What's the ratio between time spent actively testing vs spent in meetings and reports?

[andrewkelly2555 (Andrew)]

This came up a while ago but did not get much feedback even though I think it’s really important to understand others roles and views. My target would be 80 percent session based testing if I could, I’m sort of of the view anything that takes me away from testing should be streamlined.

How is your average week looking, what is your primary focus?

In 2025 we saw a lot of debate around testing, QA’ing, quality engineering, automating and now QA AI engineering. For me at least it’s really hard to tell what people are actually doing and what their main goal is. I do not want to get into that debate about differences but felt it may be useful if people shared a quick view of their role and what a real week looks like, not a hypothetical one, a real one. Despite some back and forth between viewing myself as QE because I do pretty much all of…