A COMMUNITY LEARNING INITIATIVE

Future-Ready QA:
Preparing for the AI Era

Our goal is to help the QA community evolve and meet the challenges posed by AI.

Share how you expect QA to evolve over the next two years and the practical steps professionals should start taking today.

Share Your Thoughts Explore Perspectives

Why this matters

Help QA professionals prepare—together.

AI is changing testing work, career expectations and the skills professionals need. By sharing practical perspectives, experienced minds can help the wider community respond with clarity and confidence.

Please share this initiative.

The more people it reaches, the more perspectives the QA community can learn from as everyone adapts to the AI wave.

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What to cover

Three questions your paper should answer.

How will QA evolve?

Explain how QA roles, responsibilities and career expectations may change over the next two years because of AI.

Which skills will matter?

Identify the testing, engineering, AI, domain and human capabilities professionals should learn or strengthen.

What should professionals do?

Recommend training, workplace trials, side projects, tools and milestones for the next 6, 12 and 24 months.

Submission guidelines

Keep it clear, practical and useful.

This is not an academic exercise. Share a well-reasoned perspective that QA professionals can understand and act on.

800–1,500 words

Submit in English as a PDF or DOCX file, with a maximum file size of 10 MB.

Individual or co-authored

Professionals from any country may participate. One voucher is awarded per selected paper.

Practical reasoning

Use experience, examples or credible evidence to support your predictions and recommendations.

Deadline

Submit no later than 11:59 PM IST on 30 September 2026.

Evaluation

How submissions are reviewed.

OrangeDays reviews complete submissions consistently and selects any paper that meets the expected quality standard.

25%Depth and clarity

25%Practical two-year plan

20%QA relevance

15%Original thinking

15%Evidence and reasoning

When submissions contain substantially the same central ideas, preference may be given to the qualifying paper received first. A later paper may still be selected when it adds a meaningfully different perspective, reasoning, examples or game plan. OrangeDays' decision is final.

Share your thoughts

Help QA professionals prepare for the AI era.

Your experience can help the community understand what is changing and what to do next.

PDF / DOCXAccepted formats10 MBMaximum size2–3 daysReview time

Only contributors whose papers are shortlisted will be contacted.

Full name Email Phone number (optional) LinkedIn profile Brief description Secondary author details (optional) Upload paperPDF or DOCX · 800–1,500 words recommended · Maximum 10 MB I confirm that I have the right to submit this paper. If selected, I permit OrangeDays to publish it on orangedays.in, promote it on LinkedIn, tag the listed author(s), and make light editorial changes that do not alter its central ideas. I accept the initiative terms and understand that OrangeDays' decision is final.

After submission, OrangeDays will review the paper within 2–3 working days. Only shortlisted contributors will be contacted.

Conditions

Important submission conditions.

The initiative is open to contributors worldwide.
Every selected paper receives one ₹1,000 Amazon India voucher. Co-authored papers receive one voucher per paper.
Email and phone details remain private. Selected pages may show author names and LinkedIn profiles.
OrangeDays may lightly edit titles, grammar and formatting without changing the central ideas.
Submission does not guarantee selection, publication or a voucher. Only shortlisted contributors will be contacted.
Where central ideas are substantially similar, OrangeDays may prefer the qualifying submission received first.
OrangeDays' decision on eligibility, similarity, selection and publication is final.