industry for instance it is better to keep it more specific to this field (just speculating here, do not mean that bank industry is like this or like that, just an example)
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Basically MoT Profiles! You can add stuff, anything that is created on MoT with you is added to it, and other people can also add you as contributors to certain things.
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My GitHub looks like this: 
One of the most interesting aspects of the MoT profile is its front-end color combination, which makes the profile look vibrant and visually appealing. I hope, someday recruiters will consider MoT profiles as relevant as LinkedIn profiles. 
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Definitely and now there’s the observatory where you can link back to other things you have published and your blog you can use your MoT profile to showcase it all.
Ady Stokes Ministry of Testing profile
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@parwalrahul shares top tips in this TestBash talk:
And as mentioned already, MoT profiles are getting better every week.
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Thanks @simon_tomes for sharing my talk link. I would highly recommend that too.
Apart from that if you are looking for examples, here are some more:
- Rahul Parwal | parwalrahul | Ministry of Testing
- Rahul’s Testing Titbits - Testing Insights & Resources
- Rahul Parwal | LinkedIn - Check for roles, projects, volunteer work, certs, etc.
- Cristina Sipos – Personal Portfolio Website
One thing that I really like about the MoT is that it has given a free portfolio provision through the most profiles. (Inside Info: they also have a great SEO 
). So, if you want to start building something, start from it.
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This exactly what my blog has become, its my second brain that has my detailed thoughts and notes on various topics that I am happy sharing with the world. It also makes sharing those thoughts with others far easier and consistent. I still get incredibly embarrassed when I “self reference” by sharing a link to my blog though 
As for my portfolio, its obviously my blog, but I also maintain a public github profile for any projects I am happy sharing with the world. This includes some example test frameworks, often referenced by my blog, and other personal projects.
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Are you aware that you can add links to the MoTaverse? You can do it for your own posts, or make someone else’s day and add their content in.
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I have to admit I do not really have that highly visible public profile, partly because I’ve not been actively job hunting over the years but it could come back to haunt me as I enter those wind down to retirement years as it’s those years I often see other very fantastic testers struggle to find new roles if they go through redundancy or something else late on.
If I am hiring it depends on the role I’m looking for, if leaning strongly towards automation and tools then I think github is a good.
More general testing, I think blogs, articles, events attended are good references.
I have a question though for others regarding including products you have tested provided no NDA’s, whether you would include those in your portfolio. For example I have been lead solo tester on a number of publicly available 5 star apps, this for me is a good reference, anyone can download those and see the work I’ve been involved with. There can be a downside to this if the app has lots of issues in production maybe in the time since I was involved.
I don’t see that so much but I suspect if I did publish a more detailed portfolio the list of products would be core.
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For the NDA thing, I’d just mention the product and what I tested on it. For more details, more discussion could be done in the interview. But I guess there’s nothing more than that to it.
If one wants to showcase test automation solutions, then yeah, the only way is to create some dummy project and have it in a presentable way. Like a well commented code and a good README.
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Everyone! Thanks so much for your replies and for sharing these examples!
it really helped me understand things better!
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