Ban 'it's easy' from your classroom
The two words that quietly filter out half your future engineers — and what to say instead when a student is stuck.
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01 · README.md
— Mohit Grover
while(confused) explainDifferently();
QA engineer with eight years of experience testing banking, insurance and e-commerce applications, moving from manual testing to leading automation. Builds Playwright and Rest Assured frameworks, runs them in CI and leads a team of five testers. Cares about catching defects early, keeping regression suites fast and giving developers bug reports they can act on immediately.
README.md· main · updated today
# install
curiosity >= 1.0.0no prior coding neededfear of maths: optional
# features
Real projects, deployed, with usersDebugging taught as a life skill'It's easy' is a banned phrase
# badges
pythonjavasqlwebzero-judgment
02 · the stack
Dependencies, pinned & tested
Twelve years from block coding to compilers — no deprecated methods.
Test automation strategy
Playwright and Selenium
Rest Assured API testing
JMeter performance testing
Jenkins and GitHub Actions
Test planning and estimation
Defect triage
SQL
Mobile testing with Appium
Team mentoring
03 · the algorithm
Debugging is the curriculum
Most school CS is history of computers plus syntax dictation — a programming course with no programs. Mine inverts it. Week one, everyone ships something tiny and real. Then every concept — loops, functions, complexity — arrives as the fix for a problem their own code just hit. while(confused) we explain differently; we never say "it's easy".
- Ship something tinyWeek one ends with running code in every hand — a dice game, a name-art generator. Momentum before theory.
- Break it, read the errorError messages taught as friendly letters, not accusations. Debugging is the core literacy.
- Name the conceptThe loop, the function, the class — introduced as the fix for pain their own code just caused.
- Build for real usersTerm projects with actual users: the canteen app, the library portal. Board answers get written by people who've built.
04 · changelog
git log --twelve-years
Senior QA Automation Engineer
Insurance technology company
Built a Playwright and TypeScript framework covering 1,400 UI and API scenarios for the policy purchase and claims portals.
3 years
QA Engineer
E-commerce platform for electronics
Ran JMeter load tests before sale events, finding a cart service bottleneck that engineering fixed ahead of launch. Automated payment and order APIs with Rest Assured, adding checks for refunds and partial cancellations.
1 year
Test Engineer
IT services company, banking client team
Executed functional and regression tests for an internet banking upgrade, including fund transfer limits and OTP flows. Validated back-end data with SQL after batch jobs and raised mismatches with the database team.
05 · dependencies
Education
MCA
University department of computer scienceB.Sc. in Computer Science
Government college
06 · signed builds
Certifications
ISTQB Advanced Level Test Automation…
ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level
07 · releases
Shipped to production
v2.4
Best CS Teacher — KarnatakaState teaching awards
2024v2.0
Canteen queue app — in production 5 yearsPeak load survived: Friday samosa day
2021–v1.8
Girls in Gr 12 CS: 12% → 50%Six-year pipeline programme
2018–24v1.5
Published — 'Error Messages Are Letters'Teacher Plus, on debugging pedagogy
2022
08 · the blog
JUN 2026 FEB 2026 OCT 2025
stdout >> thoughts.log
Week one: everyone ships
Why my course starts with running code in every hand before a single definition — and how it rewired who signs up for CS.
cat post.md →The error message is your friend
A classroom protocol for reading stack traces like friendly letters. Debugging is the literacy; syntax is just spelling.
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09 · code review
Approved without changes
review #01 · LGTM ✓ approved
My daughter said CS wasn't for people like her. One term with Ms. Rao and she's built a period-tracker app her friends actually use. She's doing B.Tech now.
Kavya's motherPARENT · GR 12review #01 · LGTM ✓ approved
The canteen app her students built has genuinely reduced Friday chaos. When it went down once, the whole school noticed. That's real software.
PrincipalNPS BENGALURUreview #01 · LGTM ✓ approved
I'm an SDE now and I still hear her voice when I read a stack trace: 'it's a letter, not an accusation'. Best debugging habit I own.
ArjunALUMNUS · SDE, FLIPKART
10 · for schools
Open pull request
>_ SESSION 2027–28 · ONE DEMO CLASS: EVERY STUDENT SHIPS RUNNING CODE IN 40 MINUTES
Current employerInsurance technology company
Current roleSenior QA Automation Engineer, Insurance technology company
Open toHOD Computer Science · CS curriculum lead · EdTech advisor
Expected salary₹14–18 LPA
Notice period60 days
Willing to relocateYes — Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune · CBSE / ICSE / IB · lab with working machines non-negotiable
Principal, National Public SchoolCURRENT EMPLOYER · SHARED ON REQUEST
HOD Science, DPS Bengaluru2014–18 · SHARED ON REQUEST
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