Will AI take your job?
Will AI take a QA Tester's job?
The boring 60% is on the chopping block.
The role of a qa tester won't vanish overnight, but AI will quietly eat the repetitive half; the people who survive are the ones holding the AI's leash.
Doomsday year (estimate)
2028
AI tools already doing parts of it
Testim · mabl · Playwright AI
How a qa tester stays ahead of AI
Safer pivot: QA automation / SDET.
Step one: Move from manual testing to building automated test suites with AI.
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How we score it
The 83% figure is real AI task-exposure for a qa tester from the AI Work Index (blending AIOE, the Anthropic Economic Index, Eloundou et al. and the ILO). High exposure means AI can do many of the tasks — it isn't a prediction that the job disappears, and it isn't career advice. How we score →