--- title: From QA to DevOps - Your Hidden Advantage | daily.dev description: QA and test automation engineers have transferable skills that make transitioning to DevOps more accessible than they might think. Skills like writing... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/from-qa-to-devops---your-hidden-advantage-qrqfsazyp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: From QA to DevOps - Your Hidden Advantage | daily.dev og:description: QA and test automation engineers have transferable skills that make transitioning to DevOps more accessible than they might think. Skills like writing... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/from-qa-to-devops---your-hidden-advantage-qrqfsazyp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/qrQFsAZYP.png og:image:alt: From QA to DevOps - Your Hidden Advantage og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # From QA to DevOps - Your Hidden Advantage **[TechWorld with Nana](https://daily.dev/sources/techworldwithnana)** · 2 min read · 42 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary QA and test automation engineers have transferable skills that make transitioning to DevOps more accessible than they might think. Skills like writing scripting logic, understanding quality gates, and designing test scenarios map directly to CI/CD automation and infrastructure as code. The main gap is knowledge of cloud platforms and infrastructure concepts. A recommended path is to start with AWS, learn core cloud concepts, then study four to five foundational services in the context of application deployment. With focused effort, a meaningful DevOps skill level can be reached in four to six months. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@paulmarc** · 1 upvotes > Thank you Nana for your amazing videos 🙏, always insightful and interesting. **@amirahamzicgaleyo** · 0 upvotes > Sorry, the QA to DevOps pipeline makes no sense to me, a more realistic pipeline would be Automation QA -> Developer -> DevOps ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [From Dev to DevOps: A Roadmap for Landing Your First DevOps Job](https://daily.dev/posts/from-dev-to-devops-a-roadmap-for-landing-your-first-devops-job-i75nejl8i) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#devops](https://daily.dev/tags/devops), [#automation](https://daily.dev/tags/automation) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/from-qa-to-devops---your-hidden-advantage-qrqfsazyp) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"From QA to DevOps - Your Hidden Advantage","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/from-qa-to-devops---your-hidden-advantage-qrqfsazyp","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/from-qa-to-devops---your-hidden-advantage-qrqfsazyp"},"datePublished":"2026-06-15T18:32:17.337Z","dateModified":"2026-06-15T18:34:07.877Z","description":"QA and test automation engineers have transferable skills that make transitioning to DevOps more accessible than they might think. 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