Ten Years in Test, Three Different Worlds: What I Learned Moving from Web to Embedded to AI
The first half of my career was Selenium. The second half so far has been Fire TV streaming sticks and an AI bug triage agent. Those sentences look unrelated until you realize they're both test engineering, and then they look unrelated for a different reason: each one demands a completely different mental model of what your job actually is.
This is an observation about the field, not a how-to-pivot guide. I am not going to tell you what to study or which certifications to chase. I am going to tell you what each of these worlds demands, what travels between them, and what doesn't. Because the test engineering field is in the middle of a quiet transition right now, and I think a lot of people are about to find themselves on the wrong side of it without realizing why.
World one: web automation, where the bug is in the...
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