A tester with 10 years of experience needs more than that to stay relevant. You need automation skills, modern frameworks, open-source libraries, and AI tools. Record-and-playback testing alone won't cut it anymore.
Should a tester, say, with 10 years of experience be scared right now? Only if you're not keeping up with the progress that the world is making in terms of technically. I really think testing fundamentals are great, but you have to also have the chops to do the actual work on a day-to-day basis. If we only know the one type of testing with a record and playback kind of a mechanism, that's not going to cut it for the fast-paced, open-source, library-based test automation that we're doing today. So it doesn't matter how many years of experience you have, the business domain is only applicable when you are in that business. But the other skills like automation, you know, being more comfortable with the modern tools, modern frameworks, using AI, these are things that are applicable across the industry. So If you're not updating yourself, yes, you have to be worried about, and that's not because of AI, that's just in general.
