How well do you need to code to become a Python tester?

Question

Career in IT

I'm learning Python, I understand that programming is difficult for me, mostly it's about nested lists (and matrices) and nested dictionaries. As soon as I dive into them, everything turns out (with a creak), but unfortunately all this is forgotten too quickly, in general, these topics go hard. I do not pretend to be a programmer, I would like to become a Python tester. Tell me, how well does an automator need to know programming? Will the programmer pull automation, let's say, below the average level?

Answer 1

Why did you decide that it is easier to be a tester than a developer? It has its own theory, its own approaches and techniques, and programming there in some way is also its own.
The tester will have to communicate more with customers than the developer. Need "soft-skills".
Do not try to "enter IT" through a tester, then to change direction. It's like entering surgery through diagnostics, or entering a cook through a sanitary and epidemiological station.
Ps Here is your case . Still Sergey Nemchinsky with feeling, with sense and with arrangement.

Answer 2

Most likely, you are just a beginner, you need to solve many, many problems in order to gain confidence. Moreover, it gives confidence that everything will work out for you in the end.
Just a little patience.
And in vain you do not pretend to be a programmer.

Answer 3

The tester does not know less than the developer.
He performs other tasks and uses other tools.
For example, instead of python, you can study a thread for testing, a thread of selenium, lua.
In python, working with data is necessary for everyone, plus, instead of backend libraries, look towards parsing xml / json.
Plus, you need to study testing theory, terminology, and learn how to write good tests.
Nested lists and matrices are so simple that it is not clear what you can not understand in them.
Maybe you are trying to solve too abstract problems without "feeling" what should be the result?
Try to come up with a problem close to you and solve it using matrices and lists. For example, a program that will create (or render in html) a tournament table for 8-16-24 participants using different tournament approaches. And solve it using lists and matrices. Well, or something where you will immediately see the desired result in your head and already understanding how it should look while programming

Answer 4

Any answer to this question will be too abstract and will not give you anything useful.
Focus on learning test theory and test design, then apply for an internship at any large or medium-sized company. There they will specifically and clearly explain to you what exactly a QA junior should know.
From my experience of training interns, I can say that with a mentor you will learn how to write autotests of average complexity within a month or two