QA Market Watch
Spoke with Liv Brandt this afternoon, a BDM over at Axiom Path, and she gave me a quick peek into her req load. She’s been actively placing QE talent across her client base over the last 6 months, but a…
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LoopQA Hiring Intel: What 1 Week of Applications Looks Like
I spoke with Ryan @ LoopQA today about their hiring process. We pulled up a past requisition and walked through it: the role received 110 applications in 1 week. Here’s how the early funnel breaks down: Initial screening filters focus…
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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…
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…
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…
Credit Karma’s QA Bench Is Strong
Phone’s ringing from folks over @ Credit Karma after the Intuit layoffs. Hearing a decent number of senior QA engineers were impacted. If you’re hiring and looking for strong quality engineering talent, I’d take a look at the CK roster.…
QA Market Watch: Current Signals
I’ve heard great things about The Hartford from my engineering community over the years. I noticed a couple good lookin’ QA gigs open on their site here locally (R2623925-166 && R2624556-166). I spoke with a few engineers there today who…
Eng Leaders: Scaling QA for AI Systems
One of the more interesting conversations I sat in on recently wasn’t about building AI workflows. It was about maintaining them. Ovidius AI was discussing a challenge I think a lot of AI implementation firms run into: How do you…