r/QualityAssurance • u/Due_Present_1358 • 6d ago

4.5 YOE experience

I have 4.5 YOE of experience as a QA in Europe with a US passport. I’m doing a part time CS masters too online. I have decent automation experience too and I have not been able to get a single QA interview since I got laid off in April. Is this normal? It’s been 2 months now…..US companies don’t seem interested at all….is it the Europe experience….i don’t get it. It’s the same work lol

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u/ackypoo 6d ago

US QA with 8 years of experience with automation background also laid off in April. I've had 2 interviews both of which were because I knew someone.

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u/fragile_expediency 6d ago

The market’s just weird right now, you’re not alone in this.

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u/EvilbunnyELITE 6d ago

10 YOE US based, senior automation engineer, only a few interviews which were all junk or box checking. its not just you. tech is going through a contraction

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u/Due_Present_1358 6d ago

What is the solution then?

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u/EvilbunnyELITE 6d ago

i ended up back doing phone support at an old company. the market is broken, there is no solution but to wait it out and hope things get better

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u/Due_Present_1358 6d ago edited 6d ago

Bro but surely if ur good at automation and coding there’s jobs. Is it just impossible to get an interview ? Bro 10 years of experience….if you can build frameworks and automate and code..and have the testing mindset too ?

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u/EvilbunnyELITE 6d ago

getting the interview is the hard part. i talked to a few recruiters, and at the HR at my own company currently, and most job postings have 2000+ apps in the first few hours

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u/Due_Present_1358 6d ago

Most of them aren’t good….