Eve Daley

I've been in the QA field for 12 years, and it's been a journey with its ups and downs. My field is QA, the team that does the final testing after development is done. One of the challenges is that whenever there's financial challenges with the company, QA seems to be the first team that they feel can become obsolete because they can get their developers to test. So the challenge with QA is to try to move yourself up to more of a management-level position, because the role can become something based on the budget that they'll just take off. But other than that, it's really a great field to be in. My typical day looks like logging in and getting a sense of what are some of the showstopper issues or blocker issues that my team is dealing with, in order to be that person to remove the blockers or move things forward by bringing together the team that needs to help resolve the issue. When there's a defect or an issue in production or in a lower environment, I work to get that to move forward and be resolved, making sure that issue is no longer reproducible, and basically supporting my team and making sure that they're successful in completing their work by the end of the day. What I love most about my career is the opportunity to learn new technology. Being in software development and QA testing of new software, we tend to be on the cutting edge of any technological advancement, so right now AI being one of them. Being in the group that's actually developing and testing, you get access to the technology pretty quickly, so you're able to ramp up and become an expert on new technology very quickly in this role.