From QA Engineer to AI Validation Engineer: The Career Shift Nobody Saw Coming
I've spent nineteen years in software quality engineering. I've tested telecommunications systems, retail point-of-sale platforms, healthcare billing applications, and distributed enterprise software that processes millions of transactions every day. I've seen the field change dramatically — from waterfall to agile, from manual testing to automation, from on-premise to cloud.
None of those transitions felt as disruptive as what's happening right now.
AI is not just changing how we test software. It's creating an entirely new problem that quality engineering hasn't had to solve before: who validates the AI that's doing the testing?
That question is what pushed me to start thinking differently about my own career — and about where quality engineering is heading as a discipline.
The moment I realized something was off
About a year ago, I was reviewing test results from an AI-assisted testing tool that a team I was supporting had integrated into their pipeline. The...
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