The manager opens your portfolio.
Your resume says you have five years of automation experience. The README lists Selenium, Playwright, Appium, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes. He scrolls. There is no code. The browser tab closes.
This is you. Not because you lack skill—you have it—but because your public proof reads like a shopping list. The tools you name say nothing about how you think when a flaky test fails at 2am, or how you convince a developer that a bug is real.
If you’re serious about landing a role that demands more than record-and-playback, you need to stop treating your portfolio like a keyword bingo card. Here are three mistakes that kill your chances instantly, and exactly how to fix them.
Mistake 1: Tool jockeying
