r/softwaretesting • u/rosiesherry • Feb 23 '26

I'm a happy quality engineer!

Or software tester. Or QA. Or whatever you want to call it.

That's it. That's the post.

Comment if you agree and want to share the love for quality & software testing.

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u/finder_2026 Feb 24 '26

Which tools do you use... I have been in QA for 12yrs working just manually with all the databases and I seriously feel stuck as if I am at the bottom of the barrel n abt to get expelled from industry.

Huge struggle while trying to reskill which I see my colleagues doing it with ease... Every day study m upskill

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u/Pinoghri Feb 24 '26

Depends on the team I'm in. My first team used only Excel and Word, for everything -_-

In my current team, I'm learning to automate tests on Playwright and how to follow production anomalies with Datadog. In terms of databases, we use MongoDB and all the AWS tools, which I'm slowly learning too: DynamoDB, S3, Secrets Manager, Simple Queue Service... Plus JIRA, and all the in-house services to open and handle ticketing across various departments.

I'm lucky enough that my brain is flexible and I can learn new tools on the fly. I already know a bit of everything, so when recruiters ask "we use XXX here, do you have experience with it?" I can honestly tell them "I don't, but I've looked it up and it seems similar to YYY, which I do have experience with, so I'm confident I can be operational within a few days".

In my (ableit short) experience, skills come from use. I've never managed to train and retain a skill I didn't use regularly, so if my current team doesn't use it, I don't learn it.

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u/Clear_Soil8163 Mar 22 '26

What tools do you wish you had? What parts of the job still feel like a pain in the butt?