Topic:Day-to-day
Answer:
Writes and maintains autotests, designs test frameworks, debugs CI/CD pipelines, collaborates with developers on code review. Less manual testing, more programming.
A QA Automation Engineer day looks different from manual QA. Main activities: writing new autotests (Playwright, Cypress) for new features, fixing "flaky" tests (sometimes pass, sometimes fail), code review of other testers and developers, debugging CI/CD pipelines (why builds fail), designing test framework architecture. Less collaboration with business stakeholders (that is for manual QA or BA), more with developers and DevOps. If you like programming but do not want to be a fullstack/backend developer, QAA is a great niche — you combine technical thinking with responsibility for product quality. Polish fintech and banking firms highly value this role (source: NoFluffJobs 2026). At Mate academy, the QA Automation course is 600 hours of hands-on Playwright + JavaScript with a 16-week first-job guarantee.
What we teach

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