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Every guide is written by a QA engineer who has actually shipped that tool, framework, or interview loop in production — not paraphrased from vendor docs.
Editorial team
Authors & reviewers
SoftwareTestPilot is written by working QA engineers, not content mills. Every guide is authored by a practicing tester and reviewed for technical accuracy before it's published. Read our editorial policy for how we source, fact-check, and update content.
Author
Avinash Kamble
Founder & QA Engineer at SoftwareTestPilot
Avinash is a QA engineer with hands-on experience in Selenium, Playwright, and API testing. He built SoftwareTestPilot to help testers find jobs and ace interviews faster. When not writing guides, he's mentoring QA engineers in the community.
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Reviewer
Priyanka G.
Senior QA Reviewer
Priyanka is a senior QA engineer who technically reviews every guide on SoftwareTestPilot for accuracy, up-to-date framework versions, and real-world CI/CD applicability. She has 9+ years across Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, and Postman in fintech and e-commerce QA teams.
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Our editorial standards
We publish because we've shipped, broken, and fixed the same test frameworks you're debugging today. Every article follows four rules that keep it honest and useful — not SEO filler.
Technical review
Every technical article is reviewed by a senior QA engineer or SDET before publication. Code samples are executed against the current stable version, not copy-pasted from Stack Overflow.
Living content
We restamp Last Updated the moment a syllabus, tool version, or salary band changes. Deprecated advice is rewritten in place, never left to rot.
Reader-first
No affiliate padding, no vendor-sponsored takedowns. If we recommend Playwright over Cypress for a specific job, that's our honest field call — not a paid placement.
How we vet contributors
Every prospective author submits a public GitHub or portfolio link, a sample outline, and passes a 60-minute technical screen with our reviewer before their first paid brief. We prioritise engineers with 3+ years hands-on testing experience across the tool they're writing about. Interested in writing for us? Email partnerships@softwaretestpilot.com with two published samples and the topic you'd like to cover.
Frequently asked — editorial team
1.Who writes SoftwareTestPilot articles?
Working QA engineers with 5–15 years of production experience across manual, automation, API, and performance testing. Every author is named at the top of their articles with a linked bio and public LinkedIn profile.
2.Are your guides reviewed for accuracy?
Yes. Every technical article is reviewed by a senior QA engineer before publication. We validate code samples against the current stable release of each tool (Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Postman, JMeter, k6) and re-run them when a major version ships.
3.How often is content updated?
We restamp Last Updated whenever the underlying tool, salary band, or interview format shifts — typically 60–120 days for evergreen guides and immediately for breaking changes like Selenium 4.28, Playwright 1.50, or a new ISTQB syllabus revision.
4.Do you accept guest posts?
Yes, but only from practising testers. We do not publish AI-generated fluff, unlabelled sponsored content, or scraped tutorials. Pitch us with two published writing samples and a proposed outline.
5.How do I report a factual error?
Email support@softwaretestpilot.com with the article URL and the correction. We aim to acknowledge within 24 business hours and publish a fix within 72 hours, with an update note at the top of the article.
6.Do you use AI to generate content?
We use AI to accelerate research, draft outlines, and lint grammar — but every published article is written, restructured, and reviewed by a named human QA engineer. We disclose any AI-assisted section directly in the article.