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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
