As a QA engineer, I’ve spent countless hours compiling test results, screenshots, logs, and defect lists into endless spreadsheets and emails. In the early days of my career, generating a single manual test report often felt like a project of its own. You run the tests, take screenshots, note failures, add them to a document, summarize …
From Manual Reports to Automated Dashboards: A QA Transformation Read More »
As a tester, one of the most frustrating parts of my day used to be release sign-off. It wasn’t just the testing itself—it was the ritual of meetings, emails, manual report compilations, and chasing teams for evidence. Every release felt like a herculean task, not because the software was complicated, but because the process of signing …
Automating Release Sign-Offs: No More Endless Meetings Read More »
Early in my journey as a tester, I quickly realized that not all test failures are created equal. Some were real bugs—valid defects that needed fixing—but many others were false failures, caused not by the application itself, but by chaotic deployment schedules, unstable environments, or overlapping builds. These false failures were draining. I spent …
How Scheduling Deployments Saved Our QA from False Failures Read More »
As a tester, I’ve spent countless hours staring at a screen, waiting for tests to finish on a single machine. Daily sanity checks, regression suites—they all felt like slow, painful marathons. Our QA process was bottlenecked by serial execution, and with tight release cycles, delays were inevitable. It was clear: we needed speed without compromising quality. That’s when we turned …
Early in my testing career, I had a simple mantra: if a test fails, throw in a Thread.sleep()—long enough to let the page load or an element appear. It seemed harmless at first. After all, what could go wrong with a few seconds of patience? Turns out, everything could go wrong. Over time, I learned the …
If you’ve worked in QA long enough, you know that test data can make or break your automation efforts. It sounds simple: just feed your tests some input values and check the output. But in reality, creating and maintaining reliable test data is one of the hardest parts of building stable automation. When I started my journey as a tester, we relied …
How Faker + APIs Made Our Test Data Creation 10x Faster Read More »
Introduction In the world of Quality Assurance (QA), decision-making often relies on evidence rather than assumptions. Whether it’s validating a new feature, analyzing defect trends, or confirming a performance improvement, QA engineers must rely on statistical thinking. That’s where hypothesis testing comes in — a structured approach to validate assumptions with data. This method, widely …
Hypothesis Testing in QA: Step-By-Step Guide With Real Examples Read More »
Introduction – The Real Challenge Nobody Talks About Every engineering team eventually faces this question: 👉 “How do we test with production-like data without putting sensitive information at risk?” I faced this challenge in one of my recent projects. The business demanded realistic data in test environments to ensure quality, but the compliance team was …
How to Secure Testing with Production-Like Data Using Azure Key Vault Read More »
Introduction: “I Was Just a QA…” You know that moment when you’re closing your sprint, running regression, and a bug slips into production? You feel it — that sinking sense of “I missed something.” I used to think catching bugs was enough. But over time, the bugs changed. They weren’t just UI glitches or broken …
From Quality Assurance to Cyber Defense: A QA’s Journey into the World of SOC Read More »
Setting the Context The journey to becoming a Head of QA is rarely linear. It demands not only deep technical expertise, but also a global business mindset, a drive for continuous innovation, and an ability to influence change across complex organizations. Recently, during a podcast and a candid conversation with a fellow leader, I …
The Making of a Head of QA My Leadership Lessons and Answers Read More »
