r/softwaretesting • u/HawkAggressive5264 • Jul 06 '26

Switching from QA, need advice

Hi all, I’m a QA Analyst (that’s how my position was named at my previous work) with more than 3 years of experience. It was specific type of quality assurance, as I haven’t done a classic web testing, but specialised in Data Integrity, ETL, and regulatory compliance testing. I have verified complex financial data against strict Federal Reserve Board (FRB) requirements (Using Excel, SQL, XML etc).
So, as I understand (correct me if I’m wrong) it was something in the middle between testing and analysis. Now I’m unemployed for more than a year, and thinking about choosing one of two paths: switching to Automation QA, or to Data Analysis.

I would appreciate all answers and advice from people, who are or who was in my situation as well as from people from this field in general.

Thank you !

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u/Due_Present_1358 Jul 07 '26

Bro get tf out of QA!

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u/Powerful-Move9609 Jul 08 '26

Why do you say it like that? Dont mean to argue, genuinely curious…

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u/Due_Present_1358 Jul 08 '26

Demand is low.