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I spoke with a QE director who oversees a pretty complex environment. He was telling me about some of the roles he had open, and one thing caught my attention: the level of product and domain knowledge he wanted from the engineers. It was deep. Deep enough that I started wondering whether we were talking…

A recent thread in our PromptMates community asked a blunt question: has anyone actually replaced LinkedIn Recruiter (LIR) with another sourcing tool, not just added one to the stack? The asker wanted to hear from teams that cut the contract entirely, with no InMail fallback. The answers were candid, and they paint a more nuanced…

AI is changing how engineering teams work, but it may also change how technical recruiters think about hiring. I spoke with Sunita, an engineering leader, about three scenarios I regularly run into in technical recruiting: hiring around a technology migration, evaluating engineers across different technology stacks, and figuring out where technical vetting should sit in…

AI is changing how quality engineers work. I think we all know that by now. I spoke with a QE leader about how she’s using AI in testing, where integration projects create quality risks, and what skills she believes are becoming more important for QE engineers as AI takes over more of the repetitive work.…

I asked a senior QE leader three questions about AI, automation, performance testing, and what recruiters should actually be screening for. Here’s what he had to say. 1. AI Agents in the QA Workflow Q: What AI/automation initiatives are you focused on, and what problems do they solve? A: We’re building a set of AI…

I grabbed Anantha, a QE leader for a conversation about AI, automation and technical hiring. I went into the conversation with a pretty simple question: How the heck are recruiters supposed to vet technical talent when we don’t always understand what the engineering team is actually building? I’ve been running into this more and more.…

I’m talkin’ to alot of QA engineers in the Charlotte market and have ran into automation engineers getting contacted about roles that look heavily focused on manual testing. For example, I came across a QA Engineer role in the insurance brokerage space that called for 7+ years of manual testing experience, SQL, Agile/Scrum experience, and…

For recruiters, vetting Quality Engineering talent can be difficult. A resume can tell you someone has worked with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, APIs, CI/CD, or AI tools. But those keywords don’t necessarily tell you how someone thinks about quality, how they work with developers, or whether they understand what is happening underneath the test they’re running.…