Kickstart Automation: UI & API Testing for Entry-Level QAs. Part 2 2025

📅 Date: October 15, 2025 (Wednesday)
⏰ Time: 7:30 PM
📍 Location: DEV.BG – Software Quality Assurance User Group
✨ Registration: https://d.dev.bg/2p8drsce

ℹ️ About the Event:
Following the success of Part 1, Kickstart Automation Part 2 is another hands-on session designed for beginner QA engineers.
We’ll build on basic examples to create a real-world test automation project, covering both UI and API layers — all in a structured, maintainable way.

✨ Topics include:

• UI testing with Page Object Model and explicit waits

• Building a scalable API test architecture: Base API client, services, models, and tests

• Working with C#, Selenium, RestSharp, Reqnroll (BDD)

• Test maintainability, DRY, effective reporting

• Test categories: smoke, integration, regression

• Best practices for integrating automation into daily QA workflows

• Live demo + Q&A

🎟️ Speaker:
Vidko Videv, Lead Software Automation Engineer
Vidko has 10+ years in test automation and 13+ in IT. Starting as a manual QA, he progressed to building full custom automation frameworks.
Today, he focuses on UI, API, performance, and chaos testing, applying automation as a key to efficient, reliable QA processes.

🏢 Supported by:
Trading 212 – a Bulgarian fintech pioneer offering accessible, smart, and commission-free trading apps.
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👥 Perfect for:

• Beginner QAs stepping into automation

• Manual testers transitioning to automation roles

• Anyone interested in building integrated UI & API testing frameworks