Kickstart Automation: UI & API Tests for QAs with No Experience 2025

🚀 Date: September 17, 2025, 19:30 (EET)
✨ Live event – part of the Software Quality Assurance User Group by DEV.BG
✨ Registration (free, mandatory): https://d.dev.bg/3jety9bd

ℹ️ About the Event:
Want to get started with automation but don’t know where to begin? This hands-on session will walk you through building your first UI & API tests – step by step, no prior automation experience required.

✨ What we’ll cover:

• Build a simple UI test and extend it with API steps;
• Demo in C# (Selenium + RestSharp, Reqnroll/BDD);
• Demo in Java (Selenium + RestAssured, Cucumber);
• Show why tools change, but the mindset stays the same;
• Cover the basics every beginner needs;
• Compare C# vs Java, discuss BDD best practices & practical adoption tips.

🚀 Ending with a Q&A session.

🎟️ Speaker: Vidko Videv – Lead Software Automation Engineer

• ~10 years in automation, ~13 years in IT;
• Career path: Manual QA → building custom automation frameworks;
• Expertise in UI testing, API steps, environment & test data handling;
• Additional experience with performance & chaos testing;
• Uses automation as a daily tool for faster and more stable processes.

🏢 Supported by:

• Trading 212 – Bulgarian fintech company (founded 2003) making financial markets accessible to everyone with smart and user-friendly apps.
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🧑‍💻 User Group: Software Quality Assurance – monthly meetups dedicated to QA.
✨ Subscribe: http://dev.bg/groups/qa/

✨ Organizer: DEV.BG – specialized IT job board & community

🎟️ Registration: https://d.dev.bg/3jety9bd