r/QualityAssurance 28m ago

Career Transition

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Hello,
I would like some insight from experienced professionals.

I am have non IT (7 years) and 2 years of manual testing experience, I recently completed MBA (it's more of an IT mba rather than general MBA), I am looking to transition into automation testing.

I found playwright interesting, so I have started learning playwright with js/ts, currently I am on the core programming fundamentals and
I would like to know, how is the market for this ?
Is it possible to secure a job with 3 months of hardcore practice (building framework from scratch) ?
Can I show my own made project (github) to get a call for interviews ?
Is playwright easier than selenium (+java) ?
How is the growth in automation testing in coming years (because of A.I.) ?

Is it viable to enter into this, as I am not young and have lots of experience in another field ?
I am an Indian but currently located in Europe
Thanks.


r/QualityAssurance 45m ago

QA career change in 2026

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**I’m currently working as a Senior QA Test Engineer and am considering a career change due to the declining number of QA opportunities in the job market. I’m looking for advice on the best courses and in-demand skills to learn in 2026 that can help me successfully transition into a stable, high-growth career.**


r/QualityAssurance 2h ago

AI writes a plausible test cheaply. Trusting it is the hard part, so I stopped letting the model grade its own work.

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Been maintaining Playwright suites for a while, and the 2026 AI-testing pitch bugs me: let an agent write and run your tests, with a model in the CI hot path deciding on every build whether an assertion is reasonable.

That's a closed loop. The same kind of system that wrote the assertion certifies it. A model is great at inventing a plausible test and much worse at catching its own wrong assumptions, so it ends up confidently wrong twice in the same direction.

I built a pipeline around one boring rule from normal engineering: the thing that makes something shouldn't be the thing that certifies it. Producer is not validator.

Concretely:

  • A parser rejects a bad feature spec before any model runs (free, no tokens).
  • The writer drafts on one model; a different model judges it cold, with no stake in the draft.
  • A real Playwright run decides green by exit code, not by a model's opinion.
  • If it's red, the debugger may fix locators/waits but may not touch what a test asserts. Loosen an assertion to force a pass and the judge re-reads it against the spec and rejects it on a green run.
  • A human watches it run in UI mode and freezes it. That's the one step with no automation behind it, and it stays that way.
  • Once frozen, CI never calls a model again. Plain Playwright plus a mutation gate that inverts each assertion to prove it can actually fail. No token bill per push, no nondeterministic red builds.

It's open source with a demo shop, runs end to end in a few minutes. Honest about what it doesn't solve too: curating the frontend slice is the real cost on a big app, and the deepest check only works where values cross the wire as text.

Curious how others here handle trusting AI-generated tests. Do you let a model into your CI, or keep generation dev-time only?


r/QualityAssurance 3h ago

Consulta roadmap QA manual

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Buenas gente, como les va? Primera vez que posteo en todo reddit en general, pero viendo que siempre responden y son buena onda acá con las consultas de los demás, me propongo postear esto a ver si me dan una mano.

Para tratar de hacerla corta: me recibí de ing en sistemas pero la programación no es lo mío, nunca le terminé de agarrar la mano del todo. Se que es algo que si o sí voy a tener que aprender en algún momento, al menos lo básico pero bue, por ahora es lo que hay... medio a los golpes fui consiguiendo laburos de soporte hasta donde estoy ahora. Casi 8 años de recibido y 6 años y medio de soporte IT entre dos empresas internacionales con bastantes clientes y demás.

La cosa es que quiero salir de soporte de una vez por cuestiones y opiniones que no quiero comentar para no armar bardo al dope.

Tomando en cuenta que la programación me cuesta bastante, quiero emepezar el camino de QA. Antes que se diga: si, sé que para la automatización necesito saber de programación, pero quiero verlo más adelante. Quiero empezar a hacer QA manual, hice un cursito y estoy haciendo otros y tratando de formarme. Para no hacerla más larga, la consulta en sí es: alguno me tiraría qué tecnologías, herramientas y demás necesito saber para empezar? Me refiero a cosas prácticas (tema de teoría, metodologías de trabajo y demás yerbas creo que por ahí las podría aprender rápido).

En el curso que hice recomendaron muchísimo aprender postman (que ya uso algo básico en el laburo) también Jmeter, recomendaron meterle algo de mano a la consola de chrome y unos amigos me nombraron BURP. Qué otras herramientas podría sumar o mejor dicho, en qué herramientas debería centrarme? y más que nada alguien sabe de alguna página o algo donde pueda practicar cosas así? Por mi cuenta estoy tratando de completar plantillas de test cases pero si tuviera un marco en donde laburarlo, mejor. Por otro lado, me dijeron que siempre conviene conocer SQL y si bien conozco, por ahí no soy un gran experto. Me gustaría saber qué tan en profundidad me sirve conocerlo como para empezar... a ver, se hacer consultas y cosas así, pero ya si tengo que hacer una consulta compleja usando varios joins se me complica (de nuevo, no es tanto lo mío la lógica de programación, pueden juzgarme si quieren, no me jode).

Para tener una referencia: en mi laburo puedo hablar y pedir que me cambien de proyecto (es una idea bastante fuerte porque la persona que tengo de encargada es bastante soreta y no la aguanto) y se que hay mínimo 3 grupos de QA manual, trabajamos con una app tanto para android como iOS, se usa AWS para ciertos servicios y SalesForce de CRM aunque el lenguaje en qué se programa la app no tengo idea. También hay una parte web pero es secundario.

Bueno, creo que por ahora sería eso. Les agradezco de antemano a los que respondan. Si me surgen más dudas o cosas así iré agregando.

Un saludo gente de Reddit.


r/QualityAssurance 4h ago

Looking for Manual QA Opportunities | 5+ Years of Experience | Immediate Joiner

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Hello everyone,

I am currently seeking opportunities as a Manual QA Engineer with 5+ years of experience in Manual Testing, API Testing (Postman), SQL, Jira, and Agile methodologies.

I am an immediate joiner and open to remote, hybrid, or onsite roles. If your organization is hiring or you know of any relevant openings, I would greatly appreciate your referral or any leads.

Thank you for your support.


r/QualityAssurance 6h ago

Managing test cases as YAML files inside Git — a good idea?”

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I’ve been trying out managing test cases as plain YAML files right inside our Git repos.

The whole point is treating manual tests just like code. Everything is local-first so there’s no web vendor lock-in, and team collaboration happens smoothly by pushing updates to dedicated test branches instead of messing with heavy third-party syncs. Also, since it's all plain text, using Cursor or other AI tools to write, search, and clean up test cases turns out to be super handy.

Anyone else tried keeping QA cases in Git like this?

Just to clarify based on the comments—I totally agree that reading raw YAML isn't the goal. What makes this setup actually usable is a lightweight local UI to render, edit, and execute cases cleanly (so it feels like a real test management tool), while keeping everything Git-native under the hood.


r/QualityAssurance 7h ago

Am I expected to transfer years of CSV/Validation expertise, or should KT have a boundary?

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Need some genuine advice from people who have worked in CSV or regulated pharma projects.

I've been working as a Computer System Validation (CSV) Analyst for the last 4 years. For the last 6 months, I've also been handling manual testing in my project.

A senior (14 years experience) joined our team. Initially he was brought in mainly for automation, so I gave him KT on the manual testing activities, project flow and documents. That was completely fine.

Now the automation work is no longer happening, so he's been moved to manual testing full-time. The problem is, now he's asking me to teach him CSV and validation concepts as well, and my managers are also asking me to give that KT.

I'm a bit confused about this.

The validation knowledge I have didn't come from formal KT. Nobody sat with me and explained all this. I spent 4 years reading validation documents, understanding regulations, handling deviations and escalations, and learning things the hard way while working on projects.

I don't mind explaining our project, documents, process or how we do things. But teaching years of validation knowledge feels different from normal KT.

Maybe I'm thinking about this the wrong way, so I wanted to ask people who have more experience.

If you've worked in CSV or pharma:

Is this a normal expectation?

Would you share everything, or is there a boundary between project KT and domain expertise?

How would you handle this professionally?

Just looking for honest opinions from experienced people.


r/QualityAssurance 9h ago

QA Engineer | 2 YOE | Immediate Joiner

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Hi everyone,

I'm looking for QA Engineer/SDET opportunities and am available to join immediately in India

Experience: \~2 years

Skills: Python, SQL, Playwright, JavaScript, Manual Testing, API Testing, Test Automation, Functional & Regression Testing.

I'm also actively learning AI concepts like LLMs, RAG, Agentic AI, MCP, and AI tools

If your company is hiring or you know of any relevant openings, I'd really appreciate a referral,I will share my resume over DM.

Current Location: Noida,Uttar Pradesh Open to Relocation: Gurugram,Pune,Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chandigarh Reason for change: Lack of learning opportunities in current organisation.

Thanks in advance!


r/QualityAssurance 11h ago

Where to learn Python for QA Automation Engineer

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Suggest me any tutorial website or youtube video

Right now I am preparing for the QA job


r/QualityAssurance 19h ago

Screenshot regression gets noisy at exactly the wrong time

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Release week is when a screenshot queue starts collecting everything at once: a real layout shift, a clipped label, and the usual font rendering noise. The diff job catches all of it, then a reviewer opens a stack of nearly identical images to decide what can actually block the release.

One idea is to send only those noisy regions to SAM 2 and use LingBot-Vision for the boundary features. It would still need a small classifier trained on the team's own screenshots, with the original image next to every result. Sorting obvious rendering noise away from likely layout bugs is enough; the release decision can stay with the reviewer.


r/QualityAssurance 23h ago

QAs using Claude Code or Codex: which one do you prefer?

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For those using AI coding agents for web test automation, which one are you currently preferring: Claude Code or Codex?

I mainly work with Playwright/Cypress and would like to hear from people who have actually used both.

What made you choose one over the other?


r/QualityAssurance 1d ago

Manual Software QA or Automation?

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I am planning to change career and shift to QA.


r/QualityAssurance 1d ago

AI testing software for scalable automated model validation

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We've started shipping a couple of llm-backed features and I'm realising our existing regression suite doesn't really give us much confidence once the model behaviour starts changing....

Automated regression seems to work well for our regular application. But with LLMs, even a small prompt tweak or model update can change responses even when all tests are still passing. I'm not sure how to validate it properly.

I've been spending some time looking at some tools. Promptfoo, langsmith, deepeval, testsigma etc. but the more I read it feels like each one handles a different part of the problem. I'm trying figure out what we actually use in production.

Anything working well for your team? One platform or are you guys combining different tools?

Also, what does your validation workflow look like from building evaluation datasets and integrating checks into CI/CD to deciding whether a model change is actually safe enough to ship.

Just want to avoid spending weeks building something that we'll end up replacing a few months later .


r/QualityAssurance 1d ago

Part-time QA role, $25/hr, in-person only, 90 min round trip commute, sole QA person at early stage startup in LA, worth it?

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I have 5 year QA experience. Manual and automation. I’ve gotten let go 2.5 months ago. Started applying a month ago.

Seeing this part-time job in Los Angeles for an ai platform, they want me on-site 3 days. 90 min round trip commute, sole QA person at early stage startup, I’m gonna have to come in and build QA processes from scratch basically. Will make almost same as EDD is paying.

Only pro is on my resume it’ll say I’m currently employed instead of a gap.

I can get paid more with non-QA part time.

Would it be worth it? Should I take it?


r/QualityAssurance 2d ago

Free tool for blockchain testers

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I do blockchain QA, and finding a working testnet faucet was a waste of time.

I kept a written document but it kept getting outdated and I never knew the actual status of the faucet.

I built a small tool to help myself:

https://testnetfaucets.dev

It covers 36 faucets across 30+ networks (Sepolia, Solana, BTC, Polygon Amoy, Fuji, Sui, Aptos, Sei…). It does a simple faily HTTP check and reports back.

It's open source, so if you spot one wrongly marked down (or know a faucet I'm missing), corrections are welcome.

Not selling anything — it's free and there's no login. Just hoping it saves someone else the 20-minute faucet hunt.


r/QualityAssurance 2d ago

How can I stand out as an entry-level QA Automation Engineer?

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I have an ISTQB Foundation Level certificate and have built several Java-based projects using Selenium, TestNG, Rest Assured, Postman, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions.

GitHub: https://github.com/alkanf

I don’t have professional QA experience yet. What should I focus on next ?


r/QualityAssurance 2d ago

Part-time QA role, $25/hr, 3 days in-person only, worth it or not?

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I have 5 year QA experience. Manual and automation. I’ve gotten let go 2.5 months ago. Started applying a month ago.

Seeing this part-time job in Los Angeles for an ai platform, they want me on-site 3 days. 90 min round trip commute, sole QA person at early stage startup, I’m gonna have to come in and build QA processes from scratch basically. Will make almost same as EDD is paying. Only pro is on my resume it’ll say I’m currently employed in a QA role instead of a gap. At my last job I used to make $48/hr.

I have other non-qa part time lined up that’s higher.

Would it be worth it? Should I take it?


r/QualityAssurance 2d ago

QA Engineer looking for remote side income – Need advice on platforms & moonlighting

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Hi everyone,
I’m currently working full-time as a QA Engineer and, due to some financial commitments, I’m looking for a part-time remote job or freelance QA/testing work to earn some additional income.

I have a few questions:
Which platforms are genuinely good for finding remote QA/freelance testing work (Upwork, Toptal, Test IO, uTest, etc.)?

If I’m already employed full-time, would taking freelance work be considered moonlighting?
Do these platforms or clients usually ask for PAN, Aadhaar, or other tax details?

Has anyone here managed freelance QA work alongside a full-time job? Any tips or things to watch out for?

Looking for advice from people with real experience. Thanks!


r/QualityAssurance 2d ago

Hi All, I developed a doc control app, that can scan documents, add tags, OCR, add folders, revise documents. I am looking for testers. please help.

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Hi All,

I am QE by profession. made a doc control app for myself.

I made this android app for myself. As my file explorer gets dumped with everything and anything. I wanted to have folders, revise docs(Taxes, insurances, license, etc). with OCR you can search for a word and every document with that word would pop up. you can set expiration date to docs.
please dm and drop a comment if you would like to test my app. you will get lifetime free without ads for this.

thank you.


r/QualityAssurance 2d ago

Hi, I'm researching how construction companies manage supplier certificates and expired documents. I'm not selling anything. Could I ask you 10-15 minutes about your current process? I'm trying to understand where the biggest pain points are.

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r/QualityAssurance 2d ago

Job switch suggestion (Automation tester)

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r/QualityAssurance 3d ago

Which career should i stick to?

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So I am a marine engineering graduate in 2022, but couldnt go to sail for some personal reasons. Joined a software company (service based) as a Software QA engineer (manual testing + API testing) but 2 years in, i had to upgrade myself with automation and that required heavy coding which i was lazy enough to not learn and it felt a bit difficult too. Since I was in e-commerce domain, i was offered a Ecommerce listing and sales role at a health and wellness product company (Bootstrapped startup) which i joined. 1 year in this company, it was very toxic environment and long hours so i left and joined a SaaS company as Business development Manager, here am feeling so pressured with sales targets and cold calling makes me feel like worthless. I left this job 2 months ago (working only 9 months in that company) Now i feel that software was better atleast there was decency and job stability and not constant pressure for sales and targets etc etc Im even ready to learn some automation concepts as QA engineer like Java, Selenium but most people say its dead now and software QA is not like it was before because of AI etc and the job market is honestly shit right now. I dont wanna go to a sales role where i do cold calling and emailing with sales targets and i dont have it in me to learn the heavy coding to go back to Software Engineering roles. (also please dont suggest Going back to marine engineering stuff i have forgotten everything about it and cannot go there)

In short-
Software QA career - 2years (manual + API),
Ecommerce Catalogue manager - 1 year (Health and wellness products),
Business development and sales - 8 months, (Saas company)
Jobless, need a stable career long term

(Problem - cant stick to one career, my stupidity and ego that i can do it)

what to do now? If i decide to come back to software QA again what should I learn so theres atleast a bit of stability and not always upskilling tension?


r/QualityAssurance 3d ago

How do you self motivate when the project is clearly going to fail?

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I'm currently working for a medium company who are making a new piece of software. It's absolute dog shit and there are many other tools out there that do the same behaviour in a much cleaner, user friendly way.

We recently sent it out for feedback and got a ton of scathing comments. Waiting to see if leadership action them or just ignore it. But personally, it makes my ability to care about doing a good job very low and affects my motivation as I have to work to deadlines and stressful situations for something I feel will never get released.

I am trying to keep my head down, soldier on and get paid, but it's so awful just knowing it's all for nothing. My efforts feel wasted.


r/QualityAssurance 3d ago

Playwright or Cypress

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Hi ! I’m a senior Qa engineer that is mostly manual with a little experience in automation but mostly using non coding software like cypress . I’m looking to learn about coding for automation QA and I was wondering about what class I should take . Is playwright more widely used than cypress ? The classes I found were from Bondar Academy which uses Ai for coding and setting up framework . I just need a little guidance . Please don’t come down on me , I’m not good with coding and I’ve taken JavaScript courses in the past , just didn’t pick it up easily .


r/QualityAssurance 4d ago

How to get a genuine remote job as a quality analyst

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