QA Career & SDET Library
Everything TestGuild has covered on QA careers and the SDET path, including hiring, skills, and growth advice, gathered from articles, webinars, podcasts, courses, and conference talks.
New to QA Career & SDET? Start with our guide →Articles (20)
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What Is an SDET? Skills & Career Guide for 2026
Sep 1, 2026 article
AI Testing in 90 Days: A Strategic Guide for CTOs and QA Leaders
May 28, 2025 article
How to Level-Up Your Testing Skills with Security
Oct 5, 2020 article
Future of AI in Testing (Will You Be Replaced?)
Sep 13, 2018 article
Tribute to Gerald Weinberg: Testing is Harder than Development
Aug 10, 2018 article
Top Resources for Test Automation Engineers (Not Blogs)
Aug 2, 2018Show all 20 articles
- How to Pass an Automation Testing Coding Interview
- How QA Testers are Discovering Performance Testing
- Communication Skills For Testers: Why it’s important
- Why Testers Have Screwed Themselves
- Becoming a Test Catalyst – Ways to Ignite Your Team!
- Why Testing is Harder than Developing [PODCAST]
- A Quality Leadership Institute [PODCAST]
- Managing Test Teams in the 21st Century [PODCAST]
- Becoming a Next Gen Tester [PODCAST]
- Smarter Testing Through Smarter Testers [PODCAST]
- Software Craftsmanship Revenge of the SDET [PODCAST]
- Schools of Testing [PODCAST]
- What Selenium Programming Language You Should Learn
- Testing Lessons Learned at Microsoft with Alan Page
Webinars (6)
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From Manual QA to Automation Engineer Using AI
Nov 21, 2024 webinar
TESTER 4.0: The Journey to Becoming a Test Superhero
Nov 19, 2024 webinar
AI Basics For Testers
Oct 31, 2024 webinar
Upskill Your Testing Team
Jun 25, 2024 webinar
Why Get Hired as a Tester?
Dec 14, 2023 webinar
Learn How to Become a Java SDET, with ZERO Coding Experience or a College Degree
Jul 13, 2023Podcasts (85)
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5 AI Projects Every SDET Should Be Building, Jev , AI Agent Hacks and more TGNS195
Sep 21, 2026 podcast
How to Stay Irreplaceable When Agents Write Your Tests with Jonathon Wright
Sep 15, 2026 podcast
Test Automation Won’t Save Your QA Career, but These Skills Will with Keith Klain
Jul 28, 2026 podcast
AI Testing Strategy: Stop Being a Cost Center, Start Protecting Revenue with Nandini Srinivasan
Jul 22, 2026 podcast
Is AI Coming for Testers, or Are You About to Win Big? TGNS188
Jun 15, 2026 podcast
The AI Illusion: Why Testing Still Needs Humans with Joe Colantonio
Jun 9, 2026Show all 85 podcasts
- Scaling Quality Engineering: How to Deliver Faster Across Global Teams
- AI Testing: How Solo Testers Stay Confident in Releases with Christine Pinto
- Balancing Speed and Quality in the AI Era with Jim Trentadue
- AI Won’t Replace Great Test Leaders with Mike Lyles
- From Testing to DevOps – A Career Move That Makes Sense with Maciek Konkolowicz
- From the Trenches to the Boardroom: Making QE Matter to the C-Suite with Parasar Saha
- How to Grow your Career in Cybersecurity with Grant McCracken
- Building a Career in QA with Judy Mosley
- AI’s Impact on Testing Careers with Jason Arbon
- From Laid Off to Employed (Survival Guide) with Robert Lukenbill
- From Manual QA to Automation Engineer Using AI with Tal Barmeir and Sapnesh Naik
- Solving Test Automation Challenges (2025 Guide) with Chris Trimper
- The Software Tester’s Journey with Nicola Lindgren and Vernon Richards
- From Code to Leadership with Evan Niedojadlo
- Cross Platform Testing, Tester 4.0, Playwright Salesforce and More TGNS142
- 99 Testing Resources, Automation Certifications, DORA Report and More TGNS139
- Why Security Testing is an important skill for a QEs with Boris Arapovic
- Testing Beyond Bugs to Unlock Growth with Gojko Adzic
- Transforming Test Engineering in Rwanda with Greg Paskal
- A Day In The Life With Dev Op with Michael Martinez
- Browser Conference, OpenSource LLM Testing, Up-skill Test AI, and more TGNS125
- How to Hire Good Testers and Stand Out as a Top Candidate with Paul Merrill
- First AI software tester, Will You Be Replaced and more TGNS116
- Awesome Software Testing Strategies with Matthew Heusser and Michael Larsen
- From Unemployment to Upskilling with Greg Paskal
- From Shy Introvert to Influential Tester with Raj Subrameyer
- Learning Journeys for Testers with Mark Winteringham and Richard Bradshaw
- Breaking the Code: Game Test Automation, IoT, and QA Interview Improvements TGNS90
- Training and Career Paths for Testers (Become a SDET) with Kuzzat Altay
- New DevTest Community, DevOps Culture and More! TGNS81
- QA Agents of Change with Lisette Zounon
- How to Develop Customer First Testing Teams with Phillip Talbot
- Layoffs, AI in the Real world and More! TGNS72
- Automation Trends to Watch in 2023 with Joe Colantonio
- Testing AI for Bias, Selenium 4.5, SRE Career and More! TGN61
- Upcoming Software Testing Crisis? Skill You Need and MoreTGNS51
- What is Quality Engineering with Dan Belcher
- 14 Most in-demand tech job for Testers TGNS38
- Books for Testers and Zen TGNS34
- The Complete Software Tester with Kristin Jackvony
- Quality Influencer with Parveen Khan
- How does Facebook Scale Automation TGNS19
- Building an SRE Process from the Ground Up with Evan Niedojadlo
- Who Wants to Become a Testing Millionaire
- E2E Testing News for Week of July 18
- Future of Work with Raj Subrameyer
- Automation Testing Trends for 2021
- Career Advancement for Testers with Raj Subrameyer
- Leading Quality with Ronald Cummings-John
- Educating Future Generations of Testers with Simon Prior
- Cyber Security Job Hunting with Owanate Bestman
- Switching from QE to Product Security with Dwayne Thomas
- Security and Certifications with Nancy Gariché
- Making the Move from SDET to SRE with Evan Niedojadlo
- Open Source Apprentice Program with Tracy Lee & Moshe Milman
- Become a Testing Superhero with Stacy Kirk
- What’s it like to be a Site Reliability Engineer with Laura Stone
- 266: Automation Journey and TestNG with Rex Jones II
- 264: Finding Your Community with Julie Laursen, Joel Hendershott, Evan Niedojadlo
- 263: So You Want to Be a SeleniumConf Speaker with Marcus Merrell
- 259: New Way To Learn Test Automation with Angie Jones
- 253: The Life of a Solo Automation Engineer with Chris Kenst
- 207: Test Leadership in Agile with Anna Royzman
- 185: Automation Trends for 2018 with Angie Jones, Gil Tayar, Richard Bradshaw
- 169: Critical Thinking in Testing with JeanAnn Harrison
- 161: The Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide with John Sonmez
- 142: Automation Code for Cash with Zack Burt
- 125: Communication Skills for Testing and Life with Damian Synadinos
- 116: Modern Testing for the 21st Century with Andy Tinkham
- 113: Why We Needs More Women & Minorities in Tech with Angie Jones
- 100: Testing IS Harder than Developing with Gerald Weinberg
- 93: Anna Royzman: A Quality Leadership Institute
- 92: Perze Ababa: Managing Test Teams in the 21st Century
- 88: Mike Lyles: Becoming a Next Gen Tester
- 87: Joe Colantonio: Test Automation Trends for 2016 and Beyond
- 82: Scott Nimrod: Software Craftsmanship – Revenge of the SDET
- 36: John Sonmez: The Software Developer’s Life Manual
- 20 : Rosie Sherry : Founder of The Software Testing Club Reveals Her Secrets on Testing and Life
- 16: Danielle Louise Warman: QA engineer at ASOS with a passion for fashion and technology
Talks (19)
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Anna Patterson: Be the CEO of Your Testing Career
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Be the CEO of Your Testing Career (Anna Patterson)
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Frank Moyer: Use AI to Accelerate Your Career and Outpace Others
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From Angsty to Able: How to Take the First Steps into Your Automation Journey (Judy Mosley)
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Guardians of QE in a Brave New AI World (Bill Hayden)
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How to build AI habits across the QA team (Karime Salomon)
Show all 19 talks
- Judy Mosley: From Angsty to Able: How to Take the First Steps into Your Automation Journey
- Karime Salomon: How to build AI habits across the QA team
- Paul Turchinetz: How to Win Leaders and Champion Automation
- Christine Pinto: Debug Your Career: How I Hacked My Way from QA to CTO
- Jon Robinson: From Stuck to Stellar: Transform Your QA (Workshop)
- Muhammad Jassim Munir: Career growth – Thinking beyond automation
- Richard, Mike, Vernon – Roundtable Talk: How to Succeed as a Tester in 2025
- Robert Lukenbill: Laid Off – Now what do I do?
- Becoming An Automation Craftsman (Greg Paskal)
- From Manual to Automated: Introduction to Coding for QA Testers (Marjorie Ivy)
- The Path To Becoming A Test Automation Rockstar! (Lee Barnes)
- Dwayne Thomas: Switching from QE to Product Security
- Eran Kinsbruner: Future-Proofing Testers in the Age of AI, ML, and Bots