Seven plain-language guides by Jonathan Hofler that help technical recruiters understand the role, read the resume, and place the right QA engineer with real confidence.
The whole territory of quality engineer recruiting in fifteen minutes — and a map to everything worth learning next.
// J. Hofler
Senior AI-Augmented Test Engineer II. A decade of QA automation across fintech and enterprise teams, including Everly Health, Infosys, ADP, Dominion Enterprises (Homes.com), and Credit Karma (Intuit). Builder of QA Smith AI, a CLI tool that generates production-ready Cypress and Playwright frameworks from acceptance criteria.
This series exists because I sat through the screens. I watched good recruiters miss strong QA engineers, and pass weak ones forward, because nobody had ever explained the role in plain terms. So I wrote it down. Every page is what I would tell a recruiter I trusted over coffee.
Same channels as qasmith.ai — real answers, not a ticket queue.
