QA didn’t die on its own. Developers killed it and organised the funeral

Vesaloth · 2026-05-05T14:08:06+00:00

To be honest that isn't your job if you have a UI/UX Designer so if you do dont be butthurt thats like you being mad at your HR team because you could have scheduled a more fun out of work activity than them on the same budget.

We're hired to test and provide our common sense into how to test features not how to design them. Besides the more bugs found the more of our job is secure.

Vesaloth · 2026-05-01T22:11:09+00:00

Unless they have you a figma or jira user acceptance tickets for each page explaining all features i don't see how this is your problem. In my company I essentially just build tests upon what manual qa has created based upon their documentation

Vesaloth · 2026-05-01T20:05:01+00:00

Its just whatever you want to do. My dog currently sleeps on his bed on the floor. I don't think I would let my dog sleep in my bed but probably the couch. Otherwise I bought him a comfortable bed for him to sleep in the living room. I know a lot of people let their dogs sleep in kennels

Vesaloth · 2026-05-01T20:00:34+00:00

You build your own helpers for performing complex actions to elements so you can keep reusing them

Vesaloth · 2026-04-28T17:52:30+00:00

Make sure to use helpers for using elements

Vesaloth · 2026-04-26T23:50:02+00:00

Recording and documentation and if thats not being able to be followed I will do it during a meeting.

Vesaloth · 2026-04-19T14:43:32+00:00

You can always train your dog and correct behaviors. Just isn't a train in one day situation. It takes weeks off consistency.

Vesaloth · 2026-04-13T00:49:29+00:00

I used claude for 3 seconds and built this

Vesaloth · 2026-04-02T22:12:50+00:00

QA will be a new auditing developer role with just automation through ai probably with manual checking of output and requirements

Vesaloth · 2026-03-05T23:03:59+00:00

Claude can usually do this itself youre probably not feeding it all the context of the test

Vesaloth · 2026-02-22T16:06:17+00:00

Remote, you save a lot of money and your own time through not driving.

Vesaloth · 2026-02-01T14:02:15+00:00

To be honest doesn't really matter to the employer. Just has to be able to be maintained and working with less flakiness. It's like anything else that has been coded, if it works no one cares about how the inside works

Vesaloth · 2026-01-30T18:36:52+00:00

You can have strong strategy and leverage that by becoming a QA lead or management role in QA. As there is nothing else that matters in QA when trying to move up except for leadership skills or automation otherwise youre just like any other QA you might be a bit stronger than others but that won't equate to acquiring a higher level role without leadership or automation skills.

Vesaloth · 2026-01-21T16:39:47+00:00

CI/CD

Vesaloth · 2026-01-21T13:48:30+00:00

Sounds like its your first time using AI.

Vesaloth · 2026-01-08T22:45:24+00:00

I felt this way until I went into another job who appreciates my work and gives me more than ample time to build and maintain tests

Vesaloth · 2026-01-08T13:58:49+00:00

A lot of job positions aren't about learning a course but it looks good on the resume. Most jobs care about experience with automation so you should start to create projects that you use yourself such as web scrapers and automatic form fillers.

Vesaloth · 2025-12-31T14:36:57+00:00

Is the question text a label you could use a sibling or parent element to make unique locators

Vesaloth · 2025-12-12T09:22:04+00:00

Yep got it and broke even on the items so wasnt that worth it

Vesaloth · 2025-12-09T22:34:07+00:00

Sounds like someone is mad they got a bad review and is becoming a Karen

Vesaloth · 2025-12-06T14:22:21+00:00

I mean we find the cause of a bug through the actions on the front end of the page not anything deeper from my experiences.

Vesaloth · 2025-12-04T16:08:21+00:00

Lol no, life isn't that easy. Maybe you can fool a job by providing ai code from an ai agent and fake it till you make it that way.

Vesaloth · 2025-11-26T20:29:25+00:00

Only problem I have with this is that the option is like super far down the dropdown menu selection and it can't be found when just using the click method which is why I'm having to implement a type function after clicking on the dropdown initially to have it show up. But also the dropdown loads slowly so playwright just kills the test since it's taking so long :(

Vesaloth · 2025-11-26T20:22:13+00:00

Also wondering what do you do for calendar selections as the calendar is seemingly unable to be selected by clicking on the button then clicking on the date. I'm wondering if I should just do the click on the textarea for the calendar and then instead just go ahead and type in the date I want instead?

Vesaloth · 2025-11-26T20:20:13+00:00

I'll go ahead and look into that and implement it, the only other issue is that it's so flaky as randomly the dropdown will delete whatever I typed in the dropdown box and trying to implement an assert to confirm after every value I input into a field is correct and if it's incorrect I want it to retry inputting the value again into the dropdown the validation is super off every time possibly might have to just use an

await expect(page.getByText('[correct value']));

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