Self learners: Selenium

Question

Here are many testers who aspire to become automation testers using selenium. They pick random websites and create test scripts as per their own understanding.

They are good at programming using Core Java. But working on a well-organized automation project provides more exposure to different frameworks and other aspects of automation testing. By other aspects, I mean taking screenshots, logging, dealing with frames.

What all features a self learning automation QA should implement before he can consider himself good at automation?

I am giving a few examples myself:

1. Capture screenshots at failure

2. Use logger

3. Handle pop ups

4. perform read/write operations from files like txt, xls, xlsx, xml etc.

Answer 1

Couple of items from my side:

1. Thread safe classes to be able to safely parallellize test execution
2. Working with database (at least relational database) (Tools for injecting and reading the data from/to databases)
3. Parsing xml since there could be scenario steps or steps data described in xml
4. Parsing text using regular expressions since it often happens that one need to extract a part of the string or match the string using certain rules
5. Use matchers like hamcrest
6. Use JavascriptExecutor from Selenium
7. Have mastered both Page Object Model approach and the regular approach
8. Have mastered practices of conversion one objects into another
9. Have mastered practices of serializing and de-serializing the objects