A letter to the year 2020!

Dear 2020,

Thank you for making my life to cross another wonderful year.

I am writing this last blog post for this year to rewind and see how my year was with you!

As a Blogger

Initially, I started the year with the goal of contributing more articles to my blog – https://learndevtestops.com. I published 35 articles across various testing tools and strategies to the blog.

I got opportunities to contribute to the blogs to various testing products in the market as well –

XRay – https://www.getxray.app/blog/top-5-software-testing-trends-of-2020/
TestProject – https://blog.testproject.io/author/vgrk-2017gmail-com/
Applitools – https://applitools.com/blog/accessibility-testing-strategy/
Blog Trunk – https://www.blogtrunk.com/test-automation-and-artificial-intelligence/

As an Author

I published a book on WebDriverIO v6 for anyone to kickstart with the framework. I published it in Google Books.

See here – https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Giridhar_Rajkumar_Get_started_with_WebDriverIO_v6?id=_WvuDwAAQBAJ

As an Instructor

Thanks to Angie Jones for giving me another opportunity this year to contribute to the testing community via my course in Test Automation University –

As a Speaker

This year was delightful for me when it comes to share my knowledge via virtual conferences and meetups. Below are some of the main conferences where I spoke about various testing tools and strategies.

Ministry of Testing – Nottingham – https://www.meetup.com/ministry-of-testing-nottingham/events/jgthgrybcgbcb/
London SDET Meetup sponsored by BrowserStack
Future of Testing – Europe – https://applitools.com/future-of-testing-europe/
ng-conf – https://pages.ng-conf.org/cypress-webinar/
QA in London – https://www.meetup.com/QA-in-London/events/270386993/
East Anglia Quality Assurance Meetup – https://www.meetup.com/East-Anglia-Quality-Assurance-Meetup/events/270449648/
Botho University, Botswana – Article writing tips to the students
QA Touch – https://www.qatouch.com/qa-masterclass/testing-with-devops/
Cloud London Meetup – https://www.meetup.com/Cloud-London/events/271178947/
Retarget Common Meetup
WETESTERR Meetup

I extend my gratitude & thanks to everyone mentioned below for trusting me and gave an opportunity to talk in the above forums.

Aparna Gopalakrishnan
Dave Rutt – Ministry of Testing – Nottingham
Sriram Angajala
Moshe Milman – Applitools
Magnolia Triplett – Cypress
Sasikumar Ganesan
Ryan Howard
Sreekumar – Botho University, Africa
Ankur Tyagi
Amod Mahajan
Ashley Palmer

I, in fact made my first YouTube video for TestProject’s Community. Thanks to Karen Teboulle & Meital Matsafi from TestProject.

As a Founder

Cypress.io UK Community

I met Marie Drake, just before the lockdown and we jointly co-founded the Cypress.io UK Community for Cypress enthusiasts to contribute their knowledge on Cypress to other fellow users in the industry.

The Testers Hub Portal

I developed a portal for the testing community to get to know the technologies, tools & frameworks that are available for software testing. The same is available as an android app as well.

The Testers Hub – https://thetestershub.info