u/Lucky_Mom1018

I’m a career changer about 5 years ago hired for manual tester and offered the chance to learn Selenium and Python. Self taught, but created a test suite for the project I manually tested and caught the coding bug. Ended up moving into a PO role last year but my heart is in QA and coding. With the rise of AI, I see a gap where Manual testers can’t keep up with faster dev output and I believe automation fills this gap. Of course, it does. No, the dev team won’t touch automation despite it being the obvious solution. Thats neither here nor there.

I’ve decided I want to return to automation, learn PW, transition the current test suite and fill in the gap. I just need to learn PTS and PW.

I have to much to learn and catch up on. Where do you recommend I start? AI didn’t exist when I was using Selenium. I know a little TS and a little PW, but it’s been a year since I did any automation. I’d love to hear you’re must watch videos, tutorials, blogs, etc. what helped you learn?

What do you wish you had known before?

I’ve been on pellets for one round and my libido was great. The crash was not. Switched to cream and it’s doing zero for me. Starting injections tomorrow to hopefully have a little libido, better muscle recovery and more energy.

I'm on a team at my company that is tasked with getting as many people as possible in both technical and non-technical roles to use AI in their workflows. Of course there are early adoptors and those more reluctant. Those with tons of time to "play" and those that are swampted and have no time to learn something new.

How is your company going about transition to AI and getting everyone on board? What's working? Not working? Who is in charge of the transformation? How are you spreading info? What is your missing and goals for transformation to an AI-first company?

My company is 100% on board with Claude code nd mandating that everyone is it for absolutely everything they can. The managers are all technical devs. They use it for code. I don’t code as part of my job (but I can). They expect me up to use Claude code a significant part of my day, but at the same time not take over QA or dev’s jobs.

My job is mostly talking to stakeholders holders and solving problems with features. I don’t see how Claude can do that? Am I wrong?

I also do all BA work, writing acceptance criteria nd wire framing. I know how to have Claude help with that.

Lastly, documentation and release notes. Would love to have Claude take over, but I can’t figure out how to have Cowork connect to azure devops to do them for me.

Any hints or help? How else are you using Claude for your daily work?