7. Dana Aonofriesei: Is AI taking our jobs or is it helping us do our jobs better?

Director of Engineering at Trustpilot, based in Copenhagen, with 11 years of experience in software development, leading teams and scaling systems, Dana Aonofriesei answered a lot of (good) questions about testing, AI, IT, productivity. She moved from Romania to Denmark because she was curious to work in a modern company, with progressive mindset, in a company that was building its own product. Hit the PLAY button and listen to all the discussion! A few ideas: “Leaders and also employees look for the productivity gain by using AI in their job. I am not concerned so much about AI taking jobs, I think it will help us in doing our job better and working smarter. With every new technology out there, there will be a need for new jobs. For sure, in a few years there will be jobs we can’t even think of at the moment". "My hope is that with the rise of AI and machine learning, we will be able to be more precise in saying the areas of your product that have the higher risk and what your testing budget should be. Now it’s not so precise. Imagine you have machine learning looking at your historical data about areas with the most problems, production incidents, bugs and so on and then you can have a clear answer before you ship the production that you should test in this area because this is where you usually had the most problems and the most challenges”, says Dana Aonofriesei, speaker & chairperson for the Romanian Testing Conference 2024. Listen to the podcast here and feel free to share your point of view in the comments section. Shift Happens podcast is supported by Nagarro. Our host is Alex Mocioi, a professional with 20 years of experience in software engineering and 10 years of experience in tech training.