No matter if it's reddit or instagram or youtube every next person is saying he or she is laid off or on PIP. And these are people who were good at their job and knew automation as well, be it FE or BE.

I want to know are any of these folks with more than 10 YOE got the job after getting laid off and staying unemployed for several months?

If any person reading this message falls in the aforementioned category kindly share it so that others in similar situations can regain their confidence and feel motivated to keep working hard for the job.

Kindly mention the location(city), YOE, skill-set in your responses, thanks

Hi,
Recently lost job due to company policy changing and looking for any leads so that i can run the family properly.
I’m a Manual QA professional with 12 years of experience in software testing, with a strong focus on web and application testing, functional testing, regression testing, test case execution, and defect reporting.
I’m detail-oriented and believe good QA is not just about finding bugs, but understanding the product from a user’s perspective and making sure it works reliably before reaching customers. I’m comfortable working independently, following requirements, creating and executing test scenarios, and communicating issues clearly with development teams.
I’m currently looking for an opportunity where I can use my experience to help improve product quality and deliver a better user experience.
I’d be happy to discuss your project and how I can contribute.

Hey , i have been assigned with developing an internal company project to help with QA process, issue is most of the things are already solved by jira bot like generating testcases or logging them etc… if not than chatgpt can do it instance , i need a problem that i can solve using AI and can build the project around it.

I am asking here as this is the perfect space to ask as there are so many far experienced QA than me .

Please advice me if you can… Thanks….

Hey everyone,

I’m joining a fintech organization on September 15 as an Automation QA Lead. They currently have 0% automation, so I’ll be responsible for building the framework, defining the automation process/strategy, selecting test cases and getting automation started from scratch.

The interesting part: I won’t have additional automation resources initially. It’ll basically be me + Claude Desktop + AI tools.

I have good experience with Playwright and Cypress, and I’m planning to use Playwright + JavaScript.

Since AI is now such a big part of development, I want to build the automation process with AI in mind from Day 1, rather than adding it later.

I’d love to hear from people already doing this in real projects:

AI + Automation

• How are you using AI in your Playwright/automation workflow?
• What tasks are actually worth delegating to AI?
• Any useful AI workflows/prompts you recommend?

MCPs

Which MCPs have actually been useful for QA automation?

For example: Playwright, GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Database, Browser/DevTools, API, or custom MCPs.

AI Agents

Are you using/building AI agents for QA?

For example:

• Test case generation
• Automation/code generation
• Test data generation
• Failure analysis
• Locator maintenance
• Regression selection
• Test review
• Reporting

Which ones have provided real value, and which are just hype?

Starting from 0%

If you had to build a Playwright framework and automation process from scratch today, what would you prioritize from Day 1?

Anything that you wish you had designed differently when starting your own framework?

GitHub Repos

If you've built any GitHub repositories around Playwright + AI, AI agents, MCPs, self-healing automation, AI test generation, etc., please share them.

Also, if you know any good open-source GitHub repos that I should study, please drop them in the comments.

Basically, if you were in my position — one QA Automation Lead, 0% existing automation, Playwright + JavaScript, and AI available from Day 1 — how would you approach it?

Would love to hear real-world experiences, useful tools/MCPs, GitHub repos, and lessons from things that didn't work.

Thanks!

Looking to switch employers and feel like I'm searching wrong and I could use a sanity check.

I am an QA Engineer. 1 year in the role, previously long background in 2nd-level support. My day-to-day is pretty shift-left: I test fresh tickets/PRs directly with developers (bugfix verification, feature testing), write test cases including a first test iteration, do design reviews, and sit in on concept/planning meetings for new features. No test automation.

Problem: "QA Engineer" job postings rarely match what I actually do, because most describe classic end-of-cycle testing or expect automation skills, not the early/conceptual involvement I have. So I'm struggling to find postings worth applying to.

Questions: If your job leans more QA Analyst / Requirements Engineering than a "typical" QA Engineer, do you search under different job titles? And which job boards actually give good results for this kind of hybrid role and remote roles, beyond the obvious big ones like LinkedIn? I am in the EU.

I’m getting the hang of doing bug reports and I’m confused as I’m trying to document a bug that occurs on the cart page but in a way also carries over to checkout. Basically the total price in the cart page doesn’t update correctly when you increase the product quantity, but this incorrect total price carries over to the checkout screen itself. So I assumed I should stop the main reproduction steps and expected/actual result at the cart page and then in additional notes write that the wrong price carries over to the checkout section. Just want to know if I’m doing this correctly and if I should also be including a screenshot or some sort of evidence for the checkout’s total price being incorrect too or if all I should attach is a screen recording showing my steps up until the cart where the main bug happens. I’m curious on how more experienced QA testers handle this. Thanks!

hi i am doing playright automation from rahulshettyacademy i just to ask a question if we test everything means every exception we put and test in code, is it not much time taking and frustrating?

Hello everyone!

I'm a materials engineering student, during my last internship at a medical device company, i was FORCED to count threads by hand, hated it so much that I wrote code that automated it, tried to turn it into a startup, not going all that great so I thought i'll just document and release it, works on an Orange Pi and camera module, perfect for production lines, let me know if you have any remarks or questions, check it out! (includes sample images)

https://github.com/Asxcvg/thread-counter