Will AI Replace QA? The Truth About the Future of Software Testing
Will AI Replace QA? The Truth About the Future of Software Testing QA • AI • Careers Will AI Replace QA? The Truth About the Future of Software Testing By The Bugged But Happy • Oct 1, 2025 — Long read (≈ 3200 words) TL;DR: No — AI will not wholesale replace QA professionals this year or the next. But AI will transform how QA is done. Expect automation of repetitive tasks, smarter pipelines, and new hybrid roles where humans lead quality strategy, ethics, and exploratory judgment while AI handles scale and repetition. 1. The fear: why people ask “Will AI replace QA?” Every wave of automation triggers anxieties. Test automation replaced some manual click-the-button jobs; low-code tools made certain tasks accessible to non-developers. Now,...