QAJourney is written by Jaren Cudilla, a QA Engineer based in the Philippines with five years of hands-on experience across manual testing, test automation, QA leadership, and process design.
At Proudcloud, Jaren progressed from Software QA Test Engineer to QA Lead to Head of QA and Project Manager across nearly five years running sprint ceremonies, building and mentoring QA teams, and maintaining test pipelines across multiple concurrent live projects. During that time he reduced QA reject rates from 49% to 15% through process redesign, ranked first in production points across the team, and designed a QA hiring filter that screened 51 applicants in two hours with zero ad spend.
His testing stack includes Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, k6, and Burp Suite. JavaScript is primary, Python secondary.
QAJourney exists because most QA content is written from certification checklists and idealized frameworks. This site documents how QA actually works under pressure, with real deadlines, broken specs, and imperfect systems.
Jaren also runs EngineeredAI.net, a practical AI tools and workflows publication, and the broader CTRL+ALT+SURVIVE content network. He has been building on the web since 2007.
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