Testing earlier pays off when it means questioning earlier too.
On the 15th of January 2026 myself and Ujjwal Kumar Singh joined a call and pressed record. We were curious to see what would happen. A few weeks later Iād done the same with Neil Taylor and Clare ...
An Individual Contributor (IC) is a role where your impact mainly comes from doing the work yourself, not from managing other people. A simple way to think about it:An IC is like a senior person on the team who still builds things. They may review work, help others, or influence decisions, but they are not responsible for running the team.In Quality Engineering, an IC might:
Test or investigate issues
Improve tooling or checks
Review work and point out risks
They create impact mostly through their own work and judgment, not through people management.
Hanisha Arora shares a real-life example of an AI workflow. It sounds cool!
It got me thinking that we need more examples of AI workflows. Do share when you find them.
Hanisha shares an essential reason to write and keep writing.
AI's impact on quality generalists vs quality specialists
Cassandra H. Leung shares the following in Module 4, Lesson 4 of the Software Quality Engineering Certificate (SQEC).
"One thing that people can start doing straight away is to talk about qualit...
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