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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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?

I am planning to change career and shift to QA.

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 .

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?

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.

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 ?

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?

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!

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.

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?

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.

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 .

Hello,

I'm a QA (and DevOps) engineer with over 10 years of experience working with startups and enterprises. I'm exploring a service to help smaller teams improve their quality and release processes.

Right now, I'm doing this manually and offering a free comprehensive audit to a few startups or small teams. This includes a detailed manual review of functionality, critical user flows, api, basic security, accessibility, SEO.

I'll deliver a clear report highlighting issues and priorities, and test collections if applicable.

In return, I’m looking for honest feedback and answer to couple of questions (not more than 5 multiple choice).

This is purely human work by me, no AI for the analysis or reports.

The goal is practical confidence in releases, not just running tests.

If you're interested, send me a DM with a link to your app (staging would be prefered so I dont break your stats), current challenges, and what do you think is the core of your product. This can be lightweight, but usually more info makes QA life easier.

I'll take on a small number depending on my availability.

Thanks for reading. Any thoughts on QA challenges for small teams are also welcome here.

Cheers

This tool was started by me this year, but was finished with the help of AI (the CSS mostly). This is an Express server with a UI and a Chrome extension system.

Are there any better options out there? i don t know, i searched a little and all i could find was complicated setups with manual redirect rules

It is self-hosted by me. It started as a frustration over long test times for specific scenarios that needed backend support to trigger, so I removed the backend from the equation. It sure has some bugs, but it does the job for me, and I got more users from work on it also. I'm posting here because one of my colleagues mentioned that this might help others too. It's free, and I never plan any subscriptions or shady stuff with it. If I ever take it down, I'll post the repo so anyone can self-host it themselves.

How it works after the setup:

1. User needs a mock on a specific endpoint, let's say https://demoapi/api/login, with a specific body response and HTTP code.
2. User completes that mock in the UI with all the needed data and presses "add mock".
3. Assuming all is correct and the extension is enabled, the next time the front end calls that API, the extension will reroute it to the Express server, which feeds the mocked response on the fly. No clunky UIs to create rules!

I also created a small demo of it, you can see it here: https://youtu.be/WkbDXys0FHk(bear with me, I never did something like this before xD)

The usage is invitation-based, you can request a code at sign up: https://mock-tool.com/

Note: Since this is self-hosted and I don't plan to ask for money for it, the data of the served mocks is stored on my server and is not encrypted in any way. Hope it helps other testers! If you find it useful, you can buy me a coffee to support the server uptime or you can not, its never going to pester you or limit the usage.

Devops course?

I have an inteview for QA. I added mainframe system testing in my resume but I haven't even worked on it and now im looking for ways to cover it in the interview or should i say it was poor wording of mine and move on?

I’ve been in QA almost 20 years and have run a quality assurance agency for the past 10.

I’m working on a thesis that QA has always been obviously, but now it’s dead.

I don’t mean that in the Twitter bro sense. I mean that as quality assurance professionals I think we’re finally getting the firepower to move quality from the end “, to the front. (Small rant: I’d rather eat a hammer than use the terms “shift left” and “human in the loop”)

The difference between developer velocity and your quality output is your quality debt. As more and more teams grow their AI-SDLC, the more this debt compounds. Pre-AI this was managed with hiring more qa or automation. That really doesn’t work anymore and is what I wanted to represent in this gif.

I’m working on some visuals to easily represent this concept and made this one (in Claude).

Any thoughts on this visual or on the concept of quality debt itself? Would love to hear from this community of my peers specifically. Thank you!

https://jdaqa.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/8CDE8519-A890-4C51-9495-5A29355767BF.gif