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.