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Continue reading →IFor QA and testing professionals
Product judgment, practised with discipline.
You already know the product better than almost anyone. Moving into product management is not a leap, it is a translation. This is where QA and testing professionals make that move, deliberately and on their own terms.
“You cannot control that the work is changing. You can control the judgment you bring to what comes next.”
The Product Stoic
IIField Notes
A weekly note on the craft and temperament of product work.
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Continue reading →IIIThe QA Stoic · Invite only
From QA to Product. Deliberately, on your own terms.
A private, fixed-outcome program for testers and QA engineers making the move into product management. The judgment you already practise in testing, relocated to where it is valued most.
By application. A small number of places each cohort.
- For QA and testing professionals, not career-switchers at large.
- A defined outcome, not open-ended coaching hours.
- Built on the discipline and restraint of Product Stoic.
IVIn their words
For years I felt boxed in as "just QA," even though I was the one flagging usability issues before they reached engineering, negotiating trade-offs with product and design, and understanding user pain points better than some of the PMs I worked with. I knew I could do the job. I just didn't know how to prove it.
Pranjal helped me see my QA background as a different lens on the same skills PM hiring managers actually screen for: prioritization, cross-functional influence, and customer empathy. We rebuilt my resume and portfolio around product decisions I had shaped, not just bugs I had caught, and ran mock interviews until product sense questions stopped feeling like guesswork. He pushed me to go after Senior PM roles when I would have settled for an APM title, then coached me through the offer negotiation.
3 months later I signed up for my first official title and role as a Senior Product Manager. I didn't just change my title, rather I changed how I talk about my own experience. If you're in QA wondering whether PM is actually within reach, it is, and Pranjal knows exactly how to get you there. Cannot thank him enough!
The QA to Product Field Notes
VIField Guide
The QA to Product Field Notes.
A short, honest guide to what actually transfers from testing to product, and what you will need to build. Yours in exchange for an email.