Month July 2026

Is This Engineer Really Smart Or Really Dumb?

I asked a Principal Engineer what’s the most important part of programming… It wasn’t: His Answer? Organization That was….unexpected. I asked him to explain: ⏩Code is read far more than it’s written: Good organization makes navigating old code fast instead…

New QA Automation Role

If you’re a QA Automation Engineer in the Charlotte area, this one’s worth a look. LoopQA just opened a QA Automation Engineering role based in Uptown Charlotte (2 days/week onsite). This is a backfill for an existing position, and I…

QA Sourcing Tip

One search trick that’s been surprisingly useful lately: Google X-Ray Search. Instead of relying only on LinkedIn, I’ve been searching job boards directly with Google. For example: site:job-boards.greenhouse.io intitle:(QA OR SDET OR “Test Automation” OR “Quality Engineer”) remote (“United States”…

Let’s Quantify Your QA Experience

I was talking with a group of Quality Engineers recently when someone asked me a question I couldn’t answer. “How do you quantify your experience if you don’t have percentages?” My immediate reaction was, “How do you not have percentages?”…