r/QualityAssurance

Hi everyone, I have 5 years of experience as a software tester (both manual and automation) in the automotive industry, and I'm looking to transition into website automation testing. I'm already learning Playwright and Postman, and the progress has been good so far, thanks to some background in programming. However, I’m struggling to land a new job in this field in Germany.

I guess the main problem is that I don't yet have any professional experience working with the tech stacks that many companies in web automation are using. I’m not sure how to make my profile stand out.

Has anyone here made a similar transition? What can I do to make my profile more attractive to companies, even without experience in their specific tech stack? How to find any small chunk of real-world experience in the domain? What other keywords should I learn?

Any tips on how to break into the industry would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a lot.

I am a QA with around 2 YOE. I fear losing my job because I know how difficult it is to find one in this market.

There has been massive push for usage and incorporation of AI in our QA team. What should I be doing at this point to sustain my job or switch to a better one.

I am in the process of learning how any automation framework as a whole works and be able to implement it from scratch. These are the responsibilities of an SDET, will this transition be enough to reach my goal. What are you doing in your case to keep your job?

Looking for honest feedback. I know the job market is tough so I want to ensure I am not wasting my time making app after app if my resume isn't the best it could be. I have 5 YOE. Please let me know and I can dm it over

I've been thinking about test ROI lately. We all have suites with dozens or hundreds of tests, but if I'm honest, most of them just confirm that things still work the way they always did.

But every now and then there's that one test — the one that actually caught a real bug before it hit production. The one that justified the entire automation effort.

What's yours? What did it catch, and why do you think your other tests missed it?

I'll start: mine was a cross-layer integration test that verified data consistency between the API and the database. Every UI test passed, the API returned 201, but the DB had silently rejected the insert because of a CHECK constraint. Without that specific test, it would have looked like a perfectly green pipeline.

Curious what patterns come up — I'm guessing most "hero tests" are integration or E2E, not unit tests.

Hi everyone I have been working as a manual tester from past 4.5 years but I learnt some essential skills like selenium, java , rest assured and built some projects too. I attended few interviews but somehow not getting callback . Need help in referral if some can help me with this then we can take this conversation forward via email.