Playing to Your Strengths: Navigating the Modern Quality Engineering Job Market - Into the MoTaverse - Episode 5

In this episode, Rosie Sherry sits down with Nataliia Burmei to talk candidly about navigating today’s tech job market, building confidence in leadership roles, and redefining what quality really means.

Nataliia shares her recent experience of what brought on the the decision of making the brave move of leaving a role without a new one to go to.

Together they explored refining CVs and building tangible technical proof, to learning how to “sell shamelessly” by leading with strengths. She reflects on the mental game of job hunting, especially how confidence fluctuates after rejection or redundancy, and why mindset can matter as much as skill.

They explore:

• Why job descriptions are often the least helpful part of the process
• Questions Nataliia asks hiring managers to uncover real challenges
• Why companies should build strategy collaboratively instead of “selling” it
• The difference between transactional testing and creative quality work
• How community and giving back build deeper confidence than just consuming knowledge