A Journey into Testing at Scale By Carolina Steadham  | QA Automation Engineer --- Introduction Testing at scale is less about writing more tests and more about building systems that can be trusted under growth, change, and failure. As applications evolve, databases become the backbone of reliability—quietly enforcing correctness, performance, and consistency across the entire platform. This project began as an exploration into what it really means to test databases and backe

How I created a security-focused AI testing framework with Python, pytest, and real-world threat detection By Carolina Steadham  | QA Automation Engineer Introduction Security is one of the most critical concerns in today's digital landscape. With AI systems becoming increasingly prevalent in security operations, I set out to build a comprehensive AI Threat Analytics Framework - a proof-of-concept project that demonstrates how AI can be leveraged for threat detection, classi