4.5Personal Website and Blog

A personal website is not required, but it amplifies your portfolio significantly. It gives you a platform to demonstrate writing skills (Chapter 24), share technical knowledge, and show that you think about QA beyond your day job.

What to Include on a QA Portfolio Site

Section	Content
About	2-3 sentences about who you are and what you specialize in
Projects	Links to your GitHub repositories with brief descriptions
Case Studies	2-3 written case studies from past work (anonymized)
Blog Posts	Technical articles about testing approaches, tool evaluations, or lessons learned
Talks/Presentations	Slides or recordings from meetups, conferences, or internal presentations
Resume	PDF download with a link

Blog Post Ideas for QA Engineers

• "How I reduced our test suite runtime by 80%"
• "Migrating from Selenium to Playwright: lessons from 1000 tests"
• "Testing AI-powered features: what is different" (draws on Chapters 1-3)
• "The case for contract testing in microservices" (draws on Chapter 4)
• "Why your flaky tests are a design problem, not a test problem"
• "Building a test data factory that scales"
• "What I learned from my worst production bug"