Hey folks ,
With AI getting used more in software lately, have you seen any new types of QA roles pop up? Like stuff that’s different from the usual testing jobs?
Also, does your company have any of these new roles?
Curious what kind of skills are needed too.
Thx 
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For now, I see only the transformation of engineering roles - when people use AI tools more and more.
But generally speaking, with AI technologies, we need to be prepared to test the output of those AI tools.
So we might have new specific roles, like AI-tool validator. Such validators have enormous domain knowledge in a chosen field - so they can validate AI output and make it better for other users.
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We don’t have any special AI roles. All testers are asked to include AI in their tasks.
I think AI can be helpful for lots of different test roles.
I agree with Oleksandr. There will probably be new roles for testing AI itself. It’s a completely different kind of testing as there are no clear actions with expected results. AI is a moving target. Still love the story of where people got around information blocks for dangerous knowledge by asking the AI to tell them a good night story like Grandma from the explosives factory.
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Maybe there might be the AI equivalent of SDET, say a role that’s a hybrid of QA and a data science engineer (i.e. developer who trains and develops the AI models), focusing on whether the model is being trained and tested properly, and automating the training and validation of the model.
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any tips on AI validation?
I actually did recently see a role advertised for verifying AI outputs!
I believe it was in the MoT newsletter even.