Career – BleepingBugs https://bleepingbugs.com Candid Takes On QA Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:03:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://bleepingbugs.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cropped-bb_IconOnly_transparent_bg-1-32x32.webp Career – BleepingBugs https://bleepingbugs.com 32 32 How to Build the “Imperfect” QA Process https://bleepingbugs.com/how-to-build-the-imperfect-qa-process/ Sun, 24 May 2026 17:51:35 +0000 https://bleepingbugs.com/?p=809 When I got my first QA Engineer job out of college at a small financial company, I did what any new grad would do. I googled “QA process.” Then I googled “what should a QA process look like.” Then I googled “how to build a QA process from scratch.” I read a lot of articles. I got a lot of frameworks with a lot of boxes and arrows. None of it told me what to actually do on Monday morning.

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]]> QA Doesn’t Break Things https://bleepingbugs.com/qa-doesnt-break-things/ Wed, 13 May 2026 00:36:10 +0000 https://bleepingbugs.com/?p=749 Every few sprints, without fail, someone on the team makes the joke. A product manager, an engineer, someone in standup. “Watch out, QA’s gonna go break things again.” Or my personal favorite: “Can you not break it this time?” They’re laughing when they say it. I know they mean well. But every time I hear it, something bothers me that I couldn’t quite put into words for a while.

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]]> So You Want to Break Into Software QA https://bleepingbugs.com/so-you-want-to-break-into-software-qa/ Fri, 08 May 2026 05:09:00 +0000 https://bleepingbugs.com/?p=582 My entire four-year CS degree dedicated maybe two weeks to software testing. Final year. A professor assigned a group project — build a website with a partner team abroad, one person plays product manager, the rest are devs, and someone has to write a test plan. We had no idea what we were doing on the QA side. We followed the professor’s instructions, fumbled through the test cases…

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