Which language to choose for automated testing?

Question

Software testing

A few facts before you answer:

1. I work as a manual tester, testing the marketplace;
   
2. I came across a good tip: choose the language in which your team works. I have a backendre in Java and frontenders in Java Script on my project;
   
3. What attracts me to JS is that I want to switch to front-end development in the future, although as they explained to me, knowledge of testing on js will not help for the front-end, except for fumbling with the syntax, but this can be understood in a week;
   
4. What attracts me to Java - a lot of information in Russian in a free format
   

Please give a sensible answer, what to choose and why.
Thank you all in advance!!!

Answer 1

In fact, the advice to choose the language in which the team writes has never justified itself. Testers still do not receive any help from developers and are forced to do everything themselves.
Therefore, it makes sense to choose the language that has the lowest entry threshold and high popularity in automation. And here the best choice is probably - Python

Answer 2

Please give me a reasonable answer

Learn multiple instruments. Both JS and python and java are all great for "testing".

Answer 3

I would ask the developers themselves if they want to help or if they don't need it. From my point of view, the team should be tightly integrated and the developers themselves should be interested in quality tests and in their readability. And this is where language matters. Developers should understand the test and in some cases even advise how to improve it, because they know better how their code works and where it can fail. If the developers say "leave me alone with your tests" or "We have no one to work as a 'monkey', so it's more important for us that you poke your hands further", then these are obvious organizational problems and they need to be solved not by choosing a language, but by raising this issue to the level guides.