How Are QA Engineers Contributing in Your Software Teams? Looking for Inspiration

Hi everyone,

I’m leading a team working on web apps, AWS infrastructure, backend services, and microfrontends (mainly using React). Our QA engineers are actively involved in test automation using Cypress and Playwright, and they also maintain Datadog Synthetics tests on prd. We use ConfigCat for feature flag-based releases.

Lately, my QA teammates have been asking how they can uplift their careers — grow their impact, deepen skills, or expand their responsibilities — and honestly, I’m not sure what direction to suggest beyond what they’re already doing.

So I’d love to learn from you

• What are your QA engineers doing that really adds value to the team/product?
• Are they involved in performance testing, security, CI/CD pipelines, or something else?

Thanks,