Case study · Careers · Freelance
TroveDesk
one place for every application
Ownership: Freelance · Sole QA
My role: Sole QA engineer, freelance, on a small product team.
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- Freelance · Sole QA
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01 — What it was
A web app for tracking job applications, scholarships, grants and funding rounds in one place, built for an individual founder.
02 — Why it mattered
Applicants juggle deadlines across many kinds of opportunity. TroveDesk puts them in one list.
03 — My role
Sole QA engineer, freelance, on a small team: a product manager, a developer, a UI/UX designer and others. I didn’t build the product.
04 — Technical problems
As the only QA engineer, I had to cover the entire system myself, manually and with automation, before its release to production.
05 — What I did
Tested the entire system by hand and with automated Playwright tests, and gave the founder what they needed to release it to production with confidence.
06 — Tools
Playwright; manual testing
- Playwright
- Manual testing
07 — Result
Released to production, with the founder confident in the release.
08 — What I learned
Being the only QA engineer meant the release decision leaned on my testing. I learned to make what I had checked clear to the founder, so going to production was an informed decision rather than a leap.