Month May 2026

LoopQA Hiring Update: Skill Over Resume, Process in Action

Activity Update: Interviews in process, with 1 candidate in final stage. All applicants receive the same Playwright-based assessment before speaking with engineering leadership. The process is intentionally designed to remove resume bias and evaluate skill directly. If you can do…

AI Is Shining a Light on Lazy Recruiters

Last week, I spoke with a Talent Acquisition Manager who proudly showed me an AI-powered sourcing and resume review workflow he had built using Claude Code. The concept’s impressive. He had taken resumes from candidates who had previously been hired…

New QA Automation REQ’s

LoopQA just rolled out a couple of QA Automation Engineering roles in the Charlotte market focused on AI-driven testing initiatives. I spoke with the hiring manager this evening, Ryan Anderson. What stands out is that this is one of the…

Everyone Thinks AI Is Easy Until They Have Something To Ship

I spent 20 hours watching AI videos and still couldn’t build a simple workflow. Not a multi-agent system.Not some advanced orchestration layer.Not an enterprise AI deployment. I was just trying to connect n8n to my email and generate daily email…

Why QA Might Be the Most Important Team in AI Right Now

A Conversation with JB Mesquita (N8N Ambassador) on Testing, N8N, and the Future of AI Workflows I’ve had to watch over the years as QA took a backseat to development. In terms of perception, QA was often treated like the…

Fractional Senior QA Engineer (AI / Agentic Systems)

We’re hiring a Senior QA Engineer to pressure-test AI systems that don’t fail in obvious ways. This isn’t traditional QA: it’s about breaking agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, and LLM-powered products in ways automated evals miss: hallucinations, tool misuse, context drift,…

CK Layoffs: One QE I’d Hire

After Credit Karma’s recent layoffs, I received over a dozen calls from strong engineers. One just hit the market with phenomenal experience, and I had to spotlight him. Deepak Vasanati is a Senior QE with a decade of experience in…