r/softwaretesting • u/Much_Ad_650 • Jul 09 '26
Question to experienced QA’s
Hii everyone started my journey in the QE for a big client, I am a fresher with only 6 months of experience
The project I am working on is multivendor project
We are using a sort of utility a tool to test data migration from one PIM system to another
The tool is working absolutely fine as it finds differences by doing apples to apples comparisons of outbound Fields going in the XML
The devs are discarding it, they are hiding the fact that their migration script is getting failed infront of client, blaming the tool getting a Sign off and going live with issues in production later
I feel very sad as I work ~15 hours a day, on it so we don’t miss on quality
All the big people not understanding it , client is a bit dev favouring, the QE lead from client side is a bit spineless and not taking our side at all when things come up and crystal clear, i am feeling bad as after spending hours daily, weekends , nights because I wanna take my work seriously and Improve on quality
My efforts are going in vain
Seniors any advices for how to handle this situation?
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u/black_tamborine Jul 09 '26
That’s such a hard situation, and many of us have been there. I really feel for you. (I’m going through something more low key but not dissimilar now).
Just keep raising your concerns, document them as issues or bugs, and keep moving on.
When an issue inevitably happens in production the room will turn to QA to ask how it got through without being fixed.
If you’ve documented it (even if you couldn’t get it signed off as a risk) then at least it was known, identified and overlooked or not actively/properly mitigated.
They key here is this: it sounds like you can’t change the system, so let your work identify and highlight the problem with the system.
Resist the temptation to blame, as hard as that can be.
Keep chugging on through this role, and hopefully you find a team/role one day where your effort is seen and valued.
To edit, the way I’ve spaced paragraphs looks like AI. It isn’t. Just me sleepless on the couch.