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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 successfully, fed them into an AI workflow, and instructed the system to weigh incoming applicants…

I recently had a conversation with Gregory Goldshteyn, a QA engineering leader at Fox Corporation working on streaming playback and quality initiatives across platforms like Apple TV, Roku, and Fire TV. The biggest takeaway? The hiring market for AI-QA roles is shifting quickly, and a lot of candidates and recruiters are still screening for the…

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 status reports. And I couldn’t even get the nodes configured correctly. So naturally, I went…

Over the last few months, I’ve had hundreds of conversations with recruiters, talent acquisition leaders, hiring managers, and engineers. But for job seekers, one question keeps coming up over and over again: “How do I beat the AI screening tools so a real human sees my resume?” The funny part?Alot of companies still aren’t using…

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 underdog: the last stop in the software development lifecycle, the final checkbox before production. But…

A QA Automation Engineer with 5 years of experience applied to a role he fit almost perfectly. The recruiter thought so too. A few days after applying, he got an email to schedule a call. The conversation went great. He had the automation background. The technical stack aligned. Communication skills were strong. Startup experience? Check.…

I had a really interesting conversation this week with Ryan while going through LoopQA technical evaluations and reviewing one candidate’s Playwright project submission. And honestly, one part of the conversation stuck with me more than anything else. One candidate openly admitted they used AI heavily throughout the assessment. Which, to be clear, is completely allowed.…

Several years ago, Andrew was working in tech support. No computer science degree. No formal engineering background. No traditional “developer” path. Today, he works in QA automation and AI-driven testing practices at LoopQA. But the part of his story that stood out most to me wasn’t the tools. It was how he got his first…

A QA engineer with strong computer science fundamentals, Selenium experience, and Cypress experience was nearly screened out because he didn’t have one keyword on his resume: Playwright. The interesting part? After completing a Playwright assessment, he performed well anyway. That conversation came up recently while speaking with Butch Mayhewy about AI, QA hiring, and the…

During the live discussion, a lot of the conversation moved beyond resume basics and into how recruiting actually works behind the scenes. These are the most common follow-up questions I got, along with additional context I wanted to expand on. How Recruiters Actually Review Resume Stacks How do recruiters actually work through applicants once a…

(What’s actually happening when your resume hits the system) A Discussion Hosted By: QA Nexus The job search right now is not just competitive: it’s noisy. And in a lot of cases, what used to work even a few years ago doesn’t really get the same results today. One of the biggest patterns I’m seeing…

There’s a difference between being good at your job and being good at managing people I’ve worked with a lot of talented managers. Smart people. Operationally sharp. Great with clients. Great under pressure. But some of them had absolutely no ability to develop people underneath them. I’ve seen passive-aggressive leadership. I’ve seen aggressive-aggressive leadership. I’ve…