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IT and tech

QA engineer

Changing

AI now writes test cases and automated tests from a description, while the tester decides what to check and finds bugs where the script didn't expect any. A new area of work: testing the AI features inside the product itself.

  • 5 lessons
  • 4 tools
  • 3 resources
  • Checked: October 2026

Where this job sits on the map

In the same group: 78 of 100 professions.

What changes

  1. AI writes test cases and automated tests from requirements in minutes.

  2. Agents walk through scenarios in a browser on their own and report failures.

  3. There's a new task: checking a product's AI features for errors and made-up answers.

AI drafts, the person decides

How the work splits here: AI prepares a draft, the person checks it and makes the call.

AI makes the draft

What AI does

  • Writes test cases from requirements and mockups
  • Writes automated browser tests
  • Formats bug reports from steps and screenshots
  • Comes up with test data, including edge cases
You check itRead it, check the facts, fix it. Without this check the draft goes nowhere.
You decide and stay responsible

What stays with the person

  • Deciding what's important to test and where the risk to the user is
  • Exploratory testing: finding bugs nobody expected
  • The last word before a release
  • Checking AI features for errors, harmful answers and made-up ones

What to learn first

5 lessons from the course, in order. Start with the first one.

  1. How to write a good promptUserHow to give AI a task: the five parts of a good prompt, Plan Mode, and how to refine an answer instead of starting over.Start here
  2. AI ethics and safety: hallucinations, attacks, biasUserHallucinations, prompt injection, bias, privacy and copyright: how not to trust AI blindly.
  3. Browser automation: Playwright + QABuilderBrowser automation: Playwright and Claude in Chrome for testing forms and checking your own websites.
  4. Evals: skills that improve themselvesEngineerEvals for skills: tests, pass rate, checking that the skill triggers and a data-driven improvement loop.
  5. Prompt injection defense, the top security threat of 2026EngineerPrompt injection: six attack types, eight layers of defense, red team tests and an incident response plan.

Which tools to use

  • An AI assistant for long documents, analysis and code, with Claude Code and Cowork on paid plans.

    Freemium

  • Anthropic's coding agent for the terminal, your IDE and a desktop app, included in paid Claude plans.

    Paid

  • A VS Code-based code editor with AI agents, a free Hobby plan and Pro at $20 a month.

    Freemium

  • A general-purpose AI agent: research, websites, slides and browser automation.

    Freemium

Ready-to-use materials

  • Assess the risk, spot the signs of a made-up answer and run a 5-minute check before you act on what AI says.

    Free

  • Go through an AI answer claim by claim: what's right, what's doubtful, where it's wrong and what to check at the source.

    Free

  • 27 items: payments, analytics, legal basics, support, launch day and a review one week later.

    Free

How to earn with AI

We don't promise income: results depend on your niche, your market and your work.

  • Job

    Give AI the routine test cases and automated tests, and invest your time in exploratory testing and checking AI features.

  • Service

    Pre-launch testing for small business websites and apps: forms, payments, the mobile version, and a report with a prioritized fix list.

  • Product

    A set of checklists and test scenarios for common products: an online store, online booking, a chatbot.

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Checked: October 2026