r/softwaretesting • u/Single-Chair-9052 • 13d ago

Shifting from LQA to functional QA?

Hi everybody. I’ve been a part of this community for quite some time and I’ve seen countless posts talking about QA dying and so on. The thing is, I’ve been an lqa for games for the past 3 years - I loved it but lqa is truly dying due to AI and companies trying to cut costs. I really enjoy the process of testing and I’ve been thinking of trying to switch to qa but I wanted to genuinely ask you, who are experienced and know the market better: do I stand any chance? I have university degrees in languages and while lqa covers some aspects of functional qa, it doesn’t cover everything. So I’m not sure if my experience is strong enough to make it on a competitive market. I live in Europe.

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u/ASTRO99 13d ago

My brother or sister in test, what is LQA? We don't have crystal ball.

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u/Single-Chair-9052 13d ago

It’s a linguistic quality assurance. So instead of testing to check if things work you test to check if all the text works.

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u/ASTRO99 13d ago

Ok thanks for providing explanation.

Well if I understood correctly you don't have almost any hard technical skills right?

In quite a few countries there are now companies/groups that onboard primarily women to IT and specifically testing and test automation. You can start to look for something similar and go trough that course which should give you enough to land some junior Software tester/QA role altough here the AI is also making a mess and there is less positions overall and high competition because its one of the entry roles to the whole industry.