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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I spoke with Jay, a Senior Quality Engineer who has spent years working across QA automation, SDET, DevOps, and multiple generations of automation frameworks. One thing that stood out to me was how differently he thinks about the SDET role…
Years ago, I remember talking to a candidate about a .NET role. I explained the opportunity and his response was basically, “No, no. I’m a Java guy.” At the time, that didn’t seem particularly unusual. But I don’t think that…
