As a QA engineer, I’ve always understood that software testing isn’t just about clicking buttons and verifying outputs—it’s about understanding the entire system. Early in my career, when tests failed, I often relied on screenshots, logs, and manual exploration to figure out the root cause. This worked most of the time, but intermittent failures, …
Debugging at the Network Level: A Game-Changer for QA Insights Read More »
As a QA engineer, I’ve spent countless hours running tests, logging defects, and communicating with developers. Over time, one truth became painfully clear: a failed test without evidence is almost useless. Screenshots, logs, HAR files, and execution videos are not just nice-to-haves—they are the backbone of trust, accountability, and efficiency in QA. Early in …
Why Test Evidence Is the Real Game-Changer for QA Teams Read More »
As a QA engineer, one of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned is that defects are not just problems—they’re opportunities. Every bug reported in a release represents a gap in coverage, a scenario that wasn’t previously considered. Early in my career, once a defect was fixed, it was often left at that—verified manually and …
Automated Tests: Turning Reported Defects into a QA Best Practice Read More »
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 »
