Why did you want to attend/apply to the Test Star education?
When I signed up, Test Star 3 was just starting. That was the very end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021. If I remember correctly, everyone in the company received an email from Magnus C. Ohlsson that whoever wants to participate can sign up for Test Star 3 and that they only need to contact their manager. We were given a task as programming preparation, which was also eliminatory, where our necessary programming skills were checked.
When I applied for the Test Star, I worked as a manual tester. However, as soon as the opportunity opened up on the current project for automation testing, I started with it. I am currently moving on to another project where I will do both manual and automation testing, so I can say that it was worth it to finish the Test Star.
As I mentioned before, we were given a programming preparation task where we had to show some basic programming skills that we needed later for further tasks.
After that, for each part (Test Automation, CI/CD and Performance Testing) we had sessions where we studied and worked with our mentors at the same time, and at the end of each part, we were given a task that we had to successfully complete in order to move on to the next part of the education.
It was continuous work and learning.
I liked the fact that it was divided into three parts and that we each worked separately and had to pass before we could continue with the next one. I also liked that learning and working with the mentors in the sessions. All in all, a good basis for further improvement of each part.
Maybe I would switch the sessions we had online to live sessions in the office. I think that learning and working would be even easier and more efficient if it were done that way - in groups and all in one room (of course, divided by country).