QA hardly exists in in SaaS industry. It's been replaced with unit tests, integration tests, and deployment processes that include things like blue green tests,

QA hardly exists in in SaaS industry. It's been replaced with unit tests, integration tests, and deployment processes that include things like blue green tests, canaries, and all that jazz. I say go for Software Engineering. I'm biased though, having only worked in SaaS. At the end of the day whatever your cousins interests are should guide them.