Weirdly one of the reasons I moved from development to a test engineering role is you have way more technical freedom. I can basically use whatever tool I want

Weirdly one of the reasons I moved from development to a test engineering role is you have way more technical freedom. I can basically use whatever tool I want because there’s way less oversight as long as the job is done. Want to test a CLI? Use Go/Rust. Want to load test a website? Use Scala. Data parsing? Write a lexer in Haskell. I think I’ve used almost every language in the top 30 in production thanks to this. And it’s not even just language - need reporting? Try a new web framework. Need to store data between tests? Try a new database. I’ve written far more fun code in a testing role than I ever could in a dev role :)