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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
(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…
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…
A beginner’s journey from a 500-line Program.cs to cleaner, separated code.This comes from my learnings so far and sharing what’s starting to click as I build The Enchanted Garden, a cozy C# game to learn object-oriented programming The Problem: Program.cs…
Why cutting QA right now is backwardsInsights from the field: a conversation with Lucas Smit, AI Forward SDET Over the past few months, I’ve been hearing the same patterns across the QA market: layoffs, impossible reqs, and a growing belief…
