A technical resource and community for SDETs and test engineers. We focus on shift-left methodologies, scalable UI/API automation, and integrating reliable quality gates directly into CI/CD pipelines. No marketing fluff, just code that works.
The software testing industry is saturated with record-and-playback tools masquerading as engineering. We got tired of flaky tests, unreliable DOM selectors, and test suites that take three hours to run.
qa-engineers.dev is an open ledger of battle-tested patterns. Maintained by active SDETs, we share architecture for Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, and API testing frameworks that actually scale in high-velocity deployment environments.
// Our core philosophy
const testingStrategy = {
shiftLeft: true,
flakyTests: null,
ciIntegration: 'mandatory',
execute() {
if (this.flakyTests) {
throw new Error("Quarantine and refactor.");
}
deploy();
}
};Stop using hard sleep(). We break down how to properly implement auto-waiting, network interception, and robust locators to stabilize your CI runs.
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