Does an internship in manual QA testing lock me into a career in QA in the future?
I am afraid that the best internship I got this summer was a manual QA internship. I tried really hard but just could not get any technical role. I dont see myself working in QA in the future, I want to get a SWE or Data Engineer internship + job.
I just wanted to ask, does taking this QA role actually affect my future opportunities in SWE or Data Engineering, and should I still take this role (it is my only "CS related" role). I am mostly afraid that in the future I will continue to be put into QA roles (whether that be during team matching, the internships that accept me, etc.) since the very first "actual" experience that I had was in QA. I do have an unpaid internship in PM and an unpaid undergraduate research experience where I programmed a computer vision tool, but I just dont know if those are considered "official" work since those didn't even help me get a SWE role after 700 applications.