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India: moving from services QA to a product / remote QA role — how?
5 years in a services company in Pune, mostly manual + some Selenium. Comp is fine but the work is Jira-ticket-shaped and I want to grow. Trying to move into a product company or a…
Postman vs REST Assured for API test automation?
Team of 6 QAs, half Java-heavy, half JS-heavy. Currently split: some tests in Postman/Newman, some in REST Assured. Reporting is a mess. Consolidating to one tool this quarter. Whi…
Is the testing pyramid still valid in 2026?
Everyone I follow on LinkedIn is either "the pyramid is dead, use the honeycomb" or "the pyramid was always right, you were just doing it wrong". For a modern SaaS with microservic…
How much security testing should sit with SDETs vs a security team?
We have a small AppSec team (2 people) and 40+ engineers. AppSec can't keep up with review. SDETs are being asked to "shift left on security". Where's the reasonable line? Am I sup…
What are companies actually asking in SDET interviews right now?
Interviewing for SDET roles at 4 companies (2 fintech, 1 SaaS, 1 e-commerce). Prep resources online feel dated — half of them are still asking about Selenium XPath tricks. For folk…
Postman: pre-request script vs Tests tab — what runs when?
I keep putting logic in the wrong tab and chaining requests behaves weirdly.
Postman collection passes locally, fails in Newman on CI
Same collection, same environment file. Locally green. In GitLab CI Newman fails on a chained request that reads an id from the previous response. Feels like variable scoping or ti…
Postman: environment variables vs global variables vs collection variables?
Three overlapping variable scopes and I never remember which wins.
What is Postman and what is it actually good for in 2026?
Team senior says "we should not use Postman for automation." Is that right?
Sane pattern for consumer-driven contracts with Pact broker
We have 5 consumers and 2 providers. Provider verification runs on every provider PR and takes forever. Want to move to can-i-deploy + tags but scared of blocking releases. What is…