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When to Stand Your Ground — and When to Let Go
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When to Stand Your Ground — and When to Let Go

Not every disagreement needs to be 'won.' But every disagreement needs to be understood. Learn when to fight for quality and when strategic compromise serves the product better.

What Kind of Developer Tester Are You?
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What Kind of Developer Tester Are You?

Discover your testing personality and learn how to leverage your unique strengths in software quality assurance.

Little Rules, Big Impact: 10 principles I follow to write better tests
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Little Rules, Big Impact: 10 principles I follow to write better tests

Clean tests don't just pass — they teach, communicate, and scale. Discover the 10 core principles that keep tests consistent, meaningful, and maintainable.

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How to structure your playwright project for Scale, Sanity, and Speed

Your Playwright test suite will either scale beautifully or become a debugging nightmare — and it all starts with how you organize it.

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QA Career Roadmap

Your path to growth in quality assurance

0-2 years

Junior QA Engineer

Key Skills:

  • Manual Testing
  • Test Case Design
  • Bug Reporting
  • Basic SQL
2-4 years

Mid-level QA Engineer

Key Skills:

  • Test Automation Basics
  • API Testing
  • Test Planning
  • CI/CD Familiarity
4-7 years

Senior QA Engineer

Key Skills:

  • Advanced Automation
  • Performance Testing
  • Test Architecture
  • Mentoring
7+ years

QA Lead / Manager

Key Skills:

  • Test Strategy
  • Team Management
  • Process Improvement
  • Quality Metrics

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