So does anyone here also actually still like their QA job (currently?)
I'm seeing so many posts how people are getting burnout, or getting frustrated/scared of AI takeover, or just not being able to get a job.
Maybe my company acts a bit different from the norm but I still find there's a good balance of ongoing and growing mix of manual and automation with AI mostly just used as assistance for test case creation, and maybe some automation coding.
We still do things like a mix of proper test prep, test rail creation, general good use of sprint and monthly release timing, and a good mix of dev/test coordination and while DEV still makes their own unit tests ultimately QA/Test Team still plays a big part of controlled testing.
Obviously no job is perfect, but in the 7+ years I've been working I like how relatively stable things to be here since proper "test thought" is always a priority for QA team and just using the right mix of manual and automation testing (hell half our team is still mostly/only manual testing)
It does help our system is pretty data sensitive so it would be risky to go the full-on AI approach but so far there's no worry of AI takeover or job security from what I see (provided continue to do good job of course).