QA Fundamentals & Best Practices
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Casino Game QA Testing: What I Learned Using Claude as a Collaborator on a Real Project
A field report from an active casino game QA engagement. New domain, unfamiliar terminology, and AI as a thinking partner not a shortcut.
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QA Career Growth & Leadership
Many developers started in QA. If you're considering a transition, your skills in debugging, test automation, and risk analysis already give you…
Advanced Testing Techniques
A meme about simple math uncovered a QA oversight most testers never check: operator precedence and logic grouping. Here's what I learned—and…
QA Career Growth & Leadership
Every QA has tried pasting requirements into ChatGPT and calling it AI-assisted testing. One model, one pass, no review. That is not…
QA Frameworks, Tools, & Debugging
Testing across Windows, macOS, and mobile devices means paying for annotation tools on every platform doesn't scale. Discover the free, built-in screenshot…
QA Career Growth & Leadership
You’ve handled QA, PM, and Scrum. But the more hats you wear, the heavier the mental load. Here’s why sprint anxiety hits…
Strategic QA Leadership & Process Optimization
As the Head of Quality Assurance (QA) and Assistant Project Manager (PM), I’ve seen firsthand how the diverse traits of team members—whether…
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QAJourney on Substack
Tactical QA breakdowns, automation workflow posts, and field notes delivered when it matters. No filler.
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Playwright // browser automation
How to Optimize Playwright Scripts for Performance Testing
Why Your UI Breaks in Production (And How Playwright Catches It First)
Playwright Codegen: When Automation Records Garbage (And What to Actually Do)
Automate Like a Pro: Real-World QA Testing with Playwright (No CI/CD Required)
I’m Not an Automation Engineer, But Here’s How I Use Playwright to Boost QA Anyway
Cypress // end-to-end testing
Selenium // web automation
API Testing // backends & integrations
Manual Testing // human-first QA
Manual vs Automated Testing: When and Why to Use Each Approach
I Was an Automation Engineer, But as a QA Lead, I Still Prefer Manual Testing
The Manual Testing Skills That Make You Better at Automation
The Lost Art of Debugging in QA: Why It’s More Than Just Finding Bugs
AI-Assisted Manual Testing: The Hidden Power Combo Most QA Teams Ignore
Beyond Happy and Sad Paths: Testing for Real Users, Not Perfect Ones
AI-Assisted QA // modern testing stack
Production-Ready QA Prompts: The Copy-Paste Library
Training AI to Think Like a QA: A Real-World Testing Approach
AI QA Workflow: A Structured System for Testing with AI
AI for QA Is Still Just a Glorified Search Engine
QA and the Future – AI, Automation, and Trends You Need to Watch
Balancing Manual, Automation, and AI-Driven Testing in Real-World Projects
Regression Testing // stability systems
Shift-Left & CI/CD // build pipelines
The Shift-Left Testing Revolution: Embedding QA into Agile for Better Software Quality
Guerrilla QA: Testing in the Real World (Not Silicon Valley)
Branch-Level QA: How We Test Pull Requests Before Code Review
Traditional vs Modern QA: Why Hybrid QA Methodologies Actually Work
QA Environment Setup (2025): Cloud-First When Roaming, WSL on the Workstation
Hands-On Labs // test it yourself
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Explore our public repo of test cases, sample scripts, and CI/CD experiments. Fork and run.
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